The Love They Never Had: The Nam Mansion

Chapter 54: Nunmul (Tease)

I really could not believe the nonsense that was coming out of this girls' mouth. Did she eat the heart of a lion or something? I didn't expect her to exactly be the same as she was before she lost her memories, but the difference between how she was now and how she used to be was a little overwhelming to be honest. The person she was now was unlike anything had ever witnessed before and something that even the most educated noblewoman wouldn't dare to become. Yeon didn't just speak when spoken to anymore, she even joked around and teased her male seniors comically, she spoke her mind almost every chance she got and the fact that she could scheme for her own survival completely startled me. I thought that I was the one taking care of here, and now I didn't know if she was the one taking care of me instead.

"She...don't you know what she can do to you?" "So does that mean I have to spend every waking moment sharing in fear over the retributions for tonight? She will not do anything to us, so stop freaking out so much. Despite being from the noble class, she is kind of pathetic, isn't she?" "Pathetic?" "I cannot believe that despite you growing up in the same class, that you have the same narrow mind as everyone else does." "W...what? You..." "Do you trust me?" "Excuse me?" "Do you trust me that no matter what comes out of my mouth, that I do not mean to offend you at all?" How on earth was she expecting me to say no after the way that she was fluttering her eyelashes at me like that? She thought that she was being funny, but certain body parts of mine would say otherwise. What on earth was she doing to me? Wasn't I in love with someone else? What spell did she cast on me that had me completely wrapped around her finger? "There is someone who is clearly being shameless around me and you...you just..." I could feel a new sort of anger rise in me that I just could not explain at all. Yeon used to chase me around the village, why the hell was she being so calm and playful now? As if she could predict the future or something. Did she really not care at all? Or was she just hiding her feelings from me? She...I...I had to get the hell out of here before I did something that I regretted. She...Yeon....I was still responsible for her no matter what...

I shouted at the guards to return to their posts and I had Yeon in lockdown in her own quarters for her own damned good lest she got herself into trouble again. She was first and foremost the most important responsibility that I had in my life, and I wasn't going to mess up anymore than I already have.

I marched to my bed in such a fit of anger that I did more damage to myself when I tried to undress for a bath. Her words haunted me until I got back in bed full of anticipation for what the results of tonight would be. Yeon was carefree and didn't understand that people could hold a grudge over such minor issues simply because they could. And it was mine and her brother's fault since we both kept her locked up for her own good. She was going to get herself killed with her naive mindset, and I had no idea what to do about it. I couldn't be by my father's side, in the palace and with her all at once. Should I spend more time with her? To teach her what the real world was like? But how? I barely got away with the time that I had already spent with her already, and she drove me crazy wherever I was with her because she had become so unpredictable. I used to be able to read the Seo's like he back of my hand and now I had lost even that. I was the one who was lost and I had no idea what to do about it.

I could not sleep at all, and in the end I had to call for Dal in the middle of the night to attend to me. "You called for me, Master?" "From now on, you are to be inseparable from Yeon. Every single word, action, movement and emotion I must know about." "Master?" "Just do as I say." "Of course Master, although I have to say that this girl is very much different from the girl who used to follow you around everywhere in the village." "Tell me about it." "She now has so much bearing of nobility; her etiquette, poise, posture, mannerisms, interactions and even her smile is better than the rich lady who comes here to meet you." "I cannot explain it, but in the short time that we have stayed together, I think I might have rubbed off on her, even though she cannot remember me at all. Everything she has now comes from me; whatever I have given her I can take it away. But from the moment she woke up with a different mindset, she seems to have her own motivation for survival that I cannot figure out. I cannot be entirely sure, but I think that even if she encounters obstacles as big as mountains, she can overcome them. But she used to rely on me solely in the past, why can't she do it again? I have to figure this out...for her own good, so I can protect her...for her brother's sake. And I have one more task for you; I want you to get me every poetry book that girl has in her bedroom."