Romance in the House

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Romance in the House

가족X멜로 (Gajok X Melo) · 2024 · South Korea

WriterKim Young-Yoon

DirectorKim Da-Ye

Episodes12 eps · ~70 min each

Where to Watch✅ Netflix

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Binge Time14h 0m

AiredAug 10 – Sep 15, 2024

GenreFamily · Romance · Comedy

Content Rating15+

JTBCNetflix

Family DramaSecond Chance RomanceSecret IdentityReconciliationChaebol

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The family working through eleven years of secrets, one dinner-table fight at a time.

Ji Jin-hee

Byeon Mu-jin

Lead

Kim Ji-soo

Geum Ae-yeon

Lead

Son Na-eun

Byeon Mi-rae

Supporting

Minho

Nam Tae-pyeong

Supporting

Yoon San-ha

Byeon Hyeon-jae

Supporting

Kim Do-hyun

Lee Jung-hyeok

Supporting

Kim Ki-cheon

Choi Dong-jin

Supporting

Jung Woong-in

Nam Chi-yeol

Supporting

Kim Young-jae

Oh Jae-geol

Supporting

Park Cheol-min

Park Byeong-hoon

Supporting

Jeong Seok-yong

Jang Chun-sik

Supporting

Hwang Jeong-min

Hwang Jin-hee

Supporting

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

EP 01

The Landlord Returns

Aug 10, 2024

Geum Ae-yeon and her two adult kids are barely scraping by when their landlord dies under strange circumstances, and the building’s new owner turns out to be Byeon Moo-jin — the husband and father the family has believed dead for eleven years. He comes back wealthy, which only makes his daughter Mi-rae more suspicious rather than relieved. The premiere plants two mysteries at once: what happened to Moo-jin, and what happened to the old landlord.

EP 02

Two Secrets

Aug 11, 2024

Moo-jin starts working his way back into the family’s life, aiming his charm squarely at Ae-yeon while Mi-rae keeps her guard fully up. At work, Mi-rae’s growing warmth toward security guard Nam Tae-pyeong comes with a catch neither of them has said out loud yet: he’s actually the mart owner’s son, hiding his money to find out if anyone could love him without it. Two versions of the same lie — a father’s and a boyfriend’s — start running in parallel.

EP 03

Old Wounds, New Doubts

Aug 17, 2024

Mi-rae’s resistance to her father hardens the more she remembers what her mother went through alone, while her brother Hyeon-jae starts weighing what Moo-jin’s return could actually do for the family. Tae-pyeong and Mi-rae’s relationship keeps building on a foundation he knows is partly false, which gives even their lighter scenes a quiet undertow. The show is setting up two people who both deserve honesty and aren’t getting it yet.

EP 04

Eleven Missing Years

Aug 18, 2024

Questions about the previous landlord’s death start tangling with questions about where exactly Moo-jin’s fortune came from during his eleven missing years. Ae-yeon can’t decide whether her curiosity about the new Moo-jin is dangerous or just overdue. Mi-rae, meanwhile, keeps running into the same wall with Tae-pyeong — charming, guarded, and clearly holding something back.

EP 05

Cracks in the Wall

Aug 24, 2024

Moo-jin’s courtship of Ae-yeon turns almost slapstick in places, which makes her effort to keep him at a distance progressively harder to maintain. Tae-pyeong’s guardedness causes its first real friction with Mi-rae, who wants plain answers more than charm. Hyeon-jae, for his part, keeps drifting closer to his father, and the distance that opens between the siblings is the episode’s quieter cost.

EP 06

The Weight of Honesty

Aug 25, 2024

The pressure on Tae-pyeong to reveal who he really is builds as his feelings for Mi-rae — someone who values honesty above almost everything — deepen. At home, Moo-jin keeps pushing for reconciliation hard enough that Ae-yeon has to actually reckon with her old feelings instead of just managing them. Mi-rae finds herself defending her mother against her own brother’s growing sympathy for their father.

EP 07

What Tae-Pyeong Was Hiding

Aug 31, 2024

The truth about Tae-pyeong finally starts to surface, and Mi-rae’s first reaction is to question whether anything between them was real. Tae-pyeong, for his part, is forced to face the exact fear that made him lie in the first place — that he’d only ever be loved for his money. Ae-yeon, watching her daughter’s relationship collapse under a secret, starts seeing Moo-jin’s own hidden years in a slightly different light.

EP 08

Forgiveness, Slowly

Sep 1, 2024

Mi-rae’s sense of betrayal pushes her and Tae-pyeong apart for a stretch, and the show lets that estrangement actually sting instead of resolving it quickly. Moo-jin’s eleven-year disappearance finally gets explained in enough detail that Ae-yeon and Hyeon-jae can understand what happened rather than just forgive it blindly. Every relationship in the family is working through the same basic question: what does a person deserve after they lied, even for a reason.

EP 09

Common Ground

Sep 7, 2024

Ae-yeon and Moo-jin start finding real common ground instead of just old history, and their reconciliation starts to look less like nostalgia and more like something new. Mi-rae, after sitting with her anger for a while, begins forgiving Tae-pyeong once she actually understands why he hid himself. Hyeon-jae ends up the family’s de facto mediator, which suits him better than anyone expected.

EP 10

Going Public

Sep 8, 2024

Both relationships — Ae-yeon and Moo-jin, Mi-rae and Tae-pyeong — move forward at the same time, and both hit the same outside pressure: what other people will think. The mystery of the old landlord’s death resurfaces too, tied directly to whether Moo-jin actually has a right to the building he owns. The episode’s real argument is that none of these relationships survive on charm alone; they need people to actually talk to each other.

EP 11

The Family United

Sep 14, 2024

A threat to Moo-jin’s ownership of the building pulls the whole Byeon family onto the same side for the first time. Mi-rae and Tae-pyeong go public, which means dealing directly with what his chaebol background actually means for the people around them. Ae-yeon and Moo-jin’s rebuilt partnership gets its last real test before the finale.

EP 12

Home, Rebuilt (Final)

Sep 15, 2024

Ae-yeon and Moo-jin choose each other again, this time built on honesty instead of the version of their marriage that fell apart the first time. Mi-rae and Tae-pyeong clear the last of the obstacles between them, and he stops hiding who he is for good. Hyeon-jae, who spent the season torn between his parents and his sister, ends up finding his own footing instead of just picking a side — and the Byeon family closes out the season as something closer to whole than any of them expected.

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

What happens with Ae-yeon and Moo-jin Ae-yeon and Moo-jin choose to rebuild their marriage from scratch, with Moo-jin backing up a decade of absence with visible, consistent effort rather than just wealth and charm. The finale frames their reconciliation as earned specifically because it’s built on the honesty their first marriage never had.

It matters that the show doesn’t let money be the thing that wins Ae-yeon back — Moo-jin’s fortune gets him in the door, but it’s his patience and his willingness to be questioned that actually closes the distance. That distinction is the whole argument the season has been making about what a second chance actually requires.

What happens with Mi-rae and Tae-pyeong Mi-rae and Tae-pyeong get past the lie that nearly ended things, with Tae-pyeong finally free to stop hiding his identity and Mi-rae accepting him without the chaebol backstory changing who she thought he was. Their relationship goes public on their own terms instead of being exposed on someone else’s.

Tae-pyeong’s arc mirrors Moo-jin’s in miniature — both men spend the season hiding a version of themselves out of fear of being loved for the wrong reasons, and both only get to keep the relationship once they stop hiding. The parallel is the clearest sign the show built its two romances to comment on each other.

Where the Byeon family ends up Byeon Hyeon-jae, who spent most of the season caught between his parents and his sister, ends up maturing into the family’s actual center of gravity rather than staying a bystander to everyone else’s drama. The finale leaves the Byeon family together in the same building where it all started, minus the secrets that opened the season.