"So? What did he say?"

"That if the Chairman found out, Seon-myeong might get struck from the family register…"

"He might get struck from the register? Seon-myeong?"

Cha was relaying to Jeong-eun the conversation he'd had with Seong-ho.

Jeong-eun muttered something to herself, wearing a look of disbelief, then nodded. "I suppose... it's no small matter. Even Seon-myeong could get struck from the register over this."

The eldest grandson of the Ilhyeon family. That position had always been an unshakable one. Seon-myeong's standing within the Ilhyeon Group was so firmly fixed that some might even say Mun-jong's own position existed because of him.

"It's no small matter, is it?"

Jeong-eun smiled at the thought that Seon-myeong's position could actually be shaken.

"Honey. What should we do about this? Should I tell Big Brother?"

"Why would you tell Big Brother?"

At Cha's question—whether he should tell Mun-jong—Jeong-eun nearly jumped.

"Right now, who knows about this?"

"You and me. A few of your brother-in-law's staff know too, but he said he'd handle that, so you don't need to worry about it."

The smile on Jeong-eun's lips deepened.

"So that means only the two of us actually know. And the rest are all Kim's people anyway, so that's a matter for them to handle on their own."

"That's right… but why does that…?"

Cha asked, uneasy at Jeong-eun's smile. He had a feeling that whatever she was thinking would turn out badly for someone.

"Don't tell me… you want it so only we know, and you're planning to do something to your brother-in-law?"

Jeong-eun's smiling expression hardened. She looked at Cha as if he were pathetic and said, "This is exactly why you spend your whole life cleaning up after other people. Aren't you ashamed, being an uncle who lives cleaning up after his own nephew?"

"What's that got to do with anything?"

Cha's face reddened as he looked at Jeong-eun.

"And wasn't it you who allowed this in the first place? Saying it was a good chance to get close to Seon-myeong."

"Yes, I did say that. And thanks to that, I've…