Triangle Episode 22

In Triangle Episode 22 Yang Ha reflect on what Young Dal revealed that they are sibling. He found people work longtime Daejung corporations, Seon Joo, to verify the facts. 

Young Dal pities think that the him pushed brother into prison. Jung Hee comforting Young Dal  when her see him sad and shocked to hear Yang Ha is the lost brother of Dal Young. 

Friends of Dal Young went to boss Min, ask her help Yang Ha out of jai. Go presidents ordered the lackey punished  Dal Young before him went to see the prosecutor.Yang Ha  affirm  Young Dal that president Yoon is his father  not someone that him do not mind.

Yang Ha talk to  Dong Soo- Dong Soo expressed his hate to see his two children fighting with together and pleaded Yang Ha  not forget to name the father of the three brothers. Dong Soo also advised Yang Ha not to think money is everything.

Once out of the place of detention, Yang Ha surprise upon receiving hugs sentiment of President Yoon and those words of  Dong Soo hangs around in his mind.
The investigation to suspend led for president  Go very excited.Dong Soo drinking alcohol and ashamed of herself can not protect the boys.Yang Ha also immersed  in alcohol himself and mumbling the words Dong Soo said. The next day, Yang Ha received a call from President Yoon, ordered his have to remove  Dal Young and Chang Mook the his custom processing.

Upon hearing the news his benefactor is in critical condition after car accident, Dal Young rushed rushed to hospital 

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Triangle Episode 21

Now that two brothers know the truth, it’s up to them to protect their youngest from walking into his own destruction. Both revenge and estranged relationships become far more difficult when they realize that bringing down their enemy could potentially take their brother down with them. There are more little moments that buoy us throughout the hour until we finally reach the end, leaving us to wonder how our three brothers will proceed from here.

Triangle Episode 21

Young-dal and Dong-soo resume their conversation up on the roof, where the latter explains how Dong-woo was adopted and raised as Chairman Yoon’s son, Yang-ha. Although Dong-soo didn’t understand Kim Jin-soo’s actions at first, he later realized that it was better that their brother grew up in a life of privilege than to have suffered in the streets like Young-dal did.

Learning the truth now would only traumatize Yang-ha, who has practically lived his whole life without knowing about his brothers’ existence. Chairman Yoon is also unaware that he’s raised his enemy’s son, so the best thing they can do for their brother now is to bury the past and give up on their revenge.

Young-dal, however, can’t agree with his hyung’s forgive and forget stance: “Have you already forgotten everything Chairman Yoon has done to us?” Like Dong-soo said, their familial ties to Dong-woo matter little now—in his eyes, Yang-ha is their enemy’s son, not their little brother. And he won’t forgive either of them.

But that bitter facade crumbles once Young-dal’s alone, as he recalls the night baby Dong-woo was taken from the orphanage. He breaks down in tears, blubbering his brother’s name.

Speaking of whom, Yang-ha persuades his adoptive father into giving him another chance, promising to make amends with Hanchang Group. He’s brought outside where Chairman Yoon boasts of how he built Daejung Group into an empire by eliminating any and all threats that were in his way.

Chairman Yoon knows he wasn’t an affectionate father, but his end goal was to raise a capable heir to a financial empire. Yang-ha vows to follow in his father’s footsteps, promising to do whatever it takes to get rid of Dong-soo and Young-dal.

This is Yang-ha’s last chance to prove himself or else he’ll really be disowned, Chairman Yoon reminds him. No, really, he swearz it this time! Honestly I’m surprised this threat even works on Yang-ha anymore, but it does, so let’s move on.

Back in his office, Young-dal struggles to wrap his head around the realization that Yang-ha is truly his brother, their acrimonious history weighing on his mind. Even a dinner invite from Jung-hee doesn’t lift his spirits, and he passes on the offer.

Seeing that text has Hyun-mi wondering who Jung-hee actually likes between her two suitors (Yang-ha and Young-dal), and when she hears it’s always been Young-dal, she warns her friend to be careful—liking men like Young-dal only leads to unhappiness.

While Shin-hye advises Dong-soo to be patient, Chairman Go has a brainstorming session with Director Hyun on ways to get rid of Yang-ha. Noting how Yang-ha’s greatest weakness has always been his mental health, Director Hyun suggests they exploit his feelings for Jung-hee to cause him to self-destruct. Um, haven’t we learned from the whole kidnapping incident?

Yang-ha tests the waters with Jiyeon, asking what it’ll take to mollify her. Will she accept an apology if he makes one? Or how about if they get married? Gee, you sure know how to woo a lady, Yang-ha. She says she isn’t someone to be easily swayed, but her request is simple: that he try to impress her with his sincerity.

He smirks at that, acknowledging that that’s quite difficult. She agrees, citing her wounded pride and growing interest in Young-dal, but Yang-ha accepts the task anyway.

In spite of her dismissal, Jung-hee continues to show up for work. Her boss encourages this idea, whispering that Director Hyun will have her reinstated soon.

Young-dal’s gloomy mood persists at home, where he drinks alone. He picks up Yang-ha’s call with a heavy heart and rejects his attempts to meet up before he hangs up and slams an angry hand against the table.

Jung-hee is taken aback when her grandmother comes running about the latest gossip claiming that she’s been fired. She denies them, telling Grandma not to worry because she’ll make sure to take care of their family even if she isn’t working in the future—say, if she gets married.

Her choice of words confuse Grandma, so Jung-hee honestly admits that she’s seeing Young-dal again. Now she knows she can’t live her life without him, and when Grandma voices her concerns that Young-dal doesn’t seem like the type to settle down, Jung-hee says he will with her.

Director Hyun sits down with Dong-soo to strike a deal with him—if Dong-soo agrees, then Director Hyun can help him in his revenge against Chairman Yoon.

Young-dal is still out of sorts the next day, and glumly tells his buddies that his plan isn’t to bring down Daejung, but to build the company up and then take it away from Chairman Yoon. But his plan is about to get a lot more complicated when he hears that Yang-ha has become the new interim CEO.

So when Young-dal runs into Yang-ha later, he simply listens to Yang-ha’s speech on how he underestimated the bond between father and son. Young-dal doesn’t even throw a word of protest when Yang-ha declares that he’ll make sure Young-dal walks out of here voluntarily.

But Young-dal does stop him to ask him a question: “Are you happy with the way you’re living right now?” Yang-ha doesn’t know where this is coming from, but he listens as Young-dal says he’s just being used as Chairman Yoon’s pawn.

“It’s still not too late for you to stop here,” Young-dal advises. Are you trying to be a hyung to your brother? Yang-ha looks affected by his words.

Chairman Yoon looks awfully satisfied for a chaebol who threatened to oust his own heir several times now. A flashback takes us back to a meeting with Kim Jin-soo, who handed in his resignation and begged on his knees to ask for forgiveness.

And that’s when Chairman Yoon finally learned the shocking truth: that Yang-ha is Daddy Jang’s son.

Upon hearing that Dong-soo knows this but Yang-ha doesn’t, Chairman Yoon ordered that Yang-ha become CEO, because then the Jang brothers would have to tear down their own brother first to get to him. And while he can’t control what Dong-soo says, Yang-ha must never find out from Kim. 

Apparently Director Hyun’s offer was to hand over information to Dong-soo that would incriminate Chairman Yoon. Because Shin-hye is a walking encyclopedia on everyone in this universe, she believes her ex-husband is eyeing to take over Daejung for himself. Since Director Hyun’s family co-founded Daejung, it’s not altogether impossible.

In exchange of obtaining information on Chairman Yoon, Dong-soo would have to eradicate the chairman himself. Dong-soo admits that the offer is tempting, but it’s Shin-hye who tells him to think about how accepting it would affect Yang-ha.

Just then, Yang-ha calls to give Shin-hye the good news, which she relays to Dong-soo. Neither of them can understand Chairman Yoon’s intentions, but Shin-hye figures that Chairman Yoon can’t abandon his adopted son that easily. Even when Yang-ha was just disinherited in the previous episode. In any case, Shin-hye tells Dong-soo that they all have to stop fighting and hurting each other. 

After Jung-hee gets a surprising apology from the annoying sunbae trio leader for making her grandmother worry about her job status, she hears that Yang-ha is the new CEO and that he’s waiting for her.

So she heads down to see him, and Yang-ha apologizes for putting her through so much trouble. She’ll get her job back and he’ll work on getting over her. However he forewarns her that his hostile feelings towards Young-dal won’t change and he can’t do anything if that ends up making things hard on her.

Young-dal finally smiles when he receives a cute text from Jung-hee claiming that she’ll forget what he looks like because he’s been so busy. So they both make time to go on a hiking date the next day, adorably feeding each other food and just spending time together.

When they take a break, Jung-hee asks if Young-dal and Yang-ha could put an end to their war. Yang-ha had once told her of his painful past, of how he’d been adopted and unloved, and suffered from depression and anxiety. Hearing his story made her realize that being rich doesn’t necessarily buy happiness, and she feels that Yang-ha’s a pitiful person, not a contender.

She hopes that hearing this doesn’t upset Young-dal, and he replies that he understands where she’s coming from—it’s just unfortunate that their animosity for each other runs too deep.

Looks like yesterday’s allies are today’s enemies as Madame Jang smiles to see Boss Min gambling at her underground casino. Boss Min’s been getting rotten luck at the table and tunes out Boss Yang’s advice, but she gets up to grab ahold of a man who allegedly made off with her money. 

Boss Min takes the matter up to Young-dal, describing the man, Kang Sun-tae, as a former Daejung VIP client who ran off after borrowing a large sum from her. Apparently he can repay his debt if he gets to meet one of the Daejung higher-ups.

Young-dal agrees to meet him, though his young appearance makes Kang suspicious. Still, Kang boasts that his name alone will get Chairman Yoon to comply with his demands. The reason is that he holds the physical evidence of Chairman Yoon’s money laundering and lobbying activities, but little does he know that Young-dal doesn’t want to protect the chaebol, but bring him down.

Realizing that Kang can expedite his revenge plan, Young-dal tells his buddies that he plans to have Chairman Yoon arrested. He knows that Chairman Yoon holds some influence within the legal system, but Elder Ahn’s pockets run deeper. Once the investigation begins, both Chairman Yoon and Chairman Go will be dealt with in one fell swoop.

When his buddies ask how Chairman Go fits into all of this, Young-dal explains that Kang was also on Chairman Yoon’s hit list, but it turns out he also helped Chairman Go with some corrupt activities.

News of newly-minted character Kang Sun-tae reaches Manager Bae’s ears, as the minor character’s history is hammered into us yet again. You know, about how he used to be a VIP client who nearly ruined Daejung with his lobbying activities but disappeared suddenly.

Getting Jun-ho to relay this information wipes Young-dal’s hands clean of getting directly involved, since Kang’s reappearance will eventually reach Yang-ha and Chairman Yoon. When asked why Young-dal doesn’t just deal a deathly blow to Chairman Yoon, Young-dal replies that the least he can do is to make the rich man sweat and buy some time before the investigation begins.

Boss Min has mercy on Top Dog, much to his relief and gratitude. She has him relay a message to Chairman Go, warning him that betrayal will be the end of him. Chairman Go is up in arms at the news that Kang Sun-tae is back in town, and decides that he must see Chairman Yoon himself.

Young-dal informs Dong-soo of how Chairman Yoon and Chairman Go will soon be arrested because Young-dal will be handing over the guy who orchestrated all their money laundering activities to the police. And of course, the name Kang Sun-tae rings a bell to Dong-soo as well. HAHAHA, okay now it’s just funny.

Young-dal tells his hyung not to worry because once the chaebols are behind bars, he doesn’t plan on bringing Yang-ha down with them. Dong-soo is relieved to hear it. 

Once Chairman Yoon is filled in, he wastes no time placing the blame of Kang’s reappearance on Chairman Go for not killing him years ago. Furthermore, he shifts alllll the responsibility for dealing with Kang on to Chairman Go. Again.

That has Chairman Go sneering that Chairman Yoon should be afraid of the damage he can deal too, but they basically do more of the same: Yoon: “Are you threatening me?” Go: “Yes, I am! I’m very upset!” Lather, rinse, repeat.

Yang-ha is aware of the impending investigation by the time he meets with his father, though he’s completely caught off-guard when Chairman Yoon suggests that he take the fall for this case.

It… doesn’t make too much sense to my ears if we’re talking about corrupt financial activities that could precede Yang-ha’s employment at Daejung, but Chairman Yoon is concerned that this investigation will cause a dent in their plans for their snazzy resort in the works.

Chairman Yoon promises to do whatever it takes to get his son out of jail as soon as possible, but now this is his grand opportunity to save Daejung. Or something. And Yang-ha agrees.

So when Yang-ha meets with Shin-hye later, he says he probably won’t get to be crowned the new Daejung CEO because he’ll be too busy undergoing interrogation. Shin-hye doesn’t understand why Yang-ha has to be the one to take responsibility, but he’s all, I can’t let my father suffer, so I have to go in his place. 

Yang-ha sees it as a rite of passage to becoming a dishonest corporate exec like everyone else in the industry, and tells Shin-hye not to worry. But… maybe we should, Yang-ha. Maybe we should.

Shin-hye takes these latest developments straight to Dong-soo and Young-dal, who are surprised to hear that their little brother will be the fall guy. Shin-hye’s ex-husband also plays personified messenger pigeon to Chairman Go, and now he’s sure that if Yang-ha endures this, it will guarantee his spot as Daejung’s heir.

The question is what happens to Chairman Go, but Director Hyun doesn’t have an answer. After being informed that Young-dal instigated the investigation, Chairman Yoon smirks that Dong-soo and Young-dal will be responsible for their own brother’s arrest. 

Young-dal is torn about how his actions backfired onto Yang-ha. His calls and texts go mostly ignored, but when Yang-ha does finally pick up, he acknowledges that Young-dal has won this round, but this isn’t the end to their war.

That isn’t what Young-dal wanted to hear, because he asks where Yang-ha is right now. The question legitimately confuses Yang-ha, so he shows up to at least hear what Young-dal has to say.

Young-dal asks why Yang-ha is taking the fall for his father’s crimes, to which Yang-ha throws back that that’s what family members do for another.

“But you were adopted,” Young-dal points out. “You’re just being used, you pathetic fool.”

But Yang-ha says there’s no father who would use his own son like that, something that Young-dal will never be able to understand. Sacrificing oneself for one’s family is a given, and there isn’t anything Yang-ha wouldn’t do for his father.

Having had enough of those words, Young-dal urges him once more not to get involved, tears welling up in his eyes. Yang-ha asks if this wasn’t the result he wanted, and starts to walk away.

And then Young-dal says, “Your name before you were adopted was Jang Dong-woo. And my real name… is Jang Dong-chul.”

Yang-ha whips around at that, and Young-dal continues, “You’re Jang Dong-chul’s dongsaeng Jang Dong-woo. You’re my dongsaeng, Jang Dong-woo.”

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Triangle Episode 20

For a show that certainly knows how to take things slow and easy sometimes, it still knows how to deliver an hour of small victories, heartwarming teamwork, and shattering reveals. Most of all, I appreciate how Triangle surprises us with character moments which subvert conventional drama tropes while also remembering that episodic payoffs are important. Love is a many splendored thing, isn’t it?

 
Triangle  Episode 20

Dong-soo’s arrival puts an end to the physical aspect of Young-dal and Yang-ha’s argument, but the verbal assault continues. Yang-ha sneers that Young-dal made a big mistake in provoking him, only for Young-dal to shrug off that threat—he knows how Yang-ha works already, and he isn’t afraid.

Since he knows Yang-ha was responsible for putting him and Dong-soo behind bars, he warns the little prince not to do something so foolish ever again. Because no matter how low Yang-ha goes, Young-dal can always go lower, and swears that he’ll repay any affront one hundred times over.

Dong-soo doesn’t tell Young-dal why he was so concerned about his fight with Yang-ha, nor does Young-dal pick up on it. He believes his hyung when he says he came to Sabuk because he was worried about him facing off against Myung-jae, and assures Dong-soo that he’s got nothing to worry about since his plan is airtight.

Young-dal walks in on Jun-ho giving Myung-jae the unfortunate news that he can’t be accepted as a Daejung VIP because he doesn’t have enough class. But Young-dal plays the good cop to Jun-ho’s bad cop by issuing Myung-jae a VIP card.

However, there’s a caveat: Myung-jae can’t have the VIP room all to himself, since it’s already been reserved. Myung-jae doesn’t like this idea until Young-dal tells him that there’s a perk to playing with other people—like being able to bet past the maximum limit, for instance.

Once they’re outside, Young-dal soothes Jun-ho’s frazzled nerves and gets him ready for the next phase of the plan. Boss Min will be joining Myung-jae in the VIP room.

Jung-hee and a few other dealers are called to work in the VIP room after Hyun-mi uses her new promotion to put the annoying sunbae trio in place. Their leader vows to get Hyun-mi back for embarrassing her.

Dong-soo thinks back to Kim Jin-soo telling him to give up on his revenge against Chairman Yoon if he cares for his little brother before meeting with Young-dal.

He kiiind of tests the waters about giving up on their revenge when he reminds Young-dal about his dreams to marry the girl he loved and find his two brothers, but barely gets into talking about how “the past is in the past” before Young-dal catches on, all but scolding his hyung for thinking about giving up.

Those are the men who killed their father, Young-dal reminds him. “And you’re just going to let those bastards get away with that? I’ll never forgive them for what they’ve done.”

Chairman Yoon tears into Yang-ha as he blames his affair with Jung-hee as the reason why Jiyeon’s father cut off his partnership with Daejung. However, when he orders Yang-ha to break things off with Jung-hee and apologize to Jiyeon, Yang-ha replies with a quiet but firm, “I can’t do that.”

He gets a hard slap across the face for that, as his father tells him that if Yang-ha can’t end it, he will. But Yang-ha fights back that he’ll leave Daejung if Jung-hee is fired, to which his father asks incredulously if Yang-ha would give up everything he’s given him.

“None of that matters to me,” Yang-ha retorts, causing Chairman Yoon to finally make good on his threat to disinherit Yang-ha. Ugh, finally. Is it for good this time? I doubt it.

Before Jung-hee and her fellow dealers go into the VIP room, they’re warned to be on their toes with their mobster client. The last thing they need to do is make any mistakes.

Jung-hee greets Myung-jae when he enters, only for a shock of surprise to hit the both of them as they recognize each other from the whole kidnapping incident. Myung-jae gets over it quicker than Jung-hee does, though props go to her for swallowing her fear in order to do her job.

Even Boss Min is a little nervous before joining Myung-jae in the VIP room, even though Manbong declares that she’ll be safe as long as he’s with her. Aww. After some last minute pointers from Jang-soo, they march into battle.

Young-dal flashes back to Dong-soo reminding him that he once had vengeance-free dreams, as well as Jung-hee’s confrontation with him over knowing that he didn’t mean the harsh words he said when she was abducted.

His reverie is cut short when Jun-ho informs him that the game has begun so that Young-dal can watch it live from his office.

Myung-jae thinks it’s just coincidence when Boss Min joins him at the table, and listens when she offers to let this game decide the outcome of their personal battle. Whoever loses has to grant the winner a wish.

The big scary mob boss scoffs at whether she’ll be able to keep to her own rules if he wins, since he’ll demand that she hand over Young-dal as payment. Eek! Boss Min, now you really can’t lose!

She swallows her nervousness as she declares that it doesn’t matter what Myung-jae wants—but if she wins, he and his gang have to leave Sabuk for good. Myung-jae agrees to the terms, and the game begins.

Jun-ho tells Team Young-dal about the bets wagered, causing Jang-soo and Jailbreak to worry about what will happen to Young-dal if Boss Min were to lose.

But Young-dal tries to look at it positively, because they’ll gain everything they wanted if Myung-jae loses and leaves Sabuk.

Yang-ha calls a reluctant Jiyeon out to discuss whatever deal she made with Young-dal. She says that Young-dal told her he was just a thug, no better than garbage on the street, but then eyes Yang-ha as she adds that the real thug is someone else, aka him.

But she soon reveals that her real reason for taking Young-dal’s deal was to get back at Yang-ha for wounding her pride by playing around with her when he’d already given his heart to a lowly dealer.

He takes offense to the way she spits that word out, but Jiyeon continues on to say that he should’ve treated Jung-hee the same way she treats Young-dal—as a curiosity. Since he didn’t, she promises that there’ll be more repercussions for insulting her dignity to come. She can hold a mean grudge just as well as he can.

As Myung-jae starts losing in the game, his lackey is forced to take out more loans from Boss Yang in order for Myung-jae to keep playing. He has to go to Madame Jang to get the money to loan out, and assures them that they’ll get a return on their investment with the collateral Myung-jae put up.

While Young-dal is happy to hear that Myung-jae is digging his own grave by losing more and more money in the game, Myung-jae wises up to Young-dal’s plan when Chairman Go tells him that the game was set up by Young-dal.

So in order to help Myung-jae win, Chairman Go lends him roughly three million dollars, hoping to take down Boss Min in one go. At least Boss Min doesn’t immediately fall for the trap by matching Myung-jae’s enormous bet, and takes a time out to ask Young-dal what she should do.

And aw, I love Boss Min—she’s afraid of losing not because of the money, but because it would mean losing the battle with Myung-jae. Of course, with everyone advising Young-dal to back down since they’ll have more chances to win if they’re patient, we know he won’t.

Boss Min returns to the table and accepts Myung-jae’s bet. Everyone waits with bated breath as the cards are dealt… and Boss Min’s hand turns out to be a dud.

However, Team Young-dal thanks their lucky stars when Myung-jae’s hand turns out to be a bust also. Phew. But the money’s still on the table, which means they have to play another hand.

Boss Min has a two, which leaves Myung-jae’s hand. If he has a higher number, they’ll be in trouble…

…And he doesn’t. He doesn’t?! Wow, I was certain this was going to blow up in Young-dal’s face, but he won!

Chairman Go receives the news that all the money he lent Myung-jae has been lost. Not only that, but he didn’t even get Young-dal out of the deal. Hah, that’s what you get.

For having lost a bunch of money, Myung-jae is actually in decent spirits as he concedes his loss to Young-dal like a good sport. He knows he’s out of the game for good now, and will leave Young-dal alone.

And in another display of good sportsmanship, Young-dal tells Boss Min return the building Myung-jae put up as collateral to him if he sticks to his word and stays far, far away.

Even though Shin-hye is the one who was positive about Yang-ha being Dong-woo, she seems surprised when Dong-soo confirms it himself. She then switches gears to urge him to tell Young-dal the truth now, so that way he can stop fighting Yang-ha before the two hurt each other further.

But Dong-soo is unsure about the right course of action—what if Yang-ha/Dong-woo is happy? Wouldn’t Dong-soo and Young-dal be doing him a greater service if they just left him to live his life in peace?

Shin-hye strongly disagrees by explaining Yang-ha’s origin story, the one we could all recite from memory by now. Because she knows Yang-ha’s existence is a miserable one, Shin-hye is convinced that he’d be much happier living as their little brother than as the unloved heir of Daejung Group.

Jung-hee gets home late only to find a drunk Yang-ha waiting nearby. “I’ve abandoned everything. You’re all I have left now,” he admits.

When she rightly asks for clarification, Yang-ha continues like she didn’t: “But if you cast me aside now, then I really…” he chokes back tears. “I’m sorry. I’ll leave.” He stumbles off, leaving Jung-hee looking confused in his wake.

After Chairman Yoon declines to show Yang-ha any leniency in disinheriting him and firing Jung-hee, Jung-hee hears from the casino manager that she’s been let go. Yikes.

She’s in total shock since she has no idea what she could’ve done wrong, but her manager keeps it a secret from her (but not everyone else) that she thinks there’s a link between Yang-ha being ordered to quit and Jung-hee being fired.

Jun-ho delivers the Yang-ha news to Young-dal, who doesn’t celebrate like his buddies do since he knows that they’ve still got to take down Chairman Yoon.

But he reacts much differently when he finds out that Jung-hee’s been fired, and rushes off to presumably do something about it.

Everyone in the seedy underground is happy at their latest victory, since even Boss Min and Madame Jang have reconciled their differences enough to celebrate together and share the winnings.

Young-dal confronts Director Hyun over Jung-hee being fired, only to be told that it was Chairman Yoon’s decision—so if he wants to do something about it, he needs to take it up with the big guy.

Kim Jin-soo ctually calls Shin-hye for a talk this time (instead of the other way around) to tell her that he’s worried about Yang-ha now that Chairman Yoon might even go so far as to officially disown him.

Apparently, the reason Yang-ha first went to Shin-hye was because he’d tried to commit suicide after he found out he was adopted. Kim Jin-soo is worried that these recent events have put Yang-ha back at risk for self-harm, and asks Shin-hye to help him.

Manager Bae finds Yang-ha passed out from all the heavy drinking he did the night before and attempts to make him get his head back in the game—especially considering that Manager Bae put everything on the line anticipating that Yang-ha would be victorious.

But Yang-ha just claims he’s tired of it all. No matter how Manager Bae pleads with him to reconsider, sure that no father would actually abandon his son this way, Yang-ha’s mind seems pretty made up.

While Shin-hye tells Dong-soo that Yang-ha might be at risk for suicide considering his current situation, we find our disinherited heir taking a sponsored hike to sort out his thoughts.

Meanwhile, Jung-hee also spends some time brooding. Does this show think we’re goldfish who need flashbacks from twenty minutes ago to remember why these characters are sad, or are the flashbacks being used as filler? 

After another tiny scene where Hyun-mi fields off rumors about Jung-hee being fired amongst the other dealers, Jung-hee goes directly to Director Hyun to say that she won’t accept her dismissal without hearing a clear reason for it.

He comes straight out and tells her that he can’t do anything to help her since Chairman Yoon fired her over her relationship with Yang-ha, which only frustrates Jung-hee more.

She claims that she has no relationship to Yang-ha and that Chairman Yoon misunderstood. “Why must I be treated unfairly like this because of Yoon Yang-ha’s own personal feelings?” Furthermore, if Director Hyun can’t give her a real reason for her being fired, she’s willing to take this to court. (Again, go Jung-hee!)

Young-dal confronts Yang-ha over causing Jung-hee so much suffering when he can’t even take care of her. “Becoming a dealer was her dream,” Young-dal grits out. “Do you know how precious this job is to her and how desperately she needs it? Who do you think you are to crush her dreams?!”

Yang-ha is NOT about to take this from someone like Young-dal, and tells him as much when he claims the only reason he became interested in Jung-hee was because he couldn’t understand how she could like a piece of trash like Young-dal.

“Because I couldn’t stand and watch her give her heart to a thug like you,” Yang-ha spits. “Anyone else in the world can insult me, but not you, you bastard.”

As you can imagine, Yang-ha gets punched for that one. When he gets back up, Young-dal punches him again, sending Yang-ha sprawling to the ground.

“That’s enough!” A voice calls out to put a halt to the fight—it’s Jung-hee. She tells Young-dal that she’s not going to quietly give up on her dreams just like that, and entreats him to stop feeling upset about it.

And to Yang-ha, she says she isn’t blaming him for what happened. “So please, don’t make things any harder for yourself because of me.” Finally, a drama heroine who does more than gape like a mute fish when two men fight over her.

Jung-hee comes home late after a few drinks, and shares a cute backhug with Grandma. She apologizes for all the suffering she thinks she’s brought on Grandma, only for Grandma to get all choked up when she tells Jung-hee that she’s the one who’s had to bear the weight of supporting her and her two brothers all by herself.

If anything, Grandma is the one who feels sorry. Aww. But I can’t shake this eerie feeling when Jung-hee promises Grandma that she’ll make enough money to buy her nice things and send her on vacations soon, because promises like that never seem to come true in dramaland.

But once she’s alone in her room, Jung-hee lets out all her bottled frustration in tears, her fingers grasping at the necklace Young-dal gave her which still hangs around her neck.

She’s not expecting Young-dal’s call announcing that he’s outside her house, and runs out to meet him. She doesn’t see him at first and frets that he’s gone, only to hear him softly call her name from behind her.

They walk up to each other in silence, an unspoken agreement passing between them as Young-dal pulls her into an embrace. He pulls back only to look into her eyes…

 

…Before he leans in and kisses her. Omo omo. A tear falls down Jung-hee’s cheek the second their lips meet, and if you can believe it, they actually kiss. Maybe this is my twelve year old self talking, but their lips move, and the action is reciprocal.

After Director Hyun gets Chairman Go’s support for his bid to replace Yang-ha and take over Daejung, we find our displaced heir with Shin-hye.

He admits that he’s not sure what his next move will be—either he’ll try to regain his father’s acceptance or accept his own shortcomings and give everything up. Shin-hye tries to get him to see that it’s his father who has shortcomings, not him: “Don’t let this weaken you and stay strong.”

“The reason why I don’t have anyone in the world to stand by my side must mean that I’ve been living my life all wrong, right?” Yang-ha asks ruefully. But Shin-hye shakes her head and says that he’s wrong—he may not know who they are, but he has people on his side.

Cut to: Young-dal and Dong-soo as the former updates his hyung on how well his plans are going, and even wants Dong-soo to meet Jung-hee because he’s going to live his dream after all. Awww.

But now that he’s checked everything off his list except for Chairman Yoon and Chairman Go, “We just have to find Dong-woo.”

“I found Dong-woo,” Dong-soo sighs. Young-dal excitedly asks the usual questions—how? Where? He’s only further confused when Dong-soo tells him that Dong-woo is already in his life…

“Yoon Yang-ha is Dong-woo,” Dong-soo finally says. “Chairman Yoon adopted Dong-woo and raised him as his own.”

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Triangle Episode 19

For an episode following a rather big revelation, we’re rewarded with more planning and scheming in this hour. To Young-dal’s credit, it’s a pretty smart plan because it requires knowing what makes the other person tick and what pressure points will evoke the kind of reaction our hero wants. It also requires a lot of manpower and everyone in this large characterverse gets to do their part, whether they’re aware of it or not.

In Triangle Episode 19:

In order to learn how Shin-hye arrived at her conclusion that Yang-ha is Dong-woo, we backtrack to earlier that day when she had spoken with Jung-hee’s grandmother. Grandma had remembered the Jang family fondly, since they were family friends, and dug up an old picture. Aw, is that little Young-dal holding hands with Jung-hee?
Although Grandma remembered the tragic fate that befell upon Daddy Jang and his three boys, she wasn’t sure what happened to the children after they were sent to the orphanage. She did, however, hear whispers that Chairman Yoon adopted the littlest one, Dong-woo.
Seeing the picture for himself, Dong-soo recognizes Jung-hee’s father as a friend of his own father. And for three whole seconds, he challenges Shin-hye’s deductive skills about Yang-ha’s adoption, claiming that he won’t believe it until he hears it from Chairman Yoon himself…

…And then back downs when she pretty much tells him: “There’s a really high possibility it could be true, therefore it is fact.”
It’s also kind of hard to believe that Shin-hye thinks Chairman Yoon was unaware that he adopted one of his enemy’s sons. Or maybe our corrupt chaebol was just that dense, who knows. The only way to know for sure is to get through to one of his longtime employees—Yang-ha’s right-hand man, Kim Jin-soo, aka the man who didn’t give her any answers in the previous episode.

Speaking of whom, Kim Jin-soo inquires about Shin-hye to Director Hyun, but the latter would rather avoid any conversation about his ex-wife. Meanwhile, Yang-ha quickly deduces that Young-dal’s up to something when he hears that Young-dal’s been meeting up with Jiyeon lately.

Jun-ho happens to eavesdrop on that conversation, and while Jang-soo and Jailbreak make a fuss over how Manager Bae has betrayed them, Young-dal curiously remains silent. Did he plant Manager Bae by Yang-ha’s side?

Judging from Young-dal’s response, it doesn’t sound like it since he says that it’s better for them if Manager Bae has leaked info to Yang-ha. He has Jun-ho to continue to keep tabs on them.
At home, Grandma asks if she remembers her childhood friend and neighbor Dong-chul. She doesn’t, even after seeing an old picture of them together, and Grandma laughs at how the two kids used to go around claiming that they’d get married. Aw.

Chairman Yoon is running out of patience with Chairman Go, citing how Dong-soo is still alive and now Young-dal is working at Daejung. Humiliated by the smackdown, Chairman Go hilariously asks his lackey if he’s lost that villanous flair of his, and then makes the order for Myung-jae to get a move on.
It just so happens that Madame Jang’s lackey overhears the tail-end of Myung-jae’s conversation at the illegal casino. Believing that there’s a storm brewing, he goes straight to Madame Jang, feeling uneasy about the order for the gangsters to gather in Sabuk.

Young-dal tests Manager Bae’s loyalties with a request to find an informant in Lucky Casino. He’s then called downstairs to see Boss Min and Manbong, who advise him to skip town for a while because Myung-jae’s boys have been ordered to Sabuk.
They’ll remain behind and do their best to stop him. Because they’re awesome. But Young-dal doesn’t have the slightest inclination to run away—he’ll make sure Myung-jae gets his due.
Yang-ha tells Manager Bae to do as he’s instructed, and there’s still no word on why Jiyeon is involved at all. When Jung-hee comes down the stairs a minute later, Yang-ha asks her out on another date, only to be told that today is her father’s death anniversary.

And things get awkward real quick when Young-dal appears before them moments later. He lingers for a few moments before willing himself to walk past them. Yang-ha’s eyes carefully trace Jung-hee’s expressions as they turn from hopeful to notable disappointment.
The silent treatment weighs on both Young-dal and Jung-hee’s mind as they brood separately. In the locker room, Jung-hee sighs at how living in a small town means that everyone knows everything, like her recent outing with Yang-ha.
Young-dal meets with Jiyeon at a restaurant, and the two drop the pleasantries when she tells him to cut to the chase. They agree that neither isn’t what the other expected and Young-dal says he knows that Hanchang Group is eyeing big-time foreign clients. He can make that into a reality. She appears intrigued, and so a partnership is formed.

Yang-ha returns Shin-hye’s call and informs her that things are going so well for him lately that it’s making him nervous. She tells him to enjoy it and they agree to meet in Seoul the next day.
Dong-soo and Young-dal meet up for drinks, and it’s adorable how Dong-soo gets all worried about his brother’s plan to go up against Myung-jae. Young-dal assures him that he doesn’t intend to use violence; rather he’s going to teach the merciless gangster a lesson.
It turns out that ever since Daejung Casino went public, it’s managed to empty all the gangsters’ pockets, save for Myung-jae’s. Young-dal intends to make sure Myung-jae ends up penniless. When asked how, Young-dal returns a sly smile, saying it wouldn’t be any fun if he shows his cards early.

Amused by his brother’s cheek, Dong-soo hands him the childhood photo given to him by Shin-hye. Despite being told that he and the little girl next to him were attached at the hip as kids, Young-dal doesn’t remember, and seeing the photo only reminds him of his guilt for not being able to find their brother Dong-woo yet.
Dong-soo knows it won’t be easy since the orphanage director suffers from dementia, and while he completely understands Young-dal’s determination to use any means necessary to track their brother down, he mostly blames himself.
Jang-soo and Jailbreak are amused by Madame Jang’s bitterness for being left out of Young-dal’s success. But these two are here to ask if any of Madame Jang’s dealers know how to do a black trick—a scheme dealers pull whenever the house is losing money.
Some of them do, but the lackey gapes when he’s told that the target is Myung-jae, arguing that trying to con the big-time gangster is to ask for a death wish. But Jang-soo says there will be money for them if the underground casino pulls it off.
After Hyun-mi uses her recent promotion to order around the annoying casino sunbaes, we turn back to Team Young-dal, who ready themselves for the next part of their plan. Young-dal tells his boys to approve Myung-jae as a Daejung VIP client, since the gangster qualifies as a successful businessman on paper.
I’m assuming Young-dal’s plan is to rile Myung-jae up in the underground casino first (with that aforementioned black trick), then invite him to the Daejung VIP room to make him feel better, but that’s where he’ll lose big money. And that’s exactly what’s happening at the underground casino as Myung-jae loses hand after hand, and Madame Jang worries that this strategy might end badly. As in, with their own lives.

Ha, Boss Min wonders if Young-dal is a little too confident about going up against Myung-jae, but she backs down when she’s filled in from Young-dal himself. By the time Manbong visits the tables, Myung-jae is already down about 500 million won, and suffice it to say, he is pissed.

Manbong cuts it close with his side remarks, but thankfully for him (and everyone else), Myung-jae is wiped out clean and rises from the table, furious. Once he leaves, Manbong reassures Madame Jang and her lackey that Myung-jae won’t ruin his reputation to throw a fit here.
Jun-ho finds Jung-hee smiling at her childhood photo of her and Dong-chul, whom she’s been told was her first love. At the same time, Young-dal is smiling in his office at a similar photo of themselves. Naturally neither he nor Jung-hee are aware that the other child in their photos is the other person. 
Jailbreak brings up the uncomfortable topic about Young-dal with Jung-hee, telling her that his friend didn’t mean those harsh words when she was kidnapped. Explaining how he was there, Jailbreak clarifies that Young-dal was acting cruel for her own safety, so he hopes she won’t misunderstand the situation.
The truth slowly sinking in, tears start to well up in Jung-hee’s eyes. When Jun-ho drops by Young-dal’s office, he recognizes the two children in the photo on the desk as the same ones in Jung-hee’s photo.
Dong-soo is shocked to learn that Kim Jin-soo shared a hyung-dongsaeng friendship with his father. Well-liked and respected, the former Dongjin miner supposes that’s why Chairman Yoon employed Kim at Daejung later on.

After checking in with each other’s love lives, Shin-hye finally asks Yang-ha if he knows any information about his adoption process. All it takes for him to open up is the pretense that she’d like to use his case for a thesis, because all Shin-hye needs to do is breathe for people to give her information she wants.
She listens to Yang-ha telling her that he tried asking Chairman Yoon when he realized that he’d been adopted, but he’d been unable to get any answers.
Her expression seems a little too understanding, and when Yang-ha returns to Daejung, he asks his right-hand man if he knows anything about his adoption. That question prompts Kim to ask if Yang-ha has been speaking with Shin-hye. Yang-ha admits as much, but replies that he’s stopped therapy awhile back and he hasn’t had to take his meds lately, either.
Catching Kim Jin-soo on his way home, Dong-soo persuades the man for a chat, saying that he knows that Kim was good friends with his father. Kim describes how he and Daddy Jang were indeed friends, yet their different stances in the miners union strike put strain on their friendship.
It was only after Daddy Jang’s death that Kim found out that Chairman Yoon ordered his death. Dong-soo was gone by the time Kim found the two other Jang brothers at the orphanage, and in an effort to atone for his guilt, Kim went ahead to adopt little Dong-woo into Chairman Yoon’s family.

“How does that atone for your sins?” Dong-soo asks. “How could you think to have my brother be raised by my father’s enemy?”
But Kim says he believed that it was better that Yang-ha be brought up in a life of wealth and privilege, and that belief remains unchanged. If Dong-soo truly cares for his little brother, then he’ll stop his revenge against Chairman Yoon, Kim Jin-soo tells him, because the rich man raised Dong-woo until now. Well yeah, but he raised an heir, not a son.
Instead of arguing the point any further, Dong-soo just… gives up and walks away with tears in his eyes, recalling his declaration of vengeance against Chairman Yoon and when he punched Yang-ha, his own baby brother. He lets out a horrified scream in the streets.

Jung-hee attempts to strike conversation with Young-dal at the workplace, but he cuts her off, keeping up his coldness act. He turns to walk away, and Jung-hee calls out that she knows he didn’t mean what he said when she was kidnapped and that he’s deliberately trying to keep a distance from her. In a breaking voice, she pleads, “Don’t do that… please.”
Although those words shake him, Young-dal holds back his tears and walks away.
It’s D-Day for the next part of Young-dal’s plan at Daejung, and Jailbreak sends in one of the Sabuk neighborhood wannabe thugs to approach Myung-jae about a loan, which the gangster desperately needs.

Myung-jae is then led to see Boss Yang, who drives a hard bargain with a quick turnaround on said loan. But since Myung-jae is quite desperate, he agrees and orders his lackey to reserve a VIP room, unaware that he’s playing right into Young-dal’s hands.
Meanwhile, Young-dal assigns the female casino manager as the senior dealer in Myung-jae’s card game in the VIP room. His plan becomes a bit clearer when he tells Boss Min and Manbong that they’ll also be present because their tactic is to outsmart the gangster by beating him in a card game.
All they have to do is bet the opposite of whatever Myung-jae does. The game won’t be rigged, but they’ll be using Myung-jae’s currently agitated state to their advantage—he’ll likely place the maximum bet, so they’ll do the opposite.

It looks like Jiyeon went ahead to pull some strings too, because Yang-ha is informed that Hanchang Group has cancelled their contract with Daejung. Right on cue, his father calls, absolutely beside himself at these turn of events.
Yang-ha wastes no time to confront Young-dal about it, grabbing a fistful of his suit. But Young-dal is hardly fazed—this is simply payback for what Yang-ha did to him, and maybe then some.
Dong-soo arrives at the lobby just then to see his two brothers engaged in a dramatic stare-off. “Dong-chul-ah,” he calls out.

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