"My Lord, your wife as agreed to the arrangement made by the wife of The Senior Scholar." "No she wouldn't, she is already so angry with me about HuiJae, there is no way that she will accommodate another woman, not now. Are you sure that you heard about this correctly?" "My Lord, I was the one who was in charge of settling her down as close to your quarters as possible. The wife even pointed out your lack of male descendants and…made comments about your mother's bloodline…" "Is that so? I had almost forgotten about that little obstacle of mine…" "Your wife also gifted the madame a gift that came out of The Mistress Han's jewellery box…" "The red one? She actually took out something from all of the jewels that she told me to donate for the natural disaster that happened? Where did that even come from?" "Well My Lord, judging from the reaction of the madame…it looks like it was a gift from her husband?" "To HuiJae? But how did she…" The Madame Nam has even offered her to the madame, and she had no reason to decline as she used her own logic against her." "Really? Only my wife could come up with a solution to get rid of someone in less than a few hours. Take me to them right now." "My Lord, I fear that The Madame Nam would rather prefer that you do not come at all…" "Well she cannot stop me can she! Take me to them right away."
"As I said Madame…" "Well well, I can see what happens when living with my family; they give so much of my private information away that I may be inundated with many women soon." "And what is the harm of that Lord Nam?" "Well let me see about that; your husband leaves me his leftovers that you yourself clearly want out of your own home so that you can have your husband all to himself again, especially in the absence of your son…" "Husband…" "And who exactly do I have to blame for that, Lord Nam?" "Husband, please…" "Well I certainly have no idea, why don't you ask one of your husband's spies that he has already placed in my home long ago? How else do you think that my so=called acquaintance was able to throw all of her lavish parties after my demotion when a huge chunk of my wealth was taken from me in the form of a fine? And how she always threw those parties when I was on leave from the village to carry out my work? I was basically robbed from inside of my own home and my fathers family have descended upon me to take away the other half of what was rightfully and legal handed down to me, so I have no idea why you are also plotting against me madame? Is it because your husband told you that I killed your son? Very well, even if he did do that, I really wonder what sort of evidence that he mordaciously attained on time to prove that? Did he even prove it to The Emperor's court? And was that before or after he starting visiting my acquaintance in my absence?"
"Well….no he didn't show me the evidence but….if not you at the time, then who else could have done it at the time?" "I seem to remember that your husband also seemed to be in direct communication with his ally for the very first time around the same time…just like my wife's father was." "Husband! Just what are you…!" "Lord Nam! What exactly are you implying?" "Why don't you tell me madame since you have also proven yourself quite capable of scheming as well? My wife lost her father the exact same way that you lost your son, because as far as I could remember I was working for The Fifth Prince at the time and I was nowhere around the palace at the time, so how could I have had the time to plan such a sophisticated murder that would require a team of people's efforts when I have always worked on my own? Every time before and after that period, I would be severely beaten down by your husband verbally when The Third Prince was close by, along with his entire department? It is like your husband to always cause such a big scene in The Emperor's court, loosing all sense of propriety? And more than once?" "Well…" "i have no use for anymore spies in my home madame, so please take her away along with your husband's mistress, or I shall have no issue in dropping her off to your one yangban at all with all of the servants that she has under her control, for I already have far too many people living here already!"
"Husband! How could you possibly be so blunt as to…." "What else was I supposed to do? If you hd communicated your plans to me earlier, then I could have come up with something more eloquent in the first place!" "Don't you dare put this on me! And how dare you bring up my father's case without a clear and concise plan! After everything that I put myself through just to get all of the information, you just bring him up like it was nothing!" "And that is why we need clear communication with each other even when you are angry at me like this! Otherwise…."
"Master and Madame Nam, the madame has left her concubine here after angrily storming off back to her own home, where I have it on good authority that she has taken the children away back to her maternal home and her husband is not happy about it in the least." "Bring her to me, and bring HuiJae along here." "Oh for goodness sake wife!" "If you deem her wise enough to stay here, then she should help me to take on the burden of your ambitions, should she not? Especially when only one of us is currently pregnant and stressed out continuously like this!"
"…please forgive me Madame Nam! I know that you are currently pregnant and I have no desire to break up your family at all, but…but she has kicked me out of my own home and has told me that…" "Servant! You should not speak unless spoken to! How dare you…" "Mistress Han! Is there a reason why you are stopping the girl from speaking in our presence? It is almost as if you are aware of something that we, your masters are not? Never mind, it was a mistake on my behalf to bring in such an incompetent kisaneg into this and get your council on this decision! Go back to your quarters and make space for the new girl…" "Excuse me! How can you just put her in with me…" "I am doing so because I have a feeling that you both have quite a lot in common? Unless I am wrong and you wish to correct me? Mistress Han?" "Never mind…My Lady. I will make space for her immediately…." "Please carry on with your words, concubine?"
"As I was saying before, My Master promised me riches and glory and a reunion with my family if I were to harm myself and frame you for it, Madame Nam! Or even framed your husband for rape and…" "Servant! Take down this confession immediately! Carry on, concubine?" "You will either be forced to accept me or The Madame will make a claim in court and in the entire kingdom that you are an abusive couple, just like NamJeon and his main wife was…" "A reunion with your family? What does that mean exactly? Servants! Serve us lunch whilst you are at it, we maybe here for a while." "The Madame has my birth mother and siblings under her control!" "So you are The Senior Scholar's concubine? Or his illegitimate daughter?" "Well…" "You know what? Let us just skip that question and focus on the reason why you are here exactly." "My female family members will be sold onto brothels if I cannot make this plan work, but I have no desire to be anyone's concubine anymore! I am sick of that lifestyle! I know that I have no place to ask you, but please help me! Please!" "Do you really think she will spare your family if you do her bidding?"
"She….wants me to take any chance I can to die here so that she will collect my body as proof! "With scars to match for sure….but this doesn't really sound like her at all! She is a meek woman who is subservient to her husband, who could have given her such a graphic idea in the first place?" "I have my suspicions husband, but let us get the full confession and settle the girl in first before we can think about all of that."
"The Master wants to sue you in court after you were the first to put your funds forwards and redeem yourself in the eyes of The Emperor, Lord Nam!" "How exactly?" "For mistreatment of lives right after the flooding disaster and forcing a goo concubine to death!" "Just like how my father did my mother…he really wants too go that route with me? Seriously?" "He wants to kill you…as your father would have had he known that you married the hostage that got him murdered and framed as a traitor to the nation…" "Framed? FRAMED! WHO SAID THAT MY FATHER WAS FRAMED!" "Husband! You are scaring her for goodness sake!" "Please forgive me My Lord! I will even go as far as to destroy my face for you since i have no other path for survival!" "No! Please calm down…I will give you a path for survival! But you must agree to our terms?" "Madame?" "You either replace the concubine that my husband has kept in name only since she is to be wed to my husband's nephew when he enters the palace upon his own marriage, or we can send you to a safe home in another property that we have! We can even bring your family out for you and we can negotiate a marriage of your choice on our behalf!" "Wife!" "Husband! Look at the enemies you have? Do you really expect them to believe that you have no concubines only due to your devotion to me? If she promises to keep her distance and keep the honour of our family, then why not? Look at how well HwaWol turned out because of the help that you gave her?" "How did you find out about that? Did she tell you? I made her promise me that she wouldn't at all…" "Husband, it became rather obvious with her choice of calligraphy style." "Thank you! Pleas bring my family to me and I shall stay here in name only! I will sign any contact that you send my way and I promise to keep my distance from The Lord Nam unless he summons me! I will even appear as a witness in your case as long as you bring my family to me please!" "Very well, you shall settle with The Mistress Han and…" "No! Forgive me as I do not wish to appear ungrateful, but if you place me with her, she can kill me a lot faster than my previous Master can!" "Oh really, and why do you say that?" "Well…" "Husband, you make the claim in court about this and the poison soup in the palace as I will outside in public! And you bring her family in before that so we can have sufficient evidence and protect them. And as for the concubine, she can take over our one since she is to wed your cousin, and she can move in with The Mistress Han instead!" "Very well, let us do this together."