Oh My Venus (Korean Drama)

Episode 5

Joo-eun's stalker advances on her, crouching down when she falls to the floor and giving her this creepy smile. He seems to think she should recognize him, and her fear doesn't faze him. Joo-eun gasps out a weak, "Please save me," and right on cue, Young-ho bursts through her front door.

Young-ho stops long enough to ask if Joo-eun knows this man, and as she shakes her head, the stranger throws the first punch. Young-ho casually puts the stalker through a series of wrestling moves, stopping between actions to check on Joo-eun and ask why she didn't answer her phone. Later as the police cart Stalker away, we see Woo-shik, watching everything from his car.

At the station they discover that the man is Joo-eun's downstairs neighbor, and the police assume this is just a misunderstanding. Joo-eun is horrified that they don't take her fear seriously, especially when the officer is all, Why would he stalk someone like you? She's actually told not to be so sensitive when she asks why the cops are discounting her version of events.

A voice rings out, "Are you happy?" and Young-ho saunters over to point out a poster indicating that women are happy in their city. He turns to Stalker to ask if he remembers him. We see that this was the man who followed Joo-eun through the rain the day she and Young-ho first met, and that Young-ho had seen him. He'd also seen Stalker carrying the poinsettia up to her place tonight.

The cops point out that the only person with injuries is Stalker, and that it could be bad if he decided to get a lawyer. Joo-eun agrees the legal system is a joke, but her voice rises when she says that all that's needed is a bit of sincere caring for what she went through tonight. She advises they be more caring with future victims, and walks out.

Young-ho follows her and she thanks him for remembering her stalker's face, and helping her tonight. But he's frustrated — that she didn't tell those jerks she's a lawyer, and that what he did was self-defense. Why did she become a lawyer when she won't even defend herself? He's still angry, and offers to go beat the stalker up and she can defend him in court.

But Joo-eun stops him, saying that it's not worth him getting hurt or worse just to punish the man. She explains that the guy would get the bare minimum punishment, if any, and that it's because she's a lawyer and knows this that she didn't have higher expectations. She does thank Young-ho for helping her again, joking that he must owe her major favors from a past life.

Young-ho is still more upset than Joo-eun, and counters that if he does owe her, he must really be in her debt. She says that she can stay at Hyun-woo's tonight, and he puts her in his car. And again, we see Woo-shik watching from the parking lot.

Joo-eun calls Hyun-woo, but her household is in an uproar — Min-joon's grandmother is covered in bruises again, and nobody believes her anymore when she says these bruises are an accident. Young-ho drops off Joo-eun, but she goes to a seedy motel instead of her friend's house. But Young-ho is onto her and finds her checking in, deadpanning that her "friend" sure does have a lot of rooms at her house.

He drags her out, but Joo-eun is embarrassed for him to see her like this. But she admits she's too scared to go home, so he offers to take her somewhere "out of your world." It reminds her of his words outside his fancy hotel suite, and she jumps to the wrong conclusion, but Young-ho pretends maidenly horror — he only meant his guest room.

With one last warning that he's done saving her for tonight, Young-ho leaves her alone (though awww, her stuffed sloth is in the room to keep her company). In his own room, Young-ho clutches his bad knee, which we see now that he twisted when he was running up to Joo-eun's apartment, and again when he neutralized her stalker.

In the morning, all three boys coming running to Joo-eun's screams of, "Save me, please save me!!!" Ahaha, she has leg cramps, and is stuck in bed. Young-ho accuses her of doing this because she's too shy to just come out, and makes her say complimentary things to him before he tells the guys to "catch the mouse" (the words for "mouse" and "cramp" sound the same in Korean).