Chapter 158: The Kang Sisters

I was appalled when I heard what Seon-Ho did to my brother. I know he could be a bit of a handful but still..."look at what the hell you have done! You know our brother will not survive a week in that camp!" It was a hard pill to swallow when my lowly cousin teamed us all up to take the bitch down who had stolen our man from us...well, mine and hers. My elder sister and brother were more like gold-digging leeches who just wanted to take him away from me. I didn't dare to admit it...but I was surprised how far they were willing to go after what I did to our family just so they could snatch him from me..."me? What the hell did I do? You both are responsible for following us here, you do not even like Seon-Ho! You are wealthy enough to live on your own! To support him as well! You are the one responsible for his downfall! And you are next!" I laughed in her face for as long as I could before I felt her slap me onto the ground.

I looked up at her in shock; but as usual I was met a with a gaze full of fury and disgust "do NOT forget your place! I am here to take the sole cause of your madness. Do you really think that I have no idea he is the reason why you murdered our parents!" She was finally talking about it; I didn't dare bring up the subject first. But I desperately needed to clear her misconceptions about Seon-Ho. She had been making my life a misery living under the same roof. I had been so caught up in Seon-Ho and his whore I had completely forgotten about my parents inheritance that I was due to get a share of before I...well luckily I had met some high class clients after my first year in Ihwaru after...after what some of the 'clients' put me through. So I had enough money and fame of my own so I didn't need my parents inheritance. But still..."listen to me once and for all. Seon-Ho is NOT the reason that happened to our parents, you have no idea what they did to me!" "What? What did they do to you? Apart from spoil you? Indulge your every whim? Bring you the best education and materials possible? They even agreed to your choice of suitor as soon as possible! So why! Why did you kill them!"

I couldn't stand taking all the blame for all this years as I jumped up off of the floor and lunged at her for the first time, tearing handfuls of her hair while I could "who the hell do you think put me in that whore house! Who do you think signed the papers for my stay there! Do you have any idea what I went through in my first year there! How I was raped over and over again! My own parents were the ones who did that to me! So of course I killed them! What should I have done? Let them live in comfort and luxury whilst I was getting raped everyday?!" She had fainted in shock the minute I opened my mouth, so much so that it was actually beginning to scare me so I let her go. "Nam-Kyu...Nam-Kyu?" "What...what did you say? Who...who signed the papers for the whore house?" She asked me silently, still in shock but I would tell her mind was racing back to the past. "Our parents who else? Of course you need parental consent for that kind of business!" I was still unsure of how to act now "so you see? It has nothing to do with Seon-Ho at all! Its not his fault! And...and..." I trailed off at what I remembered he told me...that he was not aware of my father waiting for him at the gates. When I heard this for the first time I didn't dare think about it in detail...there was no way that lowly bitch would...I mean she was my cousin! We hated each other but she didn't have anything against my father, that I knew of...no! No, it had to be Yeon that drove him away...right?

We suddenly heard the voices of Chun-Ae and Hyo-Sonn coming back from the palace so I pulled my sister into my room and I told her everything he told me. Her face comely drained of colour and she actually collapsed onto my bed. But before I could say anything she pulled me down with her "listen to me closely. The minute you ran away our father did everything he could to look for you for weeks! He could barely eat or sleep, the same as mother! He even began neglecting work to look for you! It isn't possible that they randomly signed your stay at a gibang! How would they know you at the a gibang at all? Or which gibang they would assign you to, you stupid bitch!" At this point she was shaking me like I had gone mad. Slowly but surely what she was implying was beginning to seep in...although we had to keep quiet. Somehow, she had gained a well-known reputation in the place only a few steps behind that bitch that had both of the older princes wrapped around her fingers. She was the one who gathered all of us together and even bailed out my sister and brother with her new influence and banded us together against the person who stole all of our dreams and wreck havoc on Yeon's life. but...she somehow knew all of our conversations, our personal matters, and our stages with sour so-called 'husband' Seon-Ho.

"Nam-Kyu look at me...are you really telling me the truth? My parents really looked for me for that long? That is longer than the time my papers were signed..." "Da-In! You even just told me that our cousin was the only person who knew that father was there waiting to be let in for hours! I really do not like Yeon but...but there's no proof that she is the one who kept him waiting! In fact...the date he was there...isn't that the same day of the month she was in the market? I read it in your diary that you brought to the Bong manor"

I felt myself go numb...it wasn't possible right? No...I couldn't live in doubt like this. It was already unbearable that she had become our superior. She held regular meetings with us, discussing ways to get close to Seon-Ho. We had to admit it...we didn't think he would go as far as to just leave us in an empty home with no servants whilst he live with his family in a fully furnished manor. He actually dared to leave the gift the king bestowed on him to fend for themselves! When we protested he just snapped and told us to learn from his lowly wife instead who knew how to take care of her family without any help at all. Chun-Ae went to complain to the King himself a few times but he started to get annoyed; he clearly wasn't over the wedding disaster that had brought him shame with my siblings and he made it very clear to himself that he gifted us to his precious army general as a tight favour to his Queen but not to test his patience anymore. He wasn't going to help us, and Seon-Ho never let us get past the gate of his mansion or let us send anything to him. It had been months and he never visited us once, never mind consummating our marriage.

I had to go...I had to get my hands on my papers that I left Ihwaru with...I had to find that man's family who kept to hidden just so I would stay with him. I got ready and ran out; concubines were not allowed to be seen outside without the families thad adopted them but I couldn't just sit around and not be sure...if Chun-Ae was really the one responsible...than I had really just murdered my parents for no reason at all...I was just about leave when my sister grabbed me by the arm and whispered in fear "Da-In...you don't think she knows what you did to her family right? Why else would she do this to us?" I almost fainted at her words and my sister had to almost catch me on the spot "there's...there's no way she could have found out. Nobody knew but our family what happened to hers...I have to go find my papers. Cover for me please with her...make up any excuse..." I trailed off as I made my way to the door. I took one last look at my sister, helping to see her in one piece when I returned...