Season 1

01 Episode 1 Episode 124th February 2007 Moon Hee (Kang Soo-yeon), a seventeen-year-old high school student, lives with her mother Ha Soo-jung (Kim Hee-jin) in a single-room basement apartment. Like her friends, she attends an after-school academy after her classes are over, but unlike them, she must rush off to a barbequed pork restaurant as soon as she is finished with her studies. She works late into the night carrying dishes, cutting meat and cleaning tables. After 11 p.m., she even has to scrub off pork grease stains from the grills. She finally drags herself home tired after midnight. When Moon Hee was a child, Soo-jung was an ambitious and high-spirited young woman who tried her hand at running a flower store and a bakery and had passionate love affairs with many men. But now, all that has left is depression brought on by her extreme poverty, and Moon Hee is the only one she can lean on. 02 Episode 4 Episode 44th March 2007 Upon returning home, Moon Hee rushes into the bathroom, ignoring Sook-hee's words. Sook-hee tries pounding on the bathroom door, but Moon Hee does not answer her. Enraged, Sook-hee slaps Moon Hee as she comes out of the bathroom. Moon Hee kneels in front of her angry stepmother, telling her that she wants to be a good daughter, imploring her to trust her. 03 Episode 6 Episode 611th March 2007 In order to prevent strife within the family and the family business, Moon Ho tells Moon Hee that she should go to Japan. Being very fond of him, Moon Hee is hurt by Moon Ho's recommendation. Moon Hee refuses Yoo-jin's proposal by saying "Marriage is merely a luxury to me." Moon Hee sends Ha-neul a text message asking him to go out for ice cream with her... 04 Episode 8 Episode 818th March 2007 Returning home with Yoo Jin's ring on her finger, Moon Hee tells her father, Chairman Moon, that she will marry Yoo Jin. Chairman Moon tells Moon Hee that she is tearing the family apart by loving Yoo Jin and asks her to spend a few years abroad. When Bang Sook-hee tells her to get out of the house, Moon Hee replies that she will not be intimidated out of her own home and that she would not have come here in the first place had she planned to leave so easily. Meanwhile, Ha-neul, who is waiting for Moon Hee, calls her since she doesn't show up. Moon Hee, who fell asleep in her car, wakes up upon receiving his phone call. 05 Episode 9 Episode 924th March 2007 Moon Hyun asks her sister-in-law, Choi Sang-mi how she can break Moon Hee and Yoo Jin up. Sang-mi reminds Moon Hyun that Yoo Jin has a kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder and cannot stand people who lie. She instructs Moon Hyun to find out what happened during the 2 years that Moon Hee spent away from their home. Moon Hee, who has spent a fun day together with Ha-neul, embraces him in her lap and tells Kim Young-chul that a child she knows is also 11 years old and has the same birthday as Ha-neul. Meanwhile, Jang Han-na is worried sick since Young-chul and Ha-neul have gone to meet Moon Hee, but they haven't called her. When Young-chul returns home, Han-na is so upset that goes out and heads to Cheonggyecheon Stream. Walking at Cheonggyecheon Stream, she sees a woman who resembles Ha-neul's birthmother walking towards her and her heart begins to pound. 06 Episode 10 Episode 1025th March 2007 Having received a flyer for Haneul Martial Arts Academy, Moon Hyun is reminded of the photograph of Young-chul and Ha-neul she saw saved in Moon Hee's cell phone. Moon Hyun puts the flyer back into the newspaper and place it in Moon Hee's room. When she sees Moon Hee react to the flyer, Moon Hyun accuses Moon Hee of hiding something and pushes Moon Hee to reveal the truth about her past. Moon Hee, Managing Director Kim and Manger Oh discuss what to do about the expensive fake cosmetics they have been selling. Manager Oh says that when this hits the press by noon of the next day, the media and consumer groups will have a field day with this and that Moon Ho will receive the brunt of the blame. Moon Hee asks that she be made the chair of the solution committee of the I-Mall for the problem. Meanwhile, Yoo Jin calls Sook-hee and tells her that he is planning to make his engagement with Moon Hee official. 07 Episode 11 Episode 1131st March 2007 In order to throw Moon Hee out, Sook-hee gets rid of Moon Hee's things such as her refrigerator and her dresser. Yoo Jin, who comes to Moon Hee's place in order to propose to her officially, sees what is going on. Hearing that Yoo Jin is planning to visit Moon Hee's place, his mother Jin Soo-ja, waits there for Moon Hee, and asks her the truth about her past when she arrives. Moon Hee hesitates to give an answer to the sudden question. Meanwhile, Han-na, who had been momentarily shocked when she met Ha-neul's birthmother, calms herself and arrives back home. Han-na tells her mother-in-law, Song Ok-hee, that she wants to be beaten and asks her to beat her like she used to. Song Ok-hee begins to beat Han-na on the legs with a stick... 08 Episode 12 Episode 121st April 2007 Upon seeing Young-chul being unable to fall asleep after having chilbotang decoction, Mu-seol goes to wake up Han-na and send her to look after Young-chul. But Han-na cannot get up because she is too drunk. Meanwhile, Moon Hee, who has been thrown out of her home, is spending the night at a hotel. Yoo Jin visits her with a single rose and they end up spending the night together. 09 Episode 13 Episode 137th April 2007 The media finds out about the fake cosmetics of I-Mall on the day of Moon Ho's inauguration as I-Mall's CEO. When it is found out that Moon Ho has received stocks from the company that sold the fake cosmetics, the inauguration is called off and he is made to organize a solution committee. Also, Chairman Moon decides to hand down the hospital to Moon Hee when he hears that Director Yoo has decided to let Moon Hee and Yoo Jin marry. Meanwhile, Moon Hee becomes the head of the solution committee and Yoo Jin is reminded of the fact that Moon Hee told him she began to live with Chairman Moon in order to get revenge. 10 Episode 14 Episode 148th April 2007 Sang-mi's aunt who has been trying to find dirt on Moon Hee presents Sang-mi with a picture of Sutbul, the man who Moon Hee once lived with. Enraged, Sang-mi says that she will never forgive Moon Hee for ruining her dreams and Moon Ho's life. Sang-mi confronts Moon Hee and tells her that she will make Moon Hee regret that she ever met her and that she will take everything Moon Hee has away from her. Meanwhile, Mu-seol receives baby's articles and a pager number that Ha-neul's birthmother left from her nurse friend who works at the hospital in Tongyeong where Ha-neul was born. 11 Episode 15 Episode 1514th April 2007 As I-Mall's majority stock holder, Sang-mi tells Chairman Moon to fire Moon Hee. When Chairman Moon refuses based on all the things that Moon Hee has done for the company, Sang-mi informs him that Moon Hee's real reason behind coming to him is to take revenge on both him and his wife. Chairman Moon promises to get rid of Moon Hee without hesitation if he discovers that she has come to him with malicious intent. Meanwhile, Mu-seol and Han-na agonize over what to do with the pager number of Ha-neul's birthmother, Ha Moon-hee. Mu-seol pages the number and waits a call from Moon Hee, saying that they should find out the truth. 12 Episode 16 Episode 1615th April 2007 Sang-mi goes to the barbequed rib restaurant that Sutbul runs and tries to draw information from him by telling him that he looks familiar. When Sutbul replies that he once ran a gas station in Jinju, Sang-mi asks him if he wasn't with a pretty looking woman at that time. She catches Sutbul's momentary change in expression and keeps asking him further questions such as whether that woman was his girlfriend or wife. Meanwhile, Moon Hee goes to the hospital in Tongyeong and begs Nurse Ju-yeong to be allowed to see her long lost son Ha-neul just once. But Ju-yeong replies that it's already been 10 years since Moon Hee parted with her son and she should forget about him.