The Love They Never Had: The Nam Mansion

Chapter 92: Gyesogdeonuen (Continued)

Both men were angry with me as I had expected, but Seon-Ho...his face looked terrible and I couldn't read properly at all. I felt his anger in his touch but I didn't dare to show him how much this was also hurting me, I wasn't going to give him the satisfaction of running to him this time. I couldn't read his intentions properly and I had a lot of messes to clean up...it was going to be hard but right now, I had to focus on a lot of other things besides him now. Besides; once I exposed his father Seon-Ho was going to finally be free and act how he wanted...with as many women as he wanted whose social positions could only benefit him...that very thought was beginning to set me off again and I had to remember that I was in front of my brother now this time. Nam-Jeon had been eerily silent this whole time but as the place guards dared to put their hands on him he had a little meltdown as he was being escorted to the court where just a day ago he was held to high esteem for over a decade. All we could do was watch as we watched the most poised man in our village almost tear his hair out in panic. Seon-Ho on the other hand made his way up the to Emperor's throne and stood on his right hand side which only enraged his father even more, although he had seemed to have lost his voice when he was being dragged in front of the Emperor and everybody else who he had considered to be lower than himself. And from the very moment he laid his eyes on the Empress besides him she had turned a very dark shade of red whist trying to maintain her composure. Prince Bang-Won was considered the most viscous prince amongst them all and they were not biologically related I couldn't help but notice the pure dread on her face when he stated eyeing her young sons who were the youngest of all the royal children.

The Emperor didn't really look surprised when he saw Nam-Jeon in the state that he was in, rather he just exchanged a knowing look with Seon-Ho before the Prince made his case with evidence and witnesses that nobody could refuse or deny. But the Prince didn't miss his chance to humiliate the Empress when it came about that she was the one who gave the orders in front of the entire court, the Emperor looked almost heartbroken as he had no choice but to give the guards escort her to her chambers where she would be privately interrogated. I will never be able to forget the look she gave both myself and Seon-Ho before she was humiliatingly dragged away in front of the whole court with her little children wailing after her and crying their hearts out. Thankfully they were too young to understand what was going on so I had one less burden on my shoulders. If they had been just a little older and decided to get revenge on us later, it would all be my fault if anything happened to anyone who was earnestly trying to help me.
Myself and my brother still couldn't leave the palace until the Prince had finished his own interrogation in which his son also had to be present for. In the hour that it took we time to catch up as I began to tell him what he needed to know before he could ask me anything. He looked upset for sure but I coaxed him as much as I could, especially when I told him that I may have found evidence to suggest that the had something to do with our father's death. This stunned him into silence when he realised why I didn't just escape to reunite with him. My mother had died soon after giving birth to me so our father was our king, our idol and the man who loved us so much that he was considering retiring from his job as the greatest swordsman in our era just to take care of us. Even though the loved us equally, as the only daughter in the family I was naturally a lot closer to him so he knew he couldn't talk me out of doing anything that involved bringing him to justice. But what I told him what that plan involved with he got so angry that I had to walk away to let him calm down for a while. But when we were called to the palace again he told me that he knew he couldn't talk me out of it and he gave me his support whist also making it clear that we would not be separated ever again, no matter what my plans were.

But no matter what they were, I still had to make sure that Seon-Ho was going to be ok without me for a while and there were so many different things that I had to tell him, but it was better for me to put all the information that I had to good use, like trying to distance himself from his traitor of a father, otherwise Seon-Ho would be a walking talking target for the rest of his life and he would never know peace. I would do this for him, even if it puts me at odds with him forever, because some things that I knew...I know for a fact that he would never stop looking for me even I hid myself on the other side of the world for answers. But to give him peace and to give myself some time with my brother, I had to do this. "Your Highness, there is in fact another charge that I need to bring up against Nam-Jeon." "And what is that?" "Familicide."