Liar Game

The moment Daniel steps out of Sunhwa’s house with her
stolen prize money, he gets a call from Joon. He’s a nervous
mess over the phone, especially since Joon continues to ask
questions that make him uncomfortable.
So while he tries to pass his nervousness off in order to get off
the phone as quickly as possible, Joon knows exactly what went
down. That’s why Daniel finds him waiting outside his
apartment door before he gets home.
Caught red-handed, Daniel has no choice but to try and defend
his actions—in his mind, Sunhwa is better off being indebted to
the show than his boss. Joon disagrees, and Daniel switches to
blaming him for being the reason Sunhwa is still playing the
game in the first place.
He tries to throw a punch, but all Joon has to do is move aside
for him to miss. Now chastened, Daniel is more willing to listen
when Joon tells him that it was Seunghyun who sicced the
creditors on Teacher Kim—what does he think would happen to
Sunhwa if she became indebted to the show? What if she loses?
Daniel’s eyes go wide as he asks Joon to help Sunhwa if things
are that bad. “This is a game of survival,” Joon replies coldly.
“Sunhwa and I have to survive on our own.”
Talking to himself more than anything, Daniel curses sunhwa’s
father for investing all his money into “L Company,” since he
bought stocks with borrowed money and got swindled out of
everything in the process. The name of the company gives Joon
pause—he recognizes that name, doesn’t he?
He asks Daniel to explain, even though he already knows the
story: Sunhwa’s dad got an insider tip that L Company’s stocks
would go up, bought in, and lost it all when the tip turned out
to be false. Joon doesn’t need Daniel to repeat the company
name because he already knows it. Innnteresting. I wonder if his
mother was scammed by the same company.
Sunhwa wakes up the next morning and panics to find her
briefcase gone… only to turn around and find it chained with
something much stronger than her previous bike chain with a
note from Daniel telling her he secured it better since he almost
ran away with it. Awww.
Needless to say, Sunhwa’s morning only gets weirder when she
receives a call from Seung-hyun asking if she’s free today. She
barely gets to say she has to go to work before he hangs up—
and moments later, her boss texts her to say he understands she
can’t come in today.
Seunghyun calls again to ask her how much time she needs to
get ready. Sunhwa hurriedly runs to the window to find
Seunghyun standing outside her house. She looks very
confused, as she should be.
Once in the car, Seung-hyun tells her they’re on the way to a
magazine cover shoot because they had a sudden cancellation.
When Sunhwa protests, Seunghyun says simply that she’s a star
his station invested money in, and it’s time for her to start giving
back.
Sunhwa gets all dolled up for her shoot while Seunghyun
approves outfits, and after it’s done he tells her it’s time for her
next appointment. Since she’s still in her photoshoot clothes,
Sunhwa offers to change first. “There’s no need,” Seunghun says
suavely. “Those clothes look good on you.”.
But Sunhwa draws the line when the next place Seunghyun
takes her is his house, since that definitely can’t be in the
contract. “Am I your slave?” she asks. “Or since I have to survive
now without Joon, should I try to appease you to get a hint? I’m
sorry, but I’ll do it on my own.”
Her tune changes when Seung-hyun tells her he invited Joon as
well—after all, the two of them have done wonders for their
program. He just wants to show them his gratitude.
It’s only Seunghyun and Sunhwa at the table at first, and it’s
very clear from their surroundings that Seung-hyun is incredibly
wealthy. That wine Sunhwa is drinking? Fifteen thousand
dollars a bottle. Yeah.
Seunghyun tells her to give Joon a call since he hasn’t shown
for dinner yet, and we soon understand why:
He’s meeting with Reporter Kim Ji-won on their secret rooftop
to talk about L Company. That was the company he brought
down out of revenge, but in so doing, Sunhwa’s father lost
everything he had.
Reporter Kim Ji won tries to take the blame off him by saying
Sunhwa’s father was in the wrong for using borrowed money to
buy stocks, but Joon doesn’t seem to register it. “What if it
wasn’t a coincidence that Sunhwa and I joined Liar Game?”
If it wasn’t, Reporter Kim claims to have her own theories, most
of them revolving around Seunghyun. Part of her wonders if
he’s so rich that he invented a sadistic game for his own
amusement, but the other part of her can’t figure out what he
is. A man? A god?
“He asked me if I thought the revenge I took a year ago was a
success,” Joon answers. “And that I would find out the truth if I
joined the game and won.” But he finally gets that call from
Sunhwa, and seems shocked to hear where she is. Something
tells that he never got a dinner invite.
Seunghyun apologizes to her for that, and claims he didn’t ask
because he didn’t think Joon would accept an invitation from
him—that’s why he had her call. “Aren’t you curious about why
Lee Joon helped you?” he asks.
“I thought I knew before but I don’t anymore,” Sunhwa admits.
Seunghun takes it upon himself to explain, and tells her about
her striking similarities with Joon’s mother. The biggest
similarity they share is empathy, and the fact that they’d both
go into debt if it meant helping others.
It’s then that Seunghyun tells her that Joon’s mother
committed suicide after being scammed, and the reason he
went to jail was because he took down the company who
scammed her and tried to murder the CEO. How terrible Joon
must have felt, Seunghyun says, to not have been able to read
his mother when he has a gift for reading everyone else.
“Joon might see his mother in you,” Seunghyun adds. “Seeing
you ruined would be no different for him than going through
that same pain twice.” says Seunghyun.
Joon is looking extra surly when he shows up for dinner, and
most of his ire seems directed at Sunhwa for being there in the
first place. But he sees a painting on Seunghyun’s mantle that
gives him pause. What is it?
After answering Joon’s question about how the candidates
were selected, Seunghyun seems a bit reticent when Joon asks
if there’s any connection between the participants. Seunghyun
knows he’s talking about Teacher Kim and Sunhwa, and sticks
to his story that it’s something they only found out during the
broadcast. It was just a coincidence.
“If you must find a connection, it’s that everyone needs money,”
Seung-hyun adds. “The more desperate they are, the more
entertaining the show will be.”
Sunhwa can’t stop thinking about what Seung-hyun said about
Joon’s mother as she and her guardian angel walk home, while
Joon can’t stop thinking about what he might’ve done to
Sunhwa’s father.
He even stops to ask her how she’d feel if she found out
someone was behind her father running away because of debt.
Sunhwa says she’d hate that person. “Is that all?” he asks
hopefully(?). Sunhwa: “I think I’d want revenge, because it
would be hard to forgive them.”...

Notes

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