The Love They Never Had: The Chase

Chapter 206: Living Nightmares 4 (Sal-Aissneun Agmong)

"Master Dal! Please save me! Do not let them do anything to me, or our child in my belly!" "Your Highness! This servant may have done something wrong, but I hope that you can spare her life, for the sake of her child that she is carrying!" Of course Seo Yeon had to speak up in my most vulnerable time when i was left completely dumbfounded, shocked and honestly too embarrassed to look anyone in the eyes even though I had been on my knees for the entirety of this interrogation. "Master Dal, am I not the only woman that you should care about? Young Mistress Seo, i beg of you! I beg of you to support me and the Master Dal! i am already pregnant with his child, and he only loves me, he has told me so ever since the Young Master Nam was forced against his wishes to enter the palace to fulfil his wishes and carry out his dirty work." "You bitch! Who force fed you these lies! It is simply impossible that we have a child together! You seduced me time and time again and i rejected you! You are just trying to trap me and I bet that you are not even pregnant at all! You cannot climb up the ranks though me girl! And even if you are, no-one cares about an unwed woman and her bastard child! Stop bringing disgrace to the Nam family and leave at once!" "No! please, someone have mercy on me! I am pregnant for goodness sake! Or is that no longer important in Confucius laws!" "Your Highness, this only proves my point further of how corrupt the Nam's have become in their own decadence. And no matter how arrogant the servant has become, he should reap what he sows. Please help me to protect this girl, who is also a victim in your kingdom despite their lowly statuses."

"Well, family is an important unit in this kingdom, and now i can see how little the Nam family care for it at all. What a messy and disturbing drama this is now..." "Please forgive me, Your Highness! But Seo Yeon has no opinion to voice in my personal affairs." "As of now, her status ranks higher than yours, so she can say what she wants to say." "Thank you, Your Highness. This servant might be from a poor family, but even a beast will not eat its own child, how can anyone deny such precious life when there are noblewomen who are having a hard time conceiving children to expand their own family clans? Master Dal clearly needs to be disciplined to behave well and take up his responsibilities like a real man, how else could he have taken in his own concubine without marrying officially first, which defies Confucius laws. This also brings shame to one's family, which goes against showing filial piety, a value that we hold dear in the face of Confucius. Look, even her arms are covered in wounds! She must have also been abused in this family, how can they treat her like this, never mind come up with the idea to usurp the throne. He wants to kill his own maid and unborn child if it means trying to survive, just like Nam-Jeon himself!" That was all it took for my life, my goals and plans and my heart to spin out of control from that moment on. I was supposed to he a helping hand to my father, but now I had become my half-brother's pawn to bring him down instead. And as for a pregnant maid, who cared about that? Unless the scandal was exposed to the right people and by a woman of all people.
Some women were like pearls coated with dust; they looked remarkable at first glance whilst others were truly remarkable behind the disguise they hid themselves in, just like Seo Yeon was. She was able to think of such a unique solution that nobody else could think of on the spot. She gained her enemies respect, her friend's admiration and her first love's obsession. She always gained her goals in a single strike and she obliterated her obstacle's reputation when it happened, not leaving a single chance for anything to hurt her again.
"No, wait! i have proof that this maid is a trap that is set up by the Young Master Nam to bring me down along with my Master Nam-Jeon. I only spoke bluntly to her once after she failed to seduce me, so this is her petty revenge against me! Relationships between servants and maids are unacceptable, so why would I endanger myself like this?" "Enough of this nonsense! Is there any proof of this pregnancy or not? This matter implicates family morality and it shouldn't be handled lightly" "Your Highness, I have proof with her love letters..." "...that you just happen to carry on your person, Master Dal? Ones that you have clearly accepted since you carry them with you. And there is one other problem to discuss with this evidence; this maid is completely illiterate. She doesn't know how to read or write at all, not to mention that she couldn't have possibly gotten her hands on a-grade paper that is several months years above her pay."