A rainy city market in the present timeline. Sora is twenty, independent, and trying to focus on business errands while the private Lee letter haunts her.

Sora notices an elderly woman lose her basket in the market and instinctively helps.

Miri sees Sora's face clearly and calls her by a title from the original marriage timeline.

Sora tries to correct the title without revealing anything, while Miri struggles with the impossible resemblance.

Sora asks the old woman's name and learns she once worked at the Lee estate.

Sora recognizes the danger of continuing the conversation but chooses to invite Miri for tea.

Sora and Miri sit in a modest tea house. Sora hides her urgency behind courtesy.

Miri describes the woman she remembers without understanding Sora's connection to her.

Miri remembers the Lee estate through routines rather than scandal, making her account hard for Sora to dismiss.

Sora tests Miri's memory of Joon-seo, expecting cruelty and getting something less simple.

Sora's remembered dinner table returns: lonely, cold, and certain in its meaning.

Sora asks about the dinners, expecting Miri to confirm the neglect she remembers.

Miri corrects the key detail: the young madam had said she preferred to dine alone.

Miri's account evokes a servant-side memory of the message reaching the household staff and Joon-seo.

Miri explains that Joon-seo seemed to believe his presence distressed Sora.

Sora's memory of the empty dining table repeats, but the meaning now wavers.

Miri tells Sora that Joon-seo ordered a second plate kept warm every night.

Miri describes emptying the untouched plate every morning, making the correction painfully concrete.

Sora asks if the warm plate was occasional. Miri confirms it was nightly.

The revelation hits Sora harder than a grand accusation would have.

Sora asks whether the young madam ever came for the warm plate. Miri's answer is ordinary and devastating.

Sora pays for tea and asks Miri not to mention the meeting, keeping her turmoil private.

Sora leaves the tea house and the market feels changed. Her certainty has begun to fracture.

Sora's memory of the empty chair collides with the unseen warm plate, leaving her certainty cracked but not resolved.