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: The couple thrives despite the lack of a full inheritance or maternal approval.

While many K-dramas favor a complete reconciliation, Secret Garden opts for a more realistic, albeit bittersweet, ending regarding Joo-won’s mother. Years later, although she dotes on her three grandchildren, she remains cold toward Joo-won and Ra-im, literally closing her gate on them. Secret GardenEps20

The episode’s final moments reinforce the theme of "destined love." A flashback reveals that a young Joo-won had actually comforted a mourning Ra-im after her father's funeral years before they ever officially met. This suggests that their connection was orchestrated long before the magical intervention of the "Secret Garden" and Ra-im’s father’s spirit. : The couple thrives despite the lack of