Tears of Princess Pyeong-Gang

Sihyun Park is having a hard time keeping a good boyfriend. Seonga suggests that she might play a role in these unsteady relationships.

Characters
In order of appearance:
 * Sihyun Park
 * Professor Song
 * Dr. Frost
 * Seokjoo Jeong
 * Seonga Yoon

Episode 30
Sihyun Park is crying while her boyfriend packs to leave her. She asks how he could do this to her when she always listened to him and was faithful. Her boyfriend tells her that this is the reason why. At Yonggang, Professor Song is giving a presentation about microexpressions. She says that there are few people who can read them, and even fewer in Korea.

Dr. Frost is cleaning wine glasses and trying to guess the expressions of the people around him. Mr. B guesses that a man is angry, and Dr. Frost tells him to quit wasting his time. The manager asks Dr. Frost to be more useful, and he decides to teach Mr. B after all. He asks him why people are seated at tables while single people are seated at the bar. The answer is that people tend to face towards where they are paying attention, and facing the bartender is counterproductive to wooing a partner. The manager complains that the professor loses them customers, but Mr. B is happy that they've gained the detectives as regulars (they've agreed to buy beers for their previous mistake).

Sihyun Park soon enters the bar with her boyfriend Seokjoo Jeong. Mr. B is eager to sit them at a table but Seokjoo declines, saying they will sit at the bar. Sihyun agrees with what he said. The professor notices this is the woman he was waiting for.

Episode 31
Seonga is complaining about her friend Sihyun who keeps getting into bad relationships. Dr. Frost suggests Seonga ask her to stop by Bar Mirror, but tells Seonga not to mention that a psychologist is there.

Seokjoo plays an association game with Sihyun by asking what kind of item she would like to gift her man: a nice suit, a hankerchief, a wallet or a tie. Sihyun wants to choose all of them but settles on the hankerchief. Seokjoo explains that the suit represents making the person stand out, the wallet is for being important to the person, and the tie is for keeping them close. When she asks about the hankerchief Seokjoo smirks and states that the hankerchief represents devotion, and giving to make someone happy.

Dr. Frost inserted himself in their conversation and asked if Seokjoo knew about mind games. He proceeds to tell them about the different expressions people wear. There is usually a long maintained expression and a short, fleeting one. The professor asks which expression is the more accurate one, and Sihyun says the short expression. Seokjoo says that reading faces is just fiction and the professor says that his expression right now reads cynicism. He cites a man called Gottman who could predict with 90% accuracy which couples would divorce. The couples who showed cynicism or scorn to one another typically did not last: the very expression Seokjoo has been holding with Sihyun.

Seokjoo is offended and grabs Sihyun, attempting to leave the bar. He is apprehended by the local detectives who are looking for him. The detectives explain that Seokjoo is a known scammer who frauds women consistently. Sihyun cries and asks why this always happens to her, and the professor tells her to meet him at Yonggang if she wants to talk.

Episode 32
Sihyun explains her bad string of relationships to Frost. She met her first boyfriend in university, but he left her once he finished his exams. She met her second boyfriend and waited for him to finish the military, but he left her for another girl. Her third boyfriend did the same. She also met other men who were only interested in her body or money. Dr. Frost asks why this might be the case. Sihyun says the men were clearly assholes before calming down and saying she wants help for her problem.

Dr. Frost suspects that Sihyun has dependent personality disorder, and he makes her perform some tests. One of them is the HTP test: draw a person, house and tree from imagination.

Episode 33
For the person, Sihyun draws a middle aged woman and an angry man. She also draws a tree with no branches, and a house with an enclosed fence. She is inside the house, and her parents are outside. The professor ends the session and convenes with Seonga. He thinks the house with a fence symbolizes fear of the world and dependence on her parents, the tree represents herself, and the people are also her parents. Dr. Frost wonders why Sihyun harbored resentment towards her exes when dependent people typically do not. He decides to meet with her exes.

Sihyun's first boyfriend, now an attorney, meets with Seonga and Frost. He tells them that they first met when he was dorming at college, and Sihyun was very helpful. He eventually became sick of her because she couldn't make any decisions for herself. They broke up four years ago. The second boyfriend also got tired of Sihyun's lack of agency. They met before his army departure. The third boyfriend said something similar to the two of them. Seonga notices there is almost no break in the times she was in a relationship. Since Sihyun seems to have a personality disorder, Dr. Frost decides to meet with her parents to see how it began.

Episode 34
The professor and Seonga meet with Sihyun's parents. The father is distressed to hear that Sihyun might have a disorder but the mother is calm in comparison. She mentions that Sihyun never depended on her, but moreso her father. Dr. Frost asks about her childhood and she seemed to have a normal upbringing. He asks about when she was around 5 years old. Sihyun's mother explains that she was involved in the Sundong Bridge accident and became sterile. Dr. Frost wonders if this is why she rubs her belly.

Seonga wonders what kind of accident she was in, and Dr. Frost mentions that Sihyun's mother had a glass eye along with her burn scars. He is surprised that Sihyun had a normal childhood. Seonga asks whether the men in her life might have had a pattern such as an electra complex. The professor wonders whether she is searching for something lacking in her life, or trying to replicate her father. Regardless, her parents are lying about something and he wants to ask Sihyun about it.

Episode 35
Dr. Frost performs hypnosis on Sihyun to try and see what she remembers about her past. When she is ten years old she remembers beign picked up from school. She doesn't like her mother picking her up, because the kids tease her. She gets younger, and she remembers being in a hospital, and scared. Now she is three and she is hungry, but her mother isn't there. She smells mothballs, and Dr. Frost suspects she was in a closet at this time. Sihyun cries and flails and asks her mother not to hit her. As Seonga tries to calm her down, Dr. Frost asks what is happening as she gets older. Sihyun cries and asks her father not to do it. Dr. Frost yells at Seonga to bring Sihyun's parents since he figured out what is going on.

Episode 36
Dr. Frost tells Sihyun he suspects she was abused as an infant. He considers calling the police. Sihyun explains that she doesn't know what her father did, but it wasn't anything sexual. She does have resentment towards him though. When the parents arrive, Frost explains the hypnosis he conducted on Sihyun. Sihyun angrily asks her mother why she abused her as a child. Dr. Frost says that he is not sure who abused Sihyun because her mother is not her biological mother. Sihyun's mother showed no signs of being linked to Sihyun's personality disorder. Seonga says that people can change after post-natal depression, and Dr. Frost agrees. However, Sihun's mother was involved in an accident before Sihyun was even born, so she couldn't have given birth. The father decides to explain the situation.

Episode 37
25 years ago Sihyun's father was married to another woman. His daughter was a sleepy girl, which surprised him since most infants were rambunctious. When Sihyun's father found sleeping pills in his wife's cabinet, he wondered if his daughter could have been drugged. He dispelled the idea, but it kept nagging at him. He eventually decided to drink Sihyun's milk, and fell asleep for 12 hours. Sihyun's father now suspected his mother, but she denied doing anything. He started coming home earlier to moniter his kid. Then one day, he discovered Sihyun crying in the closet. When he removed her blanket, she had bruise marks from where her mother pinched her.

Sihyun's father divorced her mother shortly afterwards to protect his daughter, and he met his current wife a few years later. Dr. Frost thinks this is why Sihyun resented her father.

Episode 38
Dr. Frost explains that children don't have a concept of abuse, so her father's anger towards her mother made Sihyun resent her father, despite his attempts to protect her. Sihyun is confused and tearful, and her mother decides to tell her how they met.

Sihyun's mother resumed her job at a daycare following her tragic accident. She felt sad that she couldn't have any children, but consoled herself with the kids she watched over. Sihyun's father would always be late, so she began to bond with Sihyun. She liked to pretend she was Sihyun's mother. She became close to her father during these waits and he finally asked her out on a date.

Episode 39
Soon after that, the couple married and she became Sihyun's actual mother. Sihyun tells her mother that even though she tried to hide her past from her, that doesn't make her a real mom. Sihyun's mother says to never say that to her.

Sihyun and her mother came to visit Sihyun's father in the hospital one day with their child, and a dangerous chemical was about to fall from a shelf. Sihyun's mother pushed her out of the way and was burned in the face. She tells Sihyun in present time that even though she did not birth her, she still sacrificed her vision for her because she cared about Sihyun. Sihyun began crying. Dr. Frost transferred Sihyun's case to Dr. Song. He ponders how unconditional love and affection can truly change someone's life, and he wonders what affection truly is.