Since the rumor spread by Tae-sung’s hater – smileboy included a photo of Si-woo hugging Tae-sung, the PR team is trying to handle the scandal without revealing that Si-woo is in fact Tae-sung’s mother.
Han-byeol suggests that they should neither confirm nor deny the rumor and just release a statement about how the rumor is false and that the veteran actress hugged Tae-sung out of her own free will. ..
Ji-hoon asks Si-woo the real reason for her return to Tae-sung’s life. The actress states that she had something that she wanted to tell her son.
Manager Kang Yu-sung tells Han-byeol about the investigation against the stalker and house help, Myung-hee. Han-byeol asks Yu-sung about Si-woo and Ji-hoon’s relationship and he mentions that Ji-hoon was once Is-woo’s manager which is why they fought very casually.
Cho Ki-ppeum is frustrated with her boss. She knows that the story she wants to write is about a famous actress’s wedding, but her boss won’t let her write it without fact checking it first. She’s not happy, but she has to follow her boss’s orders.
At the same time, Baek Da-hye is reading the responses to her anonymous post about the sudden change in Tae-sung’s behavior on a forum. Some members of the forum are reporting that it is possible that the person in this context could be in love with someone and was trying out new food items to impress them.
As the crew sits together to have lunch, access Jin Yu-na’s managers Han Dae-soo and Ming-kyu join the table at which Tae-sung and the rest of the cast were having their meals. Dae-soo mentions that the soup seemed salty but Ming-kyu denies it.
Tae-sung, who had been listening to the conversation between them, put his bowl of soup away from his plate. Ming-kyu snickered at this. Da-hye, who knew that Tae-sung loved the soup, asked him why he wasn’t eating it. However, since he was irked by the controversy and the stalking, Tae-sung left the table without finishing his meal. ..
As they enjoy their meal, the two start to fall in love with each other. However, they are determined to keep their relationship a secret from their friends and family.
As soon as the waitress arrives with their food, she asks for their autographs and reveals that many popular celebrity couples often eat there. Jae-hyun is embarrassed while Yu-na worries their relationship will be made public.
In the green room, Tae-sung is greeted by Ji-hoon who brings a huge bag of candy to cheer him up. Some time later, Manager Yu-sung barges into the room with a huge bag of snacks, again to cheer him up. Now as Tae-sung is in a much better mood, Han-byeol enters the room with some tteokbeoki and the two make out and chat for a while. ..
Park Ho-young met Manager Yu-sung for the first time since confessing her feelings for him in the parking lot of their company. After an awkward greeting, Ho-young went back to her car instead and drove out of the parking lot clumsily. ..
Ki-ppeum is greeted with a lawsuit. She immediately remembers Lawyer Do Soo-hyuk and enquires about the 50% discount he had offered her last time. She visits Lawyer Do, stating that she does not need the discount because as it turns out, he is related to the actual groom of the actress she wrote about. The groom is Lawyer Do’s brother who agrees to cancel the lawsuit and has Ki-ppeum write a new article praising the Lawyer Do’s brother. ..
Thanks to Lawyer Do, Reporter Ki-ppeum gets another exclusive article. Ki-ppeum tells Han-byeol that, unlike his usually rushed self, Lawyer Do waited for her to finish writing her article at his office even after work hours. Han-byeol is shocked to hear that Lawyer Do had waited for Ki-ppeum after 6 pm, which he only did when he started liking Han-byeol. ..
Just as Ho-young was about to leave her job, she found out that she had feelings for Manager Yu-sung. She was worried about what it would mean for her career, but her friends reassured her that everything would be okay.
The next day, Han-byeol meets the house help, Myung-hee, and warns her about recent posts on Instagram that reveal Tae-sung’s house. Han-byeol returns the necklaces she had sent to her team back to Myung-hee. The stalker aka house-help tries to get to Han-byeol’s head by claiming that she is not any special to Tae-sung as she is.
Myung-hee warns Han-byeol that she and Tae-sung were only temporary and would eventually break up anyway. Han-byeol takes a leave but Tae-sung texts her asking to meet up by the beach.
Noticing that Han-byeol is not in her best mood, Tae-sung tries to cheer her up with a beachside tent set up with fairy lights and food. After prying her about her mood, Han-byeol tells Tae-sung about his conversation with Myung-hee.
Tae-sung reveals that he has been in love with Han-byeol for years and will be the last woman he loves.
The next morning, Tae-sung is in a good mood but receives an anonymous text revealing his anti-fan club – ‘Tae-sung gets worse’. The message also includes an identity card of a Starforce Entertainment employee which was attached to the most recent dating rumor. ..
Manager Yu-sung recalls Ho-young’s confession and worries that she may have been close to Tae-sung, an employee of the company. Back at the Starforce Entertainment headquarters, Ho-young is seen walking clumsily out of the room. ..
Yu-sung invites Ho-young for a chat and asks her to wait for him to understand his feelings for her. He promises to respond to her when he finally learns how he feels about her. The two resolve the ongoing tension leaving Yu-sung wondering how cute she is.
Manager Yu-sung tells Tae-sung that the anonymous text he received is just as worried as he is. He asks Tae-sung if he knows who sent the text and Tae-sung says no, he does not know. Manager Yu-sung tells Tae-sung that it is important to be careful and to stay safe online because there are people out there who would do anything to harm you.
Tae-sung’s neighbor and frenemy, Lawyer Do Soo-hyuk, greets him on his return home. Do asks Tae-sung if he is the person who created an anti-fan page against Tae-sung. Tae-sung jokes that he put himself in danger by drinking a latte made by Soo-hyuk, in his house.
On the next day, Manager Yu-sung and Han-byeol chat about the message and wonder who the employee was that was an anti-fan of Tae-sung. They state that it was very easy to make a fake id and that they should not worry much about the anonymous tip.
Former Starforce employee Ming-kyu drove his car into a bus stop with Tae-sung’s photo on it because he “smiled” a lot in the photo. At the time, Ming-kyu was dismissed from that job and had started working at DS Actors as actress Yu-na’s manager.
Manager Yu-sung rushes to DS Actors’ headquarters where Ming-kyu is resending an email about the dating rumor, revealing the identity of the woman who was hugging Tae-sung. Meanwhile, Manager Byeong Jung-yeol asks Tae-sung to come out of his building as he was running late on the way to pick up Tae-sung up. ..
On his way down, Tae-sung receives another text from the same sender revealing a photo of Manager Yu-sung with his mother, actress, Eun Si-woo. He feels betrayed by his old friend.
Manager Yu-sung tries to call Tae-sung but the latter ignores it in a state of shock. Meanwhile, Yu-sung reaches the DS Actors’ office and finds Ming-kyu looking at his former company id card. Yu-sung grabs Ming-kyu by the shoulder and asks him to quit the act revealing his anti-fan id – smileboy.
As Tae-sung is being shoved around by reporters, he recalls a time when he was younger and had accompanied his mother to a movie premiere. He is stressed out to the point where he collapses to the ground just as Jung-yeol drives by. A semi-conscious Tae-sung tries to look around him, only to spot Han-byeol running towards him.
Manager Yu-sung drives Tae-sung around after his mother, Si-woo, showed up and triggered him. Yu-sung offered to have a drink with Tae-sung.
As the two sit by the river, a group of drunk men try to startle the actor. Manager Yu-sung defends Tae-sung and gets beaten up in his stead, trying to protect the image of the actor who recently had a successful movie release.
Tae-sung visits Yu-sung at the hospice the next day and asks him why he didn’t hit the drunk men back. Yu-sung states that he did so because he didn’t want to cause any negative publicity for himself as an actor. ..
When Han-byeol visits the manager next, she asks him why he was beaming when he had been attacked. Yu-sung reveals that he was happy because Tae-sung had called him “hyung” – older brother in Korean – for the first time.
The Episode Review
This episode of “K-drama 11” seems like it is a filler episode where things are finally taking shape towards a happy ending, but nothing very serious is revealed.
On the other hand, we have the public’s reaction to Tae-sung and Han-byeol’s relationship. With so much attention being focused on their relationship, it has been difficult for them to maintain a professional image.
Ki-ppeum finally gets the man she deserves and it is fun to see Lawyer Do get over his crush on Han-byeol and move on with his practical female counterpart Ki-ppeum. It is also very refreshing to see how he always has a pattern with the women he likes as she only gets off work late for the women he is infatuated with.
The side actors in this episode got less screen time but the actors Jae-hyun and Yu-na are a sight to sore eyes. The couple is always caught in the most awkward situation that keeps their relationship interesting.
Manager Yu-sung and Ho-young are in a love triangle that is a win-lose situation. While it is cute to see Ho-young confess her love to Manager Yu-sung while Manager Yu-sung himself seems to be liking Ho-young, Actor Yu-sung’s one-sided crush being rejected is going to break the hearts of many K-drama fans. ..
It is appalling that actors have no control over the actions of their stalkers and anti-fans. Myung-hee and Ming-kyu have shown no remorse for trying to ruin Tae-sung’s life. ..
