Discovering Jin Young Cheol’s sudden appearance at Morgan’s photoshoot, Green was startled.

Jin Young Cheol, who was huffing and puffing like someone very angry, immediately smashed the flower pot he was holding as soon as he made eye contact with Green.

“Eek!”

Several staff members nearby screamed in surprise at Jin Young Cheol’s sudden action.

Morgan, who was checking the photos taken next to Green, instinctively stretched out his arm to shield her.

Hannah also pushed a clothes rack full of outfits in front of Jin Young Cheol like a barricade.

“Has this old man gone mad? What kind of disturbance is this in someone else’s studio? Should we call the police?”

At Hannah’s excited voice, Green quickly came to her senses. First, she detached herself from Morgan who was clinging to her and hurriedly ran to stop Hannah.

“Hannah, wait. This is my father-in-law.”

“What? Your father-in-law, as in Jin Sun Woo’s father?”

Hannah looked Jin Young Cheol up and down again in disbelief.

Feeling that Jin Young Cheol’s mood was getting worse, Green quickly pushed Hannah towards where Morgan was.

“Father, why are you here without notice? I didn’t know you had come because we’re in the middle of work.”

Green hurriedly continued, looking around the studio awkwardly.

“It’s a bit chaotic now, isn’t it? It’s not usually like this, but today there’s an important job…”

“Is this how you behave when Sun Woo is not around?”

“Pardon?”

Green flinched for a moment at Jin Young Cheol’s aggressive tone. Jin Young Cheol’s index finger pointed directly at Morgan.

“Hugging and putting your arm around that half-naked young man under the guise of work?”

“Father, it’s not like that…”

“Silence! I knew it from the moment you boldly mentioned one-night stands in front of your father-in-law. How brazen!”

Without even trying to listen to Green’s words, Jin Young Cheol just spewed out what he wanted to say and left.

While everyone was standing in a daze, Green was the first to come to her senses.

Even though she felt wronged and upset, she couldn’t let the time of industry professionals, for whom time is money, be wasted like this.

“Come on, let’s continue working. Morgan, change into the next outfit and come back. Redo makeup and hair too. Let’s hurry!”

At Green’s urging, the other staff members also regained their composure. Green brought a broom and trash can to clean up the flower pot that Jin Young Cheol had thrown and broken.

‘What did the plant do wrong…’

Green carefully cleared away the yellow moth orchid lying pitifully among the dirt pile, making sure not to damage its roots.

‘I’ll have to transplant it to another pot after work is done.’

Green, who had become deeply emotionally invested in the beautiful moth orchid, hoped it would survive well until then.

*****

Jin Young Cheol, who had gone to Green’s studio and become very angry, eventually contacted a photographer he knew and asked for photos to use in promotional posters.

A few days later, on the day of the promotional poster photoshoot, Jin Young Cheol called a few friendly journalists.

“Assemblyman Jin, are you really running as an independent after leaving the party?”

“Kim reporter, why so impatient? I’ll tell you everything when the time comes, so just wait a little.”

At Jin Young Cheol’s words, the reporters quickly exchanged glances among themselves. If a four-term assemblyman like Jin Young Cheol ran in the by-election as an independent, it would certainly be newsworthy.

At that moment, Jin Young Cheol frowned as he spotted the face of an uninvited guest.

It was Song Tae Seop, a reporter from ‘LastFact’, known as a hungry hyena among internet media outlets that mainly produce sensational articles.

He was a figure who had consecutively broken major scandal scoops, not discriminating between politicians and celebrities.

Jin Young Cheol glared at Song Tae Seop and muttered.

“How did that guy know to come here?”

Then a reporter friendly with Jin Young Cheol answered awkwardly.

“When I was talking to you on the phone yesterday, I was having a drink with reporter Song Tae Seop. He must have heard then.”

Jin Young Cheol found Song Tae Seop very uncomfortable, but he had no particular reason to chase him away. He had no choice but to ignore him and start the photoshoot.

Jin Young Cheol had only one request for the photographer. To make an election poster that could appeal to young people these days!

To this, the photographer suggested going for a natural composition instead of the stereotypical election poster layout.

“No, Assemblyman! I told you not to keep looking at the camera!”

But for an hour, the photographer had been repeating the same words to Jin Young Cheol.

However, no matter how many times he was told not to look at the camera, Jin Young Cheol’s eyes turned towards it the moment the shutter was pressed.

With his head turned but only his eyes looking at the camera, the photos couldn’t help but be strange.

“I’m trying not to, but it’s not working well.”

Jin Young Cheol apologized, seemingly upset. He couldn’t control his eyes turning towards the camera at the sound of the shutter with his own will.

At that moment, an elderly lighting director showed his mobile phone to the photographer and said.

“How about taking a shot from far away like this and then enlarging it later?”

“Oh, this is good. If we can get even half this atmosphere, it would be a success! Please send me this photo.”

The photographer displayed the photo shown by the lighting director on the laptop monitor. Then he turned the screen towards Jin Young Cheol so he could see it.

“You can see this photo, right? When you’re not conscious of the camera, you get natural and great photos like this.”

Suddenly, Jin Young Cheol’s eyes changed with surprise as he checked the photo. He strode towards the laptop.

The reporters, who had been getting tired of watching the boring photoshoot, sensed that something was up and gathered around the laptop.

It was a photo of a young couple, who looked like lovers, smiling and dining at a rooftop restaurant with a sunset sea view in the background.

It was clearly a beautiful and romantic scene, but not particularly interesting.

“It’s Morgan, the hottest model these days.”

A male voice suddenly spoke from behind. When the reporters turned around, Song Tae Seop was blinking his eyes with interest.

‘So Morgan had a girlfriend?’

His grinning eyes reminded one of a hyena that had found its prey.

In fact, Jin Young Cheol immediately recognized that the woman smiling brightly against the backdrop of the sunset was Sun Woo’s wife, Green.

And the man named Morgan looking at her affectionately was undoubtedly that naked rascal he had seen in Green’s studio a few days ago.

‘When did they take a photo like this? Are they in a much deeper relationship than I thought?’

Along with displeasure, Jin Young Cheol was inwardly worried about his son Sun Woo.

He still didn’t believe that Sun Woo was sincere about Green. He was convinced that Sun Woo was just using Green out of dissatisfaction and rebelliousness towards him.

But he didn’t want his son, who had already suffered greatly because of Yoon Seol Hee, to be hurt again because of a woman. He also felt anxious that the proud Sun Woo might completely distrust women because of this incident.

Determined to make them divorce as soon as possible, Jin Young Cheol loudly shut the laptop screen.

“On second thought, I think it’s best for an election poster to have my face prominently in the front. We’re not making art, and isn’t the most important thing for a politician to make their face known?”

“Well, there’s a reason classics endure.”

In the end, the photographer and Jin Young Cheol agreed to take common election promotional photos in the way they had been doing.

After the poster photoshoot was over, Jin Young Cheol explained his reasons for running as an independent to the reporters. However, looking around, Song Tae Seop was nowhere to be seen.

Trying to suppress an inexplicable uneasiness, Jin Young Cheol finished the interview with a forced smile.

Two days later, an exclusive scoop broke on LastFact.

“Popular Model Morgan in a Relationship?”

“Partner Confirmed as Daughter-in-law of Major Construction Company”

“Morgan’s Dangerous Love, Affair or Destiny?”

*****

Green woke up as usual in the morning and hurried to work to do a final check on Morgan’s photos.

Just as she was turning on the computer, her phone suddenly started ringing frantically. It was Morgan.

“Oh my, couldn’t you wait a little longer? I’ll finish the work and send you the final version today…”

“What?”

After quickly hanging up, Green hurriedly searched for internet articles. The portal was already covered with stories about Morgan and herself.

The article didn’t even specify when the photo was taken, and gave off a strange nuance as if the two had just returned from a secret honeymoon.

Netizens were convinced it was an affair between a younger model and a chaebol daughter-in-law, and were excitedly writing their own stories in the comments.

In the short moment that Green was checking the article and comment reactions, calls kept coming in from Hannah and Jenny, as well as Secretary Na Mi Ran.

She answered Jenny’s call first, who had returned to the country the day before yesterday.

“You know Morgan went to Thailand for a photoshoot before I got married. We had dinner together on the last day of the shoot before returning home.”

After pondering for a moment, Jenny asked her again.

“The lighting director took it and uploaded it to our group chat. There were over 10 people in that chat, but I don’t know who leaked it now.”

“Hannah keeps calling too, can you explain it well to her? I need to take other calls.”

After finishing the call with Jenny, Green called Secretary Na Mi Ran. Feeling urgent, Green cut to the chase.

“Secretary Na, that article isn’t true.”

Green tried not to get excited as she explained the situation. After listening to the explanation to the end, Secretary Na Mi Ran calmly requested what was needed.

“I will!”

“I should if I look for them.”

Secretary Na Mi Ran said, comforting Green. She felt genuinely grateful.

After ending the call with Secretary Na, Green was contemplating for a moment whether to call her mother-in-law In Young or Sun Woo first.

At that moment, Green’s phone rang.

It was her mother-in-law Park In Young.