'Flower of Evil' Episode 9: Ji-won shocks Hyun-soo, tells him she is sick of him and wants to break up
After Ji-won (Moon Chae-won) burned Hyun-soo's (Lee Joon-gi) belongings and promised that she will let him live as Baek Hee-seong and will also part ways with him when he is Hee-seong, we knew that the two would sooner or later have to break up. However, we did not expect Ji-won to surrender to her frustration and burst out in anger. This is exactly what she did in 'Flower of Evil' Episode 9. She has been trying hard to lie and live the way that Hyun-soo had lived all these years. However, all that she was left with was this suffocated feeling that comes with pretending as if everything was fine.
She goes to the extent of telling Hyun-soo that she has fallen out of love and so everything about him makes her sick. She says that she can no longer live with him and this shocks Hyun-soo. All this while, it had seemed as if Hyun-soo had wanted only to live as Hee-seong and the comfort that comes along with it. However, it is in this episode we see a hint of what Hyun-soo really wants and that is to be with Ji-won forever. When Hyun-soo is told that his wife wanted to break up with him, the first thing he asks is what he must to do get her to change her mind.
This is indicative of how Hyun-soo had always been the one to change himself to fit into the expectations of others and there had been no one except his sister Hae-soo who had accepted him for who he was. He is also clueless about the fact that Ji-won now knows who he really is. So Hyun-soo is extremely confused about what has caused this sudden change in his wife and the only people he could ask for help were his friend from school Moo-jin, and his sister Hae-soo.
After speaking to them, Hyun-soo decides that the best course of action at the moment was to catch hold of the accomplice and help Ji-won in her investigation. He doesn't realize that Ji-won got involved in the case because of him, but for now, it is important to learn the identity of the accomplice. In this vein, Hyun-soo has finally figured out where he heard the strange background noise that was recorded in the threatening message that was left by the accomplice years ago.
Something that Ji-won said about the possibility of Hyun-soo having seen the accomplice all those years ago when he had accompanied his father an entire day to make for a perfect alibi reminds him of this bar that he had visited with his father where he had seen a man fitting the description of the accomplice that he had got from his sister who had also seen the accomplice on the day of their father's funeral.
So Hyun-soo decides to visit this bar, and from there he tracks the business that helped his father procure raw material -- read, human beings -- for his work, which was murder. Turns out, this business is the same one that one of Ji-won's former witnesses had been conned by for finding jobs. While Hyun-soo uses Ji-won's clue to find the trail of the accomplice, Ji-won also uses the clue that Hyun-soo had given her and this leads her to the middleman or in this case, middlewoman of the human trafficking business.
Before she could reach the business owner, the middlewoman of the business ends up attempting to escape from Ji-won and the other cops. In the process, she ends up taking a fall from the second floor. At the end of a very bad day, Ji-won cannot help but remember all the ways that her husband had helped her in dealing with bad days and suddenly, she remembers what Hyun-soo had said five years ago when she was pregnant with their child Eun-ha.
He had said that as long as she stayed by his side and trusted him, he would give his all to her. This seems to be the point when Ji-won realizes that people with Antisocial Behavior Disorder have different ways to show their love. At this moment, she calls him to tell him that she misses him but Hyun-soo is in a situation. He is now captured by the thugs who are human traffickers. So when he says he is busy, Ji-won realizes that something is strange and after a very long time, we see Ji-won and Hyun-soo in sync. Will this continue in the next episode as the two of them hunt the accomplice?
'Flower of Evil' will air on tvN on Wednesday and Thursday at 10.50 pm KST and can be streamed on Viki Global.