Agent J7

Chapter 8

Joong Ki debates with Magic Mirror for a deeper analysis, and Min Ho continues his campaign activities. Secretary Kim sees Joong Ki alone in the sublevel while Anna visits her mother’s grave again. “I’m sorry, Mom. I’ve ruined everything,” she cries.

Anna isn’t alone for long, however, as Yoona pulls up in her car. She sets down the bouquet of hydrangeas, saying that Anna’s mother loved them. She knows this because Min Ho once came home drunk and gave her a bouquet of these flowers.

Although hydrangeas weren’t her favorite, Yoona says the gesture made her feel good… until she went to Anna’s home and saw a vase filled with them. She knows Anna despises her enough to want her dead, but she never hated Anna that much even when she considered killing her.

“Because in a way… you and I are quite similar,” Yoona explains. “Like you, I didn’t have a mother when I was your age. There was a stepmother in her place who had stolen my father away. She was my father’s secretary, then his mistress, and ultimately became his wife.”

“That very woman is the mother to Sung-won, whom you call ‘uncle.’ Ironically enough, I’ve become your stepmother,” Yoona continues. It’s possible that Anna’s mother could’ve gotten married without knowing that she was pregnant, then gave birth to Anna and had gotten a divorce.

She even understands the possibility that Anna’s mother would’ve returned to Korea to see Min Ho and yet what was she supposed to do? “I threw away everything I had to choose your father.”

“So are you trying to say that was why you killed my mother?” Anna counters. Yoona returns, “How nice would it have been if you were my biological daughter?”

She tells Anna that her surname will change from Go to Jang, which makes Anna her daughter by law. Because she’s childless, Anna could go on to become the president’s daughter and later own JB Group. “If you want to take revenge against me even after you’ve inherited everything I have, do it then.”

Yoona turns to leave, but that’s when Anna says she doesn’t need any of that. To that, Yoona marches back and tells Anna to leave and live her own life however she sees fit then, whether that’s being a model or something else.

Yoona is more than willing to help her because there’s nothing here for Anna now: her mother is dead, her birth secret is now public, and her father can’t be trusted. “Do you want to keep living with a stepmother like me?”

“What if I say no? What if I said I’ll work to the end to reveal my mother’s murderer?” Anna argues. Yoona answers, “Then I suppose your life will continue to be tragic. You’ll see everyone you love die.”

Everyone from the housekeeper to Mi-ran, and most importantly, Joong Ki. Every life that has tried to protect her will die in the pursuit, but Anna disagrees: “No, Joong Ki will kill you before that happens.”

In a taunting voice, Yoona points out that Anna still doesn’t know why Joong Ki is working for her. Joong Ki is unable to take a life because of his PTSD, so she’s helping him complete his revenge. Joong Ki is trying to avenge his deceased fiancee, and he’ll likely leave Anna once he’s seen it through.

She realizes that Anna didn’t know about any of this and scoffs that Anna should’ve asked Sung-won about it. But Anna refuses to believe it and reveals her plans to leave the country with Joong Ki.

“Is that what he told you?” Yoona fires back. Smiling, she asks if Anna even knows that the name Kim Joong Ki is an alias. At Anna’s silence, Yoona notes that Anna really does know nothing. Anna tries to argue that she already knows Joong Ki is a wanted man, but that he was framed for his crimes.