The Glory Season 2 Ending Explained: Song Hye-kyo’s Final Goodbye to All

The Glory season 2 (더 글로리 2) brings the continuation of Song Hye-kyo’s character Moon Dong-eun’s revenge as she finally achieves the goal she had been aiming for, however, this comes with more than just a satisfying revenge of her own. Directed by Ahn Gil-ho, she leads the drama alongside Lee Do-hyun, Im Ji-yeon, Park Sung-hoon, Yeom Hye-ran, Jung Sung-il, and other cast members.

The Glory brings the story of a young architect aspirant who after severe bullying has to drop out of school. Later, while her bullies lead a happy and everyday life; she creates a road for revenge after intricate planning through the years and by becoming the homeroom teacher of her bully’s child.

Netflix’s synopsis of the Kdrama reads:

WHEN SHE WAS 18, HER CLASSMATES INFLICTED WOUNDS THAT WILL NEVER HEAL- AND GOT AWAY WITH IT. NOW 18 YEARS LATER, SHE’S PLANNED THE ULTIMATE REVENGE.

The Glory Season 2 Ending Explained

The final episode of the sequel brought Moon Dong-eun to her destination as her revenge finally comes to an end. As the pieces of her intricately planned plot reach their spots, the people who hurt her now slowly fall prey to her plans with a smile on their faces.

Park Yeon-jin is finally left all alone, reaching the point of divorce in her marriage and being left alone by her so-called friends, what really made her alone was finding out that her mother too had decided to betray her. Driven to the brink of madness by her situation, she receives a message that makes her rush back to the room where she killed Son Myeong-o, where she finds investigators who have found out the truth.

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Elsewhere, after having stabbed Choi Hye-jeong in the throat, Lee Sa-ra is taken to jail while the former is left with her vocal cords destroyed and abandoned by Jeon Jae-joon. This leaves her distressed and angered, so when Dong-eun comes with a proposal to get her revenge on Jae-joon, she does not shy away and changes his eye drops.

Later when Jae-joon is called out, he uses the replaced eye drops and becomes blinded after which he meets with an accident. While he survives the crash, he is chased by Ha Do-young and finally killed by the latter before he leaves for another country with his daughter.

Dong-eun finally achieves her revenge and is ready to say goodbye to everyone who helped her on this road, and this also includes Joo Yeo-jung who did not expect this from her. Dong-eun disappears from his life as well and goes to the abandoned building where Yoon So-hee died.

She is ready to end her life when Yeo-jung’s mother stops her and asks for her help in freeing her son from the hell he has been living in. She asks Dong-eun to liberate Yeo-jung from the revenge he has been living for as he continues to revive letters from his father’s murderer who feels no remorse but finds pleasure in torturing Yeo-jung mentally.

A skip to six months later shows Dong-eun at a monastery where she gets close to a powerful woman who shows her the way to bring Kang Yeong-cheon, the person who killed Yeo-jung’s father, to another prison. She then returns to Yeo-jung who continues to wait for her and is surprised by her return.

She then tells him that this time she will be her henchman to get revenge and the two begin their plot, but not without calling Kang Hyun-nam back to help them out. Thus, the two continue with their daily lives and Dong-eun gets another certificate while they direct everything to get back to Kang Yeong-cheon.

Finally, they bring their prey to exactly where needed and continue to work together for their days to come.

Watch The Glory season 2 on Netflix.

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