"Nephew? What are you doing here?" "I have gathered some information for my uncle to hear like he asked me to aunt. I did also want to take the chance to visit you, as I have missed you quite a lot, but my uncle really doesn't make it easy to meet with you, even casually." "He is just over=protective of his growing family, but I want you to understand that you always have a valuable place within this family." "But my uncle, he doesn't really spend much time with me at all…" "Your uncle has led a hard and restrictive life himself due to your shared social status; he himself is still new to the idea of love and new friendships as they were never options that he had growing up either." "My uncle…he only smiles at you, and he was so miserable without you aunt. I just want someone to have like you in my life as he does; I do not think that is too much to ask for." "As long as you do not betray anyone nephew, you will surely get all that you worked hard for. Your uncle did that once even if I was against his will and he barely survived that ordeal in the first place." "What do you mean aunt? What did my uncle go through? Please tell me."
"Nephew? Wha are you doing here? Do you have some news for me?" "Yes I do uncle." "Very well, tell me what you know." "Where is BoGeom husband? Do not tell me that she already left?" "The girl tired herself out when she went apple=picking, and her father picked her up and put her in a carriage on the way home to her mother. She must be missing her and we cannot hold her hostage her all day long." "Do not act as if you do not miss the girl yourself husband." "Well…maybe I do have a soft spot for her, I am especially impressed with how intelligent she is at such a young age and now I have my standards set for my own children." "Husband…" "Talk to me nephew."
"The mother of The Prince has only taken the marriage into consideration if she can take in the rest of family's illegitimate daughters as concubine for The Crown Prince's harem, which is reportedly the only thing that he was lacking to come up on top for this contest for the throne." "She will take in all 6 illegitimate daughters? She must be expecting a very large dowry indeed, just as I have taken over the embroidery shops." "They are too stuck in this marriage now to turn back; they have created their own end without needing our interference at all wife, but I still expect you to keep on top of things. And tell me what you found out nephew?" "Apparently, one of the cousin's illegitimate sister got married off earlier than the rest and she suffers heavily under her mother=in=law, so she had no choice but to leave and come home as soon as she could as a disgraced woman." "What happened exactly?" "The mother=in=law came up with some excuse that the daughter=in=law did not have a good postpartum after she gave birth to a girl instead of a boy, so she needed a lot of bed rest and took the child away from her. The nannies are just as careless and leave the children unattended when they can. Another daughter in the yangban accidentally knocked down a smoke pan that rested above the baby's crib and the burning ash fell upon her. Some other child rushed to swap away the burning ash, but her hands got burned in the process and the daughter=in=law got the blame for the whole incident." "There is no doubt that the bride's mother will hide this incident from The Prince's mother which will just land her in more trouble when it all comes to light, and what on earth will they do with the issue of the dowry, husband?" "I have an idea in mind, but that means that I need to handle the transference of these shops right away." "I also found something in her quarters when I snooped around and I found something that might explain that issue a little more." "What issue? Do you mean the scandal, nephew?" "Take a look at this aunt…" "Give it to me instead! Be mindful of the things that you give her whilst she is pregnant boy!" "Forgive me uncle…" "Calm down husband and take a look at it, what is it?"
"This seems to be some sort of aphrodisiac between men and women and her favourite yi lan flowers can manipulate the drug even more." "Where there flowers in the temple when they…" "Yes, yes there was wife, and this is something that I can also present at the right time." "What right time? Doesn't her baby solidify the marriage that you want to happen?" "That baby is a step in the right direction, but it can be a step in the wrong direction if my enemies use that baby and manipulate it against me or my own children first wife, and I always need to have a backup plan."
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"I am leaving my chambers for the first time and bidding farewell to my parents. I hope that my mother and father can enjoy a long life with unending wealth and…" "You will become a part of another family now, so do well in completing your filial duties on both sides and the duty of sending out the concubine will rest on your little cousin today by order of your new mother=in=law." "But she is my daughter! Not hers!" "We all deem you showing your face so brazenly after this scandal as inappropriate." "So I cannot even see her get into her wedding palanquin?" "We cannot risk any more shame from befalling this family; and your daughter needs to leave though those doors on her own 2 feet instead of having you coddle her in every sage of her life! She is a woman now, not a little girl and she alone will enjoy the fortunes or misfortunes that will well=crafted marriage will give her because it is all of her own making." "Mother! Please!" "Servants! Drag both the brides parent's into their quarters and keep them under lock and key until the festivities are over!" "Mother! What are you doing! I am the mother=in=law of a Prince now! Who dares to harm me! If anyone dares to mistreat me, then I will personally file a complaint!" "We are all suffering from supercilious looks for the first time in decades because of you! Well! Will you confess to the lates stunt that you have pulled or what?" "What are you talking about, mother?" "How did you loose our shops! Tell me!" "Mother? What do you mean? Husband! What is she saying? We haven't lost our shops…right? We agreed that we would use it for our daughter's dowry…." "Not just that one daughter, I have 6 other daughters to provide for at the same time!" "What did you do husband! Tell us!" "Servants! Imprison both husband and wife without food for the rest of the day! Cane their useless servants to death and be grateful that I do not replace you as servants to wash commodes instead!"
"…Husband! What on earth are my parents talking about? Why are they so upset with us! Just what did you do!" "Does our daughter know that she is getting married alongside her illegitimate sisters as her husband's concubines?" "Of course I didn't tell her! She would have rather not gone through the marriage that she caused through scandal than to share her husband with anyone, let alone the sisters that she hates and barely acknowledges! But what does this have to do with the shops?" "I lost them all, all 3 shops since the embroidery gifts for The Princess took off and I lost all of my customers to that mysterious unknown business instead!" "You lost…how did you…wait a minute, I cannot comprehend this. We were a thriving business for many years, how have you not put any money aside for emergencies like if the business went bad like this? Husband!" "How else do you think I have been able to support such a large family! My concubines, my parents, my children…" "So you have been embezzling the goods you have generated from our shops! My shops! My family shops!" "Your shops! You were the one who stole the entire concept from Seo Geom's wife!" "But she was far too poor to have even come up with a market stall, let alone a shop and…" "That doesn't matter you fool! We still wouldn't have been blessed with our wealth for decades if we didn't seal her idea! And you want to know what the irony here is wife! The business has come back to her daughter through her son=in=law's hands!" "What…?" "Your sister's nephew has taken the business from my hands! He didn't even have to pay for it! I lost all 3 shops for nothing and now Seo Geom's daughter will have experience more wealth than we ever could in this lifetime! He will surely pass on the shops to her and keep the rest of his unending wealth to himself!"
"So what? You just lost the shops? Just like that?" "No…" "My god man, speak! Tell me what is going on! What happened! What did you do that is making me face such a punishment like this in my old age! To be locked up in my quarters like this!" "I burnt it! The very last shop that we had, the new one that I set up last year! What choice did I have? I need to have something to give for all of my daughters dowry!" "And just how do you plan to collect the insurance money when the shops no longer belong to you, husband! Have you taken leave of your senses!" "I will find a way! My new in=laws will have to support me in return and I will eventually take back the shops even if he has transferred them to his wife! I can attain that much as least with the help of The Royal Family! They are the only ones who can control him at this point!" "Didi I live a life of misery just to end up dying a miserable death? I helped my sister poison that girl to death when she was the happiest with her husband, and I still have not experienced even a fraction of what she had with her husband, in fact no women in my family has experienced that…apart from her own daughter despite everything that she went through." "…I hid the business accounts, but they should be able to find them eventually…and by then your family will let us go! Where is the dowry that we received for our son! Where is it wife! Tell me!" "How do you think we have been living under this roof and having expenses for food and clothing thus far? We have no other expenses other than our son's dowry to feed us and buy us wood to keep ourselves warm at night!" "Wood? We are paying for wood when we can just pick up the twigs outside of this yangban for free! My god, you are wasting the resources that we have more than I ever could have…who is it? Who is there? What do you want from us…?" "So this is what you have done with my shops uncle? Embezzled money? Set the shop on fire yourself? And you expect me to pay for the insurance so that you can take my mother=in=law's shops back from me? Did you write all of that down nephew?" "Yes I did uncle." "Good, we shall take him to The Emperor to be tried in front of him for these crimes and in front of his many daughters who have just gotten officially married only a few minutes ago. Let us now see the fate of The Nam Clan in front of the kingdom that you have dedicated your lives to. And as for my wife, she can keep my aunt here company until I return." "No! Nephew no! Please do not do this to us! Do no destroy your paternal clan!" "And why not? What has this clan ever done for me? Well?"