Suk-ja Chu, who had not shown herself since the Ilhyeon Card crisis erupted, finally appeared on a Sunday morning after a long absence.

"You went and saw Jeong-eun, I hear?"

She had heard that Seong-ho Kim had visited the Supreme Prosecutors' Office and met with Jeong-eun Lee.

"Yes. It was only briefly, but I saw her and we spoke."

"And… how was she?"

Suk-ja Chu asked about Jeong-eun Lee's condition in a voice brimming with curiosity. Then, before Seong-ho Kim could answer, she pointed her finger back and forth at Tak-hyeon Lee and Do-beom Hwang and spoke in a voice full of complaint.

"The rest of them—no matter how much I told them to go and check, not a single one of them would listen."

At Suk-ja Chu's words, Do-beom Hwang bowed his head as if to apologize, while Tak-hyeon Lee, utterly indifferent, picked up a piece of fruit and ate it. Suk-ja Chu glared at Tak-hyeon Lee, then turned back to Seong-ho Kim and asked again.

"Well? How was she? On the television it looked like they were handling her so roughly… She isn't being made to suffer in there, is she?"

"That's…"

When Seong-ho Kim showed a troubled reaction, Gyeong-eun Lee opened her mouth.

"Dear. Tell them."

"Still…"

"It's fine. Tell them. Father and Mother are here—they should know what there is to know. If you don't say it, you're the only one who ends up wronged."

At the words that Seong-ho Kim alone might be wronged, Tak-hyeon Lee, who had been picking at his fruit, turned his gaze to Seong-ho Kim.

"Did something happen? Why would son-in-law Kim be wronged?"

Mun-jong Lee and his wife and Sang-jong Lee and his wife, who had been quietly listening, also looked at Seong-ho Kim with curiosity. And Suk-ja Chu, unable to bear her frustration, raised her voice.

"What is it?! Hurry up and speak!"

At Suk-ja Chu's sharp voice, Gyeong-eun Lee could hold back no longer and spoke on Seong-ho Kim's behalf.

"Well, my sister said this man was the one who hid her husband."

"What? Who hid whom?"

Sang-jong…