Ron Does Stuff

Last week was a busy one for me so I was unable to get back to watching this show. BUT, I am back on it now and technically have not missed any episodes yet since the new one premieres tomorrow.

Let’s get into this now so we’re all set for the new episode tomorrow!

The previous episode left us on a cliffhanger: Security coming in to take Ha-Joon into custody because the Korean regional office is looking for him. Unbeknownst to them, the Korean office is looking for Ha-Joon because he owns the freaking hotel. I think.

We start off the episode with a product placement which really already means I am on board. I unironically like these awkward product placements for some reason that I can’t explain. Maybe I need therapy!

The way Ha-Joon gets out of being apprehended by security is through his…butler? consigliere?…pulling the fire alarm which…really? While the rest of the staff is out because of the fire alarm, Maya gets a threatening text from her creditor, who has even gone to her relatives to ask for the money. And like I’ve said multiple times, I’m on your side with this, Maya! Those fucking creditors are ruthless!

But this incident does make Maya even more desperate to join the cooking competition with a $35,000 cash prize. That’s P2,026,307 and if I had a chance to win that I’d join the competition too. Maya is being stubborn about getting help for the entrance fee, though, which is a little frustrating to me as a viewer but this is just six episode so hopefully this stubbornness isn’t a multi-episode thing.

As if they knew I would be a little irritated at Maya’s stubbornness, the show soothes me with another awkward product placement. Oh Secret Ingredient you just know which of my buttons to push.

Another thing that I found unintentionally hilarious is the fact that the face of the Korean actor playing Ha-Joon’s butler is nowhere in focus while he’s rattling off these English sentences that you’d almost think he was dubbed. Which doesn’t look like it when the camera is finally on his face but you never know!

Later on at the lockers, Maya’s friend almost figures out that Ha-Joon is a chaebol, thanks to her knowledge of K-dramas. The chaebol heir, after all, is a popular trope and one I’m fond of myself. But Maya’s friend dismisses the idea but not after laying it on thick that Maya needs some financial help so if he was a secret chaebol he could do his thing. Even Ha-Joon’s butler suggests the same thing and I wish I was hot enough for someone to consider whisking me away to their country to be their Lovey-dovey. I’d even settle for fuck buddy and just enough of a stipend where I can live an okay life, not even an extravagant one!

All that will have to wait though because we get the requisite shirtless scene! He’s boxing and he’s all sweaty and stuff! There was a flashback there about his mother but let’s be honest with ourselves that’s not what we’re focusing on.

The next day Maya’s friend brings Jack over to convince Maya to sell food to the hotel employees so they can raise funds for the cooking contest and quite frankly Maya was a bitch to her friend. She’s just trying to help and yes she may not have followed what you asked but there are bigger things to be angry about than that. If I was her friend I’d cuss her out!

After being a bitch, Maya decides to sell food to the hotel employees anyway and thank god they put in a scene where Maya acknowledges her stubbornness and apologizes to her friend (Stella) because she really was being a cunt.

Now that Maya’s on board, Ha-Joon and Stella get to work helping her out, with Ha-Joon taking the hotel kitchen’s overstock to use as their ingredients since the hotel’s going to throw them away anyway even if they’re perfectly usable and Stella foregoing her share of any of the profits made from the business which…damn. Ha-Joon does the same but he’s a secret chaebol. Stella’s in the same rickety financial boat as Maya!

We get a cooking and grocery shopping montage where, of course, the two leads make googly eyes at each other. I’m not mad at it! The food looked good too and made me want to order some food but I’m poor so whatevs.

After the montage we get a nice conversation between Maya and Ha-Joon, where the two of them bond over their shared trauma with their mothers, and with Maya showing Ha-Joon that forgiveness is absolutely an option when it comes to the people who’ve wronged their mothers.

Now I don’t know about running a hotel but is it really a big deal if somebody from the kitchen staff sells them packed meals? Serious question! I honestly don’t see what’s wrong about that but maybe this is why I’m not running a hotel or a hotel kitchen. Either way Arif gets a warning about it and now he’s on the lookout for whoever’s doing it.

Maya and her friends seem to know that they’re on thin ice as well because they want to stop what they’re doing as well before they get caught. Unfortunately, they still haven’t raised enough money to enter the competition and Maya’s creditor is literally making her cry on the phone and Ha-Joon if you don’t reveal yourself as a secret chaebol now it’s going to be so much harder for you further down the line.

I don’t know if this is to Ha-Joon’s credit, but he flies to the Philippines, threatens Maya’s creditor (unintentionally hilariously), and pays off her debts! Also that’s not even the slums slums of Manila that’s a pretty okay neighborhood to be honest.

After a feat of time traveling that allowed Ha Joon to fly to and from Manila and Jakarta without any flight delays, he ends up getting caught with the boxed lunches that Maya had been selling. And the reason he ends up getting caught is because he saw Maya and Arif hugging each other, but it was totally a professional hug because Arif just promoted Maya. Honest!