Grand Shining Hotel (2024) K Drama Episode 4

Mar 4, 2024

Episode 4 of Grand Shining Hotel begins with a background to Ji-hye and Ah-young’s past. Both of them are assistant writers to a fussy and overbearing writer Seo Eun-Sook. Ji-hye quits after being incessantly scolded and degraded by Eun-sook. She opens a small bookstore in a small seaside town. Ah-young joins her and help her set it up while working on her writing.

It’s through Ji-hye that Ah-young meets Myung-hwan. Ji-hye plans to quit writing for sure and settle down. She also likes Myung-hwan. On the day she plans to confess to Myung-hwan, Myung-hwan confesses to Ah-young instead. As a result, Ji-hye and Ah-young’s friendship falls through even though Ah-young rejected Myung-hwan. Ji-hye tells Ah-young that she suffered because her writing could never be at par with Ah-young’s and leaves.

Back at the office in the real world, team leader Bae Han-sung cannot believe the project that Tae-min, So-jin and Ah-young is working on and even when they tell him about the whole scenario, he asks Ah-young to get Rebecca’s manuscript before Friday. Ah-young tells the team that the old lady is Rebecca, who is also her friend.

Ah-young asks Myung-hwan to look for the body of Hyun-joo’s victim near the mountain. Meanwhile, Hyun-joo performs the role of Titania from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Woo-bin. She asks Woo-bin what his play is about and he tells her that it is about a woman killer. They share ideas for the woman’s character and her method of killing with Hyun-joo providing him with her personal killing methodology. She catches on to Ah-young looking at them from afar and kisses Woo-bin.

Meanwhile, Ah-young searches for Min-woo but to no avail. Min-woo has disappeared. However, he receives a note which directs her to a location. She goes there to find Min-woo unconscious and Hyun-joo standing next to him, threatening to kill him. Ah-young asks Hyun-joo about what she wants and Hyun-joo replies, “You”.

At the same time, Myung-hwan has found Hyun-joo’s burial grounds where a dog is digging the buried body. Woo-bin finishes him work called, “The Shining Hotel” and goes for a swim. The episode ends with Hyun-joo joining him.

The Episode Review

This episode was quite short in terms of its plot progression. The episode mostly focused on Ah-young and Ji-hye backstory which is quite simplistic. We don’t really know what happened to Ji-hye after her fallout with Ah-young and where did she get hold of the laptop just yet.