Bolstered by Shin's prediction, Ji Yeon goes from restaurant to restaurant applying for jobs. She gets roundly turned down from shop after shop and grumbles at Shin's words.

A passing man tosses a cigarette into a trash can, and Ji Yeon jumps up to put out the fire that starts. Shin suddenly appears to say she called him again, and she just as strenuously insists she didn't.

She asks him what his exact classification of supernatural being he is, and complains that he got her hopes up about this supposed chicken shop job she's meant to get.

Shin insists she did something to call him, and that it's never happened before. That makes her stop to wonder why. She tells him to describe everything about her, and he rattles off details "Uniform. Pretty." (She smiles.)

"The uniform is pretty."

She asks if he sees wings, calling herself a fairy, like Tinkerbell. Shin practically rolls his eyes and vanishes into smoke annoyed.

Then as Ji Yeon sits in a church service, something gives her an idea and she tests it out afterward. Lighting a candle, she blows it out and waits. Around the corner, Shin appears. She exclaims that she's figured out how she called him, while he chides,

"Still, don't you think it's not quite right to call me here?"

He explains that he can't vanish in the church ("Consider it a type of DMZ") and starts walking out, while she pesters him about her three wishes, none of which have worked out. He says the job will happen soon, but she cuts him off to say she wants the boyfriend wish instead.

Shin says "Then you put in some effort!" Haha.

Later, Ji Yeon tests out her theory using a candle-blowing app on her phone, then lights up when Shin shows up, right on cue.

Annoyed that she was just testing it out, he turns to go, and Eun-tak grabs his arm-and suddenly, it lights up with wispy blue-green smoke, like the kind that enveloped his sword.

She lets go, saying, "It's so hot! I thought it would be cold because it was bluish."

He reminds her that blue actually indicates the hottest heat, and she pesters him to just give her money instead of the wish. Shin's eager to get going, having a memorial service to attend, but she pesters him so much that he tells her to hurry and say her piece.

Ji Yeon asks him not to misunderstand before launching into her explanation she tells him that She thought he was a reaper at first, but a reaper would have taken her away. Then she thought he was a ghost, but he has a shadow. Thinking it over, she concluded that he was a goblin.

He doesn't react, and just asks again what her deal is.

"It's a little weird to say it myself,"

Ji Yeon replies, "but I'm the goblin's bride."

She thinks the birthmark on her neck is why ghosts say she's the goblin's bride.

She shows him the mark, and Shin thinks back to the night he saved her mother and makes the connection. He tells her to prove she's the goblin's bride, and she asks how.

He tells her to describe him, giving her no other clues, so she sizes him up and goes with: tall, expensive clothes, thirtysomething.

He replies that if that's all she sees, she's not the goblin's bride, and is useless to the goblin. While it's too bad she can see ghosts, he says that it's a side effect of breaking the rules, so she should live gratefully.

Ji Yeon gets upset to be told she's useless, asking who he is to determine her value. He reminds her of her birthday wish to improve her life by as little as a penny's worth, and calls himself someone who worries about a penny's worth about her miserable life.

"Live in reality," he advises, since she's not the goblin's bride.

Ji Yeon takes in her surroundings and the extent of his powers, then declares that she has come to a decision

"I'll marry you! I think you are a goblin. I love you."

She beams at him, while he stares back blankly.

(2nd Version Stay with me Goblin [도깨비]  OST Chanyeol Punch plays in background as Shin stares at her lost in her smile)

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