"How dare you be so brazen as to come over here, wife! How did you get out of your confinement!" "You say that it is against the law husband, but how many laws have I broken for you to be where you are right now? Tell me! Have you forgotten how you came about to become the most feared Prince of your era? So I am sure that you will not mind me being brazen once again, right! How dare you betray my trust like this, husband! Don't you remember how you were ready to do anything to curry favours with the ministers that you bribed, through me!" "So you have just credited your own crimes in front of al of these witnesses that we have here, wife. Servants! Report to my father that it is time to closely interrogate my wife's servants, and the Department of Penalty can use torture if they need to!" "Husband! Who is instructing you to vilify me! Is it that worthless slut, Attendant Choi? Well? Is it? Who is throwing stones at me now that I have fallen into the well? All hands push when the walls are falling…!" "You do not seem capable of answering any questions today wife, leave this place and stop acting like a market shrew!" "I have nothing hide form you, as you well know, husband!" "I am your husband no longer!" "…you can ask me anything that you want in my place of residence, even after my successive demotions…."
"Your Highness, will you allow me to exert my own personal revenge on The Third Princess Consort? Before she is escorted back to her quarters?" "Very well, Concubine Park, I shall give you this exemption, as long as you finally allow me to stay with you once again." "Very well husband, you can stay with me tonight. Men! Grab the divorced and deposed woman have whip her 50 times in front of me! Right now!" "Wha the hell! Who do you think you are, Concubine Park!" "I am several ranks higher to whatever it is you are now, Princess Consort." "No! Let me go! You cannot do this to me! I am still a member of The Royal Family! I come from a line of distinct nobility! You cannot do this to me!" "For a family of distinct nobility, nothing gives you the right to cause miscarriages like you did to me! I will punish you jus because I want to! And if anyone has problem with it, they can take it on your behalf!"
"Well well, Concubine Park, I have missed you indeed…" "Your Highness can say here, and I will stay with Concubine Kim, Your Highness said that you would stay after playing chess with me, but you didn't say where exactly. The night will be windy and snowy and I still haven't recovered fully from my illness." Concubine…" "Let us finish this task once and for all, Your Highness, and then we can talk about out perusal affairs later on tonight." "Very well then, let the interrogation begin!"
"…My Lady, have you already forgotten how you challenged His Highnesses authority only this morning? You even prayed for his death as we drag you over here myself…" "who will believe in such rumours? I would never make such rebellious remarks, not on my own life! If you want to incriminate someone, you can aways find a pretext, especially when words are read by others when the deeds are committed by themselves!" "And is it true that you have sent the Attendant Choi to His Highness on your behalf to secure your position?" "Of course it is true, why else would I reproach her has I have until now!" "His Majesty has sent a decree that your closest relative will be demoted to a city wall guard!" "What1 he cannot do that ! My family has done nothing but support him…!" "By doing what exactly? Killing his maids? Or sending them off to your own personal brothel? Killing you husband's unborn children? Or sending plague-infested utensils to kill your own sister, in which her cure lay in drinking cow urine? Or was it killing the physician that could have cured the plague months earlier than it needed to last? The Third Princess Consort has lost all virtue and morality, and she is hereby officially deprived of her titles, and demoted to the rank of commoner. And for her good sense discretion, Attendant Choi is hereby promoted to Concubine Choi…" "No! My husband will not do that to me! He still has affections for me and he will absolve me of all liability! Unless he really wants to provoke me and force me to use my insurance against him! And as for Concubine Choi, what a helpless mother coerced by the main wife indeed! How full of sympathy and forgiveness she is! How she forgets that she was my tiger claws in every sin that I was forced to carry out…so much so that she killed my baby! Her inauspicious force brought me harm and forced me to fake the second half of my pregnancy…"
"It has jus been reported to us that your kin, whilst guarding the city wall, he actually wore a replica of The Imperial Robe of The Emperor! If only he hadn't acted out of bounds with propriety, your family wouldn't be treading on a thin line of survival at all now, would they? His ostentatious acts are churning up scandal everywhere that he goes, causing doubt on His Majesty's reign! In light of this matter, The Emperor himself has agreed on your divorce with The Third Prince and now he has to pacify your families rebellion against him. Your family already have about 10 offences of deception, 20 offences of usurpation, 25 offences of insolence, which is 65 offences in total when most ministers and officials's careers are cut short after 5 offences in total, and every one of them is worthy by execution of law. His Majesty has punished your whole family clan by depriving them of their statuses whilst the city wall guard has been granted the option of suicide. The boys over 15 years old will be exiled to the military front, and the women will have to serve as slaves. As for yourself Princess Consort, you have also been granted the option of suicide right here and now." "No, I will not die until I talk to Seo Hwi! Bring me Seo Hwi before I die! But Seo Yeon can never enter the palace! Never!"
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"Hasn't dawn broken yet? How I wish to see my beloved concubine right now." "It is still the middle of the night, Your Highness, there are still 4 hours left until dawn." "No, I cannot stand this anymore, you must being Concubine Park to me at once before I loose my damned mind! No wait, I need to gift her with something…anything…there, you can present my black fox fur to her before summoning her here, quickly!"
"…Your Highness, has something happened? Why have you called to see me so early?" "Concubine Park, if I do not talk to anyone in this moment, then I will surely loose my mind." "What is it? What has happened?" "Well, first of all, I need to thank you for the comfort you have given me with your brilliance, unlike The Concubine Chi who has also made her contributions to the mater, she is underserving of my favour. I am only sparring her for the sake of my unborn babe, do you underhand me?" "How could I not understand you? I was also pregnant and once point…" "…and for that you shall receive justice, I promise you that. They say that being too smart is not a good thing and that I should stop discussing state affairs with you, but nobody knows to what even you have helped me out with. They say that you may grow selfish desires if I continue to do so, and that it would be a difficult situation to rectify, and that you may scoff at the merits of The Royal Family…" "…what are you saying, husband?" "I cannot sleep, knowing that she is still alive and breathing and waiting for one of my men to show up suddenly and save her. I hate her, I have always hated her; I cannot stand her natural musty scent, her greasy hair, her unscented and wrinkled body, her beady little eyes, her thin hands that feels like crows talons and her even breathing the same air as myself." "You promised me justice husband, are you finally giving it to me?" "Yes I am, and I want you back here within the hour in my bed with me, wife." "Thank you husband…I love you, very much."