Netflix's regency-era romance series, based on Julia Quinn's book series, is known for its epic midseason cliffhangers but Bridgerton Season 4 Part 1 raised that bar too high. The fourth and highly anticipated season of the critically acclaimed franchise has returned with the titular second son Benedict's (Luke Thompson) love story, who develops an infatuation for a mysterious lady in Silver (Yerin Ha) at his mother's masquerade ball, after establishing his aversion and loathing for married life in the past three seasons.Bridgerton Season 4 follows a Cinderella-like fantasy romance for Benedict as he locks eyes with the mysterious Lady in Silver, unaware that she is actually a maid named Sophie Baek in disguise. As the series unfolds and Benedict crosses paths with Sophie, he grows distant from his initial memory of the Lady in Silver and finds himself falling for a maid.After resisting each other throughout Bridgerton Season 4 Part 1, Benedict and Sophie finally give in to their desire in a steamy scene on the stairs until the titular second son makes his 'Gentlemanly offer' (the fourth season is adapted from Quinn's An Offer From a Gentleman) and asks Sophie to be his mistress.Here's how this game-changing cliffhanger will factor into the concluding part of Bridgerton Season 4.Bridgerton Season 4 Part 2: Yerin Ha teases an intense future for the lead couple View this post on Instagram Instagram PostWhile Bridgerton Season 4 Part 1 followed a fantasy-style romance for the lead couple, the concluding entry will be intense. In an interview with Deadline, Ha teased the final part, scheduled to release on February 26, as she said:''In Part 2, you go into more of ‘Okay, let’s confront the reality of this class clash and how it affects the relationship between these two characters.'”While Benedict emerged as a thoughtful and intuitive leading man in the initial episodes, unbothered by Sophie's social class, he broke this illusion in the final moments by asking her to be his mistress. Sophie, who carries deep trauma with the word, because of his late mother, is so disgusted by Benedict's offer that she leaves him at the stairs.Since Sophie was deeply consumed by her growing feelings for Benedict, she practically forgot the one major obstacle in their love story, their contrasting social divisions. While Sophie was already a maid, she is now working in Bridgerton House as a lady's maid to Benedict's sisters, Eloise and Hyacinth, which makes her steamy stairs' romance with the family's second son all the more complicated.While Sophie (and fans) expected sensibility from Benedict, his 'mistress ask' in the final scene of Bridgerton Season 4 Part 1 exposed his true character and the deep-seated class differences that plague his world.Continuing to ponder over Sophie and Benedict's future in Bridgerton Season 4 Part 2, Thompson added how this moment strips Benedict of all his niceties and brings out the flaws in his otherwise-perfect character:''There is one part of him that is flawed...so he’s slowly tiptoeing towards the edge and hoping that he can still hold back. And Sophie, time and time again, is like, ‘No, you can’t.’ You have to be fully in this or not.”With this, the stage is set for the concluding part of Sophie and Benedict's love story, as they wrestle with their social differences. In addition, Benedict is yet to learn that his mysterious Lady in Silver was actually Sophie in disguise, which is bound to heighten the tension.Now that Bridgerton has broken Sophie's illusion, it would be interesting to see how Benedict will mend his mistake and win his Lady in Silver's heart.Bridgerton Season 4 Part 2 will arrive on Netflix on February 26.For the latest scoops on your favorite TV shows and movies, follow Soap Central.