Business Proposal continues to bring the magic, laughs, and archaeopteryx jokes this week as our leads settle into their fake relationship. And wouldn't you know it, time flies when you're pretending to be a couple! Their fake anniversary is quickly approaching, and Grandpa is going to make sure that they celebrate in trope-tastic style.
EPISODES 3-4
We pick up our story where we left off at the end of Episode 2 — with Hari and Tae-mu horizontal and locking lips. As Hari's brother SHIN HA-MIN (Choi Byung-chan) comes dangerously close to catching her in a very compromising position, Hari's father SHIN JOON-HAE (Kim Kwang-kyu) arrives home, too, and elevates her panic.
Luckily, both her brother and father have the peripheral vision of naked mole rats and fail to see Hari and Tae-mu behind their family's vertically challenged garden fence. When the coast is clear, Hari sighs in relief, but in the process she accidentally headbutts Tae-mu in the forehead, knocking the poor workaholic chaebol unconscious.
Next we see him, he's complaining about Hari's hardheadedness as he hands her their official relationship contract. She balks at the penalty fee and objects to the unfair conditions, but he threatens to sue her if she doesn't comply. Unwilling to instigate a lawsuit that will out her as Tae-mu's employee, Hari signs the dotted line.
Once the documents are signed, sealed, and delivered, Tae-mu forces her to sit through a PowerPoint presentation of his life's greatest hits. Cue a series of obvious green screen scenes that are as gloriously cheesy as his cliched perfection. But his dossier isn't the only things she has to memorize; he's also upgraded her pedigree in order to optimize her chances of earning Grandpa's approval.
Hari is a bit of a method actor, becoming so absorbed in her new role as Shin Geum-hee that she reacts to the name when she hears it called out on television. Tae-mu, however, is unimpressed by her ability to memorize facts. He expects her to demonstrate a more advanced understanding of their backstory, being able to draw conclusions from the information and apply it to real-world situations. Case in point, she should know to reject a dinner invitation from Grandpa if it falls on their anniversary date.
For all his talk, though, Tae-mu is equally unprepared to answer Hari's counter-question: what was I wearing when we first met? If they're going to make Grandpa believe their love story is real, Hari argues, then he should be able to remember the smallest of details pertaining to their fateful first encounter in the rain, which Hari recalls in dreamy black-and-white detail.
It's very Casablanca-esque, capturing both the hokeyness of old timey movies and the absolute romanticism of Hari's imagination, but — not gonna lie — the scene is visually breathtaking and near cinematic perfection as the yellow from Hari's rain jacket spreads to Tae-mu's umbrella and the scene transitions from gray scale to color.
But, of course, a prehistoric bird like Tae-mu would find a fault. He says he hates the rain and suggests they change their fake anniversary date to a day when it wasn't raining in order to make their story more believable.
Dealing with Tae-mu's personality must have — understandably — worn Hari out because she falls asleep during the car ride home. As she lists to the side, Tae-mu catches her head in his palm, but before the moment has a chance to turn romantic, Hari stirs slightly. Tae-mu panic-hurls her noggin in the opposite direction like it's a softball on fire, and — Whack! — her cranium hits the window.
At work, Hari's team finds themselves scrambling for a new chef to promote their latest product line, and Hari's team director YEO EUI-JU (Kim Hyun-sook) looks meaningfully at Hari and suggests Min-woo. Hari's eager to promote her "friend" and puts together a top-tier presentation, but her enthusiastic pimping of Min-woo lands her in hot water. Eui-ju insists that Hari be the one to present her PowerPoint... to Tae-mu. Wuh-oh.
