After securing the services of an amateur sleuth, Dong-eun uncovers scandalous secrets that she leverages for the next phase of her scheme.

Dong-eun shares her traumatic past with Joo Yeo-jeong, who has unfinished business of his own. A new plan is put in place for Hyeon-nam’s daughter.

Questions arise over Myeong-o, Dong-eun gives Yeon-jin a chance to come clean about her past, and the circumstances of Yoon So-hee's death are revealed.

Yeon-jin threatens Hyeon-nam after discovering her involvement with Dong-eun. Yeo-jeong devises a way to get the truth out of Yeon-jin.

Hye-jeong finds an incriminating recording on Myeong-o's tablet, and Hyeon-nam receives an unwelcome visitor as she prepares to send her daughter abroad.