My Father's Perfect Lie - Episode 9

At a visit to the Chancellor's mansion, Melanie derides Flora as a concubine and a maid, provoking a confrontation that leaves Nina's mother publicly humiliated and slapped by her husband. Nina and her family learn the father has handed house management to Flora and fears the insult becoming a scandal—"The Emperor takes legitimacy seriously." Grandma urges a deeper fix while Nina offers to apologize to Melanie to contain the fallout. The household scrambles between concealment and consequence, and the episode closes with a family member bluntly urging: "You should just divorce her, Dad."