Cinderella Game

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Cinderella Game

신데렐라 게임 (Sinderelra Geim) · 2024 · South Korea

WriterOh Sang Hee

DirectorLee Hyeon Gyeong

Episodes101 eps · ~32 min each

Where to Watch✅ OnDemandKorea, Kocowa (Prime Video), Viki, Apple TV, Prime Video

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Binge Time53h 52m

AiredDec 2, 2024 – Apr 23, 2025

GenreMelodrama · Family · Drama

Content Rating15+

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A revenge melodrama cast deep enough to carry 101 episodes of scheming.

Han Geu-ru

Goo Ha-na

Lead

Choi Shang

Hwang Jin-gu

Lead

Park Ri-won

Yoon Se-young

Supporting

Kwon Do-hyung

Goo Ji-seok

Supporting

Na Young-hee

Shin Yeo-jin

Supporting

Ji Soo-won

Choi Myeong-ji

Supporting

Kim Hye-ok

Shim Bang-wool

Supporting

Choi Jong-hwan

Yoon Sung-ho (Richard Han)

Supporting

Kim Ji-sung

Goo Ji-eun

Supporting

Park Chang-hoon

Goo Ji-chang

Supporting

Jung Yoon-seo

Secretary Jang

Supporting

Kim Hyun

Seok-gi’s Mother

Supporting

Just enough per episode to remember where things stood.

EP 01

A Hospital Waiting Room

Cinderella Game opens on two lives with no business intersecting: Goo Ha-na, worn down by years of abuse from the adoptive parents meant to protect her, and Hwang Jin-gu, a quietly ailing heir killing time in the same hospital corridor. Their meeting barely registers as more than a glance. The premiere spends just as much time on Yoon Yu-jin and her cousin Se-young, giddy over an upcoming trip — a contrast that plays less like coincidence and more like a countdown.

EP 02

The Girl Who Said Nothing

Ha-na is rushed to the ER with hypothermia, a direct result of her adoptive parents’ abuse, but she tells the police nothing — the fear of ending up completely alone outweighs the fear of going home. On a boat trip meant to be fun, Se-young accidentally causes Yu-jin to fall overboard; Yu-jin survives, but surfaces with no memory of who she is.

EP 03

Du-na

At the children’s home, Ha-na forms a fast bond with a new girl called Du-na — unknowingly the amnesiac Yu-jin, though neither of them knows it yet. Se-young is haunted by nightmares she can’t explain to anyone, and across town, Chairwoman Shin Yeo-jin’s search for her missing daughter grows more desperate by the day.

EP 04

No Rain, No Flowers

Ha-na gets a rare piece of good news: adoption into Gu Ji-seok’s family, whose household motto — ‘No Rain, No Flowers’ — reads almost too on the nose for a girl who’s had nothing but rain. It’s a real shot at belonging. It’s also undercut immediately by Choe Myeong-ji, who witnesses something in this family she has every intention of keeping to herself.

EP 05

The Accident

A car crash kills Ji-seok’s parents on their way to watch Ha-na’s piano recital, and the guilt lands on Ha-na like it’s hers to carry. She responds the only way she knows how — by stepping fully into the role of caretaker for Ji-seok and his younger siblings, Ji-eun and Ji-chang. It’s the episode where Ha-na’s entire personality calcifies around self-sacrifice, years before anyone asks her to.

EP 06

The Bouquet

Ha-na, bouquet in hand, heads off to meet her future mother-in-law — a small, hopeful scene the show lets breathe before it starts pulling the floor out from under her. She has no idea what’s coming, and for one episode the show lets her have that. It’s the calmest Ha-na will feel for a very long time, which is exactly why it’s worth noticing.

EP 07

Fired

A trumped-up allegation — an illegal gig, an assault that never happened the way it’s described — gets Ha-na fired without a real hearing, and the only person she can turn to is Jin-gu. Meanwhile Shin Yeo-jin’s hunt for her missing daughter grinds on with no new leads, a slow-burn thread the show is patiently keeping warm.

EP 08

The Spy Accusation

Ha-na gets hit with a second, even stranger crisis: she’s accused of being a spy while trying to smooth over a client complaint out of Dubai. She fights it the same way she fights everything — by simply refusing to be pushed out — and starts to look less like a victim of circumstance and more like someone the story is testing on purpose.

EP 09

The New Director

Se-young and Jin-gu meet the new head director of Hyesung Tour: Goo Ji-seok, back and immediately hostile to Chairwoman Shin’s grip on the company. It’s less a corporate appointment than a declaration of war, and Ha-na — just an employee trying to keep her job — gets caught in the blast radius of a fight that isn’t hers.

EP 10

Two No Votes

Ha-na applies for a tour operator position, and both Jin-gu and Se-young oppose it — for very different reasons. Se-young’s is jealousy; Jin-gu’s is something closer to guilt he can’t name yet. A mysterious business proposal from a man named Hassan lands on Jin-gu’s desk in the background, the kind of detail this show never introduces by accident.

EP 11

Damaged Heels

Shin Yeo-jin prays, quietly and often, for Yu-jin’s safe return — a grief the show keeps returning to whenever it needs to remind you she’s a mother first and a chairwoman second. Se-young catches Choi Myeong-ji on a suspicious call. Ji-seok uses his inauguration as company president to needle Shin’s past business practices in public. And Se-young, for no reason beyond spite, ruins a pair of Ha-na’s heels.

EP 12

The Assailant

Jin-gu starts pulling at a loose thread — the attacker at Ji-seok’s inauguration wasn’t acting alone, or at least not for the reasons everyone assumed. It’s the first crack in his blind loyalty to Chairwoman Shin, and it happens to line up exactly with his growing concern for Ha-na’s safety.

EP 13

A Familiar Face

Ha-na flatly refuses Ji-seok’s push to quit Hyesung Tour, holding her ground even though it would make his revenge plot simpler. Shin Yeo-jin, meeting her properly for the first time, is quietly struck by how close Ha-na is in age to her missing daughter — a detail the chairwoman brushes off before it can become a thought.

EP 14

Wearing Her Down

Se-young interrogates Ha-na over Ji-seok’s order to cancel a contract, treating a business decision like a personal insult. Jin-gu watches the harassment escalate and quietly vows to do something about it — the first real sign that his loyalties are shifting, even if he isn’t ready to admit it out loud.

EP 15

The Envelope

Se-young and Myeong-ji spring a trap: Ha-na is framed for stealing an envelope of cash, her desk cleared out in front of the whole office before she’s said a word in her defense. She holds her ground anyway. Jin-gu notices the office CCTV was conveniently disabled and starts asking the questions no one else will.

EP 16

Cleared

An anonymous video lands in Ha-na’s inbox and blows the envelope frame-up wide open, handing her undeniable proof exactly when she needs it. It’s the first time someone unseen has intervened on her behalf, which raises a question the show is happy to leave hanging. Se-young and Myeong-ji don’t stop scheming — they just have to get smarter about it now.

EP 17

The Dress

Chairwoman Shin gives Ha-na a dress as thanks for landing the Dubai contract, and Ha-na — reading it as an office mix-up rather than a gesture — genuinely doesn’t understand what just happened. Neither does the audience, not fully, but the show is clearly setting up a much bigger reason for that gift than gratitude.

EP 18

The Grandmother

Ha-na quietly arranges a funeral for a woman who might be Eun-chong’s grandmother, the kind of unglamorous kindness that defines her whole character. Meanwhile Shin Yeo-jin, suspicious about the circumstances of Yu-jin’s hit-and-run, brings in the National Forensic Service — a decision that will eventually connect her investigation directly to Ha-na’s life.

EP 19

Santa

A man in a Santa suit — Sung-ho — visits Eun-chong, a warm scene that’s really a quiet confirmation of a connection the show hasn’t explained yet. Ha-na and Jin-gu, meanwhile, learn a shocking truth from Hassan about the Hyesung Tour contract that makes Ha-na feel deceived by Jin-gu all over again, right as they were starting to trust each other.

EP 20

The Same Dress

Ha-na wears the gifted dress to work with real confidence for once — and Se-young shows up in the identical dress, deliberately, to steal the moment and start a scene. It’s petty, it’s calculated, and it’s exactly the kind of small cruelty this show uses to keep Se-young’s villainy grounded in something believable.

EP 21

The Documents

Chairwoman Shin collapses after uncovering documents tied to Yu-jin’s hit-and-run, a physical reaction that says more about how close she now is to the truth than any dialogue could. She sends Jin-gu to the orphanage where Yu-jin — and Ha-na — once lived. The two investigations, personal and corporate, are about to become one.

EP 22

The Painting

Shin Yeo-jin arrives at the orphanage looking for one specific name: Lee Ha-na, the girl drawn again and again in a painting Yu-jin left behind. She doesn’t know yet what that name will cost her, or what it will cost Ha-na. It’s the moment the show stops teasing its central mystery and starts actually walking toward it.

EP 23

Growing Closer

Ji-seok and Se-young trade quiet moves in a corporate chess match neither will name out loud, while Ha-na and Jin-gu drift into something gentler — shared vulnerability that looks a lot like the beginning of real feeling. Elsewhere, Richard Han frets over how close the world is getting to discovering Eun-chong’s lineage.

EP 24

The Grandson

Shin Yeo-jin finally puts it together: Eun-chong is her grandson. It reframes everything she’s done and everything she’s about to do, and it’s the piece of information the entire back half of the season quietly pivots around. Se-young and Ha-na clash over Jin-gu again in the same episode, but it barely registers next to the size of what Yeo-jin just learned.

EP 25

Lunch

Yeo-jin takes Ha-na and Eun-chong to lunch, one more step in her plan to adopt Ha-na under the pretense of being her real mother — a lie built entirely to protect the grandson she just found. A nun from the orphanage warns Yeo-jin about Ha-na’s history of abuse and lost families, worried she’s being used as a pawn. She’s not wrong. Myeong-ji and Se-young start plotting to expose Ha-na as a fraud, and Sung-ho stumbles onto a truth he realizes he can’t take back.

EP 26

The Memorial Table

Ji-seok, enraged to find Yeo-jin’s ritual food at his parents’ memorial, overturns the table in front of a bewildered Ha-na — who has no idea Yeo-jin is connected to their deaths at all. His fury is really about Chairman Shin’s role in his parents’ end, not the food itself. In the background, DNA results quietly confirm Eun-chong is Yeo-jin’s grandson, and Jin-gu — now aware of Yeo-jin’s whole scheme — starts nudging small kindnesses toward Ha-na without tipping his hand.

EP 27

The Empty Frame

An empty portrait frame arrives for Yeo-jin, a wordless threat that her secret is closer to exposed than she thought. Myeong-ji, chasing that same secret, has a technician break into Yeo-jin’s safe. A motorcycle nearly runs down Eun-chong. And Myeong-ji is finally arrested — sentenced to life for Yu-jin’s accident — though she goes down swinging, trying to drag Yeo-jin’s name into it with her.

EP 28

The Handbag

Jin-gu is floored by the full scale of Yeo-jin’s plan to remake Ha-na into a stand-in daughter. Myeong-ji, misreading an innocent moment between Ha-na and Jin-gu as an affair, snaps and publicly assaults Ha-na with her handbag. Yeo-jin’s response is unsettlingly calm — calm enough that even Myeong-ji notices something’s off.

EP 29

Whose Side

Myeong-ji is formally reported to police for the assault. Se-young, drunk and unraveling, shows up uninvited at Ji-seok’s door. Jin-gu asks Ha-na to drop the police complaint; she refuses, and in the same breath he admits he wants her — not as an ally, but as something more, and asks her point-blank whose side she’s actually on.

EP 30

Overheard

Jin-gu brings up Ha-na’s birth mother out of nowhere, and Ha-na can’t tell if he’s trying to help her or steering her exactly where Yeo-jin wants her. Ji-seok pulls Se-young into his office over her new hotel posting. And Ha-na overhears something that’s about to change how she reads every conversation she’s had in this house.

EP 31

The Swing

Yeo-jin orders the old fireplace and wooden swing removed — small objects, but they’re the last physical trace of Ha-na’s friendship with Yu-jin, and losing them cuts deeper than Yeo-jin expects. In the same episode, Ha-na finds out the CEO is her biological mother. Not told. Found out.

EP 32

The Test

Ha-na agrees to a DNA test she doesn’t really want to take, unable to square the woman who’s manipulated her for months with the idea of a mother. There’s no version of the result that makes this easier for her. Myeong-ji and Se-young, sensing an opening, dig through CCTV footage trying to catch Yeo-jin in whatever she’s hiding.

EP 33

Confirmed

The DNA test comes back: Yeo-jin is Ha-na’s biological mother. Ha-na confronts her with the results and years of unanswered questions in the same breath. Jin-gu’s loyalty finally splits down the middle, and Se-young and Myeong-ji start quietly calculating how to turn the fallout to their advantage.

EP 34

Not a Pawn Anymore

Ha-na stops trying to understand Yeo-jin and starts planning to dismantle her, a shift the show marks clearly — she’s no longer a piece being moved, she’s playing. Jin-gu tries to intervene but can’t undo months of being on the wrong side. Ji-seok’s revenge and Ha-na’s now point in the same direction.

EP 35

Phase One

Ha-na’s first real move lands — small, deniable cracks in Yeo-jin’s public image that Yeo-jin initially waves off, then can’t. Jin-gu tries to keep the peace between two women who no longer want peace, and finds there isn’t a neutral position left to stand on. Ji-seok keeps feeding Ha-na what she needs, content to let her do the damage he’s been planning for years.

EP 36

The Ethical Lapse

Ha-na goes public with an ethical breach tied directly to Yeo-jin, and Hyesung Group actually shakes from it — stock, stakeholders, the whole carefully managed image Yeo-jin spent decades building. Jin-gu can’t stay neutral any longer. Se-young tries to use the chaos to discredit Ha-na and gets nowhere, which tells you exactly how much ground she’s already lost.

EP 37

No Compromise

Yeo-jin hits back hard, using every resource she has against Ha-na’s personal and professional life — and Ha-na, rattled but not broken, refuses to fold. Jin-gu, now openly on her side, starts spending his own career as leverage. Ji-seok finds a secret about Yeo-jin’s past that could be the decisive blow.

EP 38

The Final Move

With Ji-seok’s discovery in hand, Ha-na starts preparing to hit Yeo-jin where it actually hurts — not the business, the foundation underneath it. Yeo-jin’s paranoia tightens around her. Se-young, watching her aunt’s grip slipping, starts quietly weighing whether it’s time to switch sides.

EP 39

Exposed

The confrontation the whole back half has been building toward finally happens: Ha-na lays Yeo-jin’s deception bare in public — Yu-jin’s disappearance, her own manufactured identity, all of it. Jin-gu stands next to her through it. Se-young can’t argue her way out of the evidence anymore. Ji-seok, watching Yeo-jin’s empire crack, finally feels something close to peace.

EP 40

The Cost of Winning

Yeo-jin’s empire goes into freefall — investigations, legal exposure, the works — but Ha-na doesn’t get to enjoy it the way revenge stories promise you will. Se-young nearly gives up entirely, until Myeong-ji talks her back into one more scheme to make Ha-na disappear for good.

EP 41

First Night

Se-young learns Jin-gu helped bring Ha-na into the Shin household and feels the betrayal like a blade — of everyone in this story, she’s the one who never saw it coming. Ha-na, meanwhile, spends her first night as an official member of the family that spent months destroying her.

EP 42

The Doll

Ha-na confronts Se-young over a doll of Eun-chong’s that turns up broken, a small act of cruelty that says everything about how Se-young feels about the boy standing between her and the family’s approval. Elsewhere, Ha-na notices Yeo-jin carrying something heavier than usual — a secret she hasn’t voiced yet, and won’t for a while longer.

EP 43

The Hat

House-cleaning duty, handed down as a joint punishment, puts Ha-na and Se-young in the same room for once — and Ha-na finds Yu-jin’s old hat tucked away, which sends Se-young into visible panic she can’t fully hide. She doesn’t know yet why a hat means anything at all. She’s getting closer than anyone in this house wants her to.

EP 44

The Investigation

Myeong-ji hires Detective Cho to dig into the orphanage where Ha-na and Du-na grew up, less out of curiosity than out of a need to have something on hand to use against Ha-na the moment it becomes useful. It’s a quiet episode, but it’s laying groundwork the show will cash in later.

EP 45

The Rumor

Word reaches Ji-seok that Yeo-jin’s long-lost daughter may already be dead — a rumor that sharpens his suspicion and gives his revenge against Chairman Shin a much harder edge. If it’s true, it changes the shape of everything he thought he was fighting for.

EP 46

The Photograph

Ji-seok finds a photo of Yeo-jin and Ha-na together, and it doesn’t fit anything he thought he understood about either of them. It’s a small image doing a lot of quiet work, forcing him to reconsider a plan he thought was already settled.

EP 47

First Move

Jin-gu bristles at Bang-wool’s new position inside Yeo-jin’s house, uneasy about anyone else getting close to a woman he no longer fully trusts. Ji-seok, meanwhile, makes his opening move against Chairman Shin — the plan stops being theoretical here, and starts costing people something real.

EP 48

The Disciplinary Committee

Jin-gu faces a disciplinary hearing over an act of violence that could end his career at Hyesung, the first time his loyalty to Ha-na has a visible professional price tag. Ha-na, in the same episode, digs up evidence that might be the thing that saves the company from a much bigger problem than either of them expected.

EP 49

Caught

Ha-na and Jin-gu try to slip out of a cabinet unnoticed, a small, almost farcical moment of hiding that’s undercut immediately — someone was watching the whole time. In a house built on surveillance and secrets, there’s no such thing as a private moment.

EP 50

The Fake Pregnancy

Ha-na uncovers proof of Se-young’s affair and a pregnancy that isn’t real, evidence solid enough that Jin-gu can’t look away from it. He confronts Se-young directly and ends the engagement on the spot — the first time in the whole show Se-young’s schemes actually cost her something immediate.

EP 51

The Burn

Eun-chong is injured at Bang-wool’s house, and Yeo-jin’s first fear isn’t the burn itself — it’s what it might do to the adoption case she’s been building for months. Her love for the boy and her control over him are, by this point, hard to tell apart.

EP 52

Adjusting Tactics

Ji-seok finally sees Yeo-jin clearly — not just as an obstacle, but as someone playing a longer, more manipulative game than he’d credited her for — and recalibrates his own plan accordingly. Underestimating her, he realizes, was never really an option.

EP 53

The Flick

A playful flick to Eun-chong’s forehead spirals into a formal child-abuse investigation against Se-young, a wildly disproportionate consequence that says more about how much scrutiny this household is under than about Se-young’s actual intentions. Everyone here is one bad moment away from a headline.

EP 54

An Apology

Myeong-ji keeps Se-young medicated and calm, managing her anxiety about Ha-na recovering her memories the way you’d manage a liability. Ji-seok, in contrast, actually apologizes to Ha-na and helps push Eun-chong’s adoption forward — the clearest sign yet that his revenge plot and his conscience are starting to pull apart.

EP 55

Fake Daughter

Myeong-ji tells Se-young the truth — Ha-na isn’t really Yeo-jin’s daughter, she’s a stand-in — and Se-young laughs, delighted to finally have leverage over the person who’s outmaneuvered her all season. It’s a small, ugly moment that resets the whole rivalry on new terms.

EP 56

New Plot

Myeong-ji starts building a new scheme aimed squarely at destroying Ha-na, treating cruelty as a project she can plan and execute like any other. Se-young, meanwhile, is more worried that Ha-na will learn exactly how deep Ji-seok is involved in all of it.

EP 57

Missing

Eun-chong vanishes without warning, and the panic that follows is the most rattled we’ve seen Yeo-jin all series. Ha-na’s ex-boyfriend and his mother show up uninvited, adding noise to an already chaotic house. Myeong-ji and Se-young quietly sabotage the adoption home visit and manipulate both Yeo-jin and Ha-na in the process.

EP 58

Canceled Again

A second canceled home visit tips Ha-na’s suspicion of Se-young into outright accusation — she confronts her directly about Eun-chong’s disappearance, which Se-young denies flatly. Myeong-ji is revealed to be quietly working with Seok-gi’s mother. And Yeo-jin, in a move meant to pressure Ha-na, announces she’ll adopt Eun-chong herself.

EP 59

Yoon Eugene

A small numerical inconsistency in Ha-na’s file starts pulling a much bigger thread loose. Ha-na overhears a conversation that confirms it: she isn’t the real Yoon Eugene. She’s a fake. She turns to Jin-gu for a denial he doesn’t give her — his silence is the confirmation.

EP 60

Living a Lie

The age discrepancy in Ha-na’s story pushes Jin-gu toward the idea of going public with everything, a risk he’s never seriously considered before because it would burn down his own position too. Ha-na, meanwhile, is left to sit with the fact that Jin-gu knew — and said nothing — for a long time.

EP 61

Packing Up

Ha-na packs her things, done pretending the family she’s living with is real. Ji-seok, in a separate thread, starts pulling at Myeong-ji’s past and finds a fire and a blood-type inconsistency around Se-young serious enough to warrant a DNA test — a detail that will eventually blow up far bigger than a paperwork error.

EP 62

Choose

Yeo-jin refuses to give up custody of Eun-chong and threatens legal action to keep Ha-na out of the house entirely. Ha-na’s younger siblings are furious — Ji-chang even floats calling the police. Ji-seok confronts Se-young for engineering Ha-na’s discovery of the truth. And Yeo-jin, in the episode’s cruelest beat, makes Eun-chong choose between her and Ha-na out loud.

EP 63

The Flyer

A flyer finally hands Ha-na undeniable proof she’s not the real Yoon Eugene, and she confronts both Yeo-jin and Jin-gu with it before walking out the door. She finds Eun-chong gone — taken by Myeong-ji and Se-young. Ji-seok tears into Jin-gu for letting Ha-na find out the way she did instead of protecting her from it.

EP 64

Ended

Jin-gu ends his engagement to Se-young without warning, and she collapses under the weight of it in front of people who’ve watched her scheme all season without much sympathy left to give. Eun-chong is diagnosed with depression, directly tied to being separated from Ha-na. Se-young, desperate, threatens to take her own life.

EP 65

Sacrifice

Learning of Eun-chong’s depression, Ha-na tries to bring him home. Jin-gu confronts Se-young about the broken engagement but holds firm — he’s taking responsibility for the child regardless. Ha-na, caught between revenge and something closer to forgiveness after learning Yeo-jin once sacrificed herself for her, gets one more confirmation: the DNA test was real. Yeo-jin is her mother.

EP 66

Refusal

Jin-gu flatly refuses to marry Se-young, no matter how she frames it or how many times she asks, and Se-young starts scrambling for a new angle to win him back anyway — unwilling, even now, to accept that the answer is simply no.

EP 67

Cut Ties

Jin-gu weighs a request from Ha-na that could shift where his loyalties finally land. Ji-seok, meanwhile, forces Ha-na to cut Eun-chong out of her life entirely — a demand that puts her personal feelings directly against everyone else’s plans for her, with no room left for what she actually wants.

EP 68

Lashing Out

Eun-chong, confused and hurt by Ha-na’s sudden withdrawal, reacts with real anger he doesn’t have the words for yet. The adults around him are making his decisions for him, and he’s the only one paying for it in a way none of them seem willing to notice.

EP 69

The Tool

Ha-na is handed an ugly choice: use the boy she loves as leverage against the people who wronged her, or let her revenge stall out entirely. There’s no clean answer here, and the show doesn’t pretend there is one.

EP 70

The Foster Mother

A foster mother resurfaces to claim Eun-chong, and the custody fight that follows turns the boy into the one thing everyone’s fighting over instead of the person everyone claims to be protecting.

EP 71

The Marriage Registration

Jin-gu starts stepping into real fatherly responsibility for the first time. Myeong-ji and Se-young quietly try to register their own marriage on the side, a power move dressed up as a formality. Yeo-jin, trying to win Ha-na’s siblings over, dangles business support and a fashion brand in exchange for their help mending things with Eun-chong.

EP 72

Who Sent It

An anonymous tip about Se-young’s affair reaches Bang-wool, who confronts Se-young directly and gets nothing but denial. Ha-na steps in — not with proof, but with the simple fact that she knows who the affair partner is. Jin-gu tries to trace the tip back to its source, and later asks Ha-na a question that isn’t really about Eun-chong at all: does she want to be his mother.

EP 73

Under the Bed

Ha-na engineers a room swap under the guise of giving Eun-chong more space — really, it’s designed to force Se-young out of her room without anyone realizing what’s actually happening. Workers find a fake pregnancy belly hidden underneath the bed. Months of suspicion turn into hard proof in a single afternoon.

EP 74

Out of the House

Yeo-jin confronts Se-young over the fake pregnancy, furious in a way that finally has nowhere else to go. Jin-gu backs the accusation publicly. Se-young and Myeong-ji are told to pack and leave immediately — and just as they’re forced out, Ji-seok arrives with news tying them both directly to Yu-jin’s accident.

EP 75

Piecing It Together

With Se-young and Myeong-ji gone, Ha-na and Ji-seok start methodically reviewing records and footage from Yu-jin’s accident, two people with very different grudges finally pulling in the same direction. What they find implicates Myeong-ji directly in staging it — with Se-young’s fingerprints on it too.

EP 76

The Boycott

The fake pregnancy scandal goes fully public, and Hyesung Group takes the hit — a boycott forms almost overnight, dragging Yeo-jin into a PR crisis on top of everything else she’s already managing. The company built to protect the family’s secrets is now the thing exposing them.

EP 77

Sent Away

Se-young, buckling under the public fallout, overdoses on pills. Jin-gu gets to her in time, saving the life of a woman who spent months trying to destroy his. Yeo-jin, meanwhile, decides to send Eun-chong abroad to study — less an act of care than an attempt to get him out of the blast radius entirely.

EP 78

Richard Han

The boycott keeps bleeding money and reputation out of Hyesung Group, and Yeo-jin has fewer allies left with each passing day. In the middle of the crisis, she meets a man named Richard Han — a new face whose arrival, in a show this deliberate, never feels like coincidence.

EP 79

Yoon Sung-ho

Yeo-jin discovers her own husband has been operating under a hidden identity, working against her the entire time she thought he was simply absent. It’s a betrayal that lands harder than any of the corporate ones — this one was under her own roof, in her own bed.

EP 80

Taking the Fall

Jin-gu quietly takes responsibility for something that isn’t really his, absorbing the consequences to protect Yeo-jin from a scandal she can’t afford right now. Ji-seok, elsewhere, prepares something for the company’s anniversary event that has nothing to do with celebration.

EP 81

Dismissed

Sung-ho tries to warn Yeo-jin that Myeong-ji is more dangerous than she realizes. Still raw from his own betrayal, Yeo-jin waves him off, unwilling to trust anything he says anymore. Myeong-ji, for her part, can feel something closing in, even if she can’t name it yet.

EP 82

The Mask Slips

Richard Han tells Yeo-jin that Myeong-ji knew about Du-na’s adoption to the United States decades ago — and may have had a hand in her death. Advised to sit on the information while more evidence is gathered, Yeo-jin instead loses her composure and confronts Myeong-ji outright.

EP 83

Six Years in the River

A phone, recovered after six years underwater, turns out to be the evidence that finally ties Myeong-ji to tampering with Yu-jin’s brakes. For Ha-na, it forces an impossible question: chase justice for her family, or protect Eun-chong, the son of the woman who ruined her life.

EP 84

The Call Log

Ha-na’s evidence puts Se-young under arrest, closing out a fight that’s been building for most of the season. The recovered phone’s call logs and audio confirm Myeong-ji conspired with a corrupt detective to track and kill Yu-jin — the clearest, most damning proof the show has produced yet.

EP 85

No Help

Yeo-jin refuses outright to help Se-young with her embezzlement charges, a final, unsentimental severing of whatever family loyalty was left between them. Eun-chong, separately, says something that reframes a piece of the past no one saw coming, least of all Ha-na.

EP 86

Not Who He Says

Myeong-ji performs grief for Yeo-jin’s benefit, still playing the loyal relative even now, right up until the moment it stops working. Ji-seok can’t shake the feeling that Mr. Han isn’t who he’s presented himself to be, and starts quietly investigating on his own.

EP 87

Collapse

Mr. Han’s real identity comes out, and it detonates something in Ji-seok’s understanding of his own past that he isn’t prepared for. In the same episode, Yeo-jin collapses — critically ill, her body finally giving out under everything she’s been carrying alone.

EP 88

Feigned

Sung-ho is finally jailed. Ha-na starts suspecting Myeong-ji of crimes that go back even further than anyone’s proven. The hit-and-run that killed Ha-na’s adoptive parents is officially reopened. And Yeo-jin — awake the whole time, having faked her coma — overhears Myeong-ji confess to killing Yu-jin.

EP 89

Fleeing

Myeong-ji seizes legal custody of Eun-chong, revealing plans to flee the country with him before anyone can stop her. Ha-na has to move on two fronts at once: stop Myeong-ji and clear Sung-ho, whose imprisonment is now tangled up in the same reopened case.

EP 90

Amnesia, Again

Yeo-jin wakes from her coma — but this time the amnesia is real, no performance involved. Sung-ho makes a desperate ask of Ha-na: play Yu-jin one more time, for the sake of Yeo-jin’s fragile recovery. It’s the same lie that started this whole story, now offered up as a kindness.

EP 91

A Weapon Worth Having

Ha-na agrees to help Yeo-jin regain her memory — not out of forgiveness exactly, but because a fully lucid Yeo-jin is the sharpest weapon she has left against Myeong-ji. Revenge, at this point, has made her a very practical person.

EP 92

Playing Dead

Yeo-jin quietly regains her real memories — including everything Myeong-ji has done — but keeps pretending to have amnesia, a lie every bit as calculated as anything Myeong-ji ever pulled. It lets Myeong-ji feel safe long enough to make a mistake.

EP 93

Back at the Office

Still performing amnesia, Yeo-jin returns to Hyesung Group and starts laying groundwork against Myeong-ji from the inside, moving pieces no one else can see yet. Myeong-ji, for all her relief, can’t shake a feeling that something about Yeo-jin has changed.

EP 94

Cracks

Yeo-jin’s quiet maneuvering starts to show results — Myeong-ji’s carefully built position begins to wobble for the first time all season. Watching from a distance, Ha-na realizes Yeo-jin has stopped being a victim in this story and started actively playing it.

EP 95

Choosing a Side

Escalating corporate warfare finally forces Jin-gu to pick a lane, his professional loyalty and his feelings for Ha-na no longer compatible with each other. Ji-seok’s investigation keeps widening, pulling in more names than anyone expected.

EP 96

The Counter-Attack

Cornered from every direction, Myeong-ji tries to frame Ha-na for old misdeeds, a last desperate swing from someone running out of room. Ha-na, having seen it coming, turns the exact evidence Myeong-ji tried to bury back on her.

EP 97

Wrongful

The truth about the hit-and-run that put Sung-ho behind bars finally surfaces, exposing exactly how Myeong-ji covered it up years ago. It’s a hard-won vindication, years overdue for a man who lost far more than his freedom in the process.

EP 98

The Legal Proceedings

With Myeong-ji’s crimes on the record, the legal process against her formally begins, moving the story from confrontation into consequence. Se-young, watching her mother’s fall in real time, tries to put distance between herself and the wreckage — and mostly fails.

EP 99

Rebuilding

The scandal threatens to take the whole company down with Myeong-ji, but Ha-na and Jin-gu work together to stabilize it and push through actual reform instead of just surviving the news cycle. It’s the first time revenge and responsibility have pointed in the same direction for Ha-na.

EP 100

The Reckoning

With Myeong-ji’s downfall finally settled, Ha-na turns to Yeo-jin one last time — not for revenge, but for an honest accounting of the Cinderella Game she built her whole plan around. Yeo-jin, stripped of the power that used to make honesty optional, actually gives her one.

EP 101

What Power Actually Is

The finale closes every arc it opened. Ha-na, having won justice for her adoptive parents and exposed the rot inside Hyesung Group, steps into a leadership role at Hyesung Tour alongside Jin-gu — this time as an equal, not a pawn. Yeo-jin, stripped of both wealth and power, is left to sit with the emptiness of everything she built through manipulation. Se-young starts the slow work of becoming someone separate from her mother’s legacy. Ji-seok finally closes the book on his parents’ deaths and walks away from revenge for good. Sung-ho is exonerated and gets his life back. Cinderella Game spends 101 episodes insisting that real power was never about controlling the story — it was about finally getting to tell the truth.

Spoilers ahead — the finale, broken down in full.

How Cinderella Game actually ends Every scheme collapses in the final stretch: Choi Myeong-ji’s decades of manipulation — the staged accident that gave Yu-jin amnesia, the murder plot behind her death years later, the frame-ups aimed at Ha-na — all surface at once, backed by hard evidence instead of confessions alone. She’s arrested and prosecuted. Yoon Se-young, her daughter, is arrested separately for her own fraud and embezzlement, and watches the family she was raised to protect collapse around her. Sung-ho, wrongly imprisoned for a hit-and-run he didn’t commit, is fully exonerated once the real culprit is exposed.

What happens to Ha-na and Yeo-jin Ha-na gets her confirmation twice over — DNA proves Shin Yeo-jin is her biological mother, and by the finale she’s stopped needing that fact to define her. She confronts Yeo-jin directly about the Cinderella Game itself, demanding accountability rather than an apology, and gets something closer to an honest answer than either of them expected. Their relationship doesn’t resolve into a clean reconciliation; it resolves into Ha-na no longer needing Yeo-jin’s approval to know who she is.

Justice, but not the kind revenge stories usually promise The show is careful about what ‘winning’ actually looks like. Ha-na doesn’t get a clean, triumphant payoff — she gets a company she has to help rebuild, a mother she has to figure out how to relate to on new terms, and a version of justice that costs her something at every step. Yeo-jin, stripped of the power that let her treat honesty as optional, is left facing the emptiness underneath everything she built through control instead of trust.

Where everyone else lands Goo Ji-seok finally closes the book on his parents’ deaths and walks away from a revenge plot that’s been defining him since episode one — the show gives him an actual exit, not just a fade-out. Se-young, after watching her mother’s ruin up close, starts the slower, less satisfying work of building an identity that isn’t borrowed from Myeong-ji’s ambition. Eun-chong, the boy every adult in this story fought over, ends up with the one thing none of them managed to give him consistently: stability.

The KDW verdict Ha-na and Jin-gu end the series building something at Hyesung Tour that looks nothing like the company that first hired her — this time with her name actually meaning something, and with a partnership built on choice instead of manipulation. After 101 episodes about identity stolen, borrowed, and finally reclaimed, Cinderella Game lands on a fittingly plain thesis: the fairy tale was never the point. Being told the truth was.