Monologue 5

Seo-Yeon

Seon-Ho had me right where he wanted me; by his side a much as possible. He was keeping even closer eye on me than usual and didn't even try to hide it this time. And the first thing he did was completely cut me off from the Bong family. He then limited my servants to only keeping the ones who didn't like me, and then would proceed to vent his anger out on them if I tried to hide from or if I didn't do something up to his new high standards ever since he came back from the war. He had me dress a certain way, learn new things to manage his household, learn new dishes to impress his men that would always come over for meeting and such. I know he didn't really want me ingrate myself into the world and society that he was brought up into...the one who despised his existence from the start just like his father. Bit now that he had managed to hold onto me, who was I to let him down? But honestly, I was glad that he made m this priority again. I was now deeply attached to him and I couldn't run away anymore. Despite his new strict behaviour, we were both content in our own private world again.

Seon-Ho

I had her right where I wanted her; by my side again where she belonged. I indeed let her stray for a while and I almost lost her, but now I had many chances to prove myself to her as many times as I wanted. I had her to myself and I took advantage of every opportunity I could get to stay close to her when I wasn't plotting the downfall of the royal family with her brothers help. A lot of people were curious about my wife as they had been in the past but I had managed to shield her from that as much as possible, but not anymore. I knew that Yeon was different from other women, in fact I hadn't come across anyone like her at all. But the bright light that emanated from her...I wanted to just keep it for myself. Now I truly understood why Hwi had kept her locked up in the home for so long. I didn't want anyone apart from the people in our social circle to know anything about her or what she was capable of...I didn't want her to look at anyone else but me, entertain anybody else or answer any question about herself that I didn't already know about. Although she had been recently reinstated of her status as a noble woman, she wasn't one for a long time but she surpassingly surpassed her role as we had to attend dinner party after dinner party, festivals both inside and outside the palace, we were even made to host some of these diner parties which wasn't really my thing at all but thankfully she took over these things quite well. Yeon wasn't a confrontational person at all but she was't one to take any insults either, which came her way a lot. Whoever someone tried to interrogate her background, which also happened a lot I managed to shut it down a much as I could until the topic of Chun-Ae kept on popping up. Apparently she had started to gain a lot of influence as her position as lady-in-waiting to the Queen and had made her disdain for my wife well-known to all who were all clearly trying to stir up some drama but Yeon didn't take the bait as usual, in fact she went so far as to deny knowing who she was at all. Myself, on the other hand, was in a rather petty mood as I decide to display some physical affection on her that had shut everybody up finally, even the women who kept trying to humiliate her. Yeon had a high status than all of those noble women who were trying to trample upon her. But I wasn't a person who tried to build powerful connections; I just wanted to get my revenge, help to change the rotten system that divided our nation's people and festered hate, and retire to my father-in-law's village with the family that my wife was going to give me. The only way to get my revenge on my father and take away his dream of breeding the perfect family was to create my own that I did genuinely want for myself, mixed with the blood of those he despised and of people that I proudly called my own.