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The Divorce Insurance: Episodes 7-8

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Our divorce team has to prevent an unlikely client from getting a divorce, while remaining blissfully unaware of the uncertainties that lie ahead of their product launch — and the future of their team in general.

EPISODES 7-8

The week resumes with a clarification on Ki-joon’s proposal to Han-deul: he wasn’t asking her to move in with him, but for them to swap houses. Just like her, he doesn’t have good memories of his place since his divorce, hence his suggestion — which is thoughtful but quite random at the same time. After seventeen minutes of watching their forced proximity and painfully awkward moments in each other’s homes, morning comes and the plot can move forward. Phew! But the house swap is here to stay. Na-rae is curious about Ki-joon and Han-deul’s relationship, and they decide to put a label on what they have. They eventually settle on “gray zone” — which is the stage between friendship and something more.

Speaking of Na-rae, I was mistaken about the night she and Jeon-man spent at the hotel. Nothing happened, but there’s a romantic undercurrent between them — especially on Jeon-man’s end. We take a temporary break from the office romances when an elderly client files for divorce and an insurance claim. Uh-oh. The good news is, she’s not entitled to a payout because she has spent less than 90 days as a policyholder. The bad news is, the company mandated the team to turn over a zero divorce rate within their six-month trial run. On the bright side, there’s a four-week waiting period before the court finalizes the divorce, and the team can still change their client’s mind.

The team’s first impression of the couple is that there’s no bad blood between them. But when they start digging into the couple, all evidence points to the fact that the breadwinner husband looks down on his wife for making poor financial decisions. It also seems like he’s having an affair — and while the wife is not aware of this, she’s adamant on getting that divorce even if it means waiting for the 90 days to file for the insurance claim. Oops! The team is at their wits end, and Ki-joon suggests they void the contract by proving the husband’s affair. Their scope of coverage doesn’t cover affairs, and if they can void the contract, the couples’ divorce won’t affect the team’s zero divorce mission.

Han-deul is against revealing the affair because their client will get hurt. But as Ki-joon explains to her afterwards, exposing the affair is the best way to achieve their zero divorce, and ensure the client doesn’t stay with a cheating husband. Han-deul sees his point, and admits his seemingly cold-hearted suggestion hurt her in the first place because she holds him in higher esteem than everyone else on the team. It’s basically a love confession, and Ki-joon also realizes he can no longer stay in the gray zone. But when he leans in for a kiss, they are interrupted by her beeping phone. Pfft. They resume the conversation later on, and while they still haven’t come up with a label, it’s clear on both sides that there’s something going on between them.

Ki-joon is also clear with Na-rae that they are over, and this puts to bed the last of her lingering feelings and sparks up more hope for Jeon-man. As for Ah-young, she admits she’s afraid she’ll end up unhappy because she doesn’t want to get married, and Woong-shik offers his services as someone she can vent to, or someone who can call an ambulance for her if she’s sick. Lol. Ah-young wavers for the slightest bit before telling Woong-shik not to like her. And his “I don’t know how to do that. If you know how, then tell me,” reply reminded me of a low budget version of Baek Sa-seon’s “Tell me how to not love you” confession from When the Phone Rings. Sigh. If only the pairings in this show had a fraction of the chemistry in that phone drama.

Back to our soon-to-be-divorced couple, Ki-joon and Jeon-man tail the husband to catch him in the affair. Subtlety is NOT their strongest suit, but it doesn’t matter because the husband has nothing to hide. It turns out that the wife has dementia and filed for divorce because she doesn’t want to be a burden to her husband. She also wants the insurance payout to go to her husband. Meanwhile, the husband figured out her condition when she kept searching the house for a sewing machine that she sold 50 years ago. She sold it to help him continue his studies — and the whole time he was in contact with the suspected affair partner, he just wanted to buy the machine back from the lady. *Sniff*

Thanks to the team’s intervention, the couple calls off their divorce plans. They also move into a new house — husband’s idea because climbing the stairs to their current place takes a toll on the wife — where the wife has a corner dedicated to her sewing hobby. Awww. They promise to stick together for the rest of their twilight years, and I teared up a little watching the flashback to their younger days. This is something I thought about last week, and further confirmed with this elderly couple: the case of the week couples have more interesting and compelling storylines than the show’s primary and secondary couples. Come on, Show, I’ve given up on the humor. Do I also have to give up on the romance?

The team wraps up for the week with a celebratory team dinner, but Na-rae sours the mood by announcing the team’s dissolution effective immediately. It’s such a shame, but I won’t be surprised if this has anything to do with the shady business between Na-rae and her boss. Then again, the boss is also hiding things from her — like his secret meeting with the boss of the competing insurance company — so maybe she’s not as involved in his yet-to-be-revealed grand scheme.

 
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