"The Heirs" shot past 20 percent this week as Lee Min Ho's character disintegrated into broken mess of self-pity.

After finding Park Shin Hye in the town to which she banished herself, he decided that he had ruined her life and it would be the noble thing for him to bow out of it once and for all.

Whether or not he will manage to fix her life, his own has taken a turn for the worst. His brief episode of standing up to his father and brother has ended and now the only person he seems intent on punishing is himself.

Meanwhile Kim Woo Bin's increasingly sympathetic character tracks down Park Shin Hye and comforts her. By now even the most indifferent viewer has warmed to this tough but secretly sensitive guy. Their lives may be a mess but the drama's ratings reached 21.4 percent. That's a jump up of 0.3 percent.

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