The Love They Never Had: The Chase

Chapter 208: A Surprise Revelations (Kkamjjag Poglo)

I was no longer aware of how many months I had been locked up here, but I had already lost all hope that I was ever going to leave this hellhole of a place. I had been ordered to clean faeces buckets, sew clothes and had gotten punished for it multiple times due to not being able to sew accurately, I had to wash and polish smelly shoes and I even had to wash clothes that were stained with women's monthly blood over and over again, only I was tasked with these chores every single day for god only knows how long now. And every singe time that I tried to protest, I only got punished with my measly amount of food being taken away from me every single time that I did. "Madame! I shall never do such disgusting chores ever again!" "Is that so? Are you saying that you haven't gotten used to it yet? In that case, you can just stay confined in the wooden cage for an entire day as a penalty if you refuse to work! Your family is already settled with so much debt, how can you possibly become so selfish!" "Madame! I have told you multiple times that you have the wrong person! I am Kim Areum and my father is alive and well! He is a man of nobility and he has no debts at all! Let me out of here and I can prove it to you! Please!" "Who are you trying to fool? Everyone here knows that your family fell from nobility long ago! Otherwise, why isn't he here to bail you out of here? Well?" "I...I suppose that he..." "Your father has been exposed this week of framing ministers to refused to invest in his embroidery business or shopped elsewhere, he had formed sects to frame or bankrupt other rival businesses and has invoked himself with filthy kisaneg business. He has behaved shamelessly with them and no longer deserves to be recognised as a man at all! Didn't you ever wonder why your home was raided and your father was imprisoned? And even exiled? Don't you get it? He sold you to us to pay off his debts, that is why he hasn't come for you. He sold off his own daughter exactly like how he did with his own sister, decades ago."

"Wh...no, this isn''t true, it isn't...it cannot be..." "His body was found hanging from the beam of the doorframe where he was exiled to in desperation and your family business has been reinstated to the Seo's mother, as it was her embroidery patterns that your family made a fortune off of for decades now." "My...my father...is dead? He...abandoned me? He sold me off...no! You are wrong! Let me out of here! I must see the Emperor! I must see Seo Hwi! He can attest to my innocence! Open the door I say! I want to go home! I cannot take this anymore! Does anyone know what torment I have suffered through the hands of the Seo's! Seo Hwi...where is Seo Hwi!" "Seo Hwi? His is on his honeymoon period with his new wife, why would he want to see you for?"
I thought my world had already come to an end when I heard f my father's betrayal and death and now this? The man that I ad risked my life and father's business for...it runs out that he didn't take me seriously, not even once? To the extent that he never came to beg for my help to release his sister...and he got married? To whom? Who did he meet that was possibly better than myself? Could she give him everything that a young man such as himself needed? What could she provide for him that I could not? Financial security? A comfortable lifestyle? The prospect of never having to work ever again? Was the slut who married him even a noblewoman at all? Or was she a penniless orphan just like he was? Penniless, ugly and useless...she was nothing compared to myself, she was nothing...there wasn't a single soul in my life who could function without me at all...everyone loved me, everyone adored and they wouldn't ignore me anymore, they wouldn't do that to me...

"...what an arrogant slut indeed! How can she proclaim not to do any chores when she is no better than a slave for real now?" "She is arrogant and her father is no better, he couldn't even die like a real man in the palace? What a disgrace indeed..." "...His Majesty moved at the speed of a thunderbolt and they simply had no time to hit back at all..." "My brother also works in the palace and he told me everything about her father's sentencing..." now people who literarily born inferior to me were all mocking me in a way I had ever experienced in my entire life. Was this truly what I had out Seo Yeon through throughout her entire childhood? When I over-exaggerated her epileptic condition throughout the entire village after her father died? Was it really this lonely and painful? To the point where I could feel my tears painfully well up every single time I saw another person stare at me as if I was she sort of animal? Ot talk about me belligerently to my face without using the proper etiquette to hide their gossips as I have done so throughout my entire life? Was it really this bad and daunting?