Oh My Venus (Korean Drama)

Episode 16 (END)

Young-ho reveals that Joo-eun has been carrying her own engagement ring in her scarf ever since he gave it to her, and proposes to her. She nods her yes, and they hug, both of their wishes coming true at once.

Later Joo-eun stares at her ring, though she tells Young-ho that the real gift was the scarf. You can buy a ring anywhere, but he made this scarf just for her. I love that she gets how meaningful that is for him.

Young-ho drops her off at Hyun-woo's so she can flash her ring at her friend, and he starts to warn her about his family. But Joo-eun stops him and says they'll take things one step at a time. She assures him that she plans to live with him forever, so nothing anyone can say will change that.

Joo-eun pretends to have a headache, holding her beringed hand to her forehead, and of course Hyun-woo sees her new ring right away and shrieks excitedly. Best friend ever. Joo-eun can admit to her friend that she's nervous about meeting Grandma, so Hyun-woo role-plays the worst stereotypical chaebol grandmother ever, to get Joo-eun pumped up.

Joo-eun has her dial it back a bit, and this time it's more helpful, though Hyun-woo bails when Joo-eun mentions her dead father. Ha, her advice is to give Grandma some spending money, based on her interactions with her own mother-in-law, but that's a bad idea for obvious reasons.

At work in the morning, Joo-eun gets a visit from Joon-sung's mother, with a gift of some pretty white mittens. Joo-eun asks how her husband is these days, and it sounds like he's in prison but doing well there, and even wants to make amends with Joon-sung's mother when he gets out. Joo-eun suggests counseling, and they talk about how happy Joon-sung seems these days.

Young-ho visits Woo-shik at work, here to get up to speed before he goes back to work soon. He asks if Woo-shik had a lot of injuries when he was a swimming star, and Woo-shik says that's why he eventually retired. He tells Young-ho that he did his physical rehab in Japan, France, and America, which prompts Young-ho to pull out a set of plans.

He wants to build a new rehab center in Korea, which Woo-shik knows the directors will fight against. That's why Young-ho is here, to ask for Woo-shik's support on this project. He admits that he doesn't fully trust Woo-shik yet, but as a fellow athlete who's been through similar health challenges, he wants to mend fences and team up.

Young-ho asks after Uncle, and we see Uncle playing a board game with another man when he gets a text from Young-ho. He asks to see him at the company, which surprises Uncle, but he looks pleased.

Joo-eun nervously arrives to meet with Grandma, psyching herself up before entering the dining room. The mood is tense as both women size each other up, and Grandma reaches for her purse. But Joo-eun quickly grabs an envelope, and asks Grandma to accept hers before offering her one (presumably full of money to entice her to leave Young-ho).

She says that it's not money in her envelope, but her blood test results proving that she no longer suffers from hypothyroidism. She says respectfully that no matter how much money Grandma offers, or how much she objects to their relationship, she won't ever leave Young-ho.

Grandma nods knowingly, and says that with age, one becomes stubborn. She reaches for her purse again, but instead of an envelope of money, she pulls out a handkerchief to wipe her mouth. Joo-eun looks like she'd like to crawl under the table, ha. Grandma says that, other than her outfit (a hideous creation Joo-eun borrowed from Hyun-woo), she has no intention of objecting to anything. It's hilarious how Joo-eun jumps up to apologize her her outfit.

Grandma does have one condition, and that's that she wants a really extravagant wedding gift. Okay, she's not so bad, and I see where Young-ho gets his dry sense of humor. We see that Grandma witnessed Joo-eun's tearful speech outside Young-ho's hospital room a year ago, which was enough to convince her of how much Joo-eun loves her grandson.