"Doctor! my son just returned home only a few hours ago and was fine throughout the entire day! So why is it only now that he is falling ill all over again like this!" "Madame, symptoms of his illness are easily re-activated during the spring and autumn seasons. He must also be getting chills from studying well into the night and he seems to get anxious quite easily, that is why his illness has relapsed." "Doctor, can you please assess his medicines? Just to put my mind at ease?" "Very well Madame, but I do not see how anyone could have infiltrated my prescription since asthma is quite rare in this kingdom….hang on just a second, what is this smell? Asthma medicines should never have fragrances, for it can greatly damage the person in need of these expensive herbs…!" "Sir, I have also developed some sores across my mouth and I have begun to feel feverish and anxious this week alone! My son and I have been suffering from endless nightmares and I dare not use too much charcoal, even if the weather is still quite cold like this!" "Madame, please calm down and let me assess things clearly in my mind. Whatever this is may not have afftemed you so much if you are using it sparingly…is it a poison? I have never seen it in the form before…I must carry out a formal investigation about this and urgently…" "After all of the compromises that I have made in my life, I surely shall not go down in history like this! I need to rebuild my health and that of my son before I can do anything to sort out this household once and for all! My husband and son…they are both relying on me…oh for goodness sake! Why did I ever associate myself with The Nam Clan! All I have don is guaranteed my own family's decline by associating with them! What would…I cannot believe I am saying this, but what would have Seo Yeon do if she was in danger like this!" "My Lady, she really was always in danger around The Mistress Han! Even I cannot understand why her husband kept her around for so long if she was a danger to the woman that he loves…" "It is all because of his father; he was cruel to his servant son, but he optimised his mind to even make use of his enemies if he could. The Lord Nam must be fully aware of the danger that she possess and even thought to put that to good use, why else would he use her to seduce my husband, only to bring her into the household of his enemy? Look at how much we have all been suffering since we were forced to take her on here! I would think that she would have used her spare time to learnt something unique to improve their singing and dancing skills to combat her superiority complex. And when she didn't, I thought she must have been far too delicate and sickly. I didn't even think she could successfully serve a man due to her inability to keep one for too long, and now…"
"Madame! These herbs are full of cinnabar! This is pure poison that has been spread all over your medicines, as well as your sons! The symptoms for this poison includes weight loss and auditory dysfunctions!" "Auditory dysfunctions…yes, my son has been hard of hearing lately…but who could have done this to us! No, never mind that, I already know who it is, but how? I have cut off all of her resources, and there are no natural spring waters nearby, so how…" "This must be something the suspect has brought in or even stolen, although I also have no idea where anyone under lockdown of this home could have retrieved such an item from…I shall also need to assess your meals just to eliminate the idea that you have been poisoned in more ways than one…" "Very well, my servants shall show you the way into the kitchens for your inspection, doctor." "My Lady? What are we going to do about this now?" "We can either make a scene here where my husband no longer sees me, or we can take it to the palace where the festivities and prayers are taking place and get rid of this inauspicious woman once and for all!" "Very well Madame, I shall ready the carriage and get her ready so that we can leave…"
"What is going on here wife? What drama are you creating in front of our very eyes this time?" "Drama? Me? It may have escaped your notice husband, but you do have a wife and a son that are practically on our deathbeds here and you just don't care about anyone but that bitch that you keep in your bed!" "That bitch? She is doing nothing compared to the damage that you have to this family! Even at the expense of your own family!" "And how was I supposed to know to keep away from them when you don't tell me a damned thing at all! We went to their lunch invitation, we talk to them in the palace, so how was I to know that I had to keep my distance from them personally!" "It is because you do not use your mind! My goodness, Seo Yeon is inferior to us both and half of this kingdom, and yet she has managed to utilise her mind to bring glory and riches to both her brother and her husband! Her brother was equally a lowlife until she set him up with a noblewoman who taught him how to enter our world! And as for that disabled orphan herself, she managed to make her husband the right hand man to The Emperor himself when she is in his life and he is just as lowly as the rest of them when they are separated! And you? What worth have you brought into this marriage apart from dramas and failures! Your parents never even put in a good word for me in my field! I had to climb to the top on my own! So why would I think of you when you never thought of me other than spending my hard earned wealth!"
"We are husband and wife! You work and I secure our family with your wealth! How else are great dynasties built otherwise!" "Marriage is about families supporting one another! So let me ask you again, what exactly have you done for me!" "Husband! Let me go! You are hurting me!" "You only chose me for my power and my status! That is the only reason why you treat me with respect and deference!" "We are a married couple for goodness sake husband! Why can't you see me! Even just once!" "That is because all marriages are based on exchanges of personal advantages, and I have received none from you so far! Men look for a woman to nurture his family and women seeks protection through marriage, and yet you have killed our eldest son with your own hands and now we will loose our second son because of your affiliations with The Nam Clan! I only had 1 business deal with them, whereas you pulled them into our personal affairs over and over again! I specially instructed to you to not bother Seo Yeon due to her reputation that she gained serving in brothers on behalf of The Third Prince! I always knew that you were wilful and arrogant, but I had no idea how stupid you were until recently! You are showing me a new side of you that I never knew existed and I do not like it!" "How would you know me if you never spend time with me! You are the reason why I have become so miserable and alone, you were the one who pushed me into bad company instead! And you keep praising that little bitch out of nowhere! What has happened to you! You haven't been the same person since The Nam Clan came to an end! We got on so well until you suddenly saw me as some kind of gold digger!" "Because that is exactly what you are!"
"No matter how hard I work , I just cannot escape that woman's shadow, can I! You…downright handed over all of my dowry to her buy her freedom and she still didn't want you! I was nothing to you as long as you carried on seeing her in that damned brothel again! And again! And again! My biggest mistake was giving her a chance to live after each and every one of your visits to her! Even the ones on my birthday! And even on the days when our children were born! She is such an ominous creature, as is her daughter! No wonder her brothers asked me for help to frame her and made her end up in that brothel in the first place!" "What…did you just say? What did you do to her! Tell me!" "It was all of us! Myself and the Nam girls! We conspired to frame her with something that would go against her sex and have her imprisoned in the one place that she was not allowed to forget what she lacked in the most! And then she ended up with the happiest marriage out of all of us! Even myself! Do you know how many men I paid to violate her! And that man saved her every single time! Unlike you who hasn't stood up for me even once during our marriage!"
"You evil wench! How I wished I never married you at all! How I wish I had the courage to take Seo Geom's wife as my own even if it was against her will and made her my own! Then I would have had children I was proud of! Then I would have found a wife I could find some comfort in! I could have traveled and seen the world with my soulmate instead of being trapped in my own home and isolated from the entire world for so long!" "I devoted myself to you! I was so alone that I hand-stitched every single one of your clothing items for years now including the furniture that we have, and you have never even noticed how rough my hands became tending to you! I even cook your meals and…" "Was all of that effort really for me? Or was it for your lover?" "My lover? What lover? What are you talking about? I never had and never will have any lover!" "I know, but since you easily framed my women for such accusations that made her life miserable, then I can do the very same thing to you can't I? Or will you walk away quietly if I divorce you!" "Divorce…you want to d-divorce me? In my old age? How can you…" "All I have to do is to point out to any servant here that is willing to become your so-called lover and Mae the matter public! Let us see you crawl your way out of this matter now! And no matter how much you dress like her, you will never be her in my life! Not back then, not now and not ever! You have been so jealous over a ghost that you even pushed our son to study all hours of the day and night and made him become as weak and isolated as he is! That is why I do not see him, because he is nothing like the boy I raised under this roof of mine! You corrupt everyone that you touch! Including myself!" "Husband! No! Please forgive me! Husband!" "Madame! My Lord! You son…he has passed away after having another asthma attack…!"