Chapter 244

Once all her stage greetings were finished, Sae-i went straight to one place — Joo Su-deok's office.

The source of this entire mess.

She had something to say to him.

"Ah, let her in."

Su-deok's permission came, and the door opened.

Inside, the office was in disarray, as if someone had been packing in a hurry and stopped halfway, and there in the middle of it sat Joo Su-deok.

She'd heard he'd been assigned overseas — apparently he'd set off this whole scandal before that could happen.

On the table in front of him sat a tablet, its screen open to an article about her.

Sae-i stepped closer and looked at him steadily.

His face still hadn't caught up to reality, still drunk on the hollow triumph of having finally clipped his niece's wings with the rumor he'd fired off.

"……What are you doing here? I thought you'd be shut…