After a month-long run, “Lies Hidden in My Garden” is all wrapped up. Just when it looks as if the present has no extra secrets and techniques left to disclose, it pulls out all stops for an enormous finale that provides each essential leads what they have been on the lookout for. Only, one in all them has no thought about what the opposite has deliberate.

Warning: spoilers for episodes 7-8 beneath.

1. Joo Ran contracting Sang Eun to kill Jae Ho

Moon Joo Ran (Kim Tae Hee) is aware of the reality about her husband Park Jae Ho (Kim Sung Oh) murdering Lee Soo Min (Yoon Ga Yi), and worse, that her son Park Seung Jae (Cha Sung Jae) noticed all of it. A change comes over her like one thing’s been unstoppered. She goes from anxious and jerky to very calm and poised. Meanwhile, Choo Sang Eun (Lim Ji Yeon) has found out that Soo Min was at Joo Ran’s home proper earlier than her dying and is fairly sure that Jae Ho killed her. She’s in dire monetary straits and is about to blackmail Joo Ran for money, so she’s bewildered when Joo Ran approaches her first.

Joo Ran’s rationale is that Sang Eun mainly bought away with killing Kim Yoon Beom (Choi Jae Rim), so certainly she will do it as soon as extra. She’s ready to pay Sang Eun 500 million received (roughly $393,900) and offers her 200 million received (roughly $158,000) up entrance to do it. Sang Eun is hesitant, however her household’s cash woes rear their head, and she or he offers in. That’s one thing we’ve seen typically with Sang Eun. Joo Ran hides behind her husband, however Sang Eun is chained to them. She’s sick of her drunk brother making her pay his money owed and uninterested in her loveless mom who simply desires her to pay her medical charges. But she’s used to doing what others need, and so she prepares to kill.

2. Joo Ran betraying Sang Eun to Jae Ho

The plan is for Joo Ran to construct a historical past of home assault by Jae Ho: to speak in confidence to her neighbor Oh Hae Soo (Jung Woon Sun) about the potential of Jae Ho having killed Yoon Beom. Next, Joo Ran wanted to get Jae Ho to buy a coal briquette to create the phantasm of suicide. Finally, she has to drug his smoothie, after which Sang Eun would enter the home when he’s asleep and drive Jae Ho to the identical reservoir she pushed Yoom Beom in. Joo Ran would meet her through a distinct route, and the 2 of them would stage his suicide as a result of supposed guilt of getting murdered Yoon Beom.

Only, when Sang Eun enters the home, Jae Ho isn’t asleep. He’s huge alert, stabs her with a syringe, and beats her up. Joo Ran merely watches as Sang Eun is crushed and tied up. Sang Eun regrets ever stepping foot in the home or trusting Joo Ran. We flash again to Joo Ran coming clear with Jae Ho about Sang Eun understanding that Soo Min was killed of their dwelling. Jae Ho’s rapid response is that they have to eliminate Sang Eun collectively—for Seung Jae’s sake, after all. Joo Ran doesn’t say something and agrees, going together with all of it. It’s laborious to determine what facet he’s on, and even Joo Ran doesn’t appear to have figured it out—till she asks Jae Ho one remaining query.

3. Joo Ran killing Jae Ho

The dying of Joo Ran’s sister has been the singular best trauma in her life. It’s what made her shut down from a bubbly, joyful individual to a closed-off, fearful one. The worst half is that her sister died whereas caring for Joo Ran’s residence whereas she was on a visit. Joo Ran’s mom blames her for the dying, and Joo Ran, misplaced in grief, begins to do the identical. Jae Ho manipulatively proposed at her sister’s funeral, saying that he can be her protector. And Joo Ran stopped pondering for herself on that day. She didn’t know the best way to belief herself anymore and hadn’t labored by any of her trauma. Over the years, it simply turned simpler for her to belief and comply with what Jae Ho mentioned as an alternative of pondering for herself. Things solely bought worse after she attacked Seung Jae’s trainer. And understanding what we now find out about Joo Ran’s dead-on instincts, she was in all probability proper about him being harmful.

But the one factor she’s wished in life is for her little one to not must undergo the identical psychological torture she did. So when Jae Ho places the blame of Soo Min’s dying on Seung Jae—although he killed her—Joo Ran can’t stand by. She sneaks Sang Eun a knife to interrupt free. As Jae Ho prepares to bury Sang Eun, Joo Ran asks him why he lied to her about killing Soo Min. Jae Ho tries to disclaim it and gaslight her till she reveals that Seung Jae noticed him do it. He lastly bursts out that he did it for Seung Jae. When Joo Ran asks him why he by no means advised her the reality, he yells that it’s as a result of she would go away him.

He yells that he did it for them as a household, and Joo Ran refuses to consider him. She is aware of that Seung Jae is in ache over having to maintain this horrible secret. So she assaults Jae Ho. Sang Eun’s free at this level and tries to do the identical, however each girls are overpowered. Jae Ho loses it and belittles Joo Ran, mentioning that she sat again whereas he did every little thing for her. He appears to like her in his personal twisted manner although as a result of he cries whereas making an attempt to kill her. Luckily, Hae Soo sees Sang Eun begging for assist and calls the police. Sang Eun smashes a window, and Jae Ho will get distracted, permitting Joo Ran to push him down the identical flight of stairs the place Seung Jae pushed Soo Min. And Jae Ho’s useless in a flash.

4. Sang Eun realizing that Joo Ran freed her

The police arrive, and the matter goes to trial when Joo Ran admits every little thing. Only, her confession comes as a shock to Sang Eun. Joo Ran confesses that Jae Ho killed Yoon Beom and Soo Min and that she teamed up with him to kill Sang Eun as soon as it got here to gentle that his actions might be unveiled. Sang Eun doesn’t perceive why she would pin Yoon Beom’s homicide on Jae Ho. She visits Joo Ran in jail whereas she awaits trial.

Sang Eun is for certain that Joo Ran was planning to kill each her and Jae Ho to be rid of all of them. But Joo Ran simply smiles. Sang Eun realizes that Joo Ran deliberate on happening by herself to depart Sang Eun and her little one an excellent life. She lied to the police about planning Sang Eun’s dying out of guilt for enabling Jae Ho and turning a blind eye to his actions for therefore a few years. With Yoon Beom’s dying labeled as homicide now, the insurance coverage corporations pay Sang Eun a lot of cash, sufficient to start out a greater life. Joo Ran is distributed to jail for a short while (for her position in supposedly making an attempt to kill Sang Eun), they usually change a short look earlier than parting.

A yr or so sooner or later, Sang Eun works at a restaurant. She’s not dour and withdrawn however brilliant and buoyant. And Joo Ran is out of jail and at peace with herself for breaking freed from her husband’s management and reclaiming her id and conscience. She lives in the home with the backyard that she cherished a lot, together with her son, a working friendship together with her mom, and a robust friendship with Hae Soo. Both girls are lastly free.

This was a reasonably poignant ending. I want we had extra of a glimpse into Joo Ran’s relationship together with her mom, seeing because it appears to have knowledgeable a lot of her trauma inside her marriage with Jae Ho. But Kim Tae Hee offered this character, taking us by Joo Ran’s vulnerability and quiet power. The present explored how individuals could be a cage and the way tough it’s to interrupt unfastened of these cages after they’ve developed over lengthy intervals of time. Joo Ran’s and Sang Eun’s husbands spent their lives making an attempt to persuade each girls that they have been nugatory and had no power in them. And that was the most important lie on this present. It was their determined dedication that allowed them to take these first tentative steps towards a greater future.

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Shalini_A is a very long time Asian-drama addict. When not watching dramas, she fangirls over Ji Sung, and spins thrillers set in more and more implausible worlds. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram, and be happy to ask her something!

Currently Watching:  “See You in My 19th Life,” “Delightfully Deceitful,” “Revenant,” “Lies Hidden in My Garden,” “Numbers,” and “King the Land.”
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