Chapter 23: Seo-Yeon

So I tried to get on with my life as usual; sneaking out of the mansion when the Nam's went to their work in the palace so I could get on with mine; working as a tutor and in a bookshop in the next village and receiving my own education at the same time. God knows if I had to stay indoors all day after getting my memories back with my brother's help alone with my thoughts I would have gone stark-raving mad a long time ago. And I still had my brother to keep me sane.

And believe me; work was enough of a distraction to me. I had to work with gossipy co-workers, unattached parents, a class-system that took over every aspect of all the jobs in town and to make sure to stay off of Seon-Ho's father's line of vision...and to not think about Seon-Ho's crush on Hui-Jee which was hurting me much more than I had imagined, much more than the secret he kept from me and I had no choice but to keep from him. In fact, it was killing me just to be around him, but he was still the brother I grew up with and the only family I had apart from Hwi. I had no choice but to just suck it up and move on...

But I had my own challenges in the Nam mansion; Seon-Ho's father who treated me like dirt that dared live in his fine place...and Chun-Ae. She was a servant in the mansion...and very obviously in love with Seon-Ho. She gave me a lot of trouble from the moment Seon-Ho moved me into his father's mansion; always back biting me, spreading rumours to the servants so they wouldn't help me at all and always telling tall tales to Seon-Ho. I could tell when I moved in that she held something special for him; she was always watching him and waiting to attend on him as soon as he came home. And of course my clueless lover didn't have a clue. But when she started to blackmail me by threatening to tell the Nam's what I had been up to in their absence...This girl's delusional crush didn't bother me though...it would have in the beginning for sure but like I said earlier on...Seon-Ho's behaviour towards me had suddenly changed towards me...but her? Not so much; she was always an invisible servant to him no matter what she did, even before he began to give me a chance and open up to me. I nearly saw the things she went out of her way to do...which was what I had been doing since I woke up here! The way Seon-Ho looked at her when she tried to serve him tea which she never used to do had me in hysterics...he looked rather like she had gone mad. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't laughing at her failed attempts alone...in fact the minute I settled in she made it pretty clear how she felt about me, which was nothing but hostility and possessiveness over a man who absolutely refused to acknowledge her...or anyone else in the mansion who all worked for his father. But he was always kind and accommodating to me from my first day here so I had nothing to worry about.

There were time however when I used to get really frustrated with Seon-Ho along with keeping my secret about my memories...and there were times when I was so sensitive to her little tricks that I could no longer keep my sweet calm composure...she was already pissing me off when she kept giving me indirect messages about me 'being up to no good' and the boredom of staying in the mansion when the men were home was quite frankly getting to me. So I was feeling mischievous...

Well I wasn't pleased with myself as I didn't like fighting against my same sex but that bitch left me no choice...who asked her to spy on me and stick her nose in other people's business. I merely....wanted to expose her crimes as a spy and a thief and made sure she was kicked out far away where the Nam's wouldn't lay there eyes on here again. The problem was that I never really exhibited this kind of behaviour around my brother's best friend...not to the extent I was planning on anyway, so I was a little worried about his reaction. Even if he had never seen this kind of behaviour from me before the man still knew me since I was 5 years old. But what the hell, I had plenty of time to kill anyways.

Her tricks were mild at first but since I was around 'her man' a lot more she had really taken up things a notch or 2, not that I cared to be honest. I had no attachments to anything bought by Nam-Jeon's money...the gifts Seon-Ho gave me however, could not be saved much to my anger, but no matter; this could actually help me get rid of her once and for all...