There’s “breaking up,” and then there’s “placing a pair of red thongs on your cheating fiancé’s head in front of the entire marketing department.” Gigi has officially entered her villain era, and honestly? We’re obsessed.
Catch up: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9
“Gigi, come out! Did you think I’d just let it go? Know your place!” Mino is currently having a localized meltdown, banging on Gigi’s door like a man who hasn’t realized his reign of terror is over.
He’s reeling from the restaurant incident. What happened to his meek, obedient girlfriend?
His mother is furious, his pride is in the gutter, and he’s decided that making a scene in a hallway is the best way to regain control.
The door opens. But it’s not just Gigi. It’s Gigi, Jay (holding a tactical amount of toilet paper and detergent), and Helen, who’s looking at Gigi’s outfit with a mischievous glint.
“Gigi, what are you wearing? Was I bad? Is this a punishment?” Helen teases.
It’s Gigi’s first housewarming, and Jay’s “detergent and flowers” combo is the perfect mix of practical and “I’m in love with you.”
The office spectacle
Monday morning, Gigi walks into the office with a smile. Mino approaches, ready to demand an apology. Instead, he gets a slap so hard it echoes.
Then another. And a third for good measure.
Mino goes to retaliate, but an iron-grip hand catches his wrist. It’s Jay.
“Did you share your love with two women because you like being fair?” Gigi asks, her voice steady and dangerous. She pulls out a piece of evidence: a pair of red lace thongs.
The office goes silent. Gigi places the lingerie directly on top of Mino’s head. She “found” them in his car.
Mino’s brain shorts out. He remembers the “activities” with Sue in the car the day of the family meeting.
Instead of apologizing, he yells at Gigi for “going through his car.” Meanwhile, Sue watches from the doorway, realizing her laundry just became the hottest gossip in the company.
“How dare you shout? Cheater!” Gigi rips off her engagement ring and hurls it across the office. The “diamond” shatters on impact.
The spectacle is complete.
The jungle of consequences
The news spreads like wildfire. Mino isn’t just a cheater; he’s a “car-activity” enthusiast who betrayed his fiancée with her best friend.
Then, the floor falls out. The allergen scandal from the failed project comes to light. Mino and Sue were supposed to be on-site, but they were MIA (likely in the car).
Mr. Capable, now heading HR, informs Mino that his only options are demotion and transfer.
Sue is let go. Mr. Abusive is fired. But just as Gigi thinks it’s over, a couple storms the lobby, screaming about a handwritten note that mocked their food allergy.
The woman slaps Gigi, but Gigi doesn’t flinch. She looks at the handwriting. “I know someone who writes exactly like this,” she says, eyeing Sue as she tries to sneak out with her cardboard box of belongings.
Gigi drags Sue to the couple. The truth comes out: Sue framed Gigi to save herself. Faced with a lobby full of witnesses, Sue drops to her knees, sobbing and issuing a desperate apology. Then, she drops the final bomb:
“I’m pregnant.”
The chairman’s audit
While Mrs. Y and Helen celebrate the “trash taking itself out,” Gigi is skeptical. She’s fairly certain Mino can’t have children. But before she can dwell on it, she’s summoned by the Chairman.
It’s just the two of them. “Am I a difficult person?” Grandfather asks.
“Yes,” Gigi answers honestly.
She tells him the truth—that she could have let her boss steal her proposal, but she chose to fight. It’s an answer the Chairman respects.
He tells her she shouldn’t blame her foot for stepping on crap (Mino).
The shooting range and the truth
Later, on the estate’s hunting grounds, Jay teaches Gigi how to fire a gun. As he steadies her arms, the tension is thick enough to choke on.
“Hold on tight,” he instructs. “And lean on me.”
Jay knows Mino is drowning in debt. He’s checked the finances. He’s pulling the trigger on his own life, too—doing the things he once hated because he finally wants something: her.
The first love vs. the only choice
Back at the apartment, Helen is trying to play matchmaker between Gigi and Ernie. She reports back to Jay that Ernie is “decent, handsome, and stable.”
Jay sits at his dining table, eating a massive tub of ice cream with the kind of aggressive energy usually reserved for a breakup. He’s jealous, miserable, and currently treating a spoon like a weapon.
Meanwhile, Gigi is at an ice skating rink with Ernie. He’s kind. He’s safe. But as Gigi watches a couple glide by, she envisions herself with Jay.
She realizes she’s looking at her first love, but she’s thinking about the man upstairs with the ice cream.
“Ernie, you’re a great friend,” Gigi tells him. It’s the gentlest rejection in history.
Ernie takes it like a gentleman, realizing he’s not the “wrong sentence” Jay was talking about.
The Christmas kiss
Gigi finds Jay outside her door, sneezing in the cold. He’s been waiting for her to come home from her “date.”
She follows him into his apartment. It’s a Christmas wonderland—trees, lights, and gifts. Jay had set it all up, just in case she wanted to talk.
“I went on a date with Ernie,” she confesses. “He told me he likes me. And I realized that while I was with him, I kept thinking about someone else. Someone I thought I knew, but didn’t. Someone who knows me best.”
She closes the distance. She stands on her tiptoes and gives him a chaste kiss.
Jay doesn’t let her leave. He pulls her back for a kiss that is anything but chaste—a kiss filled with ten years of regret, longing, and the absolute certainty that their fate has finally, officially, changed.
