"You can hate me all you want, but we are sill sisters who share the same fate no matter what. But as far as I am concerned, my marriage and clan are over to me since our parens clearly have no interest in saving us at all. My husband is wiling to face a life of misery just to be reincarnated wih you in the next life. You have no skills at all, not in household management or childrearing, and I was more virtuous than you, but he clearly didn't care about that at all. So that is why I will leave you here to rot in your quarters until you find a way to pay back your debts. And for the life of misery that you made me live with your man, I shall be the one to take care of your daughter and grandchild in return. I will even look out for your son on your behalf and I will use them to get my revenge on that illegitimate half=breed bastard nephew of mine for the hell he has put us through, and that damned unless kisaeng girl! Your children are Royal now, and they can use their spouses to eliminate his only weaknesses, which are The Seo Siblings. His cold and corrupted heart shall break into pieces and then he will have another unless and miserable marriage like we have had to! We shall kill the child in Seo Yeon's body and leave him alone with his nephew or watch him have a child with somebody else…maybe the kisaeng girl…and watch him long for his deceased family that he lost because of me! Exactly how I lost my husband because of him! The child will have a stepmother who will love her husband more than him, who will never experience a harmonious family! And she is getting bigger with that pointy belly of hers…and yet he still only craves her company! My own husband whored himself out for years when I got pregnant and he never stopped until the day that we divorced! If we cannot be as happy as her lowly mother was, then I will never let her be either!" "NO! DON'T YOU DARE GO TO MY CHILDREN! Just because you only used your children as tools it doesn't mean you can use my children in the same way! Stay away from them! Sister! I mean it! Sister!" "Enough of your wailing! The first in=law's breakfast will be tomorrow and I do not intend on missing a thing! And as for The Senior Scholar, I will let him know of your whereabouts when he needs to collect his debt from you." "Sister!"
"…I just simply pity my parent's situation cousin, is there really nothing that you can do to help me? To help our family?" "What family? I am a Seo now and you are no longer a Nam, so what family are you talking of, cousin?" "Are you waiting for me to kneel and beg you for anything, just like how you treat your wife!" "And just what is that supposed to mean?" "Concubine! Do you think that you can curb your brash tongue for one morning? Have you already forgotten your noble teachings! A family is eating together and you just act like a tyrant like this?" "Forgive me Your Highness, I have never interacted with my female cousin here before today, so I had no idea that she lacked so much despite having everything handed to her." "My nephew is right Your Highness, besides, a murderer is not worthy of being mentioned at all." "Aunt? Do you have any idea what you just said? Hold your tongue if you have nothing else to say in the presence of Royalty!" "Didn't you know nephew? Your aunt assisted in the murder of Seo Geom's wife, just like a lot of noble women here did at the time, so you need to forget all about your mother niece and just focus on being the best mother that you can be for your child…" "What did you just say? Who did your sister kill, aunt? Are you trying to ruin your own sister here in front of her pregnant daughter? Have you taken leave of your senses? Just because she is the wife of a Prince and you are divorced, you cannot spread your misery upon others!" "You…!" "Forgive me Your Highness, I shall take my aunt back with me and discipline her harshly! Forgive me once again." "Forget it, I now see why you changed your clan name even though it goes against Confucius laws, we truly cannot choose our family members after all." "How else do you think the mother died from her second childbirth and not the first one? The doctor who examined her never came back to check on her again, and she was sent many nourishing meals without having the means to check them over even once. Just like how she indulged her own daughter to have an open affair with The Prince just to out=do your own wife, nephew, that is how this sham of a marriage came into fruition at all."
"Excuse me? What did you just say, in=law?" "Pardon me Your Highness, I am only listing the reasons why your concubine's parents are not fit to be around her, especially since they will more than likely only harass your family into giving them silvers to repay the debt that they owe to my nephew over here and to The Senior Scholar as well…" "Is that so, Lord Nam?" "Unfortunately it is true Your Highness, they will both have to work to pay off the debt and are unfit to parent their daughters any longer." "Cousin! Why are you doing! Why are you turning on your family like this!" "So it seems that my concubine has no family support at all, and neither does her brother. And as for our scandal…" "What scandal husband? We were clearly a match made in heaven and fated from our previous lives! Anyone who says otherwise is just jealous of us!" "Lord Nam?" "You know where to find me if you wish for answers Your Highness." "There are indeed a few too many exaggerated stories of women competing for their husbands favours, although it is my first time hearing about multiple scandals coming out of having an affair. Exactly how cruel are your parents concubine, or do you intend on hiding that from me as well?" "You have no idea what people have to do for survival husband! How could you since you are a Prince born into royal, even if you are illegitimate like my cousin over here! And since moving into his home…" "…without permission I might add…" "…I have been made tot fight with the servants for food and clothing and even firewood! I could barely read any poetry books to express myself with at all! After meeting you, I thought that I could finally live up to my status once again, but instead my parents are living miserably and not even my own family is helping me to help them at all!" "About your parents, only men of a certain noble status can have concubines in the first place, doesn't your father fall short of that status? Your uncle meets it, but an unsuccessful merchant does not." "That surely did not stop him from taking in these women and give them what belongs to myself and my mother, even my brother, but they will all claim that they wish to stay by my father's side, even as maids…" "Then that is what they shall do to help your father pay off his debt much faster so that he can return to your side much quicker wife." "Really? Do you mean it? Thank you husband!" "And as for your own brash manners, I am afraid that you will not be able to educate your own child well. It is better for you to hand your child over to my mother so that she can raise my son instead and etiquette is not something that can be taught over a short period of time." "Husband! What are you saying?" "You are carrying an Imperial Heir and we cannot take such things lightly. If you continue to make things hard for us, I will pay you for your time and let you go and replace your status by my side with one of your sisters instead!" "Are you saying that you will divorce me and let me marry someone else after the scandal that I pulled that destroyed my family over you!" "I am yours!" "The Royal Reputation comes above everything! And being associated with you has already cost me quite a lot even before our baby has arrived! And speaking of that, how did you arrive in the palace without a single servant at all?" "I…we only had a few and my ailing parents needed them more…" "More than their own pregnant daughter? They can't borrow servants from The Lord Nam?" "You see how he treats us! He wants nothing to do with us at all ever since we arrived in his home!" "Without an invitation?"
"We were in the middle of a family crises and he needed our help but he just keeps on denying his paternal clan! What can we do about that?" "Social etiquette requires you to retreat and go back to your homes, so why didn't you?" "Because….the clan matters more than the obstinate feelings of a proud and cold man!" "Just like my feelings for you against your own clan that you were happy to destroy for me?" "I…I just…I mean…" "Servants! Clear up this mess and put my wife on bedrest immediately! And summon The Lord Nam to my office immediately after he escorts his mother home! He is not leaving here tonight until we both develop a plan for me to win over my father's favour once again and I can forget all about this mistake of a marriage of mine!" "Husband! Please wait! Let me explain! Do not ignore me!" "You are hereby demoed to a Noble Lady and you will continue to loose your status if you keep going against my word and begging me in this vile manner! Get as much rest as you can for our baby so you can hand him over to my mother when he is born and that is final!" "Husband! No! Please! Listen to me! Please come back! Have you already forgotten our past days! How…how comes things are like this now? I followed the teachings of my mother and aunt, so why did they both betray me like this! I haven't done anything to them at all to make them hurt me and betray me like this! They controlled their own families like this, so why isn't it working out for me also! Was there something that they didn't each me! Or simply forgot to! Wait! He didn't want to divorce me, did he! No, he knows that I am sincere to him and that I am his…he will not divorce me…not now and not ever! I will make sure of it myself! Servants! Send some nourishing meals to The Concubine…I mean, The Princess Consort on my behalf! Nothing should be lacking and send as many as you can to her table since she is also pregnant like me! Do it! Right now!"