The Love They Never Had

"It looks like i have really underestimated you, Hwa-Wol. Who knew that he true kiseng between us would live a life if luxury, of love and have a full family to yourself?" "Do you mean the family that you tried to destroy for your own selfish reasons? " "Is that why you already predicted my moves? you were barely literate for the 2 decades that i knew you and now…""It was the Lord Nam who gave me an education, so that i could spy on Yeon for him n return and watch over her. but who knew that such a grand education would help my family immensely? Everything that i was taught, i taught my husband in return, and with The Third Prince's connections, business took of before i even got pregnant with my first child. It was my hard work in that filthy brothel that has guaranteed my children a life of luxury that i could only dream of, and a husband who was willing to pay off my debt and be faithful to only me. So for me, it was quite fortunate of me to have met The Se's, for without them, i would have never crossed paths with The current Lord Nam, who treats his trusted ones quite well…" 'What is your relationship with him! Tell me!" "We are informally cordial, nothing more; but his tasks that he distributes between myself and my husband only benefits us greatly." "Why? Why did you choose to help hm over me?" "Because you abandoned me, and despite his…eccentrics, i have always believed in his love for Seo Yeon. it is through her that i have met these wonderful people who i consider my extended family, the one that i could never have as a kisaeng. It was his generous gift for me that elevated me even before i left the brothel." "And how can you be sure that he loves her?" "Because he only used you as practise Jae, can't you still see that? He never loved you at all…"

"Enough! You cannot even prove what i did to your husband…!" "Actually i can, since you dropped one of your hairpins that he gifted you upon his first visit to Ihwaru, but are you aware that he has gifted Yeon more expensive ones? But anyway, your crimes before entering the palace alone are worthy of treason. So now that you are in my charge, let me ask you this; did you ever see me as a sister? Or did you look down at me from the start? Did you use my position as a real kisaeng to make yourself look better?" "That is right, i did do that; I deliberately picked fights on purpose in the brothel, knowing that you would always take my side and defend me, thus sowing discord between you and everyone else in our brothel just for me. But then you wounded yourself several times for me. That was the first time that i was open to such sisterhood and wanted to take you along with me when my grand plans were in reach…but then you met Seo Hwi though me, and his sister and your husband through him. You had already chosen a side before i abandoned you, so I did not feel guilty at all when i left you behind to rot with such a foolish man...." "That foolish man loves me wholeheartedly! And only me! He never even looked at our sisters in the brothel apart from me! That man has given me a home, wealth, a good life and 2 children! And you? For all of your incessant plots, what do you have for yourself?" "I have The Lord Nam! He is the one who has loved me ever since we met! Just thinking about him drives me crazy! Do you have any idea how much effort and meticulous planning I had to make just to get close to him? Over and over and over again! Under Seo Yeon's shadow! Even before they escaped from The Nam Yangban, he was always in a hurry to go home to see her! She snatched him away from me just as was abut to give him a chance! I loved him there and then, but she had already seduced him away from me! He didn't even have time to think about me before she started taking care of him just so that he could spare her brother! She doesn't even love him, not like she does with her new servant! She has never done anything genuine for him, but he shows so much concern for her! I simply cannot tolerate how she managed to stir up his cold heart! She will destroy his ambitions and plans…!"

"Seo Yeon is his dreams, his plans, his ambitions and his only love…his only woman love, that is. S that the reason why you cannot stand Yeon being alive and next to him? So much so that you ruined s many lives, just to possess him? Everyone around you is fated to die, so i am glad that you abandoned me!" "What do you mean, only woman love? Do you hear yourself? Nobody can stop me from loving him!I can sacrifice myself for him!" You are devoid of humanity and therefore unable to be worthy of love! You are sinful through and through, and that is why you can only target broken men like Seo Hwi and Nam Seon-Ho! neither gods or men would forgive you for what you have done! To me and to those men, and to Yeon who shaped them up to become real men, after everything that they have been through! I can only be thankful that you were made infertile so that you can never rise to power through having children! Such a blessing should be wasted on a witch like you! I have had my say and my family is waiting for me, so i will let The Lord Nam take over from here soon, but first, The Third Prince ashes to have a word with you."

"Your Highness..." "You know, you should have been my side consort a long time ago, for that was the original plan, right?" "Can Your Highness n tell that i have been set up by Seo Yeon?" "I warned you long ago to never lay a hand on her! Why wouldn't you listen to me, Your Prince?" "Because i knew of your designs on the girl, and i just could not bare to share you anyone." "That is amusing, since I have had mistresses before you, during you and after you as well, but go on?" "I told you long ago that i could never tolerate you being unfaithful to me! You chased me! You literally had me in your bed, but throughout all of that, you only wished to marry her? The epileptic Seo Yeon? Over me? The beauty of the village!" "You should have been willing to stay quietly by my side instead of picking fights all of the time, but you just simply failed to do so."

"…So you wanted to kill my woman that badly, Mistress Han? You have been trying to earn my trust all along time after time, jus so that you could kill her? How I wish to hack you to pieces myself..." "Why? For her! do you really care about me that much!" "You almost killed that servant that i was relying heavily on! For more reasons than you think!" "I did that for your sake!" "For my sake!" "I know exactly who he is and what he is capable of if he ever found out about the truth abut how his family came to an end! i was more afraid for you than anyone else! How could he continue to serve you with these secrets hanging above his pretty little head! Does't he know many of your secrets? Our secrets, together? How will you maintain power if he..." "And how will he find out? Because neither myself nor Seo Hwi will tell hm anything about it! And Yeon knows nothing at all!" "i still cannot let anyone treasure what i treasure! You wear everything that she gives you, and you spend so much time with her! I cannot tolerate the fact that you no longer care about me like you used to and you have fallen for somebody else! And through your betrayal to Seo Hwi, i learned to crush my opposition head on, especially when they tale what is mine! Nobody cared for me like you did, I never had anyone to place my hopes and expectations in as I did you, and I have loved you in Seo Hwi's absence, even more than i did him, in fact.so how can i bear you obsessing over somebody else? So please, give up; just as i failed to win your true affections over, she will also! And the more you protect her, there will want to kill her, as i did."

"Enough of this; Hwa-Wol? I think that it is the time for The Third Prince to know exactly what happened to his precious favourite concubines. And as for you, Mistress Han, I have personally called upon a taoist to beat and whip these demons out of you, with as many whippings as he sees fit. This is to dispel all negative energy from you, along with the scorpions..." "Scorpions! Whatever for!" "What do think, Mistress Han?There are many tribes and cultures that uses punishments with scorpions for women such as yourself…"