"You have been rather quiet since this evening husband, is there something on your mind?" "You know damned well what is on my mind wife, do not act as innocent as you would in our childhoods." "Are you suffering so much heartbreak now husband? That you no longer have anything to torture me with at all?" "Screw you." "Stay by my side husband, stay with me and your child instead of wandering around aimlessly like this." "I have no words to say to you, I can barely look at you in the face wife." "Spare me your headache and sit with me since your twins refuse to let me go to sleep." "Leave me alone." "Husband I did not want to put you in a difficult position, that is why I refused to talk about this in the first place." "All of this time I have kept your father's perspective in mind without even thinking of your mother even once, what a fool I am indeed." "Just as I refuse to talk about my father, my brother is the same with my mother and that is why you have no knowledge about her at all." "But you are devoted to my own neglected mother, so I should have done better and let the brothel situation go the first time that you mentioned your mother being linked to that situation." "We live and we learn husband; come here and stay by my side please, you have no idea how much I am missing your touch, at least do not deprive my children of yours." "So these are your babies now and not mine?" "Your efforts to have them did not go to waste clearly, as they are settled in my belly and not yours."
"Master and Madame Nam, we have some news from the Nam Clan." "What has happened now?" "The female cousin of The Lord Nam has been found to be pregnant, which will mos likely result in the arrested aunt being let off early." "The girl is pregnant? Really?" "She has only found out today, but in order to stabilise her pregnancy already, she has to burn some herbs around her constantly." "So what is their plan now? Will they pursue the marriage?" "It looks like it." "Very well, I shall also head out when they leave and stay on the side of The Prince." "What about The Senior Scholar? Won't he do something to sop his, husband?" "No man can stop a pregnancy, unless he deliberately harms her himself." "Husband, no matter how righteously angry you are at your family, you cannot let an innocent baby come to harm." "I will not have to respond at all if the baby is this weak already." "I will still transcribe some sutras for the child to travel safely into it's next life." "As long as you do not strain yourself wife, especially when you are chasing a little girl around on your swollen feet." "But just look at how sweet she is husband, tell me that you do not wish for at least one girl for yourself and I will not believe you." "Well…BoGeom is sweet enough and I do slightly envy the relationship that she has with her father…" "And…?" "Alright alright! We shall have 1 girl and 4 boys, that is all wife!" "And…?" "And what?" "No favouritism, no separating the sexes in terms of education and opportunities, and no harsh different expectations! I mean it husband!" "Nag nag nag, that is all you do to me recently."
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"What can I say Big Madame? The fact that you have come here to seek a marital alliance instead of beating that whore of a granddaughter if yours really does say a lot about this situation. You have gone soft Madame, and that worries me quite a lot." "It isn't like your son has no blame for getting my granddaughter pregnant Madame, that is the issue that has brought me to your door Madame." :Pregnant? How can you tell if the bastard belongs to my son?" "It tis because they were caught red handed in case you have already forgotten." "And how can I possibly forget after your shameful servants spread this gossip far and wide across this kingdom?" "And the gossip all cease when both parties take responsibility for this incident and seek out a marriage alliance to end it all." "A marriage alliance? You wish for me to make that whore my prestigious daughter=in=law to represent my son in the palace? Have you lost your mind, madame?" "Then what do you expect to happen next, Madame? You can get away wih denying my granddaughter, but what about the other pregnant whore that The Crown Prince is keeping in his chambers? I wug every much like to know how you will explain that away if that issue was to come to light? Surely that would take away his crowned throne at the very least for immoral conduct, isn't that right, Madame?" "You…how did you know!" "Well I wouldn't wish to reveal my sources, but you can thank a certain Senior in his department for a reason at least." "You wouldn't dare to…" "I will if I care about my granddaughter's lifeline one who comes from a noble home with noble lineage and plenty of merits to its name…" "That comes from your daughter's husband's nephew! Forgive me, I mean her ex=husband's nephew that has joined The Seo Clan and legally changed his name over to theirs, so he has nothing to do with The Nam Clan anymore, isn't that right, madame? Your granddaughter maybe a noble woman who fails to live up to her status, unlike The Madame Seo, both of them in fact who possess sanguine disposition and sharp wit and resilience. Those girls would have never committed the scandalous acts that your own granddaughter commits on a whim just like her mother and aunt before her, isn't that right?" "And here I was thinking that you were showing off your magnanimous side in letting the whole situation go since your son has an…unnatural tendency to impregnate his choice of women first before upholding the ancient and noble traditions that The Royal Family were lucky enough to pass down to an illegitimate son, even if he is a Prince or not."
"So how would you like to proceed from this point on?" "You leave me no choice but to consider this option after all, even though the only woman of value in your Nam Clam is The Seo Girl, and I would have paid a fortune in dowry to her brother to have her for my son." "That girl is already pregnant by her husband and The Emperor himself already recognises their marriage, so do not even think about breaking them up." "I am afraid that I have no idea what you are talking about, Big Madame." "Then let me put this in a way that you will surely understand; if you break up Seon=Ho and Seo Yeon, this will have dangerous implications on their child and the precocious friendship that he has with Seo Hwi. If something else breaks up that relationship between them once again, these 2 powerful men in our kingdom will have no choice but to turn on each other and this kingdom will end up in civil war. And I am quite sure that even The Emperor will not risk that issue happening since these men still belong to him as his loyal subjects and due to the manner of death that his father was made to die, The Emperor cannot spare a single Seo, even if that means keeping my daughter's nephew happy enough in the palace whee your son still hasn't made any official achievements yet, isn't that right My Lady?" "Well, you seem to have a lot of good points today. Very well, I shall consider this marriage to take place, and I shall also take on the illegitimate daughters of your daughters household as my son needs an equally large harem and as a legitimate daughter, she needs to take on the responsibility of thinking about her illegitimate sisters, isn't that so? And I am expecting a large dowry for each daughter affiliated with The Nam Clan, and I will consider that as supporting us for the throne."
"…dream on! Have you lost your mind, mother! You want my daughter to share her first love with her illegitimate sisters that she barely acknowledges! Wasn't it bad enough when their mothers were climbing on top of my own head in my husband's household! I will no subject my own daughter to live through the same fate! And in the palace no less!" "And wha exactly did you think would happen when your whore of a daughter caused the exam same heaven=offending disaster that you almost did with your own sister's husband before they could even consummate their marriage! She needs to clean up the mess that she made with her own hands and not rely on us to cleanup her mistakes like I clearly have to do with you at your old ages!"
"Listen to your mother girl! What your daughter did wasn't right in the first place and she will not be sent off as a Princess and be rewarded for almost bringing this Clan down to it's knees!" "They need to clean up this scandalous act by putting on a show of gaining an entire harem overnight and…" "Enough! I knew that it was a mistake to entertain this whole marriage idea at all!" "If your daughter cannot marry, then neither can anyone else in this clan!" "Do not scare me with that father! Clearly nobody cares for me in this clan, so why should I care for anybody else at all!" "Then what other option do we have but to beat that pregnant whore to death and feed her to the wild animals in the faraway mountains! Then we can regain our honour of upholding strict family values once again!"
"…finally mother, I can get away from the shadows of my father's family and have a husband all to myself. I will become a Princess Consort and maybe even Empress when he takes over his father's throne eventually. And just you wait mother; just hang on here for a little bit and as soon as I make a solid footing over in the palace for myself, then I shall do my upmost to bring you as close to me as possible. I shall buy you your own residence where you can visit both myself and my brother and you can finally rid yourself off those concubines who humiliated you over and over again and their useless daughter's who just bleeds us dry when their existence holds no purpose at all! Maybe the only useful illegitimate half-breed I know is my older cousin who spoils his wife like there is no tomorrow! I simply cannot wait to have a marriage like hem one day, even if they do no share our social statuses at all. But what about the issue of my dowry, mother? Mother? Why aren't you saying anything at all? What is wrong? Please do not scare me! Mother!"