Ryan thinks back to how he discovered Sung Deok-mi’s secret by matching her handwriting on some work files to the fansite’s notebook. The next day at work, he messages Si Na Gil on twitter and watches secretly as Deok-mi replies and confirms his suspicions. He registers for Si Na Gil’s fan club under a fake name. Deok-mi, meanwhile, is unable to sleep because she can’t stop thinking about Ryan.

Sung Deok-mi tells Ryan that she had to reveal that they’re dating to their colleagues because the new intern Kim Hyo-jin is actually Cindy, Si-an’s sasaeng fan. She asks him to fire Hyo-jin but he thinks they’ll just have to pretend to be a couple because Hyo-jin is Director Eom’s daughter and he can’t fire her. Curator Yoo wonders when Ryan and Deok-mi began dating and Hyo-jin opens up Si Na Gil’s homepage for them. They read the cheesy captions posted under Si-an’s photos as Deok-mi cringes in embarrassment.

After Ryan tells the driver of the car that Sung Deok-mi is his girlfriend, an old man opens the card window to say congratulations and drive away. Ryan is left frozen in embarrassment. Deok-mi assures him that it’s not a big deal, but Ryan proposes that she let him pretend to be her boyfriend for a while. He raises some solid points, like the possibility of her family’s information being leaked and asks her to think about it.

A hilarious flashback takes us to the school days of Nam Eun-gi and Sung Deok-mi, when he was popular among girls and she was a TVXQ fangirl. He gives her an umbrella someone gifted him, and she turns up at his judo practice to yell about how wrong it is to pass gifts on and beats the daylights out of him.

Shocked at Ryan’s appearance, Deok-mi falls from the ladder. In a voice-over, she says, “Sometimes, for the sake of making a living, you have to pretend to be a regular person who doesn’t know what fangirling is.” We flash back to Director Eom interviewing Deok-mi. The woman had seemed disinterested in Deok-mi until another girl interviewing for the position admitted to being an idol fan. Director Eom had asked Deok-mi if she too was interested in idols, but sensing the mood, Deok-mi feigned ignorance. She ended up getting the job because her boss was sick of her daughter fangirling and didn’t want to associate with fangirls.