Chapter Forty: Confession under torture

Seohwa and Jae joon has been standing at the reception hall for the past one hour , they have been straining their ears trying to hear the news about their master or the young miss.

At the opening of every door , they turn. If someone scurries through the hall they jerk up expecting to see those they are expecting, at the tiniest sound they look up but every time they are left highly disappointed.

They wondered why they are not walking out from any of the offices but they still patiently waited for their masters.

As time went on, Seohwa became scared that she started shivering. She had a feeling that something bad must have happened, if not why is the young miss not out , could it be that she was killed in the clash ?

Immediately the thought left her mind, she held Jae joon's hands very tightly and pleaded that they should find out what exactly happened to their young miss.

Jae joon held back her hands looking calm but pushing his apprehension away from his mind, he convinced her that the morgue was at the other side of the compound and if anything worse had happened to their miss , the old master would have come out from the office with the mortuary attendants towards that place. He couldn't bring himself to use the word 'death' to talk about the miss because he can't imagine that lovely face and kind heart being gone forever.

Seohwa tried to make sense with what he said but she couldn't shake off the question lingering in her mind.

"How do you know so much about this place?"

He just held her hand this time around gently and mumbled " it's a long story... I will tell you another time"

At the interrogation hall, Yoona is visibly distraught. She kept mumbling things and each time she did her father's heart kept breaking. His heart was bleeding enough from her physical and emotional pain but he knows that the greatest pain of them all is the one he is about to inflict.

Yoona has a very strong personality that makes her see through anything she sets her heart on. Seeing the bruises and blood oozing out from her wound, he can deduce that she won't give a false confession rather she will die for it.

He held her hands and softly begged her to give the prime minister what he wants.

Yoona gritted her teeth and shook her head in disapproval. She will never give the monster what he wants.

The prime minister was getting tired of watching the drama thus he lost his patience.

"Strap Mr Kim to the interrogation seat , l want to see how much the little wench will hold out and if she truly values kinship"

The guards moved swiftly and tied him to the seat while Yoona looked on thinking he was bluffing , in fact both father and daughter thought he was just playing with them but when the guards started hitting him with the rod they finally understood... this man wasn't kidding.

Yoona let out a very loud wail , banging her head on her seat while shouting "I will confess!... please leave my daddy alone... I will confess"

Her wailing attracted the attention of the crown prince as he has just subdued the guards monitoring him and he ran towards the hall.

Jae joon winced and jumped up . He heard an unearthly wail as if the person is passing through the worst impossible pain. He clutched Seohwa's hand and ran towards the sound of the voice.

He doesn't feel too good about that sound, why does it sound like the young miss's voice?

The moment she was raised up to give the verbal confession, her eyes locked on the figure that just breezed in and she winced . She gave a bitter smile and confessed while looking into his eyes .

"Yes ... I did it. I entrapped the young master in order to extort money from him, I made the market thugs to ambush him and collect more money from him , he looked refined but he was so gullible, easy to succumb and very easy to manipulate"

After the confession, she fainted with tears streaking down from the corners of her eyes.

Jae joon and Seohwa woke up from their confusion the moment she fainted , they had arrived when she started confessing hence they observed everything that transpired.

Mr Kim untied himself and rushed towards his child, he pushed the servants away and brought the child closer to his bossom while brushing the hair scattered on her face to her ear .

"Daddy is sorry ... Daddy is too weak to protect you ... please don't die"

The servants crying especially Seohwa offered to carry the miss but her father refused. He brought the child to his back and made to move but his knees almost gave way to make him stumble. He finally understood that they had broken his legs and insisting on carrying her might be disastrous.

Jae joon carefully and respectfully took her from him and like a porcelain not meant to be broken carried her on his back and made to leave but the prime minister stood before them.

"No leaving yet, not until she put her confession on writing" he said nonchalantly. He doesn't care if she dies , he wants everything to end perfectly with no loopholes. In fact, it's better she dies to save future worries for him.

The crown prince that stood at one corner having lost the right to touch the girl turned around and grabbed the sword from the nearest guard pointing it at his throat...

"Let them leave or you don't leave me a choice... I swear to god, l will cut you down" he was pushing back the tears blurring his vision. An innocent girl suffered just because he gave his heart to her.

The prime minister knows that the crown prince has reached his limit so he dared not act rashly.

Yoona suddenly woke up as if she has been injected with adrenaline, on opening her eyes she heard the prime minister calling the young master "my son"

She only heard that but what actually happened was that the crown prince was really going to kill him hence he wanted to tell the crown prince that he is his son-in-law but before he could add "in-law" part Yoona shouted and with her last strength wobbled towards them and grabbed Seohwa's hairpin.

She struck the crown prince with it making a V-shaped mark looking ghastly on his arm while calling him a "bastard"

The prime minister made to yank her away but the crown prince put the sword on his throat tighter while giving him a small cut.

Yoona was surprised at him but right then she had lost all her reasonings .She diverted her attention towards the monster and cursed him.

"Choi sang-min! I will pay back everything you did to me in a more ghastly way... you will drown in your own blood you bastard!"

With her last strength exhausted, she finally slumped, before she could hit the ground, she fell into Jae joon's hands.

They left the office and ran towards home on a horseback with Seohwa running to the house of the best doctor in town to help her master and young miss heal.

At the palace, guards has been rallied to go out and look for the crown prince with the royal command to involve every force out there. It's past evening time and the crown prince is no way near home .

The empress mother has reached her breaking point.