#why he gotta be so annoyingly astute and at the same time clueless

[guiltymepleasures]

A reminder that in this scene, Baek Sa Eon was still entertaining the notion that the caller was a man Hong Hee Joo was probably having an affair with.

Despite the viewers being shown that he really couldn't bring himself to confirm this affair, he was indirectly asking Hee Joo about it to prepare for possible media backlash if they ever go public with the harrassment from the culprit. I think he wanted to prevent the media from feasting on Hee Joo especially if her supposed affair was found out.

But when he was asking and Hee Joo (most likely thinking of her pretending to be the culprit as the "something" she was hiding) looked away from him, he thought she really was having an affair. LOOK AT HIS EXPRESSION. He wanted so bad to be proven wrong but, in his mind, Hee Joo was confirming it.