"That trick of yours was quite clever wife…." "Do not get your hopes up; they will be willing to wait for us to emerge from our chambers for days on end based on how they just barged onto our previous property." "They will get bored after a few hours, do not worry about it, but I want you to take a look at our bedroom that I have designed just for you. Let this be my way of thanking you for dealing with all of my burdens at the worst possible time…I also have some news as well." "What is it?" "I have more than one source confirming that an illicit relationship is taking place between HuiJae and The Senior Scholar. That is an issue that I will leave in your hands to deal with as you wish and as for my family, they will return for us until the issue has been settled." "Wha came out of your claims for he poison soup against him?" "People have their suspicions and the absence of his family does help increase them, but not by much at all." "This is another issue we need to tackle; if I can prove that your aunt's mother is poisoning her husband with the exact same poison, then we can take down 2 birds with one stone…."
"…enough of this! Where is the Main Madame Seo? She cannot possibly escape from us this time! She should be careful of us exposing her ugly matters of the past before her husband who pampers her endlessly!" "Aunt Nam? What are you talking about exactly? What ugly matters? And I would kindly ask you to leave my intimate bed chambers; for if any indignities come out of this household, then it would be rather hard for you to explain to your new in=laws, wouldn't ?" "Do not turn this around on us Seo Yeon; your past interactions have been exposed with your former fiancé who used to visit you in the brothels…." "Madame, I urge you to talk with prudence and bring along with you proof of my misdeeds if I have committed any against your sister's nephew." "Are you denying that you were previously engaged?" "I was in my childhood but that fell through the moment that I was orphaned alongside my brother. Marriage engagements and social interactions are 2 different things after all and I can assure you on my own clan's life that I have never met him since try father's death, I know that this may be hard for you to understand, but just because I have accumulated enough good deeds through karma to marry my husband and childhood friend who pampers me, it doesn't mean that 'my lowborn side' would ever be tempted enough to give up on what I have. And loudly urging me to confess to sins that I have not committed will not make my soul leave my body in extreme fear no matter how you present this situation to me at all. I have no intentions on being submissive to The Nam Clan when I share nothing in common with them at all and…." "Madame Seo! We were just faired of gossip and…." "Well I am not; I am fully aware that I have been surrounded by a lot of controversy in the past, but that was before my marriage and I would like to think that I have been nothing but an exemplary form of my new role as The Main Wife even though ii have never asked to change my status at all. But if that is even not good enough for you at all, then I really do not know what to say to anyone anymore."
"You fool of a woman! Now look at what you have done, sister? How will she help my son now?" "She didn't have any intentions on helping us from the start, can't you see that wife! And why would she after everything that we have put her through before this?" "I sincerely hope that you both have a very good excuse for upsetting my wife right now on the day of our move, aunt's." "Nephew, were you also not aware that you were tricked by her!" "Aunt's, I did not think that I had to indulge my private information onto you, but you must remember that I was her brother's close confidant for years, of course I was aware of the situation! But I can guarantee that there was no man that carried his name that has come into contact with her in any brothel at all!" "And how can you guarantee that?" "Because I am the one who bought out the brothel on behalf of The Third Prince himself, so obviously I have the list of patrons that visited her." "You…you really went that far to secure a lowborn such as her over The Mistress Han!" "The mistress of my enemy? Of course I would do that much for my wife and more! She is the mother of children for goodness sake, I had to make sure that she took her vows of chastity to me seriously! I do find it suspiciously how deep troubled your own clan is and yet you can still find the time to gossip unnecessarily like this! And without proof at all! How dare you threaten my wife with such ladies matters like this at whim! It is no wonder that nobody else wants to help you at all that you must come crawling to your one relative that you refused to acknowledge until now! Does destroying her reputation help you at all since she is the only one who can guarantee private meetings with The Emperor still? Have you all forgotten about that?" "How dare she walk out on us and make us wait for her like this!" "Calm down sister! We may be here for a while so it is better for you to save your energy." "Is she trying to ride above the head of her relatives and show us her imposing might?" "Servants! Let us get them some food and prepare some rooms for my aunts if they insist on waiting on us like this\1 also bring my scribe since I want a full account of their conversations in my absence!" "Nephew! Are you trying to aggravate us any further?" "And tell him to make not of the gossip that they have just distributed earlier on!"
"I swear that these pampered people in my Nam Clan haven't changed at all; they do not know how to breathe without having favours bestowed upon them!" "Plead for favours or admit to their mistakes, husband?" "You do know me well indeed wife." "Anyone who has been as aggrieved as us would naturally want justice for our humiliation and shame." "You do not see my behaviour towards my paternal clan as cruel then?" "If one's heart is at ease, then the world would be wonderful and quiet, but if we have hate and grudges in them instead, then naturally we have to quell them." "In that case, I know exactly what I need to do before this matter is brought into court to shame me. In fact, I have already completed the task before informing you wife." "You do not always need my approval for your plans husband, as long as they follow ur general plan, then I trust that you know what you are doing."
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"I simply would not believe it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes; do you see how entranced my nephew is with his wife? Never in my life did I see a man with eyes full of yearning for one woman!" "Weren't there rumours going around that he liked…different company for a while?" "He has known this woman for almost her entire life and his only confident is her brother, it seems like a secure match indeed." "A secure match? Can he even see or hear us with that girl in his presence? I have never seen anyone so spell bound before?" "We will have to stick with our claims of her affair one way or another; by whatever means necessary. But did you see the pile of presents that he had stacked in their new bedchambers just for her? But they have been acting quite distant with each other as of late, does she ever possess any desire to stay with our nephew at all?" "Even if she doesn't, she is a well respected person all around and our family needs to hang onto that prestige now more than ever! We need her to regain our old connections and even our own prestige once these succession of weddings have taken place so we cannot make too much of an enemy out of her yet, but we can still teach her a lesson. We do not need our nephew to worship her to the extent of forgiving her for anything and everything. It is clear that nobody has dared to put that little airhead in her place before and we need to be the ones to do so if we wish to retain this nephew of ours." "We cannot force her against him either, or he may loose the will to live altogether." "He doesn't even seem to care when she rejects his visits at all, he still does what he wants regardless of anyone else's wishes! How unruly of him! I didn't expect to…." "What did you expect after the way your brother=in=law raised him by your own husband's encouragement? But you were never able to reign in your own husband, even after he divorced you so publicly!" "We are not here for my own matters sister! It is your own boy who got himself into trouble in the absence of his own father who hardly favours him and we are still reeling from the backlash of your daughter's scandal who is still grounded in her quarters weeks later!"
"Acting docile and appeased in your own marriage got you nowhere at all, so there is no need to lecture me about my own children who are at least still alive! And where is your own son may I ask? Still grovelling his own father for his non=existaant favour towards him?" "I doubt that any of our husbands could easily tame such an unruly wench as my own nephew has, she even overcame the feared tyrant Nam Jeon himself!" "She will rile any man's desire to conquer her, so framing her for an affair should be easy enough to accomplish." "And what if our Master Seo does anything and everything in his power to stop the news from coming out, even if it means overpowering us?" "Our lives are worth nothing compared to our children's sister…"
"No! Wait! You have the wrong person! I only came to visit me mother! Please let me go! Mother! Where are you! Please save me!" "Son? What are you doing here! What is going on! Why is he being arrested! Someone please tell me! Do not let his mother die uninformed, I beg of you! My son doesn't indulge himself in any vices, so why is he…?" ""Madame! Your son is under arrest for also involving himself in the crime of rebellion by involving himself with The Third Prince's women! And he is not the only one who has been caught in this kingdom!" "What! My son…but why…and how…how meticulously this plot of rebellion has fallen onto our prestigious Nam Clan. Who would dare to dole out such women if they were not pure and beautiful alone?" "What do you mean sister?" "Who else do you think is in trouble besides us? After all that I have done for that woman, she actually dares to drag me down with her! Well I shall just see about that!"