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THE
PROMISE

A woman takes on the
identity of her deceased
twin sister to exact
revenge on her enemies.
STARS Lee Yu-ri (Li Nayan, Bai
Daoxi/Lee Na-yeon, Baek Do-hee),
Seo Jun-young (Jiang Taijun/Kang
Tae-joon), Song Jong-ho (Pu
Huijing/Park Hwi-kyung), Park Ha-na
(Zhang Shizhen/Jang Se-jin), Lee
Jong-won (Zhang Jingwan/Jang
Kyung-wan), Kim Hye-ri (Pu Youjing/
Park Yoo-kyung), Kim Do-yeon (Yin
Yingshu/Yoon Young-sook), Yun
Ju-sang (Chairman Pu Wancai/Park
Man-jae) and Lee Yeon-soo (Li
Yun’ai/Lee Yoon-ae).
THUR FEB 8
7pm Episodes 1 & 2
It’s 1997. Driving in the Bitter roots: Vilest revenge plays out as the unrelenting theme of The Promise.
rain, a truck driver suddenly
notices Li Yun’ai bending his child. Youjing begs is stunned by the photo of finds Nayan crying in the
over to pick up an umbrella Yun’ai to cover up the false Yun’ai. kitchen. He hugs her and
from the road. He swerves paternity and leave her Taijun goes to the comforts her. Shizhen
his vehicle to avoid her. family alone. church again, hoping to witnesses the scene.
Rewind six hours before Yun’ai is clear ly see Nayan, but to no avail. Feeling jealous, she goes
this. Yun’ai is celebrating unmoved by her pleas. Nayan refuses to be back to the room and
her daughter, Li Nayan, Youjing loses her senses put in an orphanage. breaks Nayan’s watch,
turning 12. Nayan worries and attempts to run Yun’ai Jingwan takes her home which was a gift from
her mother won’t be able to over with her car. Yun’ai to live with him. He Jingwan.
afford the restaurant meal gets knocked down by a introduces her to his wife, Youjing discovers
and wants to leave. Yun’ai truck instead. Youjing, and daughter, Nayan is allergic to
dismisses her concerns. Nayan sees a boy, Jiang Shizhen. Shizhen offers crab meat. Jingwan has
Meanwhile, in the same Taijun, taking shelter from to share her room with the same allergy. Her
restaurant, a young girl, Bai the rain at a church. She Nayan. suspicions aroused,
Daoxi, who looks exactly like offers to shield him with Shizhen sees Nayan’s Youjing engages a private
Nayan, is also celebrating her umbrella. handk erchief and investigator to find out
her birthday. Daoxi’s mother Youjing drives away, remembers her father where Yun’ai’s daughter
takes her away quietly when badly shaken by the has one with the same is.
she notices Yun’ai. accident. She finds one of embroidered pattern. Jingw an picks
Na y an tells her her earrings missing. Chairman Pu is upset Taijun as the recipient
mother that someone in The families of Yun’ai by the negative publicity of the compan y’s
the washroom had said and the truck driver are generated by the protest. scholarship. Using the
she looks like someone called to the hospital. It has caused the price newly established fund,
else. Yun’ai surveys the Neither sur vived the of his company’s shares Baidao Group will support
restaurant frantically, accident. to plummet. He instructs his education until he
looking for Daoxi, but The truck driver’s Jingwan to set up a graduates from university.
doesn’t find her. co-workers are protesting scholarship fund to save Chairman Pu and his
Back at home, Yun’ai at the funeral parlour. their reputation. wife, Yin Yingshu, are
receives a DNA report They insist Baidao Group Taijun is staying with surprised when their son,
showing that Pu Youjing’s overworks its drivers his uncle’s family. When Pu Huijing, returns home
daughter, Zhang Shizhen, is and the accident is but his mother, Wu Manting, from the US during his
not blood-related to Zhang one tragic consequence. pays him a visit, he is cold school break.
Jingwan. Chairman Pu Wancai and to her.
Yun’ai is upset by his son-in-law, Jingwan, Youjing asks about FRI FEB 9
the news. She confronts arrive to pacify them. Nayan’s parents. Jingwan 7pm Episodes 3 & 4
Youjing and accuses her of Jingwan also attends replies that she is the Youjing gets a call from the
snatching her boyfriend by the funeral of the daughter of a friend. private investigator, who
lying that she was expecting accident’s other victim. He Late at night, Jingwan confirms that Nayan is
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