Chae Won, leaning on the second-floor railing, looked down at the first-floor event hall at a glance.

Protesting parents and the principal with a troubled expression, murmuring guests and students busy reporting the scene on their phones.

The party venue for the founding anniversary froze coldly as the protagonist of the screen, replayed by mistake, appeared.

“It’s a mess.”

Yoo Gun approached Chae Won, who was looking down with indifferent eyes, and handed her a drink.

“So, what do you think?”

Chae Won, who took the glass, tilted the red drink slightly while thinking, then savored a sip.

Go Ro Na’s pale face turned ashen, Noh Jae Min standing behind her with a dazed expression.

After checking their expressions once more, Chae Won opened her reddened lips.

“I like the gift. Thank you.”

As she answered in a satisfied tone, he chuckled with his gaze on the first floor.

Chae Won slowly turned her head and smiled along as she looked at his side profile.

In fact, the plan was to come without warning and reveal the truth.

If that had happened.

“No! I told you, Kim Hee Joo is a stalker! That woman is trying to make a fool of me by creating a strange video!”

With Go Ro Na’s voice shouting that it was the work of a stalker, it might have ended with her just being labeled as a strange woman.

It might have been revealed that it wasn’t Kim Hee Joo even if the police showed up.

But by handing over the founding anniversary party invitation, Yoo Gun created a valid reason for Kim Hee Joo to come here.

Having a smart man by her side, she had to act even smarter.

So she thought of many possibilities.

“It’s nothing to make such fake videos these days. You saw earlier, right? It’s just my face and a voice patched together from somewhere. Look at my video appearing out of nowhere at a celebrity party scene! That stalker must have even bribed the staff here to ruin my wedding!”

As her level of shamelessness was top-notch, to prevent her from denying until the end, she found witnesses.

“Hey, Go Ro Na. Noh Jae Min!”

Five angry men and women stood in front of Ro Na and Jae Min.

Yoo Gun, who had been looking down with an indifferent expression, tilted his head slightly.

“Is this Kim Chae Won’s painting this time?”

Chae Won answered with her gaze fixed on the first floor, her eyes calmly lowered.

“My elder sister’s phone has everything.”

Yoo Gun chuckled and lowered his gaze to the first floor again, appreciating Chae Won’s painting.

“You two are really ridiculous. What sudden marriage? It hasn’t even been a month since we all laughed and chatted while eating the food Hee Joo made!”

As high school classmates who weren’t sent wedding invitations suddenly appeared, Ro Na’s pale lips quivered.

“H-How did you…”

“Hey Go Ro Na, Noh Jae Min! This isn’t right, is it?”

“I mean, after visiting Jae Min’s house several times, eating Hee Joo’s food, laughing and playing together, it turns out you were having an affair with Jae Min behind her back. It’s totally creepy. Is that why you sent out invitations excluding only us?”

“Hey, Noh Jae Min, this really isn’t right. After all Hee Joo did for you.”

“No, that’s not… Let’s talk separately, okay?”

Jae Min tried to stop his classmates from talking, but the disappointed friends resisted even more and shook off his hands.

“Let go! Hey, Go Ro Na, you really shouldn’t be doing this either, okay? I’m totally getting goosebumps right now.”

The onlookers started murmuring again, gasping once more.

Meanwhile, the head of the parents’ association stepped forward and stood in front of the vice principal.

“Vice Principal, I can’t entrust my child to such a woman. I’m going to formally report this incident to the Education Office!”

“An adulterous woman! I absolutely can’t entrust my child to her either!”

The B Hall became even noisier with the excited voices of the united people.

At that moment, the wedding hall manager and staff rushed over and faced them with flustered expressions.

“I’m sorry, but you can’t do this here. We need to proceed with our event too, so all guests for Hall A, please leave this hall. Bride, please hurry too!”

Ro Na, being pulled out by the staff, shook off their arms and turned back.

“No! Please believe me. All these people are lying. It’s all a plot by Kim Hee Joo, that stalker!”

“Bride, you can’t do this in someone else’s event hall. We’ll escort you to Hall A.”

“Let go of me!”

Unlike Jae Min who stopped, discouraged, Ro Na, who couldn’t just disappear accepting this, struggled until the last moment as the doors of Hall B closed.

*

In Hall A, more than half of the expected number of people had left, but there were still some remaining.

Relatives and family members who couldn’t leave.

Some guests watching the two people trying to hold the ceremony even in this situation.

“No matter how I think about it, this isn’t right. I can’t let this marriage happen!”

“Try to calm down, dear. There’s a child in her womb, right? The child!”

The bride’s excited parents occasionally raised their hips as if they were about to leave at any moment.

“I knew that woman would eventually cause trouble! That woman!”

Jae Min’s mother, gritting her teeth and sitting still, barely holding back.

“Hurry up, honey, it’s a complete mess here.”

Jenny making an urgent call to Ho Tae, who was late because he lost his dog.

“I won’t let things go as Kim Hee Joo wants. Let’s finish the wedding properly, Jae Min.”

Jae Min and Ro Na stubbornly standing to hold the ceremony even in this situation.

“Then, we will have the simultaneous entrance of the bride and groom.”

As the host began with a grim expression at Ro Na’s signal, the trio band hastily grabbed their instruments, watching the atmosphere.

“They’re really shameless. Holding the ceremony in this situation?”

“What can they do, there’s a child in her womb.”

“My goodness, an affair. And they were bragging about making connections with an educator’s family.”

Though elegant music flowed, there was no sign of the murmuring people quieting down.

“Please welcome them with a big round of applause.”

A short, embarrassingly small applause came from the few relatives and family members.

The host tried to liven up the atmosphere by asking for applause once more, but the murmuring voices of those pointing fingers at the couple only grew louder.

Ro Na with her gaze silently fixed downward, Jae Min with a coldly settled expression beside her.

The two of them took a step together.

In the meantime, Jae Min sighed and muttered softly.

“Do we have to have a wedding in this situation? I’m too embarrassed to stand here, you know?”

Ro Na, her hands tightly clenched, kept her gaze down and spoke softly.

“Are you the only one ruined? I’m finished too, your Kim Hee Joo made it so.”

“That’s why I told you not to tell Hee Joo, what on earth did you do! Was it that hard to endure for just a few more days?”

“Honey, are you blaming me now?”

Although they were speaking softly, the expressions of the two, visibly arguing, were noticeably distorted.

“That’s right. If only you hadn’t revealed it to Hee Joo, this wouldn’t have happened today. If you had just not said anything!”

Although she understood his upset feelings, Ro Na’s brows furrowed tightly at Jae Min’s attitude of pinning Kim Hee Joo’s actions on her.

“Are you stupid, Jae Min? Kim Hee Joo recorded the video from the start because she already knew about us! How did you become a lawyer with that rock-like head that can only think of one thing?”

“What?”

As the angry Jae Min stopped, Ro Na’s eyes, filled with rage, shot up.

“Don’t stop. Walk straight. We can’t let the ceremony fail as Kim Hee Joo wants. No matter what happens, walk to there.”

The surroundings grew noisy again at the sight of the two.

Jae Min, who had been watching while biting his lower lip, asked Ro Na accusingly.

“Go Ro Na. Are you in the mood to get married right now?”

“Mood? Right now, I feel like I could die at any moment, it’s the worst mood. Don’t you think about how I’m holding it in and walking? Don’t you think about our little bean in my womb? Keep walking, don’t stop. Don’t stop as Kim Hee Joo wants!”

Seeing the two visibly arguing, the band and the host looked around, unsure whether to continue.

“Go Ro Na!”

“Keep walking!”

“Stop it. Let’s stop. This isn’t right. What are we doing now that everything’s over?”

“How can it be over when there’s a child!”

“We can raise the child without getting married, so let’s stop now.”

As Jae Min turned around, taking off his white gloves, a surprised Ro Na looked at his back and clutched her stomach.

“Ugh. Jae Min.”

Jae Min turned at her scream.

“Come back, my stomach hurts. Don’t stress me out anymore.”

Jae Min looked down at Ro Na’s stomach and sighed, pulling at his bow tie as if frustrated.

“You always say your stomach hurts when things are unfavorable, I’m really tired of it.”

Ro Na’s expression, which had been contorted, relaxed into surprise.

“W-What did you say? Are you saying you’re tired of me, of our little bean?”

The bride’s father, who had been watching painfully, ripped off the flower on his chest and threw it down as he stood up.

“You bastard, what are you saying to my daughter!”

The bride’s furious father ran up and grabbed Jae Min by the collar.

“How dare you deceive us and get my daughter pregnant after how I raised her? Huh?”

“Ugh, w-why are you doing this!”

As Jae Min struggled in the grip, Young Ja, her eyes wide, ran up holding her hanbok skirt and hit the bride’s father’s back.

“Let go of this! Are you crazy? Who are you to grab my precious son’s collar! This is assault! Let go of that hand right now, you old geezer!”

“Aaargh!”

The bride’s father screamed as Young Ja bit his hand. The startled bride’s mother ran over with fire in her eyes.

“Y-You! You crazy woman! What are you doing to my husband!”

“Aaargh! Let go! Won’t you let go? Aaargh!”

Young Ja, her hair grabbed by Ro Na’s mother, grabbed her hair in return and they began rolling around on the stage.

Bang!

In the chaos, a wedding hall staff member accidentally set off the firecracker they were holding.

The flower petals that shot up high fell down on those grabbing each other’s hair and collars.

The surprised trio band and all the guests froze with their mouths open.

“Ha……”

Ro Na dropped the bouquet she had been stubbornly holding onto the floor.

She swallowed her tears with trembling lips.

But a tear she didn’t realize fell rolled down her cheek.

As she wiped it away with the back of her hand, her eyes met Chae Won’s, who was watching from the entrance.

Her eyes quickly became bloodshot.

Chae Won turned around with an expressionless face.

“…Stop right there.”

Calling out in a low voice, Ro Na came down from the platform, watching her retreating figure as she completely turned to leave.

“I said stop right there! Kim Hee Joo!”

Unable to contain her anger, Ro Na grabbed her crumpled dress skirt and left the hall.

“Kim Hee Joo! Where are you, did you leave? After making this mess? Kim Hee Joo!”

“Seems like you have a lot to say.”

While she was calling out the resentful name, the sound of high heels meeting marble came from beside her.

Ro Na turned her head and let out a hollow laugh as she looked at her, perfect and unruffled unlike herself.

“You, do you think I’ll just let it go after you ruined my life? I’m going to sue you. I’ll file for damages and I’ll chase you to the depths of hell until you, Kim Hee Joo, beg for forgiveness and make you miserable!”

“I’ve felt this before, but why do you keep saying what I should be saying?”

Chae Won, who had been looking with an expressionless face, moved closer to Ro Na.

“Shouldn’t I be the one not letting it go after you ruined my life? Whether it’s a lawsuit for adultery or claims for damages, I’ll start all the obvious things, and I’ll make Noh Jae Min a penniless beggar until he begs for forgiveness. If you still love each other, try to make it work. Of course, be prepared for the ‘adulterous woman’ label you’ll hear for the rest of your life. I’ll chase you two to the depths of hell and make you miserable.”

Ro Na’s surprised eyes trembled slightly.

Kim Hee Joo with a completely different aura than before, no longer the gentle lamb she knew.

As she came so close that their faces were near, Ro Na instinctively took a step back. But Chae Won’s shoe was on her long dress, so she couldn’t move away any further.

“But Go Ro Na. Why are you trembling so pathetically? You’re confident, aren’t you?”

“Who’s trembling!”

“Oh, I’m really curious about something.”

As Chae Won’s gaze flowed down to her stomach, Ro Na instinctively covered her belly.

“Will you teach your child the same when it’s born? That adultery is something to be confident about.”

“……”

“Don’t be stupidly confident at any time, live properly, Go Ro Na.”

Chae Won, who had warned coldly, withdrew her piercing gaze and slowly turned around.