"…those who have schemed behind your back; I shall surely not let them go girl. So you just sit here and let the nurses take care of you whilst you help in private and I shall take care of your family whilst…" "Master! Your children…." "What about them! Has something happened to them! Tell me right now!" "My sister wanted to take them with us, but I managed to take them to your brother-in-law's home behind her back just in time before I sneaked back into the carriage that she left me for dead for…please forgive me…" "Servants! Quickly! Inform my wife of this and have the twins checked out immediately! And you, can I do anything for you now whilst you are in recovery?" "My Lord, I know that this is a bold ask, but would you please employ my entire family? I know that you have seen their mistreatment of myself and their favouritism of my sister, but I am deeply worried about my family and…." "I will see what I can do for them, don't you worry about that. Is there anything else I can do?" "I am a filthy woman now and I do not deserve to be look at now, never mind acknowledged by you." "Leave these formalities behind girl. I have told you multiple times already." "What shall happen to me now Master?" "After you are fully recovered, which you will be, I shall wed you to one of my men in the kingdom whose wealth alone can sustain your entire family. Your sister on the other hand, she will be left in my care for me to deal with." "Is there nothing I can stay to save her?" "Absolutely not, and if you keep begging on her behalf after everything she has done, then forgive my crudeness, but I will not hesitate to drop your family from my grace and have them exiled instead." "Master…so there is no way that I can stay in your household? Not even…as a concubine myself?"
"Forgive me; but my wife and her family will never allow it, and neither will I, not when we have just had children." "I always wondered why you were tender towards me; I must remind you of your wife in some way, isn't that right?" "Let us not cross our formal boundary in this regard; I need to tend to my family before I can even fix this mess that your sister has created in the embroidery workshop that also feeds your family." "Is one woman really worth you lowering your gaze at anybody else? It is most…unusual for men in this society; especially one that holds a similar status to you…" "Where is Moon-bok? Why isn't he here tending to the girl himself?" "Forgive me Master, but himself and Chief Park…they may not make it to tonight." "Damned it! I had better go and see them as well as Hwi…" "I am born from a lowly background with faint wisdom and talent, I should be grateful to your offer instead…" "I shall have my sister-in-law watch over your recovery, but that is all I can do for you for now, forgive me. Servants; bring the sister here to me right now."
"…My Lord? Are you here to ask me about the fire? Why…why am I here? In front of my poor dear sister? Why is she hiding behind the medical curtains? Has something happened to her?" For the first time in my life, I did not hesitate to slap this girl to the ground after I head learned what she almost did to my children; my innocent children whom I had tried for more than a decade to conceive. "M..master? Why are you…what are you…do not believe a word that my sister says! She is poisoned by jealousy!" "So it is a fabricated fact that you kidnapped her and my children to try and take them to a brothel! Is that right!" "What are you talking about? I have taken better care of your children then even your own wife has…" "Enough! Curse this, this is all my dammed fault instead! She has never trusted servants her whole life and now I can see why!" "So what are you going to do with me now? Will you really dispose of me to please that useless wife of yours?" "I…am going to return you to The Third Prince himself as the spy you are; the spy that you have been for some time, isn't that right?" Even in the midst of my anger, seeing the girl's face loose all of its colour took me back to a time where I ruled people's lives in the palm of my hands and watching them loose their minds in fear did give me a sense of satisfaction that I was beginning to miss out on. This simple village life was doing me some good, but as time went on, I was beginning to realise that I was still in my prime and that I could be doing more in our kingdom and support these people at the same time. But my children and my wife…that was a completely different story…
"…I have no idea what you are talking about? Why would you mention a disposed prince to me? I am just a poor villager here…" "Men! Grab her family and bring them to the quarters of the Village Chief and pack their things so that we can send them into exile!" "You can take me into exile over my dead body! I am a part of this family and…" "Whose family? What family are you a part of?" "Your family! You gave me the chance to climb ahead of your wife socially and then crushed me before I even had the chance to do it!" "And what about what you have done to your sister!" "She is a natural-born whore who has already managed to seduce you as well! Falling as a prostitute is the perfect ending for her! And as for dismissing me, won't you be worried that your family image will be distorted? That people will say that you cannot manage your own household without my help!" "Absolutely not; nobody will believe in the actions of a spy over mine!" "My dear Lord Nam…well, you are no longer a Lord anymore, are you? You are just…a mere househusband just like everybody else here, aren't you? Just an ordinary man? That must be killing you by now, no wonder you sought solace in myself as soon as your wife left you all alone once again to pursue something that has nothing to do with you at all."
"You shut your damned mouth! In fact, here! You can eat this filth that we all would have had to live on if you really did manage to destroy the embroidery house with your own hands!" "What do you mean! I am not eating this mud!"| "Mud? You are calling it mud? If you were a part of this village, then you would have already had it before! So what is the issue now then?" "I…" "unless you want to tell me why he put you here? Was it to spy on me? My wife? Her brother? Well?" "It isn't like that…" "Then did you team up with him to destroy us? The village that took you all in and fed you?" "And you could have fed me better if you took myself or my sister in as a concubine! You do realise that, don't you!" "You lowly bitch…get over here and devour this whole bowl in front of me! Do not worry, it hasn't been thrown up by anyone, it just looks like that! I fear your mouth can cause a lot of damage if I do not fill it up this instance!"
"Take a look at this brother-in-law; this stupid servant of yours was about to destroy everything in the embroidery house so that we can probably starve here without any goods to export! We even found the body of a dead worker with the expensive thread in her hands all messed up! And not only that, my husband has already been sent word that an unknown garment had been sent by the way of the kingdom!" "Is that so…" "Brother-in-law? What shall we do about this?" "If she has tampered with it then we will get the blame and be annihilated simply for insulting any member of The Royal Family! Quickly! Go to your husband and make him stop that shipment from going forward! And as for this woman here, have her flogged 100 times before I can think of anything else to do to her!" "My Lord! Please forgive me! I did not mean to…" "have the same thing done to her brother for good measure!" "My Lord! You cannot punish my brother, for he is innocent!" "Then you should have thought about your family's safety before acting like a damned spy here!" "I am not a spy and you cannot prove it!"
"Are you sure about that girl? Then what is this I found in your personal quarters? Look at this box of children's trinkets; no wonder she was so close to our own." "What does that mean wife?" "That man that she was supposedly engaged to? It seems like she has actually birthed his child in secret and maybe even secretly married him, why else would she be clinging onto these personal children's items." My wife seemed to have shown up at the right time; just as this girl's stubborn nature was about to dictate her family's entire future, seeing those items finally made her shut down for a few minutes before she had finally given up any fight she had in her, especially when my wife threatened to burn everything into box in exchange for what this woman had put our children through.
"That is right; I was forced to come here despite my growing family due to The Madame Seo's failed disaster relief plan that framed my father for a crime that he didn't commit!" "What are you talking about? I thought that the revised plan was a success? Isn't that right, husband?" "She must be talking about the one that Dal implemented before the changes." "And who was in charge of that plan?" "Take a wild guess wife." "Oh for goodness sake! If we do not do something about that Prince soon then I fear that…but she has done everything so openly, she must have known that we could implicate her family with her actions…" "…were they really unjustly framed? Or is the situation nothing like what it appears to be, wife?" "Are you saying…" "That is right; my family were the ones who tore me apart from my family to seduce The Lord Nam because my simple and sweet sister could not do it so that mu family can restore its reputation back in the kingdom for The Third Prince!" "And the father of your child? Is he even your husband at all?" "He would have been if The Third Prince did not hold him hostage as one of his many employees at the last second! And my son…who knows where he is at this moment? I know that he is in the palace, but I have no idea where exactly…" "There is no way that The Third Prince would have kept a child alive for this long wife…" "Husband! Do not say that in front of her…." "This was a plan….that was calculated by The Mistress Han!"