Kim Hye-ja Faces Family Secrets in 'Heavenly Ever After'

Apr 27, 2025

Kim Hye-ja Faces Family Secrets in 'Heavenly Ever After'
Photo courtesy=JTBC



Actress Kim Hye-ja found a true connection in heaven.

In the third episode of JTBC's Saturday-Sunday drama 'Heavenly Ever After' (scripted by Lee Nam-gyu, Kim Soo-jin, director Kim Seok-yoon), which aired on the 26th, the appearance of Som-i (Han Ji-min) showed a picture of a heavenly house overturned. Lee Hae-sook (Kim Hye-ja) and Ko Nak-joon (Son Seok-gu) faced an all-time crisis during their 60-year marriage over the issue of letting Somi out of the house. In response, Lee Hae-sook decided to break up with Ko Nak-joon and went a long way to meet her mother Han Kyung-ja (Lee A-ju). The third episode ranked first in non-terrestrial broadcasting with 6.0% nationwide and 6.8% in the Seoul metropolitan area (Nilson Korea, based on paid households).

On this day, the three-way face-to-face in hell entered the second game. Lee Hae-sook managed to hold onto the strings of reason and questioned Ko Nak-jun about his relationship with this 'young and pretty' strange woman. Then, Go Nak-joon recalled meeting on the subway on his way home from this world to heaven. He said that he kept on looking and caring without realizing it, and that he only saved him from being dragged out of the door of the hell station. Lee Hae-sook's misunderstanding and jealousy were amplified by Ko Nak-joon's explanation, and her anger rose to the top of her head when Som-i said that all she remembers was the name 'Go Nak-jun'.




Go Nak-joon headed with him to the Heavenly Support Center to find Somi's identity. However, there was no way to find out because I had no memory of my name or age, and I heard unexpected news from the center staff. It was said that there was a 'hell fugitive who was judged to go to hell but was forced to come to heaven. Suddenly, Go Nak-joon was worried that Somi might be the hell-goer he was looking for in heaven, or maybe it was his responsibility to catch him in hell station.

Kim Hye-ja Faces Family Secrets in 'Heavenly Ever After'
Photo source=JTBC
Lee Hae-sook was notified of the subjects of the edification class. In heaven, every time you do something bad, you get 'Grab' and if you gather six, you go to hell, but Lee Hae-sook had already collected four not long after coming to heaven. The head of the center (Cheon Ho-jin) suggested Lee Hae-sook to replace edification classes with religious activities instead of going to the edification center. The pastor of Heaven Church (Ryu Deok-hwan), who was waiting for the congregation to come, welcomed Lee Hae-sook's visit. However, seeing Lee Hae-sook, who turned his stomach upside down from the first service, his reaction to resenting God who put him on the test drew laughter.

When Lee Hae-sook returned home, Ko Nak-joon was still unable to let Somi go. This deepened the conflict between the two, and Lee Hae-sook told Ko Nak-jun that she no longer needed to live according to herself, saying, "I will go find a life that suits me."He left the house, leaving only the words ". The first thing he thought of was his mother. Lee Hae-sook boarded a bus bound for the past with the help of the center's director, and a mother in her 20s and a daughter in her 80s had a tearful reunion in heaven in the 1950s.




When Lee Hae-sook met her mother, she tried to express her upset feelings about her husband, but did she fight with the West?The mere words " already made me feel comfortable. As I shared my mother's own rice and fell asleep under the same blanket, I thought this might be heaven. When he said he should have lived with his mother from the beginning, 'husband is a man', Han Kyung-ja took out an old secret that she could not tell her young daughter.

That at the beginning of the newlyweds, my husband had a different woman in his home, and that he raised a child born between them like his own. The child was Lee Hae-sook. After his biological parents once died, Han Kyung-ja also left him behind. However, he said that he missed Lee Hae-sook, who left it like that, so he used to secretly watch it and go, saying, `I only knew then. He confessed his affection, saying, "What's stronger than Cheonryun, what's scarier is fate."

At the end of the broadcast, Go Nak-joon came to pick up Lee Hae-sook. On the way back home together, Lee Hae-sook held Ko Nak-jun's hand and released the clots of her heart, saying, `Yes, this is a stronger relationship than a thousand times.' However, following the couple's beautiful and warm ending, Som waiting for two people in the heaven house, a shadow of darkness hit behind her, signaling that the atmosphere of the play would be reversed, raising tensions.




While his identity was still hidden from the veil, 'The Three Abandoned Dogs'Jajang (Shin Min-cheol), Jjamppong (Kim Choong-gil), and Dumpling (Yoo Hyun-soo) speculated that Som-yi might also be abandoned by her owner. It was that he smelled something other than the smell of the people of heaven. However, the mysterious whereabouts of the defector who appeared at the same time as Somi's appearance also adds to doubts. Attention is focusing on whether Somi, who became a double-serving woman at Lee Hae-sook and Ko Nak-joon's house, will be able to regain her lost memories.

Meanwhile, the fourth episode of JTBC's Saturday-Sunday Drama "Beautiful Than Heaven" will air at 10:30 p.m. on the 27th.



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