"Wife, are you sure that you had no hand in what happened to my cousin?" "Wha are you talking about husband? Are you forgetting that we have planned this move ever since you proposed the idea when you married me? I am not that eloquent in my scheming husband." "You could have fooled me since we moved out on the exact day that it happened, but I suppose that this is our so=called revenge for ratting The Senior Scholar out to his own mother." "Well, at least it has nothing to do with you anymore since your name change and it isn't like you have encouraged the by to attend those poetry and singing sessions in that particular brothel is it? You even beat him half to death before that, so the public must take that into consideration as well." "The Nam Clan must be biting off the heads of all their connections which will surely work in our favour sooner rather than later. They are no longer dignified enough to ask for help from The Palace anymore and that is akin to watching them slowly die out with no hope whatsoever." "The crime of rebellion is no small matter and we need to find out exactly where those women came from and with plenty of proof to back up our claims in The Emperor's Court. We still need to preserve what little titles we have left for our children's futures, so we need to avoid them coming to us for help as well." "The debts of the children must be paid off by their children and now that is he is 'almost married', it really isn't our headache anymore. I just wonder how that woman is dealing with the news of our move since we hardly told anyone about it at all."
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"…My Lady; there is really nothing more important to The Master Seo than his heirs and…" 'The Master Seo? He really went that far to change his name for her? Seriously?" "…and no astrological reading can change his mind since he does not believe in such things and he never will." "How envious I am of that woman indeed to still be able to bear him fruit, as I cannot do it for him, but her return from the fire…" "I believe that The Master Seo will confer her a new title, even if his peers oppose this request of his, he will still do it…" "Of course he will…" "…and she will most likely adopt his nephew into her family registry or he will, they haven' sorted out those details yet." "The Royal Treasury is still on a high budget due to the natural disaster that just passed, and all he can think about is decorating his new home with his new wife? What happened ti that ambitious young man that I met in the marketplace over a decade ago now? It is improper to go against palace officials like this, especially during his demotion, but she herself is so beloved throughout the kingdom due to her father's long lasting reputation and the gender of the baby bely is still unknown. She desk' exactly have the noble background to suit her nephew, but I suppose he will confer her a title to surpass all of these details. He may even go as far to change her legal age, but nothing he does for her surprises me anymore to be honest. I fear that he has also given up his fear of public humiliation since he has gone through it so many times now, he has to be used to it….because I made him used to it…the past is gloomy and can no longer be retraced, but the path forwards is still full of brilliant light for someone anyways."
"My Lady, do not forget that The Madame Seo announced her pregnancy whilst everyone knew that you coexist in the same home, so you have the responsibility to look out for her during her pregnancy…" "unless she finds herself too depressed to care for her own pregnancy." "My Lady?" "Everyone knows how insecure she is when it comes to myself, and it can actually kill both parties in the last stages of pregnancy…where are the rest of The Nam Clan?" "They have all traipsed over to the new Seo Family Household to talk about the Nam issue at hand." "So they have gone over to him to beg them for their help? And they have left me alone for The Senior Scholar to fid me whenever he wants me again and…" "My Lady, he has already entered the residence and he is waiting for you inside the former Lord Nam's bedchambers…forgive me, we couldn't stop him from coming." "Oh well, at least I can finally see what his private chambers look like…"
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"…and you just let them regard our Nam Clan as a chicken coop and dog holes to be hauled away! Have you taken leave of your senses! These men are behaving atrociously towards your own family members, are you really going to do nothing about it?" Behaving atrociously? Those men were authorised before The Emperor himself to carry out their jobs as General Inspectors and you dare to slander these vital people to our Emperor himself? Since His Majesty has decreed to have this matter investigated, what gives our family the right to immunity, given out service to the palace itself for how many generations now?" But even so nephew, you are still somewhat of a dignified subject in front of His Majesty and since your family are currently experiencing difficulties, then can't you at least plead our case even once so we cease to be a laughing stock to the entire kingdom?" "Do you really think your son was falsely accused, aunt?" "He may be a good=for=nothing, but not even he is that dense to commit the crime of rebellion in the public eye!" "After The Third Prince's demise, his women were sent to his closest acquaintances; high officials and generals of the sort as bribes of his support. So how has your son come into contact with these women at all? Have you even carried out an investigation yet? Or do I have to do that for this family as well, even though he is your son and not my own?" "What is the likelihood of their punishments?" "Exile or beheading based on the duration of his involvement with those jinxed women; the come is too serious for me to help out at all, otherwise I shall loose my own life next to your son's and The Nam bloodline will come to an end in case my wife births me a daughter instead of a son, and we cannot let that happen, can we?" "In spite of your name change you mean, nephew?" "Yes of course," "How can you possibly let our family collapse like this?" "My family? Since when have I been a part of this family at all? I have only met you a few months ago when you invited yourself into my home without my permission and I am a Seo now, so please tell me what do I owe you exactly? Well? You slandered me as soon as I lost my father so that you could distance yourself from me even when I was homeless, so who are you to demand my help at all! That spawn of the devil that you sired should also face the consequences of belonging to this clan as I myself have had to as well." "Very well! We shall just not plead fr mercy from you at all, for you have made your stance clear to us!" "It is good that you know that since nobody took my relationship with my son into consideration when they arrested him." "And you can say that with such ease when we are all suffocating with anxiety; I have no idea what your heart is made of at all…" "My father hardened my heart a long time ago, so you can thank him for my emotional numbness. And since this is our internal family's matter and my wife is an external part of this family, she has no say in politics, even more so in the face of the death of her brother. Because if he was surely alive, then he would have the connections to help you out with this matter more than I can."
Their silence was just as deafening as the justice that I had been looking for within these people; so it was my own clan who set fire to my wife's family and caused her to flee to a damned brothel where she had to wait for me to come out, knowing that I was with her biggest rival in this life and I was going to make them pay for that. If it were not for them, I could have reunited with my wife a lot sooner and never had to deal with HuiJae ever again and now my wife was distancing herself from me during her pregnancy for this issue, and I wasn't having it at all. I wasn't going too let them harm my marital family anymore and there would be hell to pay for the emotional damage alone that we had to endure by their hands.
"If my husband has other worries or considerations to make, must I force or pressure him? Maybe you all have such courage, but we are sill in our first year or marriage and I can only stay cautious and within my bounds." "What an unruly and slippery tongued girl that you have married nephew, we can hardly get her to accommodate us at all." "She is my wife, why would she need to accommodate strangers? Wouldn't that go against Confucius laws at all?" "The Clan is one body and the succession or destruction affects us all in the end; if nay clan members get sentenced…" "Forgive me, but we need to leave as I can see that my husband's temper has reached its limit, and he will not he held responsible for anything that happens after this warning." "Madame Seo…" "Relative's, if I go against my husband for you and he ends up divorcing me, then what will happen to me? I am an orphan and who will take care of me? You?" "Will you not let my son at least die informed of his crime?" "Well since he was the one who committed the crime, he should be more informed than anyone else, don't you think so?" "You…!" "He is noble, virtuous and arrogant, but not even he can take personal revenge on anyone." "We shall see about that."