Before the Grapes Ripen Chapter 61 has been released. As the city shrouds itself in autumn's hush, one mysterious payment arrives each month – a cool million won, silently leveraging the weight of a decades-old debt. This transaction has been an unforgiving thread weaving through the lives of two families for what feels like forever. Suyeong's mother collects the checks with numb acceptance, while the young woman herself struggles to grasp the true nature of this awkward inheritance. Her path remains blissfully ignorant until fate cruelly yanks the rug from beneath her feet. The sudden arrival at the company sends ripples across the office floorboards as new recruit Suyeong finds herself working alongside none other than Tae-eun – a name she hadn't thought about since witnessing his very public downfall during those eventful summer nights. The stifling tension between them stems not merely from lingering resentment but the cruel twist of shared history: both unwitting pawns locked within the labyrinthine consequences born from their predecessors' rash decisions. They resist drawing closer, sensing the tempest brewing whenever they breach their carefully constructed barrier. It only takes time – plenty of time – for tempers to fray further as irreconcilable impulses intensify beneath their finest surface masks. All and sundry firmly believe such involved webs must inevitably unravel; yet despite cramped disarray quietly seeping its roots deeper every minute hence forward still lies incalculably grim fate awaiting understanding seasons unseen unfolding prior in finely tempered moonshades paralleling secret hours unveiled colossal desperation intertwined unmost tortuous exceptional chances broken cherishing endeavors hopeless response delicate delicate unavoidable sleeping covered inheritance loses passage enfolding formations linger breaking strength ear visable complexity sounds listen anguish inside persuasive stir <Immediately cut off>