diff --git a/GanjooRazor/Areas/User/Pages/Editor.cshtml b/GanjooRazor/Areas/User/Pages/Editor.cshtml
index 0d23c777..03c3ada8 100644
--- a/GanjooRazor/Areas/User/Pages/Editor.cshtml
+++ b/GanjooRazor/Areas/User/Pages/Editor.cshtml
@@ -273,9 +273,15 @@
             '<div class="up-field-row" id="person-relative-direction-wrap-' + idx + '">' +
                 '<div class="up-field">' +
                     '<label>جهت رابطه</label>' +
+                    // "otherFirst" (the already-existing person is the parent/minister side) is
+                    // listed first and pre-selected, since the usual workflow here is building a
+                    // tree top-down - the ancestor/senior side already exists, and this new person
+                    // being created is their child/subordinate. Defaulting to "newFirst" instead
+                    // silently assumed the opposite and was an easy, hard-to-notice way to enter a
+                    // relation backwards (e.g. recording a son as his own father's parent).
                     '<select id="person-relative-direction-' + idx + '">' +
+                        '<option value="otherFirst" selected="selected">شخصیت دیگر، طرف اول رابطه است (مثلاً پدر/وزیر این شخصیت جدید)</option>' +
                         '<option value="newFirst">این شخصیت جدید، طرف اول رابطه است (مثلاً پدر/وزیر طرف دوم)</option>' +
-                        '<option value="otherFirst">شخصیت دیگر، طرف اول رابطه است (مثلاً پدر/وزیر این شخصیت جدید)</option>' +
                     '</select>' +
                 '</div>' +
             '</div>' +