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This show doesn’t have huge cliff hangers it just sails along smoothly at a refreshing pace. It doesn’t go super fast like Hong Gil Dong but it doesn’t drag along like some other dramas. It takes it’s time unveiling the characters.  Starting where the last one left off, Kyung Min drinks somberly by the water after being told off by Young Eun.Back in Seoul, Ki Joon presents his contract to Seung Ah at her home. She looks satisfied with it but she adds. “Seung Ah may cancel this contract whenever she wants.” Despite this clause Ki Joon is ecstatic and signs his name.       Seung Ah then informs him that she will keep her personal staff, nutritionist, personal trainer, stylist etc. But when Seung Eun finds out that Ji Koon has neither a car or an office she tells him to get both and then she’ll talk to him.Kyung Min returns from Taiwan, without Young Eun Kyung Min is told that he will get fired if he doesn’t work things out and SBC, his company, is stressing out because they have already set an air date for the drama (May) but still nothing has happened. However, Kyung Mn has a plan. Ticket to the Moon was written over five years ago so it no longer belongs to Young Eun but to SBC, the company that Kyung Min works for. Because of this Kyung Min convinces Young Eun that he will simply use another script writer and use her screenplay. Which doesn’t make Young Eun very happy.At SW Entertainment Sang Woo is trying to deal with investors losing faith in his company as the stock price goes down.      Then in comes the bimbo Cherry who seems to have something for Sang Woo. By the way, this chick’s nose job is so distracting by way of being so obvious. Anyway, she tries to flirt with Sang Woo, but he’s too pissed to care because his number one actress just left him. Cherry babbles for some time about how she’s the number one searched actress on the internet. But… no one cares.       Ki Joon buys the space he used to own when he was successful and he moves his things back in with the help of his two loyal actors.     After setting up, Ki Joon gets an unwanted visit from Sang Woo, who ironically brings a plant, congratulating Ki Joon on getting Seung Ah and on reopening his company. Ki Joon calls him hyung, which shows they had a relationship before. But Sang Woo doesn’t want to hear it.

Ki Joon: “Do you know that you’ve changed. Before we were…at the beginning–” Sang Woo: “Why do you always have a good-natured face to call me brother everytime you talk about the past? In the end, I’m a bad guy. I don’t like it, you wretch… (regarding Seung Ah) I’ll teach her how to behave.”  

Ki Joon is obviously distraught by this and Sang Woo prepares to take his leave but before he does Ki Joon yells out:

“Don’t sleep with her. Cherrry. She is a good person. She’s just not smart. But her acting is good. Excellent.”  

On Sang Woo’s way out he runs into Seung Ah. They talk and it’s revealed that Sang Woo stole/took all of Ki Joon’s actors.Back to Young Eun’s story line we see her mother arguing with an ajumma about her daughter’s work. The ahjumma says that Young Eun’s dramas have no substance, its just Cinderella and Rich Prince stories. Young Eun cries begging her mother to stop arguing with people so much.     After this encounter Young Eun meets with Kyung Min again, who tells her that her that he will go ahead and use her script. Young Eun tells him how she slaved away on that work for so long, breaking nails, being hungry all the time, being constipated, being deprived of sleep. Kyung Min tells her that she should do the Ticket to the Moon script because it’s different from all the other silly stories that’s she’s done and what’s on television now. Ticket to the Moon is the story of a psychiatrist with depression that falls in love with one of his patients. Kyung Min thinks that it’s interesting, and Young Eun, worries that it will depress viewers and ratings will suffer. Kyung Min basically tells her that her past five dramas may have brought ratings but they were embarrassing to watch because of the sappiness and lack of originality.   Young Eun pretends not to care but she goes home and watches her drama, trying to justify it (which is hard because in the drama the main girl works in a pastry shop, the rich playboy/company owner likes her but it makes her life difficult, there is the money envelope exchange to get the pastry shop girl to stay away from said rich playboy, and then, surprise surprise, there is the revelation that pastry shop girl has an incurable disease).      Ki Joon is a bit uncomfortable with all the attention he’s receiving once again. But he gets used it eventually after a series of meetings. One with a friend that had forgotten about him after his fall from grace but now comes to Ki Joon begging for money, another meeting with a jerk at SBC, and then a meeting with Oh Seung Ah’s fanclub. I love how the show completely makes fun of these ridiculous girls.

Fanclub Idiot#1: “Seung Ah onni does not like having a housekeeper.” Ki Joon: (laughs) “Anything else?” Fanclub Idiot#1: “How long is the contract?” Ki Joon: “Two years, why?” Fanclub Idiot #2: “If you can, please extend it for two more years. If she has to change places frequently, it’s not very convenient for her. When will you be deciding on the next project?” Ki Joon: “Why? Would you like to help?” Fanclub Idiot#3: “Whether it is a movie or a drama, you have to make sure that Seung Ah sleeps 7 hours everyday. To an actress her skin is her soul. ALSO, if it is possible, consider a movie before a drama–” Ki Joon: “Enough! Be quiet right now! You girls are the terrorists of terrorists. Thanks for liking Seung Ah so much, but you girls should go back to school and study properly. And if there’s more time, go fix your hair.” 

 

 

   At home Seung Ah watches Lovers in Paris alone. (Lovers in Paris is one of the writer/director team’s dramas).     The next day Seung Ah bumps into Cherry at the Salon. Of course, a catfight ensues.     

Cherry: “Is that Oh Seung Ah?” Seung Ah: “I can’t believe a dog or a cow would enter this place.”Cherry: “What are you saying? You said that I on purpose so that I could hear you, right?” Seung Ah: “Which type are you? Dog? Cow? Which type?”Cherry: “Are you done talking?!” Seung Ah: “If you are neither, shut your mouth so you can finish doing you’re hair.”Cherry: “How aggravating. Hey! Oh Seung Ah–” 

 

 

And then Cherry gets a face full of water… twice.      

Oh Seung Ah: “What? ‘Hey’? Am I your friend? You dare to argue with me? In this entertainment circle there are not that many people that I am afraid of. The person I fear the most is myself. I don’t even know what I’ll do next. That’s why, from now on, don’t ever block my view. Today I only used water, but who knows what I will use next time?” 

  

 

   Later Seung Ah and Young Eun go to a mutual friends play. This is the first time they realize they share this mutual friend. They all go out to dinner with the cast of the play. At the restaurant Seung Ah is standoffish. First she refuses the drink of a senior stating that she has to drive.Then when asked for an autograph…       She says nothing…      Just grabs a cup of water and drinks it. Everyone at the table is shocked, except for Young Eun who seems to be thinking “See, I told you this bitch was no good.” Then she gets read the riot act by the same senior that offered her the drink.

Ajusshi: “Hey, superstar. Don’t be a person like that. I don’t know how good you are, but many people here aren’t happy with this. You were not like this at birth. It’s still acting though it’s only thirty seconds. She only wants your signature, doesn’t she? Why do you let her feel embarrassed? Are you an actress? Just use your face to earn money. At least you must know how to be a person. Am I wrong?”  

Seung Ah takes a shot of soju, leaves 100 bucks on the table and then leaves. She gets a call to meet Ki Joon for dinner. There she meets the other two actors under Ki Joon, Lee Won and Kim Bum Rae. Their introduction is adorable, showing how naive and nervous they are. They introduce themselves and Ki Joon says that this is the family and she asks Seung Ah to watch over them. Seung Ah doesn’t like the sound of that because as soon as Ki Joon mentions “family” she says, “Stop kidding around. Who is your family? why do I have to?” She then insults him some more and walks out. Ki Joon is mad and runs out to ask her to apologize.     

  

Ki Joon: “What’s wrong with you? Do you know what you’ve done? Are you always like this?”Seung Ah: “Watch your words!”Ki Joon: “Are you that good? Were you a superstar at birth? What right do you have to insult other people? Apologize to them now. Hurry!”Seung Ah: “Why should I? Why did you carelessly say that we are family? Them and me? And then attach them to me for publicity purposes, right?”Ki Joon: “You, really!”Seung Ah: “That’s me! I hate public places. I also don’t like to sign on creased paper. I hate when other people want to look toward me…diet? I hate it. If you can’t a stand a person like me, then just let me go. Say it. Do you want to let me go?Ki Joon: (After a long pause) Go…Go!