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OUR STICKY LOVE

It might have been a memory, not a dream.

If Jang Tae-ha's really a gangster,

this might also

have something to do with him.

Isn't it enough you've ruined your life with violence already?

Now you want to drag Pil-seung into that fiery hell with you?

Not my boy.

I won't let you!

Mrs. Pang!

No matter how angry you are,

there are things you just don't say.

Everything else aside,

how can you do this when you know why Tae-ha went down that path?

I also won't stand by and watch my boy get hurt.

I'm sorry we didn't tell you sooner about Pil-seung,

but if you want to blame or sue anyone, blame me, the head coach.

Don't take it out on Tae-ha!

You're right.

I went too far.

It's not that I don't know what you've been through.

I just lost my temper out of concern for my boy.

And I know that not all boxers become gangsters,

but it's easier to fall in with those guys than other jobs.

I was scared that those punks might start eyeing my kid.

What kind of mother would want that?

Please try to understand me, Tae-ha.

Let's go. Come on.

Wait, Mom.

Oh, shut it.

Mom, please.

Ms. Go.

Ms. Go.

Whoa! Hey, what?

You scared me.

Didn't you see me?

Are you okay?

Are you…

okay?

You know I can take a hit. I'm just worried about Pil-seung.

What, you think he goes down easy?

He's probably butting heads with his mom, going a few rounds.

Fancy a drink?

I should go home.

All right.

It's a good thing you have someone at home on a day like this.

The warmth of someone being home.

It makes a difference.

I'll get going.

This morning, the ceremony for the Irang-dong development project

was attended by Gangju City officials and Mirae Eden Company representatives.

This project is a joint effort between Gangju City and Mirae Eden Company,

and the plan is to complete the development in three phases by 2029.

Though the blueprint for this project was presented in 2020,

it was effectively halted due to the real estate market downturn.

But earlier this year, the development area was…

Go Eun-sae.

Drink this. It'll help you calm down.

Do you still not believe Tae-ha?

I believed him

a little bit.

In the midst of this absurd situation,

there were moments

when he seemed sincere.

Sorry I don't express myself well.

You're the only woman I've ever liked,

so I don't really know how.

He wasn't exactly my ideal type,

but he didn't seem like a bad person either.

I never knew she was so pretty.

But it turns out he's a gangster.

And everything he said to me was a lie.

Apparently, my name isn't even Go Eun-sae.

It's Go Ji-won.

Sorry?

I don't know where to start questioning things again,

or why Jang Tae-ha lied to me about all of this,

and what I'm supposed to do now.

I don't know anything anymore.

I'm scared.

Go Eun-sae!

Go Eun-sae!

Eun-sae…

Hello?

It's me, Min Su-ji.

Right. I can't really talk right now…

Are you looking for Ms. Go?

Is she here?

Yes.

I heard her telling Gi-jun that she found out you're a gangster.

And that her name is Go Ji-won, not Go Eun-sae.

She said she saw her friend's social media.

What's going on?

Is she really your girlfriend?

Now, then…

- What should we do? - Sorry?

I understand your situation, but that doesn't mean…

I can't exactly let you crash at my place.

And I can't lend you money for a place to stay, since you can't pay me back.

Doctor.

Yes?

You don't have many

friends, do you?

No, I guess I don't.

I was just joking to cheer you up. Come on.

You were being serious.

Well, I'm sorry.

Jang Tae-ha.

I'll explain everything, so let's go home.

How can I trust a thug and go with him?

You should trust what you've experienced.

Has he ever been a threat to you?

Has he ever threatened you, used violence, or extorted you?

If not, then Tae-ha isn't a thug to you.

He's just

an ordinary man, isn't he?

Let's talk outside.

- Go Eun-sae. - But I'm not Go Eun-sae.

I'm Go Ji-won, aren't I?

Go Ji-won is your legal name. Eun-sae is the name your mother gave you.

Are you getting caught up in your own lies? My mother?

You said I was an orphan.

Your mother left you at an orphanage right after you were born.

The orphanage head only realized

after registering your birth under the name Go Ji-won

that your name was Go Eun-sae in your mother's maternity notebook.

You liked the name Go Eun-sae better.

You said she wouldn't have given

such a pretty name to a baby she didn't love.

You didn't even resent her for abandoning you.

And the designer goods? I saw pictures of me and my friend.

I was dressed from head to toe in designer items.

Then why don't I have anything like that in my closet or shoe rack?

You got rid of them when we moved.

- Why? - I never asked why.

I…

I'm sorry that I was…

a gangster.

I was too ashamed to tell you.

If I'd known you were a thug, I wouldn't have believed a word you said.

If I know anything,

it's that I'd never, not in this life or any other,

fall for some lowlife gangster.

I don't do that anymore.

I won't ever use my fists outside the ring anymore.

I promise.

No, forget it.

Just why are you putting on this act to keep me here?

What in the world do you want from me?

Nothing else.

Just don't disappear without a word.

Just stay out of danger.

Just…

Just stay safe.

Why are you overreacting?

How would you know if he's really Ms. Go's boyfriend?

He is her boyfriend.

Is she really your girlfriend?

Is Eun-sae okay?

- What? - Has she been crying?

Is she hurt?

Go inside.

Ms. Go is fine.

Do you remember when we went to Yeosu, and I left the hotel after we argued?

Why are you bringing that up now?

Was it right to ghost me for hours because you were mad?

I got lost back then.

I was just gonna cool off, then go back, but you know I get lost easily.

I was in an unfamiliar city, and I'd left my phone behind.

I was terrified.

When I got back to the hotel after wandering for hours,

you asked if I was happy I'd win by making you worry.

Perhaps the one who was never really a boyfriend

isn't Tae-ha,

but you.

PARK HYO-JIN HYOGENIE_1227

HI. THIS IS JI-WON. YOU'RE MY FRIEND, HYO-JIN, RIGHT?

Please read it.

Please read it and get back to me.

Hey, hey, don't run

You'll only get hungrier

This heart-aching road of the barley hump…

Hey there, Song-wol.

These are dried persimmons.

Put them in the freezer and eat them with your grandma.

How did you ever live through those days?

Mother's sorrow

Endless days of living on roots and bark

- Have you been well, ma'am? - As those times fade into the wind

- I haven't been able to visit you lately. - Mother's sorrow, buried…

Are you happy that Tae-ha moved down here?

Yes, ma'am.

I'm so sorry.

I said something I shouldn't have to Tae-ha.

Despite knowing why he ended up like that

and everything you went through to raise him,

I was blinded by my love for my own child.

So I drove a nail

into poor Tae-ha's heart.

Even though I have two children of my own,

and I've grown older,

I still have a long way to go…

before I can call myself a true adult.

I'll make sure to prepare the grandest of celebrations

for your 80th birthday.

I know that couldn't possibly make up for my mistake, but still.

Please go… a little easy on me.

You're telling me to stop whining and shut up, right?

Please stay with us for a long time.

Until this fool, Pang Hui-ja, finally grows up.

It's me, Hyo-jin.

I'm texting after seeing your DM.

Let's meet.

It's okay now. I'm okay.

HONG DO-YEOP

Hi, Coach.

Who's here?

Something's come up.

These are Grandma's favorite playlists.

Give them to Mrs. Pang at the party.

What?

Her only grandson is skipping her party?

She'll need these, so make sure you go.

Go there and stay put.

What's with him?

What's more important than his grandma?

Sir!

It's me, Gang-rok!

Have you been well?

Sir, they sliced my Achilles' heel.

If you leave, they usually cut off both,

but I'm such a small fry that they let me off with one.

You were like a father to me.

Why would I stay in Eden when my dad's not there?

How did you find me?

Ages ago, we drank together, just the two of us.

You got drunk and told me about your hometown.

You said you wanted to go back to the boxing gym there when you retired.

I looked it up, and there's only one boxing gym in Gujin.

I must ask…

Sir,

did you save Prosecutor Go?

I saw her earlier,

very much alive.

CONGRATULATIONS ON MS. GO YEON-HONG'S 80TH BIRTHDAY

Nice!

Here.

There you go.

All right, here goes!

I was told to give this to Mrs. Pang.

They're songs Grandma likes.

I'll get going, then.

Hang on, lady.

Where are you going? Eat before you go.

It's okay.

Hold on.

Aren't you her granddaughter-in-law?

First, you show up fashionably late.

And now what? You're gonna show your face and leave?

I'm not her granddaughter-in-law.

Sure, you haven't had a wedding yet,

but you're practically her family.

- I'll get going. - What?

- I said eat before you go. - I said I don't want to.

You shouldn't go on an empty stomach. At least eat this before you go.

Oh my!

Go Ji-won!

I said I'll make you eat gochujang if you leave food, didn't I?

Eat it!

Eat! I said eat!

Open!

Open your mouth! Wide!

Open!

Have you lost all your manners?

Hey, you can make a scene, but there are lines you don't cross.

She did that so you wouldn't go hungry.

Yeah, but… did I ever say I was hungry?

Did I say I wanted to eat?

People in the countryside might think that's how you show affection,

but it's only affection if it's welcome.

Forcing food on someone who doesn't want to eat

is torture.

What? Torture?

Hey, don't you have parents?

Didn't your parents teach you to be respectful?

No.

Apparently, I don't have any parents and grew up in an orphanage.

- What's going on? - What's happening?

What?

But what difference would parents have made?

You have parents, and I don't, yet we're being equally disrespectful.

I should seriously knock some sense into that thick head of yours!

I could also speak rudely to you, but I'm holding back.

You should know that, at the very least, compared to everyone here,

I have a certain level of class and grace,

so I'm letting this slide.

So what brings someone of such class to the countryside?

That's why I'm leaving.

Because I can't bear to stay in this low-class village

for another day.

- Look at her. - Ms. Go.

- Let her go. - That brat! Good heavens.

Hui-ja, just let it go.

Just let her go.

Yeah, why wait until tomorrow?

To Seoul, please.

I thought that was just like you, sir.

The man I served all this time has always been above taking a life.

So does Prosecutor Go live here now?

Has she given up being a prosecutor? Is it to stay off the chairman's radar?

- Gang-rok. - Yes, sir?

Why are you here?

I want to live here too.

I don't care what we do. I just want to be with you.

Please take me in.

There's something you don't know.

Sorry?

Taking someone's life

is not beneath me.

When it comes to protecting my people,

nothing's beneath me.

That means that if you came here with a hidden agenda…

I will kill you.

I don't have one.

Please believe me.

DO JEONG-HWA

Hello.

I'm sorry?

I should've done this sooner.

Now I can breathe.

Just don't disappear without a word.

Just stay out of danger.

No.

You did well.

It'll all be over tomorrow.

JANG TAE-HA 6 MISSED CALLS

You've held up well all this time.

Go Eun-sae!

Go Eun-sae!

Go Eun-sae!

Eun-sae!

GO EUN-SAE

Go Eun-sae, please.

The phone is turned off. You will be directed to voicemail.

Please leave a message…

Where the hell did you go?

If it's Seoul…

If you went to Seoul…

No. Please, no.

We have so many eyes in Seoul.

Did you think

you'd go unseen?

Prosecutor.

Go Eun-sae!

No!

KIM GANG-ROK

Sir, I thought about it all night.

If Prosecutor Go doesn't have any ID,

whose name did she use to get a phone number?

Why do you ask?

Today's finally the day.

Now I'll finally find out…

the truth.

Hyo-jin?

Yeah.

It's me, Park Hyo-jin.

Thanks.

So we really are friends.

I finally met my best friend.

TO HYO-JIN FROM EUN-SAE

"Eun-sae"?

Isn't my name Go Ji-won?

That's your legal name.

Go Eun-sae is the name your mom gave you.

You liked that name better, so I called you Eun-sae sometimes.

Go Ji-won is your legal name.

Eun-sae is the name your mother gave you.

I see.

But do you really

not remember anything?

Yeah. When I opened my eyes, I was in the hospital.

I couldn't remember a thing.

Then this boxing coach from the country showed up out of the blue,

saying that we'd been living together for two years.

That I was an orphan with no family.

It was just impossible to believe.

What did I use to do?

What that man said…

is all true.

What?

You did grow up in an orphanage,

your boyfriend was a boxing coach,

and you didn't have a job as such.

Wait, but that… can't be true.

In all your Instagram photos, I was dressed in designer clothes.

Who do you think bought that for you?

- What? - Be good to your boyfriend.

He took care of you despite who you were.

But…

Why…

As my friend, why would you talk about me like that?

We're friends.

Yeah.

We…

used to be.

I'll get you your drink and rice.

- Thanks. - Can I get you anything else?

- We're good, thanks. - Enjoy your meal.

- Hey, come here. - What is it?

Switch shoes with me.

What?

Forget it.

Come on, I want my legs to look longer.

There's a cute customer over there.

Hurry.

- My feet are cold. - Why are you barefoot?

- Hey, careful. - I'm okay.

- I'm going. - Hey.

Go Eun-sae, seriously?

We met in our early twenties while working part-time.

We clicked and quickly became friends.

Is that right?

You're right. I am in the area, but…

Yes.

No, it's fine.

Yes, understood, sir.

I'm sorry. My boss just called me, and I think I have to go.

But you just got here.

There's an important drinks thing.

You told me to come no matter what, so I even closed my nail salon.

Come on, you can't compare closing your salon to my work drinks.

How much does your salon make in a day?

Let's say it's 70,000 won per appointment. I'll send you 700,000 won.

- What? - I'm sorry.

See you!

But at a certain point, you changed.

What? Hyo-jin bought this?

But this costs over five million won.

She said she considered it for months before buying it.

I guess she'll be back for a refund.

Time and time again, you hurt me.

You often made me feel miserable and humiliated.

I really did that?

It's not that I wasn't worried when you went missing,

but knowing that the person who hurt me was gone

wasn't so bad.

Now that I've seen you're okay, please don't contact me anymore.

Wait. I'm sorry.

I'm just having a hard time believing what you're saying right now.

There isn't a single designer item in the house I live in right now.

How do you explain that?

You're not lying to me, too, are you?

Ji-won.

Isn't it obvious why you wouldn't have the designer items you bought?

You returned them.

Or sold them because you needed money.

That's why

you should've known to live within your means.

Wait, I…

SORRY FOR NOT OPENING THE DOOR WHY AM I ALWAYS SO SORRY?

At the very least, compared to everyone here,

I have a certain level of class and grace,

so I'm letting this slide.

Class? What class?

I was the lowest of them all.

If the phone is under your name, can't we track it?

These days, they can track your phone with your consent if you lose it.

What do I do?

I'm the worst.

Go Eun-sae.

Why are you on the street like this?

What are you doing here?

Forget it. I don't want to talk about it.

Let's just go home.

How could I go back there?

I made a total mess when I left.

I said all kinds of things to your grandma and the ladies,

yelling like someone who would never come back.

How could I go back now?

Oh my goodness.

I'm so mad that this is all I amounted to.

Let's eat something.

Hey, Tae-ha.

Does your wife use cement instead of makeup or something?

It's just that she has such thick skin.

Why are you so silent?

Right. I guess you can't talk to us ladies who are so far beneath you.

She just--

Come on, you're just as bad.

Think hard about which side to take, you spineless dummy.

Do you even know what she did to your grandmother?

If you still have that mouth of yours that spewed out all those nasty words,

why don't you say something?

After ruining an 80-year-old woman's birthday party,

how could you have the nerve to crawl back here?

I told her to come.

You did, ma'am?

Yes, I asked her to come back.

Hey, Song-wol.

She's not in her right mind right now, is she?

What if I'm not?

Are you going to kick her out?

Of course we wouldn't…

I just asked my family to return.

Do you have a problem with that?

So leave the girl alone now.

Okay?

By any chance,

did you ask your grandma to do that?

How would I know when she'd come to her senses?

Then why…

Because she's my grandma.

I have to go to the gym real quick.

Okay.

I have to… go somewhere too.

We're not just stretching and twisting this taffy for no reason.

We're letting air into it.

If you keep flattening and folding the taffy over and over,

it forms air bubbles in the center.

The air bubbles make it sweeter and crumblier.

That's how we make better taffy.

It's the same for people.

Not having any flaws isn't always a good thing.

If you end up having a few holes for whatever reason,

you'll find that your tough life becomes sweeter and crumblier.

And it'll make you a better person.

So it's okay to be a little embarrassed.

It's completely fine for a person to be embarrassed once in a while.

I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry.

I thought you were a lady, but you're just a baby.

Look at you.

Hello.

Tae-ha, that punk…

He was no ordinary kid.

In just six months of training with me,

he swept the city, province, and national competitions.

In no time, he became a national athlete and trained at Taereung.

But then, the old lady became unwell.

His grandmother?

Yes. Though she's technically not his real grandmother.

She's not his real grandmother?

With nowhere to go, Tae-ha's mom stumbled into our village with a newborn,

then died after staying at Lady Go's house for a while.

So the old lady raised Tae-ha.

I thought they were family.

They are family.

Do they have to be blood-related to be family?

That's it! My Tae-ha, you're doing great.

Tae-ha, don't get worked up.

Stop!

She raised him with more care than she would her own grandchildren.

- Wasn't I great? - Yes!

The old lady was so warm, showering him with endless love.

My baby, you did great.

Until then, there were no shadows in Tae-ha's life.

TAE-HA, GRANDMA COLLAPSED COME TO BODEUM HOSPITAL CANCER CENTER

Perhaps that's why he wanted to save her no matter what.

But the surgery and medication cost nearly a hundred million,

and Tae-ha was only 20 years old.

Where could he get that kind of money?

He couldn't afford it with his training camp allowance,

and his signing bonus from the semipro team wasn't much.

And that's when

this gang called Geukrakpa reached out to him.

His grandma survived,

but when she found out how Tae-ha had saved her,

she soon started to slip away.

She couldn't go on living

without erasing the memory of that.

After Tae-ha became a gangster, he lived like a machine.

Beating people up and breaking things on command.

He lived like that for 14 years,

afraid that he might have regrets if he ever looked back.

But he's always been too kind by nature.

No matter how much he tried to live like a machine,

he couldn't help but feel sick to his stomach.

That's why

he came back.

Tae-ha's heart

is deeply wounded.

A wound that will never heal

and that will never fade.

I don't know about anyone else,

but you…

I just hope you won't make that wound any worse.

- Excuse me. - Sure.

Hello.

Yes, this is Hong's Boxing Gym.

Sorry?

Tae-ha?

You're honestly blaming me for this?

I told you that bastard broke my side mirror and just ran off!

Come on now.

He said he had an emergency and left his contact information.

Did he not?

Then why didn't he call me after he was done?

I had to call him and drag him out here!

How is this not a hit-and-run?

You didn't have to mess up his face.

Violence can never be justified!

- What the hell happened? - There you are.

Go Eun-sae.

Did you get beat up?

No, I…

Oh, dear God.

- Where is your family burial ground? - What now?

Bow in that direction. Now.

If he's held back any less,

you'd be joining your ancestors by now.

What the hell are you on about?

I'm his guardian.

I'll replace that side mirror with the fanciest one out there.

Talk it out with me.

You're laughing? You think this is funny?

- You wanna go? - Let's go talk.

Do-yeop, you can't hit him.

I thought you were a good boxer. A former gangster.

Couldn't you have just knocked him out with a few punches?

It wouldn't have taken a few.

Just one.

Exactly.

So why did you let him beat you up like this?

I didn't get beat up.

I was blocking, and…

I promised you.

What?

I won't ever use my fists outside the ring anymore.

I promise.

That's why…

you just let him beat you up?

Mr. Jang Tae-ha.

Are you stupid?

Why would you stand there and take it when you did nothing wrong?

You hit back in situations like this.

You should have hit him back.

What should I do with you?

This must be why I liked you.

Gangster or not,

that must be why.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry for not remembering you and making you upset.

OUR STICKY LOVE

Subtitle translation by: Jimin Choi