2014, Seoul.
We meet Joo-eun as an attorney in a big corporate law firm, taking a meeting with a new client who turns heads as she struts into the office. The client's skintight dress and sexy appearance makes Joo-eun fidget self-consciously-because Joo-eun is now much heavier than she once was, and she tugs at her own clothes uncomfortably.
It's a blow to her ego to have the sexy client see the couple photos of her old self with Woo-shik and ask who that (pretty) woman is. Joo-eun tells us that Woo-shik was her first love and has been her boyfriend for the past fifteen years.
As for the case in question, the client has been entangled in an adultery case-she's the Other Woman, and the wife is suing her. So she plans to countersue, shamelessly proclaiming her innocence (she's not innocent) and ordering Joo-eun to go after the wife for slander, defamation, invasion of privacy, whatever she can.
Joo-eun finds the case distasteful and unfair, but is ordered by her boss (who's friends with the cheating husband) to do her job and serve the client. She apparently has a history of arguing for justice and fairness, to no avail. She can't quit either, as her secretary reminds her she still has 14 months of school loan repayments to make.
Her temperament has gotten her in trouble before, and a flashback shows us that only a couple years ago, she'd had her desk moved into an open corridor in retaliation, her boss adding smugly that she's welcome to leave and set up her own practice.
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