The same Mi-do he abandoned the night of his kidnapping. The same girl he promised to come home to. She was adopted abroad, returned to Seoul as an adult, and Lee guided her like a pawn.
She is not random. Lee arranged for her to work at that sushi bar, to be kind, to fall in love with Dae-su. Because Lee knows the final truth: The same Mi-do he abandoned the night of his kidnapping
Dae-su confronts Lee in his penthouse. Lee doesn’t flinch. Instead, he smiles. “Do you know why I kept you for fifteen years? It wasn’t hate. Not yet. It was rehearsal .” He offers Dae-su a deal: solve the mystery in four days, or Mi-do (the chef, now his lover) will die. She is not random
If you want, I can also generate a clean .srt subtitle file for a specific scene from the remastered version—just tell me the timestamps or dialogue excerpt. Lee doesn’t flinch