Body & Soul 🇰🇷 Part 1

Chapter 146: Seo Yeon

Kang Nam-Kyu was sent for her trial as a mad woman for the Queen to try for her crimes. I had only by account find out via Hui-Jee that this overbearing family had even gone so far as to pressure my brother and his friends to dissuade our marriage and that was too much for me. I was furious with everyone from keeping it from me, especially Seon-Ho who looked guilty from the moment he saw my face. He kept trying to get my mood back up by teasing me but I just bit his hand in frustration which he couldn't help but smirk deeply at. He loved it when I acted childish, much to my annoyance.

Seon-Ho had changed a lot from when he was under his father's rule. He had become someone the people looked up to on his own merit; people liked him and so we had no shortage of witnesses of people who didn't hold back when recounting the insults hurled at the royal family, embarrassing them greatly. I looked at my husband who couldn't help but but grin every time the Queen look fostered and was beginning to loose her cool. She had become an enemy of my husband as she wasn't used to sharing her husband's ear, but as the King aged he was desperate to reclaim his youth by planing pointless battles to no end with him, wearing my poor man out completely. I knew Seon-Ho had set this up in such a way that he was making the King regret imposing this marriage on him and I loved him for it, breaking my cool and planting a kiss on him. He avoided my gaze as he was slowly turning red; as much as he loved to tease me and shower me with affection in public he didn't like it when I did the same, he would rather kept it private. By the end we were both in our own world once again in hysterics as the Kang's shamed themselves so much with their actions she had actually implicated her own family and they were sure putting on a show for the court. Even Hwi and his friends were in hysterics, Jeong-Beom and Moon-Bok especially who we could tell were close to wetting themselves. A mighty family who once supported my husband's father had soon fallen out with each other and started blaming one another for their misfortune in such dramatic flair that the Queen was beginning to loose face and had no choice but to make a scene herself, disowning her family and sending them into exile for her crimes before stripping them official of all their power and wealth which they didn't obtain of their own merit. So even if they were to start over again it would be very difficult. And they were to stay far away from my family as much as possible.

We saw her being taken away and even my brother followed us to watch her and her family being imprisoned, still holding onto me a little. She was still cursing at me until the guards had left us alone with her...any both my husband and brother ordered me to leave the room at the same time. All I could do was obey...A few weeks had gone by and had started to notice that I was getting sick a lot; nausea, back pain, fatigue, and my clothes were starting not to fit me anymore. Hui-Jee was especially alarmed at these symptoms and dragged me to see a doctor. And I couldn't believe the results; my world and turned upside down. I ran out of the doctor's room and demanded to see Seon-Ho at the palace. He didn't even acknowledge me approaching him, I raised my hand to slap him for the first time and but he grabbed my arm and twisted it around behind my back with his other arm holding me by my waist so I wouldn't fall. I tried to struggle with all my might but I couldn't free myself from his grip no matter what I did. It took me a while to calm down and he just held me as did but I knew he did this on purpose, as part of his plan without even consulting me. 

Or maybe that was part of his revenge for hiding the things I did for him, I honestly couldn't tell anymore. "How long?" I asked him. He hid himself behind his papers and asked me what I was talking about. "How long have you been feeding me pre-natal substances in my food? How else can I get pregnant this easily, especially after everything my body has gone through physically" that jerk actually had the nerve to smirk at me as if the answer should have been obvious "since after we talked about it. So what did the doctor say?" He asked me. "As if you don't already know" I whispered in tears, my emotions all over the place; I couldn't believe he was willing to take things this far just to get me out of the palace and stop my investigation so he could take over...I had no idea if I should be scared, happy or both. I felt him smile behind me and I never wanted to hit him more out of fear and anger. He turned me around to face him, our noses almost touching "how far gone are you?" He had a look in his eyes that I didn't recognise for a while until I realised that as much as he had planned this, he really wanted this to happen. We were barely married and he really already wanted a family with me? He looked so sincere and excited that my anger was slowly dissipating and was being replaced with pure elation just like his. I wrapped my arms around his waist "I'm two months pregnant with your child, my love." He grabbed me by the waist and pulled me towards him again and cornered me in his office, reminding me that our child's survival depended on him and that he would make my life difficult if I left him, giving me such a look that I didn't dare to contradict him. Even in our happiest moment, he wasn't giving me any choice but at the same time knew he was doing all of this for me, because I was now convinced how much he loved me and always will. I gave him my answer and he ordered his men to take me back to my room in his sedan.

As stunned and exasperated as I was with Seon-Ho; I missed him as soon as I left his presence; his smell, his taste, his touch, the way he stared at me every time he saw me, the way he acted like my husband soon after we had been together for the first time, which just assured me even more that I had made the right choice in opening myself to him and forgetting his old feelings with other people and surrendering myself to him each time. I couldn't and would never doubt his feelings for me again, even if he had to take on a few other women in his life for work reasons. I could tell it was already going to be a long and hard marriage with other parties involved.

I just laid in my bed alone, thinking about the possible future of my family, thinking about my future with the boy I loved who had now turned into such a man who I was completely vulnerable around but devoted to at the same time. I don't know how I was going to co-exist with his slave and his son but I could see that Seon-Ho was never going to let me go no matter what I did...and I didn't want him to either. I had been through so much already that I was tired of being alone and away from him...I really couldn't do it anymore.