The Queen of Tears: Shocking Ending Unveiled in Final Chapter - Recaps, Reviews, and Season 2 Updates

2024-05-01 12:28:32

‘The Queen of Tears’ presented its last chapter on April 28 with an unexpected ending. Photo: LR/tvN composition

The successful South Korean series ‘The Queen of Tears’ came to an end with an exciting episode that left the audience stunned due to an unexpected twist. Since its beginning, this romantic story has kept viewers enthralled with its plot that explores the challenges of a young marriage after three years together. The relationship between protagonists Hae In and Hyun Woo faces obstacles, and only a miraculous event seems to offer a solution to preserve their love.

In the final episodes, Hyun Woo He showed his deep love for the Grupo Queens heiress, facing difficulties and threats. Despite being wrongfully imprisoned and facing rejection from Hae In after she lost her memory due to a delicate operation in Germany, Hyun Woo He persevered and kept his promise. Fate offered them a second chance for their relationship to flourish. However, the greed of her enemies threatens to tarnish her happiness.

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Hae In He manages to recover his memory thanks to the diary he found, even though Eun Sung tried to delete it. However, when she was about to meet Hyun Woothe evil Eun Sung runs over her ex-husband, while she is kidnapped.

Upon waking up, Hyun Woo remembers the promise he made to Hae In and escapes from the hospital to look for her. When he finds her, they try to flee together, but are discovered by Eun Sung. Seeing that Hae In refuses to go with him on the helicopter, Eun Sung chooses to shoot him; However, Hyun Woo gets in the way and is injured.

Eun Sung y Hyun Woo. Foto: tvN

The police surround Eun Sung and, seeing that he refuses to be arrested, they set him on fire, causing his instant death. Meanwhile, Hyun Woo He is taken to the hospital on the brink of death along with Hae In, who promises him that she will always be by his side and laments that she treated him like a stranger after he lost his memory due to his last operation.

Did Hae In and Hyun Woo end up together?

Hyun Woo recovers from Eun Sung’s fateful assassination attempt. It is revealed that he rescued Hae In during her childhood in a Marine Corps camp, while unfortunately, her brother died in the shipwreck of the ship they were on.

Their destinies were intertwined! Hyun Woo He wins back Hae In and together they form the family they wanted so much with the arrival of their daughter. After losing his first baby, the chaebol heiress falls in love with him again. However, after many years of happiness, the chapter shows a tombstone: it is the grave of Hae In, who died in 2074.

Hyun Woo’s family. Photo: tvN

Hyung always kept his promise that he would be with Hae In until the end and she kept her oath to become a beautiful angel to take Hyun Woo to the afterlife: “I will become an angel and pick you up.” This scene is fulfilled, since in the final chapter, an older Hyun Woo is shown visiting the grave of his deceased wife. In the middle of the field, Hae In’s figure appears to him and takes him by the hand.

Hae In’s Tomb. Photo: tvN

Watch Hae In and Hyun Woo’s ending with their daughter

What happened to Mo Seul Hee?

In the trial against Mo Seul Heewidow of Hae In’s grandfather, Cheon Da Hye stated that she had hidden her true identity to marry Soo Cheol in order to provide confidential information and persuade her husband to invest in the deceased’s business project Eun Seun to take over the company. However, not finding sufficient evidence, his statement did not proceed.

In his last attempt, Hyun Woo requests that Hae In testify, who claimed that Moh Seul Hee had been the mastermind behind the death of her brother Su Won and who caused the death of her grandfather, President of the Queens Group. To support her testimony, she presented a surveillance video that recorded the precise moment in which she confessed to her grandfather that she would become his legal guardian to take over the company.

In the end, Hae In’s family regains share control of the company and filed an annulment lawsuit against Moh Seul Hee, the partner of former president Hong Mae Dae, to return the company. Hyun Woo, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, demonstrated the involvement of the late Eun Sung and her mother in the investment fraud. On the other hand, Grace and Cheon Da Hye, Hong Soo Cheol’s wife, are sent to jail along with Moh Seul Hee.

‘The Queen of Tears’ is directed by Kim Hee Won and Jang Young Woo. Photo: tvN

Will ‘The Queen of Tears’ have season 2?

Fans of the Korean drama are eager to know if there will be a second season after the first season concluded on April 28. So far, the television network tvN has not confirmed a possible continuation of ‘The Queen of Tears’.

‘The Queen of Tears’ was a resounding success on the Netflix platform. Photo: Netflix