Ye-Sol is Park Yeon-Jin and Ha Do-Yeong’s little daughter in The Glory, but as the plot progresses and Dong-Eun peels the layers of the seemingly normal scenery, a scandalous truth related to the girl’s biological origin is revealed.
Ye-Sol is the cutest little girl who lives blissfully unaware of the horrors that her mother has wreaked upon others in her past, and of how she continues to be a malicious, promiscuous, and abusive person.
Along with the truth about her mother’s real identity, the little girl’s life is struck by problems and chaos when her biological father turns out to be someone different from the man who has been raising her all this time without knowing the truth.
The biological father
Ye-Sol’s biological father is Jeon Jae-Jun, Park Yeon-Jin’s childhood friend and accomplice in all her inhumane torture and abuse of innocent victims. He’s always had a sexual relationship with her and it doesn’t stop even after Yeon-Jin gets married to the director of Jaepyeong Constructions, Ha Do-Yeong.
Moon Dong-Eun becomes aware of the fact during the investigations that she launches on Park Yeon-Jin and all her friends who bullied her in the past. To confirm the findings, Dong-Eun also ends up doing a DNA test match, which comes out with positive results.
A similarity of note and significance that Jae-Jun shares with Ye-Sol is a disability, wherein both of them are colorblind.
The real father
While Jae-Jun might be Ye-Sol’s biological father, his relationship with her doesn’t go beyond genetic considerations. As a father, Jae-Jun lacks any fatherly qualities.
He’s possessive and obsessive about Ye-Sol as soon as he comes to know about her. He also constantly breaks out in anger and freaks out in front of her, and although he eventually subsides, it is always a mark on the little girl that she doesn’t like.
Meanwhile, Ha Do-Yeong has raised her and considers her as his real daughter. Even when he learns of her biological origins, he doesn’t let go of her and makes it clear to Yeon-Jin that he won’t let his daughter go anywhere.
In The Glory finale, Ha Do-Yeong finally gets rid of Jae-Jun, something he always wanted to do ever since the guy started intervening in his and his daughter’s lives. Do-Yeong ends the storyline by killing Jae-Jun, divorcing Yeon-Jin, and departing for the UK with his daughter, planning to settle there.
The wretched mother
Park Yeon-Jin rarely cares for people, and two of them that she seems to be at least marginally caring about in the show are her daughter Ye-Sol and her husband Ha Do-Yeong.
However, as the plot moves forward and new details come to light, courtesy of Moon Dong-Eun, her extramarital affair with childhood friend Jae-Jun is revealed. The two have been sexually active behind the curtains for all this time that Do-Yeong has been unaware of.
It’s a result of this very secret sexual relationship between Yeon-Jin and Jae-Jun, that Ye-Sol comes to life. Do-Yeong has always thought that she’s his biological daughter, but when Jae-Jun keeps telling him in code that that’s not the truth, Do-Yeong eventually becomes aware of it.
So Ye-Sol doesn’t only end up betraying her husband, but also her daughter, for whom she’s really not the best role model. It’s her actions that end up causing such an emotional upheaval for Ye-Sol, who’s hurt by not just the reputation of her mother recently getting sullied, but also by the erratic and maniacal Jae-Jun’s sudden visits to the school.
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