In a courtroom, a judge calls JOO JANG-MI (Han Groo) to the stand. The charge: stalking. How does she plead? As a man runs down the street and races up the steps to the courthouse, she lets out a laugh that grows crazed, and then she finally speaks: "I'm a crazy bitch. I must've been insane..."
The man gets stuck getting through security, and he tells the guard he has to testify for someone. The guard asks his relationship to the person, and we cut back to Jang-mi: "I said to that bastard..." The man declares to the guard: "She's the person I'm going to marry." Jang-mi: "...Let's get married." As she says it, the man busts into the courtroom, and her eyes grow wide.
Rewind to the fairly recent past, as our heroine Jang-mi flits her way through preparations for the proposal she's planning to spring on her boyfriend tonight. She goes totally overboard, with heart-shaped balloons, rose petals, too many candles to count, and the perfect outfit for her perfect day. This is going to be so disastrous.
She calls her boyfriend, and we see a call go unanswered in a plastic surgeon's office. The clinic belongs to GONG KI-TAE (Yeon Woo-jin), who turns out to be the man who raced to the courtroom in the opening scene. After a procedure, he finally answers and sounds annoyed, but promises to be there.
He arrives in the hotel lobby, and says into his phone that a strange woman is waving at him. He sizes up the situation in about two seconds-he's been blindsided by a blind date, and it's only now that we see he's been talking to someone else the whole time. His buddy LEE HOON-DONG (Heo Jung-min) cackles on the phone and says he couldn't say no to Ki-tae's mom-no one can.
Hoon-dong is actually upstairs in the same hotel, because he's got a date of his own. He arrives at a suite, and there's Jang-mi, who greets him with her namesake rose between her teeth. But as soon as Hoon-dong steps inside, his eyes dart around the room as the warning signals blare like neon lights: balloons, cake, candles... even aslideshow.
He starts to sweat bullets, and she lays down obvious hints about how she wants to be together all the time. Her words flash across the screen in happy pastel colors, only to be heard by Hoon-dong like a slo-mo horror death-knell. He's scared witless, and scans the room for the nearest exit.
He runs to the bathroom and locks himself in, and texts Ki-tae for help. Ki-tae is unmoved by his plight, and works his way through his blind date in what can only be described as rote rudeness-it's clearly a routine that's been rehearsed and refined for maximum offense in minimal time.
He turns every question the woman asks into a barb back at her for only being interested in money, all while negotiating (via text) the terms of whether or not he's going to help Hoon-dong get out of his mess. He's a new tenant in Hoon-dong's commercial building (or really, his mother's building), and Hoon-dong finally agrees to give his clinic free rent for three years.
His blind date asks Ki-tae what he's doing, and he says he actually has someone waiting for him upstairs in a room, and he's currently weighing his options. Pfft. What's even funnier is that he knows so well when the glass of water is coming at his face that he has time to put his phone and glasses down on the table before bracing for impact.
With Date #1 down, he heads up to Hoon-dong's room to crash Date #2, playing the part of the clueless best friend who doesn't know that he's ruining a romantic evening. He pops their balloons, drinks their champagne, and eats their cake, all while Hoon-dong dances around in the background and Jang-mi strains to keep herself from wringing Ki-tae's neck.
With excuses that he can't possibly leave his bro hanging in his time of need, Hoon-dong escapes, leaving Jang-mi utterly deflated on her big day. As they walk out, Ki-tae warns his friend to end things cleanly. Hoon-dong swears he will, which I find hard to believe.
