Chapter 103: Seo Yeon

"Kim Soo-Min?" I swear I felt my heart freeze...no one had dared to utter my mother's name since she had died, they knew how much it upset me not to have her in my life. So to hear her name completely unnerved me. "Kim Soo-Min? Is that you?" Out of the shadows, an elderly woman in musty noble clothing appeared...and it didn't look like she had changed out of her outfit in a few years it stunk so badly. Her makeup was...cracked and she had cobwebs stuck on her wig. I retreated back so fast I tripped up over myself and cut myself badly on some shattered glass on the floor. But she swooped down and grabbed me up by the arms before running to pin me on the nearest wall, knocking my head as she did so "Kim Soo-Min! You bitch! How dare you survive the poison that I fed you in you post-natal medicines! Do you know how long it took me to find such a poison that cannot be tested by silver needles?! Do you know how far and wide I looked for newly sprouted ginkgo whilst our plains suffered drought for 5 years? Enough tine for you to give birth to your bastard children?? I had to search for supplies of the ingredients for such a long time..."

At this point she was choking me...but her confession had me frozen and limp so I couldn't even loosen her grip even if I wanted to. Although I managed to utter one word; why? "Why? Why! You brainless low-class slut! You took my fiancé away from me! Only I loved Seo Geom before he earned his title! But because of you...because you seduced him in the gibang when your family fell into ruins...he left behind his family to follow you! Cousin! You knew how much I loved him! We were both noble families...but he fell for a poor slut like you!"

I couldn't take it anymore, I felt my oxygen disperse as I tried to blindly grab the nearest object I could find as I smashed it over her head. I had to do it a few times since her wig was so large and stiff until I finally got her to break her grip. She was silent for only a moment before she carried on with her rant "I found him though...I left my family to find my love only to see him in your arms, eating your food, following you around wherever you went when he wasn't working...he even proposed to you publicly in the village square! Seo Geom... Seo Geom my love. I quarrelled with you, I've even made trouble for you. I have acted with jealously and instantly...but I only did all of this so you could love me back like you once did. Do you not remember my love?? When you granted me your gifts when my uncle took mine to give to her! The slut that even you were bewitched by! My whole childhood I was compared to the brilliant Kim Soo-Min! My cousin who walked on clouds. She always took what was mine...even the only man I loved!"

I felt such...anger and hate boiling inside me until it came out into my blood and before I knew it my body had taken over my mind and I had stabbed her in the neck with a long piece of shattered glass. I stood frigid as I saw a pool of blood gushing over my hand...and she was still speaking about my father until her last breathe "I did everything for you just as you did everything for her. Don't you...don't you think that we are the perfect match? You brought so much light into my life...you were born to be mine. So why did you abandon...abandon me for the likes of her? You were to be mine...and she was to be with Nam-Jeon..."

I ran out of there so fast once I returned back to my senses and I didn't stop until I found my brother and I collapsed into his arms. He took one look at me and dragged me away as I sobbed uncontrollably. He held onto me for such a long time until I had exhausted myself...and I told him everything...about the bullying and what just transpired as he started panicking when he saw blood on my clothes.