"So, it looks as though The Third Prince is officially going to be deposed due to his own arrogance, mistakes and blunders that he failed to conceal from the world. He displays no restraint even before his own father, The Emperor. I thoroughly believe that he should have been reprimanded earlier to rectify his issues, he wouldn't be putting himself or his harem through this trouble now. But I have collected you all here for an entirely different reason, and I have called out to one of The Emperor's most faithful and high-ranking servants to hear upon my confessions." "Concubine Park? What on earth are you talking about? What has happened?" "I am here to confess the crimes that my husband has committed to his father himself, including the crimes of bribery, usury, his part in the plague and…and murder." "Concubine Park! Have you taken leave of your senses! That is your husband you are talking about and you are in your last trimester of your pregnancy! We just had a go at The Widow Nam for neglecting her son, why must you do the same thing to your own child!" "Concubine Park, please think for the sake of your unborn baby!"
"Concubine Park, why are you choosing to confess to your crimes now?" "It is because my husband will clearly have no choice but to abandon me and my child deserves a better life; I was also deceived into believing him for a while that it was for the good of the kingdom due to his father's stubborn nature and agenda towards his third son. My poor judgment also eluded me to take action against The Lord Nam's nephew, which was ordered ti me by my own husband. He…wanted me to destabilise The Lord Nam now that he senses his own impending doom." "What did you mean to do with the boy?" "My husband wanted me to take him into my own custody so that I could hold him hostage against his enemy, The Lord Nam so that he would be blackmailed to persuade his father The Emperor to give him another chance in the palace and The Royal Heirdom…he said that my child's life depended on it."
"Well…I suppose if your husband threatened to use your own child against you…then you would have little chance from the very start…as a mother, how can you not worry for your child's sake?" "I know that I have been under a lot of doubt since my husband's departure, but he is no longer here and I have to protect my child, especially after my last pregnancy, and The Royal Family has been lax in their investigations due to the family's goos name." "Well, Concubine Park, if what you say is true, then The Third Prince is simply beyond hope to even threaten his own child! I must inform The Emperor and as for you, you shall be placed under his protection. And as for the rest of his harem…there are talks of disbandment." "Disbandment! But how…what will become of us? Who will want to marry any of us after having relations and even children with The Third Prince!" Exactly! What will happen to our children!" "Their posts and titles will most likely be removed and they will return to their maternal families." "I also need to confess to a separate crime that was carried out through The Concubine Chung…to murder the servant of Seo Yeon by pushing her down a well, making her drown before she lost her life." "My goodness, thee will be hell to pay when The Lord Nam finds out about this!" "This is something that I only found out about after the fact and I was worried about my own life and that of my family." "That girl was a close servant of The Lord Nam, she must have known quite a bit of his secrets, why else would a mere Prince target a servant like that otherwise?"
"He was going to frame him for his own crimes, that is why he wanted the servant in the first place." "Are you talking about how The Lord Nam utilises his former Office of General Inspectors? That isn't so uncommon here in the palace." "He wanted to frame him for all of their recent promotions…with the provisions that were ambushed last time…" "Of course, why else would he betray his own father like that? Unless he wanted to set someone up for the crime…"
"You bitch! How dare you betray your husband like that! The Third Prince himself who dotes on you like no other!" "Widow Nam! How dare you barge into The Third Prince's harem so brazenly like this!" "Why can't I? I have been here 100 times and nobody had anything else to say about my presence here previously, so what is the issue now!" "Widow Nam! Know your place! You were only invited here under the title of Seo Yeon's guest! You are nothing here in the palace without her! So leave this place at once!" "Like I said. Have been here 100 time so you will not mind it if I make myself known here just one more time, isn't that right! And as for you, do you dare forget how you climbed to the top of the social hierarchy!" "Widow Nam! Do not blame me for losing your last tool to take what I have!" "Servant! Report all of this to His Majesty and take The Concubine Park with you! Order the Department of Penalty to hardly interrogate every single servant here, including The Widow Nam!" "No! You bitch! Who ordered you to defame us all? Was it Seo Yeon? Or her brother? Or her fiancé? Who is tuning you against your own husband! You are all throwing stones at us due to our downfall! Myself and The Third Prince!" "The Widow Nam seems incapable of answering any questions today; you are still a relative of an important palace official, so stop acting like a demented shrew in the marketplace."
"My Lady, hasn't The Widow Nam been living in luxury beyond her station just before she got herself into trouble? I wonder how she managed to get her hands on those funds…unless she was also funded by the ambushed provisions?" "No wonder a widow fell victim into showing off her extravagance; it all turned out to be ill gotten gains instead." "How dare a lowly servant like this accept bribes! No wonder she was spending money like water up until that time! She even had more resources than we did at one point!" "No, I have no idea about that…" "Servants! Detain her in the palace dungeons where she shall be thoroughly investigated after The Concubine Park!" "No! Let go of me! I have done nothing wrong at all! Call my brother=in=law! He will fix this mess for me!"
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"You have endured much against you and your family Lord Nam." "We have all suffered in one form or another under the shelter of the palace, Your Majesty. Many other officials have contributed to suppressing The General Choi's and Third Prince's efforts of a failed rebellion before it even started." "My son still seems to be oblivious of his own crimes still after all of this time, and it is time to reel in such an obstinate fool away from the eyes of this kingdom." "And you will no longer take into account his merits or potential?" "They are all beyond my reach anyways; parent's always distance themselves from the children that they take after the most." "I have already sent him the various demotions that you sent out to him the first time in succession." "And to think that the boy that I raised had no inkling of rebellions before his mother's death." "If someone wants to incriminate another, they can all find a pretext, especially when words spread by others are committed by themselves in reality." ""Your sister=in=law is refusing to speak despite her own indirect involvement in this plot of The Third Prince. She is seeking someone to hold her position when she 'makes her return. I have already furiously reproached her in her delay of confessing to use what she knows…" "Forgive me Your Majesty, I shall deal with her as soon as I can myself." "Very well, I shall leave this matter to you before you leave for your mission."
'Parent's always distance themselves from the children that they take after the most…' was that really what it was between my father and myself? He couldn't stand me because of how alike we were? So what about myself and my future son? Will I treat him the same way? No, not a chance in hell was I going to torture anyone around me due to my own personal issues…and that was going to start with my own wife. There wasn't going to be a chance that she would let me do that to any of her children either…
I picked up my sword and examined it closely; it was a rather blunt object now but it was the only gift that my father ever gave me in my entire life. He still wouldn't have cared for me until my body shattered into pieces and I stopped breathing, the only thing he would've cared about was my progress in the palace that far surpassed my own. If he was alive now, then he would have foolish persisted in his own plans despite his poor health and debilitating body. But I would always be a disgrace to him no matter what, and would have ended up cursing my existence no matter what I did. I was a foolish imbecile to him and he would never even get a taste of what I had planned for my own family and the grandchildren that he would never approve of even if they were the only children in the nation left. You just look down on me from hell father and see what I can do without killing everyone in my line of sight. And as for you, father=in=law, you just watch me utilise the legacy that you left behind that not even your own son could have carried out on his own. And as for you wife, I shall come for you very soon.