The dam showdown reaches a climax. Erika weighs Kako's life against Mogami and Ren's. Kako's final choice (and a shocking Mido Group reveal) unfolds.
Kako and Ren move into the Mido home. As succession battles heat up, Erika plans to reveal Kako as family—hiding a final scheme.
As Kako's identity is exposed, Erika imprisons her for a mad tea party. As sisters clash, a major Mido hospital secret leaks. Erika makes a bold move.
Dr. Kadowaki, who knows Mido secrets, is left critical, hinting at another culprit. Kako vows to confront Tatsutoshi Mido as she feels watched.
Kako is shocked to learn from Dr. Mogami that Ren is her son. As Dr. Kadowaki, tied to a past accident, begins to act, Mido family secrets emerge.
Learning Ren may not be Erika Mido's child, Kako secretly arranges a DNA test. After the Mido fortune, Aiko Sawai schemes for proof—but plans go awry.
Kako exploits Ryoichi's gambling weakness to set a trap. As he's cornered, hidden Mido family schemes emerge, sending her revenge off course.
Suspecting Kyosuke, Erika's lover, Kako, coerces him into aiding her revenge, while Ryoichi's affair is unexpectedly exposed to Erika.
Under a false identity, Nozomi enters the Mido household as a housekeeper to find proof of the staged crash, uncovering twisted ties and a key figure.
After waking from a four-year coma and learning that her ex-husband had plotted her murder, Nozomi takes on a new identity and seeks revenge.
