Body & Soul 🇰🇷 Part 2

Chapter 202: Seon-Ho

It pained me to leave her in another man's home, but it had to be done for now; and soon enough I noticed one of Nam-Kyu's spies watching me from a distance. I felt my anger rise as I had to once again walk away from my children, my nephews and my baby who I barely knew, I wasn't there for him when he cried, when he slept or when he was awake like I was for the twins. I could tell he was already a little terror and it was because of my absence that killed me more than anything. Enough was enough now; I had been away from my family for long enough and Yeon living with her stalker to get me out of my vices had done the trick. Now I needed to find a way to put some kind of charge on them so I had a reason to monitor that family myself.

I made my way back to the mansion where I could see Nam-Kyu waiting for me. I was still angry from coming back from the Bong mansion and I wasn't in the mood or see or speak to anyone. I had left my daughter and my nephew in Yeon's hand, knowing that they would get better but they did bring me back to life while they were under my care. Chul always wanted me to train him now that he had surpassed his father's teachings and wanted to train at an advanced level to match my own son. Hana, as bossy as she was kept me sane from that women who didn't know how to function without servants. I guess after spending so many years by Yeon's side who practically made everything by hand down to sauces, syrups, jams and so on there were some noble behaviours that even I had grown up with my whole life that had really started to irritate me. No wonder my children love their grandfather's village so much, and I now had a completely new appreciation for the values Yeon instilled in our children. They were completely independent for children and resented slavery as much as their mother did. I still had everyone on my mind as I walked by her and I stormed inside. I knew the children would be ok under her care but their mansion was way to cramped now with all of them there and sharing 1 room together. And Hyun-Ki...when I saw his eyes immediately look for Yeon still after all this damned time...just the thought of it made me so angry that I couldn't help but to flip over the table that had mounds of inedible food. I worked hard for my money and to see it go to waste made me even more angry...to the point where I couldn't hold it in anymore.

I hadn't seen a woman like Nam-Kyu in a long time; spoiled, arrogant and completely useless unless a man wanted to bed her. Call it instinct, but I could already tell she had far too many men in her life, so I had no idea what it was about me that attracted her so much. What made it all the more pointless was that if was still the bastard that was kept to his father's mansion in chains the she would have treated me like litter just like everyone else did. Even when I was at my worst it was only Yeon who loved me sincerely...and that very thought kept me away from all women even if I had more than 100 chances to take in concubines and so on. Sometimes I was still that person who was trapped with his father, sometimes I was still that bay who longed for his mother and sometimes I couldn't figure out what was going on with me...only Yeon knew me well...Yeon..."what have you done! Do you know how long it took me to make everything for you and your daughter! wait...where is she...you didn't take her to that lowborn did you.." Before she could even finish her sentence I grabbed her by the hair and I pinned her to the wall "my daughter and nephew are suffering under your care in case you hadn't noticed. They've gotten so ill that I can't even look into my wife's eyes or her brother's." "Your wife? Your..." "what the hell are you doing to them anyway? Are you trying to poison them? With your awful food that you cannot cook even if you tried 100 times over? Since you can't take care of them like you said when you forced me to take you in? You can't even feed a couple of kids? What exactly can you do? Apart from breathe and flaunt yourself to any man coming your way?" She clearly wasn't used to being talked down to like I had to, so it made me venting out my anger all the more satisfying. "Isn't that why you're here with me in the first place? You always hated me since we were children, so now what's come over you that you think you have to have me now? It was always your sister who chased me around non-stop...unless this is what this was about? You want me because your sister did? How predictable of you" I snorted in disgust before walking away, leaving her in tears. I was so preoccupied with the children I hand't even realised how hungry I was. And with that, I turned right around to leave again when she tried to stop me "you don't understand...those children are lying to you! I feed them, I wash their clothes by hand by myself, I try to help them in their studies as much as possible...I changed for them, for you....I have no idea why they lie about me so much..."

My anger knew no bounds as I did something my wife would have scolded me for the rest of my life....but she wasn't here right now to calm me down. Making up lies about the children made me so angry again that I slapped her across the face before walking away. She tried to stop me with threats but I countered her own words with her actions. I had both her and my servants here as witnesses of her useless actions and although she could hold here threat against me, I asked her how long she thought she could hold onto it, if she hadn't held up her end of the bargain and had passed on whatever information she thought she could get from my home. That shut her up real quick as I made my way back to my family, even if they were living with somebody else for now.
I could tell by her face that she was already waiting for me by the way she kept walking in the front courtyard...and it looked like she wanted something from me. She had Hwan in her arms just like I had hoped she would have, and was having a hard time settling him down. I made my way to her without a word before I wrapped my arm around her waist and pulled her in for a kiss again whilst I snatched my baby boy who had nothing but smiles for me. I told her to bring me some food immediately as she could already sense my mood. I started undressing the top half of my robes as I laid my son against my chest, it was the only way I could calm down the twins when they were in fussy moods.