Copy pasted my reply from another thread:
Rep Lee said the party members have to unify and work together ("we have to come together as a unified collective") -> hinting that there is internal conflicts in the party and that some party members are sabotaging each other.
Incheol knew it was orchested by Rep Lee and Advisor Cha, just doesn't know the reason why.
Isolating Incheol -> cut him off from all party meetings and activities to keep him in the dark, also making it seems to everyone else that he might be in trouble for "something".
-> Incheol is going to be the saboteur. Rep Lee will likely says that she's keeping him away from the party due to him being corrupted/conflicts against other members/going against the values of the party/ect.
Don't know if that meeting in the next chapter is going to go well for him either, it might be an ambush (maybe they're going to spring an internal investigation on him?)
Also adding to this, when I said "orchestrated" I mean they probably paid journalists to write that article. Thats why Incheol was wondering why they want to "brand" the party that way
Thank you so muchhhh. I also don't get why they're trying to do all that to incheol (ambush, etc,.).. is it to make him a scapegoat, use him as an example, and unify the other members? But isn't he a bit too useful to them to just discard him like that? Sorry for too many questions haha
You're only as useful as you can be used, if a scapegoat gets her there thats how she'll use him I guess, there's always someone ready to put in the work in his place.
Tbh the ambush is my theory and they probably wont do that. Anway, I think they scapegoat him despite his usefulness is precisely because he's too useful. He has a lot of dirt on him in the past from being Rep Lee's right hand man, which makes it easy to blame it on him. Powerful people never gets caught because their lackeys are the ones who do the dirty work and shows their faces at the scene.
Oh also the main reason why they're trying to make Incheol the scapegoat is because the current Prime Minister is being investigated for corruption, and Rep Lee (who is a prime minister candidate) is afraid SHE is going to be investigated too, so she'll most likely pin it on Incheol.
I understand the general political plot in the background and why incheol was deployed into that town but can someone explain what the advisor Cha and rep lee (the woman boss) are up to?? Esp rep lee I don't really understand her but I can tell her importance as the character in power