At the hotel, Tae-Seob films Hye-Hoon when she’s sleeping with Yun-Seong in the suite in Climax episode 2. Hye-Hoon is furious to yell at Tae-Seob. She tries to grab his cell phone. The next day, Yang-Mi watches Hye-Hoon’s video outside while Hye-Hoon is taking photos with the kids. She thinks those kids don’t know how dirty the world is. She returns the video to Tae-Seob. She thinks he filmed very well. But it cannot be screened.
Yang-Mi notices that Tae-Seob is very handsome. She wonders why he risked his life. He says that he smelled Hye-Hoon’s rotten smell. But Yang-Mi smells his ambition. He thinks she is more ambitious than he is. Because she approached Chairman Kwon. She asks him to speak out the reason why he came to the enemy camp. She guesses he’s short on money. He brings up that her husband liked Sang-Ah very much. He knows she hates Sang-Ah because Sang-Ah filmed a lot of commercials for WR Group. He asks her not to bully his woman with such a method.
Yang-Mi wonders if Tae-Seob loses his judgement. She claims that he will be fired as long as she makes a phone call. He tells her that she should make it clear who’s owning the weapon. He wonders if she wants him to release the video. He tells her that he would release the video if Sang-Ah wasn’t involved in it. He decides to forgive her and Hye-Hoon for his wife. It promotes her to think that he’s charming. She reminds him that Mr. Park was going to be released from prison. The guy has written letters to Sang-Ah, and he has called her. Yang-Mi believes that Mr. Park and Sang-Ah’s relationship is very special.
Sang-Ah drinks at home. Tae-Seob returns home. He asks her where she went last night. He couldn’t reach her. She pours him a drink. She reveals she had taken care of the aftermath with Yun-Seong and Seung-Beom. She asks him how much he knows the case. He says that he received the scandal of Mayor Nam. He didn’t know her company was involved in it. He wouldn’t touch it if he knew about it. She asks him about his plan. She knows the case is very important to him. But she wishes he will cover the scandal for her. She thinks they shouldn’t be enemies of Yang-Mi. He asks her to be honest to him. He wants to know she concealed something from him recently. He mentions Mr. Park. He asks her if the guy contacted her. She denies it. He apologizes to her for asking her about the guy. She admits it to him that she doesn’t want to hear the name.
In the bathroom, Sang-Ah reads Mr. Park’s letter. The guy tells her that he misses the night that he spent with her. She tears up the letter. She burns it. But the burned letter is found by Tae-Seob. He suspects his wife.
The next day, Sang-Ah is hurt on the set. The crew gets her a stand-in. She gets in the van. She sees the stand-in Jeong-Won. Jeong-Won remembers Tae-Seob asked her to be Sang-Ah’s shadow. She needs to keep an eye on Sang-Ah for him.
Sang-Ah watches Jeong-Won act. She notices that the girl did it too much when she acted. She meets Jeong-Won in the van. Jeong-Won reveals she wanted to be an actress. She was nervous when she was in front of Sang-Ah. Tae-Seob believed that Jeong-Won will caught a suspicious man if she conducts an in-depth investigation. He asked her to tell it to him if she gets anything. She worried that she will open the Pandora’s Box. He thought he should open the box on his own if the box will be opened one day.
Sang-Ah goes to get changed. Jeong-Won steals Sang-Ah’s cell phone. She gets off the van. She gets in the car. She hands over the cell phone to the guy. He does something to the cell phone. Sang-Ah gets off the van. Jeong-Won stops Sang-Ah. She tells her that they took wrong cell phones. They switch each other’s phones. Sang-Ah tells Jeong-Won that she acted very well.
Sang-Ah and the manager are in the car. The manager thinks Jeong-Won is like Ms. Han who acted with Sang-Ah. Jeong-Won looks into Ms. Han immediately. She discovers that Ms. Han is dead. The manager gets off the van when Sang-Ah needs to pick up a phone. The phone is from the prisoner.
Tae-Seob gets into his office. He eavesdrops on his wife’s phone calls. Mr. Park tells Sang-Ah that someone wanted to expose Kwang-Jae. He almost leaked it. He gives Sang-Ah the last chance. She offers to have a meeting first. Tae-Seob takes a look at him and his wife’s group photo on the desk. He receives a show preview from Yang-Mi. The show leaks why Tae-Seob and Sang-Ah are afraid of each other. He opens Mr. Choi’s video. Mr. Choi says that the two’s story began with a murder case.
Tae-Seob calls Yang-Mi. She thinks it’s such a shame that only she knows the interesting unofficial history. She wants to fight it back after he brought trouble to her. She mentions he controls a bomb that she doesn’t know when it will explode. There won’t be any further Coverage as long as he buries the bomb. He asks her to promise him that she will bury their case as well. She says that it depends on how they beg her. Sang-Ah can debut as she wishes as long as they let her trample them. But Sang-Ah has already started to wither. She won’t come back to life even if she’s watered.
The next day, Yang-Mi is in the sauna room. The assistant shows Yang-Mi the news that Tae-Seob leaked Hye-Hoon’s case to the media. Hye-Hoon breaks into the sauna room. She slaps Yang-Mi when she brings up that Yang-Mi’s mother was a mistress. Yang-Mi cannot stand it. She beats Hye-Hoon.
On the set, Sang-Ah watches the news. She’s not happy with it. Seung-Beom calls her. He tells her that Yun-Seong hid himself. Sang-Ah is surrounded by the reporters. Jeong-Won helps Sang-Ah flee. Sang-Ah drives on the road. She contacts her husband. She meets Tae-Seob by the river. She blames him for leaking it to the media without discussing it with her. She wonders if he doesn’t care that she’s talked about by the news. She thinks he wants to be famous. He reveals Yang-Mi asked him about Kwang-Jae’s case. Yang-Mi was hyping up the case when Sang-Ah concealed that she contacted Mr. Park. Sang-Ah realizes that her husband was looking into her. He takes out the letter she burned. He reminds her that Mr. Park was a murder suspect. He thinks she should have told it to him.
Sang-Ah explains it to Tae-Seob that she didn’t want to get him involved in the business of her and Mr. Park. She didn’t want to provoke Mr. Park as well. She thought she can control it. But Tae-Seob made a mess of the thing. Tae-Seob claims that it’s his only choice. He thinks Yang-Mi will use her as a bait to trample him as long as he takes Hye-Hoon’s video. She realizes that he didn’t think about for her. He tells her that she just needs to be a victim in the case. She refuses to do so. She reminds him that being an actress again is the only reason that she survives. So she cannot be an enemy of Yang-Mi. He thinks Yang-Mi isn’t the right the person. He offers to find another way. She says that there’s no any way. She asks him to stop. She begs him. She threatens him that they will be over if he keeps doing so.
Yun-Seong holds a press conference. He tells the reporters that he regrets for what he did. He cries after Tae-Seob hinted at him. Tae-Seob exposes Hye-Hoon’s crimes. He shapes himself into a good prosecutor. Yang-Mi watches the press conference at home after she was beaten by Hye-Hoon. She’s furious to kick away the tablet. She thinks they should make sure that the case won’t affect them. She asks the law team to take care of it. She calls Director Choi. She asks him to send her the video. She wants to release it immediately.
Yang-Mi walks out of the room. Sang-Ah is waiting for Yang-Mi. She stops her from leaving. She claims that Tae-Seob made the decision on his own. She knew nothing about it. She promises to find a way to make up for it. But Yang-Mi hits Sang-Ah’s head with an egg. She tells Sang-Ah that it was her mistake even if what she said is true. She thought about how to ruin Tae-Seob. The answer is Sang-Ah. Yang-Mi wants to ruin the thing that the guy cherishes most. So Sang-Ah is her rat from now on. She will ruin Sang-Ah.
Tae-Seob eats with his sister Tae-Sil at the restaurant. She’s happy to tell the customers that Tae-Seob is her brother. She believes that Tae-Seob will be a congressman soon. But he thinks it’s just the beginning. He gives an envelope of cash to her. He asks her to buy his brother-in-law anything he wants. She notices that Sang-Ah doesn’t come. She thinks Sang-Ah and Tae-Seob had a fight. Tae-Seob denies it. He gets a call from Jeong-Won. She reports it to him that Mr. Park will be released from the prison next week. She ran into Mr. Choi in the prison.
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Mr. Choi visits Yang-Mi in the evening. He sees her daughter bullying the maid. He gets into the room to meet her. They decide to rebuild the world. The maid reports to Yang-Mi that the chairman just went out. Yang-Mi is surprised. Because her husband never did it at the time.
Jeong-Won tails Sang-Ah. She sees the lady getting in someone’s car. She takes photos of the man. In the car, Sang-Ah meets Chairman Kwon. Tae-Seob receives the photo from Jeong-Won. He recognizes Chairman Kwon immediately. Jong-Uk is happy to greet Tae-Seob at the restaurant.