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Her father demands she accept the marriage alliance imposed by the Chairman's order, beating her and threatening her by reminding her of her mother's death while fleeing. Then her future husband Do Hyun-Il arrives, and Eun-Soo tells him she will not marry a gangster.","key_events":["The marriage alliance ordered by the construction chairman to unite two rival groups is revealed.","The woman recalls her mother died while fleeing with her and hides her fear behind surveillance as excuse.","The future husband arrives at the hospital, sees the bruised woman, confronts her father, then is left alone with her.","A father forcefully visits his sedated daughter at a hospital, yells at her, hits her, and orders obedience to a marriage.","The woman asks her fiance to cancel the marriage while they exchange insults during first private meeting."],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"COME HERE.\nA CUNNING MAN.\n\nA TERRIBLE DECEIVER.\nIN THE END, TO HIM, I'M PROBABLY NOTHING MORE THAN A USEFUL CARD TO PLAY.\n\nEVEN SO...\n\nAT LEAST HE ISN’T THE WORST.\n\nBECAUSE HE’S THE LESSER EVIL I CAN CHOOSE.\n\nWHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM?!\nLET GO OF ME!\nSIR, PLEASE!\nPLEASE CALM DOWN FIRST...!\n\nWHAT'S WITH ALL THE FUSS?! CAN'T A FATHER EVEN SEE HIS OWN DAUGHTER'S FACE?!\nWHAT'S GOING ON? WHY ALL OF A SUDDEN...?\nSHE HASN'T BEEN DOING WELL LATELY.\n...SHE WAS GIVEN A TRANQUILIZER JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO.\nWITHOUT ANY PREPARATION OR RESOLVE,\nA MAN FAR TOO TERRIFYING TO FACE SO SUDDENLY.\nDID I SAY I WAS GONNA EAT HER ALIVE?!\n\nWHERE'S EUN-SOO?!\n\nMY FATHER.\nWHAT DID YOU SAY?\n\nWHAT, YOU CAN'T GET MARRIED?\nWHERE DO YOU GET OFF TALKING BACK TO YOUR FATHER?!\nSIR, YOU CAN'T!!\n\nTHINK YOU'RE ALL GROWN UP NOW, HUH?!\n\nAND I TOLD YOU THIS IS THE CHAIRMAN'S ORDER. THAT MEANS YOU NEVER HAD A CHOICE IN THE FIRST PLACE!\nCHAIRMAN SON SANG-DOO OF SD CONSTRUCTION, FORMER BOSS OF THE SANGDOO MOB, ONCE KNOWN AS “BIG BROTHER SANG-DOO.”\nBENEATH HIM WERE TWO RIVAL FACTIONS,\nAND MY FATHER LED ONE OF THEM—CHAIRMAN SON’S RIGHT-HAND MAN.\n\nTHEN CAME CHAIRMAN SON’S ORDER TO UNITE THOSE TWO FACTIONS: A MARRIAGE ALLIANCE BETWEEN THEM.\nEVEN KNOWING MY PLEA WOULD BE IGNORED, I WANTED TO AVOID IT,\nBUT SEEING HIM COME ALL THE WAY TO THIS RURAL PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL OVER SUCH PETTY DEFIANCE...\nEUN-SOO.\n\nIN THE END, THERE IS NO ESCAPING IT.\nJO EUN-SOO.\nWON'T ANSWER ME, JO EUN-SOO?!\nIS IT BECAUSE OF THE TRANQUILIZER? MY TONGUE WON'T MOVE PROPERLY.\n\n...YES.\nMARRIAGE ISN'T THAT BIG A DEAL.\nYOU KNOW THAT FROM LOOKING AT YOUR MOTHER.\nMOTHER?\nYEAH. JUST LIKE YOU'RE LIVING HERE NOW,\n\nYOU LIVE AT YOUR HUSBAND'S HOUSE. THAT'S ALL MARRIAGE IS.\nTHE MOTHER WHO DIED WHILE RUNNING AWAY FROM HIM WITH ME WHEN I WAS YOUNG...\n...ONLY TO DIE JUST LIKE THAT?\nJUST HOW LONG DOES HE INTEND TO BRING UP MOTHER IN FRONT OF ME?\nTHOSE GODDAMN EYES OF YOURS...\n\nFUCK, YOU'RE JUST LIKE YOUR MOTHER.\nWHAT, YOU GONNA RUN AWAY?\nGONNA RUN AWAY LIKE YOUR MOTHER DID?\nAND WHAT HAPPENED TO HER, HUH?\n\nSHE DROPPED DEAD, DIDN'T SHE?\nIF YOU WANNA END UP LIKE THAT, GO AHEAD AND TRY.\nTHAT'LL BE THE DAY YOU DIE TOO.\n\nI HAD NEVER EVEN DARED TO TRY.\nBECAUSE EVEN IF I WERE PUSHED OUT THE DOOR, IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE.\nRUNNING AWAY...\n\nFREEDOM...\n...WOULD ONLY BE POSSIBLE ON THE DAY I BREAK FREE FROM THIS SICKENING FEAR.\n\nSO HE MUST NEVER KNOW.\nHE MUST KEEP BELIEVING HIS DELUSION.\nTHAT THE REASON I CANNOT RUN AWAY IS HIS SURVEILLANCE, NOT MY FEAR.\n\nYOU—\nWON'T LOOK ME IN THE EYE?!\n\nYOU...\n\nWHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE?\n...WHO IS THAT?\n\nDIDN'T YOU SAY YOU'D QUIT ACTING LIKE A THUG?\nHE LOOKS FAMILIAR.\n\nIT'S DO HYUN-IL.\nIT'S NOT LIKE WE'RE SOME LOWLIFE THUGS WITHOUT ROOTS, EITHER.\nACTING LIKE THIS WILL ONLY GET YOU CALLED UNCULTURED.\n\nTHE MAN WHO IS TO BECOME MY HUSBAND.\nHMM... GUESS YOU CAME TO SEE YOUR BRIDE'S FACE.\nI DIDN'T EXPECT HER TO BE BRUISED, THOUGH. PERHAPS I SHOULD HAVE COME ANOTHER DAY.\n\nSHE WAS GIVING ME SUCH A HEADACHE THAT I TRIED TO GIVE HER A LITTLE LECTURE, AND IT JUST ENDED UP LIKE THIS. YOU UNDER- STAND, DON'T YOU, MANAGING DIRECTOR DO?\nEUN-SOO, YOU BEHAVE YOURSELF TOO. I'M LEAVING.\n\nTO THINK WE'D BE LEFT ALONE TOGETHER...\n\nYOU REALLY SHOULD HAVE.\nYOU SHOULD HAVE BEHAVED YOURSELF.\nSEEING HOW YOU GO OUT OF YOUR WAY TO ASK FOR A BEATING, I CAN TELL WHAT YOUR PERSON- ALITY IS LIKE.\n\nTHAT ISN'T PRIDE, IT'S JUST FOOLISHNESS.\nAND SEEING HOW YOU LACK EVEN THAT MUCH JUDGMENT, YOU DON'T SEEM PARTICULARLY BRIGHT, EITHER.\n\nIF THAT'S WHAT YOU THINK...\n...WOULD YOU CALL OFF THIS MARRIAGE?\n\nAND PRESIDENT JO TOLD ME YOU WERE MEEK.\nNOW I WONDER IF THIS IS HOW HE STABS PEOPLE IN THE BACK.\n\nDO HYUN-IL.\nTHE VERY MAN WHO BROUGHT SD CONSTRUCTION INTO THE LIGHT IN A SINGLE STROKE, SHAKING OFF THE STIGMA OF BEING A “ROOTLESS GANGSTER COMPANY.”\n\nHAVING ELEVATED SD CONSTRUCTION TO THE HEIGHTS OF A KOSPI LISTING,\nIT MIGHT BE FAIR TO VIEW THIS MAN ALONE AS A LEGITIMATE BUSINESSMAN.\nBUT...\n...I’M NOT GETTING MARRIED.\nHE PROBABLY ISN'T ANY DIFFERENT.\n\nI'M NOT MARRYING A GANGSTER.\nYOU'RE A GANGSTER TOO...!\n\nA GANGSTER'S DAUGHTER MARRIES A GANGSTER BASTARD.\nWHO ELSE?\n\nDID YOU THINK YOU WERE GOING TO MARRY A PRINCE?","bubble_count":99,"pages_count":38,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"Dirt Cheap tells the story of Jo Eun-Soo being forcibly confronted by her father at a rural psychiatric hospital.","spoiler_summary":"Dirt Cheap tells the story of Jo Eun-Soo being forcibly confronted by her father at a rural psychiatric hospital. 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