"…That lowly maid bitch dared to betray me only because you were plotting my demise in the shadows, Seo Yeon! How else would that Widow have the guts to turn on me like this!" "Concubine Chung, what did you expect when you repeatedly used her own son to gain favours and immunity from my fiancé? To the point where you put his life at risk? The Lord Nam has worked extremely hard to get to where he is right now, how dare you try to manage him like that!" "Are you telling me that he was the one who set me up as well? You…" "You should have sensed that she would turn on you as soon as you did the same thing to her." "She was a dog that followed me around everywhere that I went, so why would I pay any attention to her at all?" "Humans are more sophisticated than dogs, that is why." "You lowly bitch! You are just as cunning as your lowly mother was! Was it not for her schemes that she concocted with your lowly father, then my family wouldn't have fallen into ruins back then just like it is now!" "And what would you know anything about that? Surely you were not even born then…" "My mother told me about it all!" "So some families woking in the palace all united to bring mine down, didn't they? Was it just because of my father's reputation that nobody else could complete with? Or my mother's wit and charm back then?" "What do you think you spoiled brat! My family would have never sunken this low without your help, isn't that so!"
"It was your endless greed, arrogance and recklessness that caused you to bring down your entire family; did you forget who your husband serves? How dare you gamble with his life like that, and after everything that you did to marry him in the first place. Wasn't that treason to begin with? I bet that is why your husband couldn't stand to share your bed as he witnessed you throw away all of the hard work that he did for his only best friend growing up. So much so that your own actions forced The Third Prince to take away the life of his only friend personally…do you have any idea how painful that is? For him to have to do that?" "And do you?" "Of course I do, because it was him who almost did the same thing to my own men."
"My husband is an official with great merits to his name! He didn't deserve to die like that, no matter what he did! He accomplished extraordinary feats for this kingdom! And his nation! My husband is a hero whilst you will always be the whore of the bastard that everyone in this kingdom despised! He is takings sweet time to marry you, isn't he? Hasn't it been about five years now since you were taken as his hostage?" "No matter what our husband's have done, my own one recognises who is his Emperor, unlike yours who has forgotten that he is a mere servant to that Emperor no matter what he does. So how dare he place himself above him? And my husband worked hard to be where he is now, unlike your husband who was given everything to him on a silver plate through a Prince under heaven." "Why are you even here? How did you get access to my home? And where is the edict from His Majesty?" "His Majesty has given full authority of your death to my fiancé and I am just here to carry to out on his behalf since he isn't comfortable with doling out punishments to women." "If His Majesty can write up a decree to kill my husband then he can do the same for me, can't he?" "And who are you to be written up by The Emperor? You are just one of hundreds of concubines in this kingdom, and after everything you have done, he never wants to hear your name being uttered in his presence again." "Does he…really detest me so much? The Emperor himself?" "He hates you enough to have granted you a divorce before you're husband's death so that you cannot be buried in the same plot of land as his family." "Wait…what did you just say?" "The Emperor personally issued an order to declare your divorce, stating that there is no need for you to abide my the family code of conduct." "So where will I be buried? With my maternal family? Only me? What about my sister…." "She will be buried next to The Master Chung whilst your poor daughter shall be taken into the nearest brothel to pay off your debts of humiliation against The Emperor himself for the rest of her life." "What…but she is innocent! She didn't do anything wrong at all!" "Then why didn't you think about her even once when you're never ending greed and jealousy took over you?"
"Do you know why he loathe you? Your husband I mean?" "Now what are you talking about, Seo Yeon? My husband has never loathed me, not for a single moment since we met. He was always fond of me and he has never scolded me once, even if I did make mistakes…he never ignored me for too long either." "Then why do you think he likes you? It cannot be due to your beauty since you are not the first that he laid his eyes upon when growing up beside a Prince." "Are you then suggesting that he favoured me for my family connections alone?" "The truth is as clear as glass in your heart, so why are you denying it?" "How can he not have true affections for me?" "Because you have always been so arrogantly domineering along with your entire family, I can imagine he got over you as soon as he started bonding with your sister more. I doubt that he even has a shred of evidence left for you and your daughter at all." "I am his most favoured concubine and nobody can change that fact at all. When we were newlyweds…he already had so many women on top of my sister stealing away the position of the main wife from me. But he spoiled me endlessly…that was until he was forced to spend more time with his main wife. He would stay with her all night and make me wait for him until the next morning arrived, and he still didn't come to me then either. But it isn't like you have ever had to taste such a bitter feeling before, isn't that right, Seo Yeon? To wait fr your man from dusk until dawn?" "I am rather familiar to the feeling, if you will ever believe me at all." "That is because you do not know love as I do; do you really think that the world cannot see what your so-called husband has planned for you? The Lord Nam wants you, despite everything you have done to make his family fall. He hates you for that secretly, but he also cannot fathom the idea of someone else possessing you in ways that he would not be able to if you moved on with somebody else. He wants to break you so that you only recognise him as your savour; and he wants to crush you so that you will be submissive to him only because all he has is you. My own husband on the other hand is nothing like that at all; he was happy when he heard about my pregnancy…at first anyways." "He must have been quite disappointed when you birthed a mere girl…" "But in the end, his favourite child turned out to be my niece! How unfair is that! Does that make any sense to anyone else?"
"So you took the lives of other concubines children in spite of your own?" "I did resent them for they're favour and there mere existence in my matrimonial household, but I had never witness a man favour a woman so much as he did my dear sister. I admit that I felt angered by his sudden neglect and I wasn't willing to wait for him all night long again. And any woman who dares to compete with me for favour must die, no matter who she is even in the palace itself. To be treated like an obedient puppy was the worst sort of humiliation which incites one to kill when provoked too much." "You shall now die in return whilst The Widow Nam will live on with daily slaps and kneeling as punishments from this day onwards. And after you shall set an example to the rest of the world after you death, let us see who will dare copy your ways to climb up your social rank, like your daughter for example."
"Most of your servants will also die with you, unlike the younger ones that will be banished from this kingdom forever thanks to you along with your maternal family. I will take your daughter along with me whilst your entire family gather together in the main hall to take your suicide options and The Chung Family comes to an end."
"Do you have any idea how your mother's family threw her into that brothel Seo Yeon? She was an unfortunate child and the only girl in one until she developed a scheming mind in that place and managed to wrap your father of all people around her little finger." "There is no need to spew lies about my family now that yours will meet it's end today…" "My mother told me everything; it was your grandmother who worked hard when your grandfather had nothing, so much so that she became almost blind at the end of her days. She had lost her sight, her beauty and even her vitality, which made her a target for her husband's ever growing harem when he finally made it big as a merchant may decades later. Your grandmother was the legal wife but she was older and uglier in her elderly phase, and didn't know how to scheme for herself to save her life or that of your mother. That is when your mother was the only girl in the kingdom with an unnatural thirst for knowledge ever since she could read. She wasn't tutored or educated like your uncle was, she had to teach herself, which then overshadowed every achievement that her brother made, which is why he hated her so much. So he made her suffer in every which way possible during their childhood, even going so far as to punish his own mother for giving him a sister in the first place. Your uncle grew up with the same ambition of becoming a noble as his father did, who was reluctant to visit your grandmother at all. And who could she vent her anger onto other than your mother back then?"
"And so? What do you wish to prove by telling me all of this?" "You and your mother manage to suck out the light and attention from a room so effortlessly that I am not surprised by how many enemies you have, even after the day I die. Your mother was bullied endlessly until she found her man but you never will, because he doesn't love you the same way as your father did to her. He wasn't an unreasonable man, but you should have seen the look on his face if the servants dared to bully his precious wife, the only person that he ever had by his side."
"I have also been bullied in my lifetime, my mother wasn't the only one. And I strived by favour since I overcame those obstacles myself, I never actively sought them out because I have no need for it. I have been an outcast my whole life, why do I care what others think about me at all, apart from my own brother." "You have out mere handouts to your allies apart from the one that you handed over to your brother, but you simply wanted her to represent your own favour no matter where he takes her so that your reputation will become stable. Whereas I had to strive for love, strive for grudges against those who want my love, strive for knowledge so I am never caught up in traps like you have been since leaving your fiancé's side. I hate you more than my sister who was granted everything to her since her birth, because I did everything according to my status and I still have nothing at all." "Farewell, Concubine Chung."