"You bitch! This is all your fault! You are a damned jinx just like your damned mother!" "Is that so? Is that what my mother was to this kingdom who didn't know what to do with her? A jinx?" "She was too damned smart, happy and spoiled for a woman of her social status! How dare she! Myself and my sister were raised in precious nobility and we were never happy! My own mother has never been happy! None of the Nam Women have ever been happy, and your mother dared to show off her happiness to the world! That lowlife kisaeng! Your father stole her from a brothel whereas my fiancé couldn't even be bothered to fight for me once my own sister had seduced him away from me! Your father worked day and night to put food on the table and even had the initiative to hunt on his own whereas our husbands had to wait years for their fathers to hand them any work of note at all! Do you have any idea how we lived until then! We lived like the servants who mocked us! Look at my clothes! I dressed up like your mother for my own husband to notice me because my sister was having children before me! Do you have any idea how humiliating that was for me!" "So you both suffered in your marriages and that was somehow my mother's fault?" "She was educated unlike us! She was beautiful unlike us! She had her husband's unwavering devotion unlike us! He always had his head lowered when facing other women, unlike our husbands who couldn't go a single day without…getting what they wanted, no matter who they got it from! But now…I am the mother=in=law of a Prince who will save me and…" "Oh madame, how wrong you are. It is still my mother who was simply enriched by the love of her husband who has the last laugh. Now that you have a secured a place in this yangban forever, then I might as well tell you that it was your new in=laws that assisted you in burning my shop to the ground. And because I am a woman, there is no law for me to pay for my own insurance, so that is something that you and your husband will spend the rest of your miserable lives paying back to me in return for what you did to my mother." "You jealous bitch! You are only saying this because you are jealous that my daughter landed a Prince instead of you! That is why you kept going to that temple where he was going, isn't that right?" "Oh that is right, I completely forgot about that; the concubine who kept going to The Buddhist Temple to find a wife for her son The Crown Prince to cover up for his already pregnant woman that he snuck into the palace without permission."
"What did you just say? You didn't plan to…have him for yourself? But why? He is a Prince for goodness sake!" "I already found my soulmate as soon as I met him and I have no plans on upgrading him for wealth or splendour at all. But that leaves me with the question; what were you doing following me there anyways?" "You…knew this whole time? You knew that after the first scandal, that my daughter would follow you because of the Prince…you knew that she would go that far to…" "To trap her man in the exact same way that your sister trapped your fiancé? After you assisted in the murder of my mother and stole her idea to run the embroidery shops that I eventually have back in my hands?" "You have no proof of anything!" "All I need is a written confession, because Seo Geom and his wife were more beloved in this kingdom than any noble clan that has fallen in the hands of myself and my husband, just in time for The Emperor to build up thew new Joseann Dynasty." "What are you scheming against my daughter? Tell me!" "I already told you aunt, that The Prince already has someone that he is deeply devoted to in a way that nobody in your clan will ever understand, so none of your daughter's schemes will work against them. He only needed a main wife and it looks like he got rather impatient with his mother's request since his true bride is in her third trimester and is ready to give birth at anytime now. And when she sees that you agreed to marry off her sisters with absolutely no dowry to their name at all, well it looks like The Prince's woman will have no choice but to become the main wife after all by default, which will shock everyone since she comes from an inferior background like I do." "What are you…no! My daughter is also pregnant and…" "I think we both know that she will not make it to full term, maybe I should let my husband know so that he can pass on the message now and let your daughter live in misery like my mother did, or shall I let her hold onto her last shred of dignity and let the real world come crashing down around her as her mother and aunt did? I would let her confront you, but I need to let you and your husband live so that you can repay your debt to me, my husband and even The Senior Scholar. Although there is a way that you can at least pay off that debt, I can give you that much slack at least since he will not show you any mercy either…"
"…what a bitch! What a young, stable and intelligent bitch that makes her moves with so much astuteness and weight that hardly anyone can fight back against her! I should have helped kill her father before he had the chance to train her….but she is a girl, so who would have thought that she could accomplish what she has without ever meeting her mother at all." "Sister! How did you even find me here? Was it your nephew? Did he lead you here to mock me!" "Of course he did! How else would I have found you here on the day of your daughter's wedding, sister?" "How is she? What happened in the palace?" "Your daughter was shamed and humiliated on her wedding day, especially when she had to take the back entrance as a concubine since you failed to give the family any dowry and now The Crown Prince is stuck with a harem full of women who are related to the criminal Nam Jeon. And when your daughter saw all of her sister's there, well it was enough for her to throw a fit in front of everyone including all of the ministers and made her blackout as usual. That won over everyone's support for his main woman to be granted a higher social status since they found no fault in her personality or demeanour or even etiquette." "What a wench! They must have had Seo Yeon in mind when they slapped my daughter in the face with that move!" "They punished your daughter by asking away her luxury items since she is a pregnant concubine with her father's shame of burning down his own shop be known to the entire kingdom now. They especially took away her…your gold embroidered pillow with the excuse of her needing neater materials to sleep on during her pregnancy, which I suspect they already know is quite weak." "I should have given her my jaw millet pillow instead! My poor daughter…" "Even her fragrant teas have been confiscated, her incense sticks, her makeup has all been given to The Main Wife as a tribute to her and her child." "But then what can stop The Madame Nam from donating gifts of her own? Ones that are too dangerous and too expensive?" "She already gave the new Princess Consort some expensive gifs that not even your daughter has had the luxury of enjoying, not when she has such a tight=fisted father who preferred his illegitimate daughters to his only legitimate one. I heard she even gifted her some rare pigeons blood ruby and suggested that the palace servants throughly go through what little items she had left to baby proof it as she calls it. She even had the palace physician that she is close with to examine her in front of her own mother=in=law and…well, I can guess that you can imagine how well that turned out to be. Both The Concubine and The Crown Prince were left even more embarrassed from her medical condition and they were kind enough o send some lilies and yi lan flowers to calm down her increasing blood pressure."
"What? Yi lan flowers…no surely not, not even Seo Yeon could have figured that out…her specialises and literature, poetry and politics to align with her husband, she does not know the specifies about jewellery and flowers, she cannot possibly have that much time on her hands. And may child's body isn't fit for child bearing, never mind going into labour, but it is also the one thing that is keeping the lives of her parens at present. If she needs to keep the baby, then she cannot sleep with her husband at all! But knowing how competitive she is, of course she will try, especially with those damned flowers around her! But she shall be ok if nobody waters them, and she already knows that by now. She should also no longer gossip as part of her new etiquette skills and she has no choice but to accept her new husband's harem in order to live a far more peaceful life than we have ever had the chance to. She still has to bask in her own glory to survive whilst being filial to her new in=laws and be acquainted with new social status…my god, I haven't really taught her anything at all, have I? What sort of a mother am I really? I haven't taught her how to keep full propriety and courtesy in the face of adversity…and I was supposed to be thee with her and each her all of it. And yet here I am being held back by the ghost of the woman that you killed sister! Not me!" "Enough! I did not ask for your help with anything! You didn't even touch the girl because you were always afraid of her husband, so what are you fretting about! You are only here because you burnt down your shops and nothing else!" "You are a bitch as well! You stole my man from me and that is why I am living this miserable fate of my life with this looser of a man who cannot keep a single business together even if his whole clan depended on it!" "Why else do you think that I chose your man over my own fiancé at the time? I was so sure that I could escape another miserable fate at the time when my fiancé only accepted you for our family's support. But who knew that I would end up just as miserable as you, because your fiancé and my husband only regards you as the light of his life despite the fact that I devoted myself to him. I have lost all of my children and I am a divorced woman living in disgrace and for the first time in my life, my schemes have not only stopped working, but they have backfired on me completely and not just me, but my entire clan. And as for my husband, he only ever saw me as a greedy woman who only chased wealth and schemes to steal other women's men, and that is why he punished me with all of those concubines that he kept taking in over the years." "So you have just wasted away decades tying to prove yourself to him and utterly failing not just him, but all of us. Did you actually ever love him sister? Or was winning over me more important? You even went so far as to kill Seo Geom's wife, only to have not live a single day in peace or happiness. You poisoned her with the dessert that her husband would always buy her and then poisoned all of our lives with your never ending jealousy and greed. You are insidious and cruel and for that you have lost your entire family, your lands, your property, your wealth and you do no even have inner peace!"