Green was momentarily speechless at Sun Woo’s chillingly childish question. Then suddenly, her eyes narrowed.

Could it be, this man?

“Sun Woo, are you perhaps jealous?”

His tightly closed, stubborn lips revealed more truth than a hundred words.

Not only was he jealous now, but he was also prepared to be thoroughly upset if she didn’t give the answer he wanted.

“Honestly, Morgan is tall and slim with a small face, so he looks good in anything he wears.”

“…”

“He also has lean muscles, so he really shows off clothes that cling to the body like silk. Men who see that think they’ll look the same if they wear those clothes, but most regret buying them.”

Even as Green spoke playfully with a smile, Sun Woo didn’t laugh at all. No, he couldn’t laugh.

At this rate, it seemed the answer he wanted would never come out.

“But you know, Sun Woo. I’ve never once thought about wanting to touch his body.”

“Why? You said it was such a perfect body?”

Sun Woo, now properly twisted, asked very sarcastically.

“Morgan’s body is perfect when you put him in front of a camera, but our Sun Woo’s body is the one that makes me want to keep touching it for some strange reason, right?”

Green’s naughty hand lightly brushed down Sun Woo’s chest, then boldly undid two buttons of his shirt and delved inside.

“Is it because you’re mine?”

Sun Woo, who had been watching her actions while forcing a smile, finally couldn’t resist and pulled her waist to lock lips.

Green burst out laughing at Sun Woo’s slightly rough kiss, as if he was all riled up.

“You’re laughing? After completely undoing your husband’s composure?”

“Sun Woo is the strange one. When have I ever been jealous of Secretary Na Mi Ran?”

“Ha! Why is Secretary Na suddenly being mentioned here?”

“Just like you work with Secretary Na, I work with Morgan.”

“Na and I aren’t in an elder brother-younger sister relationship, you know?”

He meant to emphasize that it was unfair to compare Morgan, who was in a sister-brother relationship with Green, to Secretary Na, but Green bristled at the “elder brother-younger sister” part.

“Why would a secretary and boss be elder brother and younger sister? Just do your work, work! This is really absurd!”

Seeing Green’s sudden outburst, Sun Woo was slightly taken aback. It was a completely unintended turn in the conversation.

Finding this situation too absurd, Sun Woo couldn’t help but chuckle. Realizing how silly her own words were, Green also burst out laughing.

“When I’m with you, I often lose my mind. Okay, I admit I was jealous.”

As Sun Woo embraced her in his arms and honestly admitted his jealousy, Green shyly confessed as well.

“Actually, I was once jealous of Director Ahn too.”

“Who? Ahn Yong Gi?”

Sun Woo was startled by Green’s confession.

“Don’t tell me you still believe what I said about not discriminating based on nationality, skin color, or gender?”

Sun Woo said with disgust.

“Yong Gi would faint if he knew. Why on earth would you be jealous of that guy?”

“Because you only spoke casually with Yong Gi.”

For a moment, Sun Woo flinched as if caught off guard. Green continued speaking with a calm expression.

“Sun Woo, who is appropriately cold and polite to everyone, looked so comfortable when with Yong Gi. Getting angry, laughing, relying on him. I was really envious and jealous of that.”

Sun Woo hugged Green tightly again. And he gently stroked her head.

“It took me 6 years to start speaking casually with Yong Gi.”

“Really?”

“You’re the person I started speaking casually with the fastest. You’re also the person I’m most comfortable with when together, and the person I talk to the most. So Yong Gi can never beat you.”

Green smiled broadly with joy and hugged his waist tightly.

Sun Woo quickly glanced around the studio over her shoulder, then whispered mischievously in her ear with a hint of regret.

“Why did you remove that sofa?”

Realizing what Sun Woo meant by ‘that sofa’, Green’s cheeks turned red as she pushed him away.

“Why are you having such lecherous thoughts in someone else’s sacred workplace?”

“What’s wrong with that? I think about it in my sacred workplace every day. Sitting you on my desk, doing this and that. My office desk is quite large, you know.”

Green covered Sun Woo’s mouth with her palm at his naughty joke that seemed to have no brakes.

At Green’s disgusted look as if seeing a pervert, Sun Woo stepped back, looking wronged. Then he pointedly buttoned up the shirt Green had messed up.

“You came on so strong earlier, I thought you wanted to do it here.”

Although it was an action meant to appease him who was sulking, the truth was Green had also gotten a bit excited while looking over his body.

Realizing it would be disadvantageous to keep talking, she quickly finished preparing to leave with red cheeks and dragged Sun Woo outside.

On the way home, Sun Woo made an unexpected request.

“Take my picture too.”

“What?”

“You’ve never photographed me yet. So I’d like you to reserve judgment on whether that guy’s body is better than mine in front of the camera.”

Green was almost put off by Sun Woo’s surprisingly strong fixation. But her brain instinctively began to assess Sun Woo as a model.

The reason she was instantly attracted to Sun Woo at their first meeting was because she liked his face. It was a face that would photograph well from any angle.

“Okay! There’s a place I want to go, so I’ll take your picture there tomorrow.”

Sun Woo smiled happily at Green’s enthusiastic response. With only a few days left before he had to return to Marseille, he wanted to create many memories with Green.

“Where is it?”

“You’ll see when we go tomorrow.”

Though her eyes sparkled, Green refused to reveal the location until the end.

******

Jin Young Cheol stared intently at the real estate register of Green’s studio until his eyes nearly popped out.

He thought he would quickly discover some huge corruption just by looking at it, but no matter how much he examined it, black was text and white was paper.

He had never contracted a house on his own before, nor had he ever seen a real estate register. Even if there was something strange, he lacked the ability to notice it.

‘Should I have gotten the lease contract? Can anyone see those even if they’re not involved?’

Young Cheol, absorbed in playing detective alone, had no idea how to find evidence of gift tax evasion.

‘Should I just join hands with Han Moon Taek?’

While hesitating with the phone in hand, Young Cheol didn’t notice In Young entering the study.

“What are you doing here? I heard you haven’t even had dinner yet?”

“Oh? When did you come in?”

Startled by In Young’s sudden appearance, Young Cheol hurriedly tried to hide the real estate register. But In Young’s hand was a bit faster.

She looked at the register Young Cheol had failed to hide and frowned.

“Why do you have this?”

“Well, that’s…”

Since he was caught anyway, Young Cheol decided to say what he wanted to say.

“Don’t you know how tricky gifts are these days? Carelessly giving something like this to a daughter-in-law could cause problems!”

“Don’t worry. Father will receive rent from Green regularly.”

“Is rent the issue? The deposit for Cheongdam-dong must be no small amount, and what about interior costs? If it gets out that your father-in-law just gave all that for free, it’s only a matter of time before we get hit with a tax bomb and the company is disgraced!”

As In Young listened silently, Young Cheol became even more emboldened.

“I’m about to run in the by-election, and it would be really troublesome if rumors start because of something like this. You know that too, right?”

In Young let out a small sigh and looked at her husband quietly. Young Cheol instinctively felt intimidated by that gaze.

“Why, why are you looking at me like that?”

“What exactly do you think of me, the vice president of K1 Construction?”

“What do you mean?”

“Father gifted the deposit to Green and accurately handled the taxes. After that, the deposit was deposited to Father under Green’s name. This means the rent contract between Father and Green is legally flawless.”

Young Cheol was genuinely surprised for a moment. Park Chan Wook, who hates paying taxes more than anything in the world, followed the law for a gift? Young Cheol finally understood his wife’s words from earlier.

“You advised Father-in-law?”

“That’s right. Between you, who sees the daughter-in-law as a thorn in your side, and Han Moon Taek, who’s trying to squeeze every penny out of his daughter, the only way to protect that child’s share was to go by the book.”

In Young tore up the register in her hand. As she left the study, she said:

“Instead of worrying about needless things, come out and have dinner.”

Seeing In Young now openly taking Green’s side, Young Cheol’s face crumpled mercilessly.

‘Like father, like daughter of a swindler, did she manage to win over Father-in-law and now even my wife?’

When he saw Green sweet-talking Park Chan Wook at the dinner table, he had no idea the situation would come to this.

He never imagined that Park Chan Wook, a cold-blooded businessman, and In Young, called the Iron Lady who surpasses him, would fall so easily for Han Moon Taek’s daughter.

“The family’s in a fine state!”

Young Cheol, whose inner thoughts burst out loud, quickly collected himself. Since even Park Chan Wook and In Young had been deceived, he felt he needed to stay sharp.

By now, Young Cheol’s heart was filling with a sense of mission to definitely restore the home that the swindler’s daughter had stirred up back to its original state.

*****

The next day, Green drove Sun Woo quite a long distance.

Unlike Green in comfortable attire, Sun Woo was properly dressed up in a well-fitted suit. It was because of Green’s nagging.

“Where are you taking me all dressed up? You’re not going to sell me off somewhere, are you?”

Sitting in the passenger seat, Sun Woo couldn’t contain his curiosity and kept pestering. Finally, Green burst out laughing.

“Soswaewon in Damyang. I really wanted to photograph you there.”

“Why Soswaewon?”

“Because I think it would suit you so well. The idea that only hanbok suits Korean gardens is too old-fashioned, don’t you think?”

Jenny, who went to shoot the Marseille resort advertisement, complained that she had to wear hanbok throughout the video shoot there.

Even for a private resort themed around hanok and Korean gardens, Green felt the advertising concept was lacking.

Green parked the car in the parking lot and slung her camera over her shoulder, leisurely looking around.

“Sun Woo, shall we walk for a bit?”

Still not grasping Green’s intentions, Sun Woo walked with her, feeling bewildered.

The early autumn Soswaewon was just as beautifully refreshing to the eyes as the midsummer Soswaewon, filled with lush greenery all around.

Captivated by that serene and mysterious beauty, Sun Woo gradually melted into the scenery, emptying his complicated mind.

He squinted one eye in the bright sunlight, and felt the clear breeze passing through his outstretched fingers. Soon his mind cleared and a smile formed on his lips.

Click! Click! Clickclickclick!

The moment Sun Woo became part of the autumn garden, showing off his stylish suit fit, Green, who had been walking slightly apart from him, quickly pressed the camera shutter, not missing that moment.

Just then, Sun Woo looked up and gazed directly into Green’s camera.

Sun Woo’s eyes looking at his beloved held the hunger of a predator eyeing its prey and the ecstasy of a sailor enchanted by a siren’s song.

The moment the viewfinder’s focus fell precisely on Sun Woo’s intense eyes, Green instinctively pressed the shutter.

It was the most beautiful subject she had ever photographed.