Bitch X Rich (Season 2)

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Bitch X Rich (Season 2)

청담국제고등학교 시즌2 (Cheongdamgukjekodeunghakgyo Sijeun 2) · 2025 · South Korea

WriterKwak Young-im

DirectorLim Dae Woong, Park Hyung-won

Episodes10 eps · ~35 min each

Where to Watch✅ Netflix, Viki

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Binge Time5h 50m

AiredJul 3 – Aug 1, 2025

GenreThriller · Mystery · Youth

Content Rating15+

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Chaebol PoliticsPsychological WarfareBlackmailSocial HierarchyPower Struggle

One box. Everything you need to decide.

Hye-in’s inside Diamond 6 now — which changes who she’s fighting, not whether she’s still fighting.

Lee Eun-saem

Kim Hye-in

Lead

YERI

Baek Je-na

Lead

Lee Jong-hyuk

Seo Do-eon

Supporting

Park Si-woo

Min Yul-hee

Supporting

Jang Sung-yoon

Kim Hae-in

Supporting

Jang Se-hyuk

Park Woo-jin

Supporting

Spoiler-light recaps — enough to remember where you left off, nothing that ruins the ride.

EP 01

Episode 1

Jul 3, 2025

Hye-in walks straight from surviving one death investigation into being a suspect in another — Oh Si-eun is dead, threatening texts have made Hye-in a person of interest, and her father ends up kneeling in apology for a violence complaint that was never really about him. Meanwhile Je-na is dealing with a war of her own: her father’s affair coming to light, and a new arrival, Cha Jin-wook, angling for a place in her orbit. Two separate crises, same school, same appetite for using people as leverage.

EP 02

Episode 2

Jul 4, 2025

Je-na’s stepmother moves in, which turns a public power struggle into a domestic one she can’t clock out of. Hye-in, worried for her father, starts weighing an offer to join Diamond 6 — and gets in the door not through charm or money, but through an audio recording of the stepmother discussing an unborn child’s inheritance. Leverage, again, is the actual currency here, not friendship.

EP 03

Episode 3

Jul 10, 2025

Kim Hae-in wakes from her coma and immediately starts lying about how much she remembers, working an angle on Seo Do-eon before anyone questions the timeline. Hye-in’s new seat at the Diamond 6 table doesn’t sit well with the rest of the group, who read Je-na’s choice as a liability rather than a strategy. Jin-wook, it turns out, is an illegitimate son with his own investigation running underneath his engagement plans — a secret arrangement built on mutual use rather than romance.

EP 04

Episode 4

Jul 11, 2025

Hae-in’s amnesia was never real, and she uses that fact directly on Hye-in — full memory, full leverage, and an ultimatum to leave Cheongdam or be exposed. A phone charm on Lee Sa-rang’s phone, identical to one Oh Si-eun had, quietly reopens the question of who was actually involved in her death. An anonymous account calling itself Black Dog starts leaking Diamond 6’s secrets, and the group’s control over its own narrative starts slipping.

EP 05

Episode 5

Jul 17, 2025

Je-na announces her engagement to Jin-wook in the most public, strategic way possible, timed specifically to humiliate Min Yul-hee. Hye-in feels used by the stunt, right up until Je-na quietly helps her scholarship application, which is the show’s whole thesis in miniature: alliances here are never just one thing. Yul-hee and the stepmother start coordinating against Je-na, and Hae-in gets pulled into targeting Hye-in whether she wants to or not.

EP 06

Episode 6

Jul 18, 2025

A nightclub becomes the site of two overlapping investigations — Jin-wook and Yul-hee watching Woo-jin deal drugs, Hye-in and Sun-joo tracking Sa-rang’s own activity. Woo-jin steals Si-eun’s old phone to erase footage that implicates him, and stumbles onto something compromising about Hye-in in the process. Je-na gets framed for drug use by the stepmother and Yul-hee, and it’s Hye-in who ends up exposing the setup.

EP 07

Episode 7

Jul 24, 2025

The drug accusation against Je-na forces her through humiliating scrutiny while Yul-hee tries a different angle on Jin-wook, who turns her down without much drama about it. Hae-in, panicking about her own exposed footage, begs Hye-in to name Yul-hee as the one who pushed her, but Hye-in hesitates, boxed in by her own blackmail exposure. Jin-wook clears Je-na’s name with a recording of the stepmother admitting to the frame job, the first time this season someone’s leverage actually protects instead of just threatens.

EP 08

Episode 8

Jul 25, 2025

Yul-hee’s threat finally lands: expose Hye-in’s video to her father unless Hye-in falsely confesses Je-na pushed Hae-in. Hae-in, already abused by Woo-jin and now told the necklace she was counting on is gone, walks into traffic — the season’s darkest turn, delivered without a warning shot. Black Dog’s next leak implicates Woo-jin and Yul-hee directly in the original fall, and Je-na and Jin-wook press ahead with plans to announce their engagement at the school’s 30th anniversary regardless.

EP 09

Episode 9

Jul 31, 2025

Do-eon confronts Woo-jin and Yul-hee directly over Hae-in’s death, and Je-na reveals she gave Hae-in’s necklace to the Chairman rather than losing it. Yul-hee manipulates Hye-in into agreeing to publicly accuse Je-na at the anniversary event, dangling a scholarship and internship as payment. Jin-wook finally tells Je-na what he’s actually been doing this whole season: dismantling his own father’s company, and he offers her the shares to help do it.

EP 10

Ouroboros

Aug 1, 2025

Hye-in agrees to speak at the engagement ceremony and quietly signals her real plan to Je-na beforehand. On stage, she does the opposite of what Yul-hee extorted her into doing — publicly naming Yul-hee as Hae-in’s killer and exposing the blackmail that drove her to suicide. Jin-wook reveals himself as Black Dog, taking down the school’s cover-up and his own father’s company in the same breath, while Je-na ends the season holding real power for the first time, and Hye-in, finally, puts her Diamond 6 badge down.

Full spoilers ahead — everything that happens in the finale and what it all means.

What literally happens At the engagement ceremony, Hye-in flips the script Yul-hee forced on her — instead of falsely accusing Je-na, she publicly names Min Yul-hee as the person who pushed Kim Hae-in, and reveals the blackmail video that drove Hae-in to suicide. Cha Jin-wook reveals himself as Black Dog, the anonymous leaker who’s been exposing the school’s cover-ups all season, and uses the moment to take down his own father’s corrupt company alongside it. Je-na ends the episode as majority shareholder of Hanmyeong Group, and Hye-in walks away from Cheongdam by discarding her Diamond 6 badge.

Why Hye-in tells the truth this time Season 1 ended with Hye-in choosing self-preservation over honesty. Season 2’s finale is the direct answer to that choice: given the exact same kind of leverage-based ultimatum, she picks the truth instead, even though it costs her the protection Yul-hee was offering. The show spends ten episodes making the case that surviving Cheongdam by its rules was never actually sustainable — the finale is Hye-in finally opting out of the system rather than winning inside it.

What Cha Jin-wook was actually doing all season The engagement, the shares, the careful proximity to Je-na — none of it was about her specifically. Jin-wook’s entire arc was a long con aimed at his own father’s company, and Je-na was simultaneously a tool and, by the end, a genuine ally in dismantling it. Leaving his badge with her isn’t a romantic gesture so much as a transfer of unfinished business, which fits a season that’s been arguing love and leverage are hard to tell apart inside this world.

Three ways to read the finale One reading treats this as a clean moral victory: Hye-in tells the truth, Yul-hee faces consequences, Je-na consolidates real power. A second reading is warier of that framing — Je-na’s win is still a chaebol succession story, and the show doesn’t pretend the system itself has changed, just who’s currently on top of it. A third reading focuses on Hye-in’s exit specifically: putting down the badge isn’t triumph, it’s exhaustion, a rational decision to leave a game that was never going to let her win on her own terms.

Why the title ‘Ouroboros’ returns for the finale Season 1 used the same title for its own finale, and reusing it here isn’t an accident — it’s the show telling you directly that the cycle it named once has kept turning. Hye-in escapes, but Je-na’s parting offer leaves their paths open to intertwine again, which suggests exiting the system entirely might not be as final as Hye-in wants it to be. The snake eating its tail was never just about one season’s plot. It’s the shape of the whole show.