I Need Romance (Romaenseuga Pilyohae / 로맨스가 필요해)

Episode 15

I started off as a waitress and spent 8 years at this hotel.

It taught me about life and people.

From the ground floor to the roof...

I've become attached to every corner.

Today's my last day.

But how are you going to make a living?

Good point! I didn't even think about that!

This is my reality.

I can't touch my savings!

This might as well be my life.

My account balance...

I only have enough to get by for a month.

What should I do about the allowance I give to Mom?

Louvre Museum.

She was there looking at the painting of Mona Lisa.

Yeah, he said I was more gorgeous than the Mona Lisa.

Should I just have taken that life?

My retirement funds went into repairing the country home last year.

Even if I ask for unemployment benefits, I won't be able to last for long.

Electricity bills!

Let's not use the air conditioner anymore!

I'll take care of lunch with the girls!

I have to be employed within four months. No matter what.

Director Na? I'm looking at the data for the celeb store.

The turnover goal for the Alicia shoes is too low.

We can sell a thousand pairs. That's thirty thousand dollars!

Thirty thousand?

Sir, you wrote the report wrong.

Don't try to explain. Just emphasize that he insists he's being falsely accused.

Don't treat this lightly.

$200,000 dollars is at stake.

$200,000?

I'm really losing confidence.

I'm unemployed! A bum!

So why'd you quit the hotel?

How could I not?

If I didn't quit...

Is there something you want to eat?

I'd keep running into him.

He's too good of a person to just pass by.

I'm afraid I'll feel hurt whenever I run into him.

This is why I don't do relationships with men in the same profession.

How are you going to meet men with all these conditions?

I've dated an employee before.

After we broke up...

I fired him!

You witch!

Lucky you! You're the president of your company.

But did you love Bae Sung Hyun?

What do you mean?

It's just not your style.

You like Bae Sung Hyun,

but you refuse to listen to his family's request.

Although I can see the egotistical Park Seo Yeon doing that.

What about me?

I used to do favors for men all the time!

What kind of favors?

When I dated Kim Jung Min, I listened to him talk about soccer in the army for two hours!

A whole two hours?

I don't like it. No matter how much I love him, if I don't like it, I don't.

You, you, you...

You don't know what love is.

Love is not that difficult.

You accommodate the one you love.

You yield to him.

Hyun Joo!

What's with this music?

You like classical music.

I like something else these days...

The love I have for you...

is unconditional.

The love that I have for you...

is a special kind of love.

Two, three, four!

Even if I have to cross Tae Pyung or India...

I'll run to you if you call...

I'll run to you no matter what!

That's what love is.

You show interest in each other's taste.

But how could they ask her to live in hiding for a year?

They asked her to change her name, her age, and her nationality.

Would you do it?

Regardless, becoming Cinderella is every girl's dream.

This is what dramas have turned women into!

You made the right decision!

Cinderella? There's no such thing!

She wants to go to the ball so badly that she's pathetic enough to use magic.

Then she runs away at midnight because she doesn't want to expose her peasant clothes.

She even drops her shoes.

Do you want to live like that? Not even being able to fart?

I can repress other things, but not my farts!

No!

Marriage is one thing!

You didn't love Sung Hyun enough to marry him.

You didn't want to sacrifice anything for him.

I don't want to become anyone different from who I am now.

No matter how much I love you...

I can't do that.

In some ways, that may be true.

That may be the extent of my love.

Who cares if that's the extent of your love?

Do you have to give up everything for it to be real love?

One more thing!

Kim Sung Soo. You thought of him right?

Was it because of Kim Sung Soo?

Tell me. I'm right, right? It's because of Kim Sung Soo!

It's true that I thought of Kim Sung Soo.

I think it would be a good idea to change your name and age in America.

Baby, you like America, right?

At that moment, I realized that at the very least, Kim Sung Soo accepted me for who I was.

For ten years, Kim Sung Soo accepted me for who I was.

And he helped me become who I am today.

Who are you?

Why are you doing this?

I'm...so the thing is...I...

- Kim Sung Soo. - What?

Classroom Four. Kim Sung Soo.

I see.

You flirt!

You gave this doll to her too, right?

Why'd you do that?

You ate ricecakes with her when you met at church, right?

We're over now.

Seriously. All I did was eat ricecakes with her...

Hey you.

- Come here. - Why?

You rascal. You should come when you're called.

Hey, why are you eating ricecakes with other girls if you have a girlfriend?

What's it to you?

How dare you talk back. Attention!

Why aren't you listening? Attention!

What's your name?

Kim Sung Soo.

What?

I said it's Kim Sung Soo!

Kim Sung Soo?

What do you want to say?

Oh yeah. Why are you cheating? You have a pretty girlfriend.

Would you like it if she saw someone else?

Would you like it if she had ricecakes with someone else?

Treat her well while you still have her.

She's going to meet a better guy and get married.

Do you know how much that'll hurt?

Go and apologize to her right now. Tell her you won't do it again!

And if you cheat, you'll be the only one to suffer.

Go apologize to her! Okay?

Yes.

Such a young age...

Hey Kim Sung Soo!

Do you have a cell phone?

I do, why?

If she forgives you, give me a call.

Why?

If it works out for you, it'll give me hope.

Why aren't you saying anything? You thought of Sung Soo, right?

Tell me. You thought of him, right?

But that's not all.

If you change your name, your age, and your nationality, aren't you still you?

You'll still be you.

But I'll have to lie to all the people I meet in the meantime.

I won't meet friends as great as you, but I'll still meet people.

I'm going to open up to those people.

But how could I keep lying to them?

Stop. I don't want to think about it. A life where you have to act all the time.

It's Bae Sung Hyun!

I'm outside your house. Come outside.

I know how hurt Bae Sung Hyun feels right now.

Don't you feel anything?

No matter what I say, Bae Sung Hyun won't be able to understand me.

How could you be so expressionless?

Tell me again so that I can understand.

Why do we have to break up?

If I knew we were going to break up this easily, I wouldn't have even started.

I told you. No matter how much I like you, there's one thing I can't do.

Were you always such a self-centered woman?

But you don't want to go against your grandfather's wishes either.

I told you about my situation.

Can't you be willing to compromise for me?

There are things I've lost because of you.

Because I loved you so much, there are things I gave up.

Weren't you a woman who was willing to endure more than this?

I thought you were more giving and forgiving than this.

Was I wrong?

Is love that great?

Eventually, I said it.

The real reason I turned down Sung Hyun's proposal.

Is love that great?

So is love nothing to you?

You think I've never experienced a great love?

I thought he was me, and that I was him.

I thought we were one body and one heart.

You're me, I'm you.

Like we were one person. I've had that kind of love.

No matter how much we like each other, all that will be shattered.

As time goes by, people change and hurt each other.

You rot and die... We all know that's what love is.

I don't want to invest in something like that anymore.

I'm not Kim Sung Soo!

I'm different from him.