Part 6: Mobsi Geolobhida 
(Perish)- Chapter 60: Sago (Accident)

My servants had tried their best to interfere in as many of her requests as possible, but that orphaned brat aways found someway to make every situation backfire on me. And as much as it annoyed me, I needed to just focus on my pregnancy now more than ever to secure my place in this household. I hadn't seen or heard anything from Dal since the moment he started acing weird and said all of that rubbish about being a Nam. So i had to do something myself to take out the brat once and for all, no matter how har I had to go. My servants were now lame so I had to carry out my own chores, the Master of the home refused to recognise me and my rough journey to become a maid in this household looked like it was all for nothing. I had no support from my man whom I still was not married to and if things continued this way, then it looked like I would be pushed out onto the street as soon as my baby was born, and that I might have to take him with me. This Nam family was so...unusual compared to everyone else in this village that it was hard to blend in with them. It was hard to keep up with their intellect, their plans and their sheer ruthlessness to climb to the top that even surpassed my capabilities to simply become a concubine, even if I was previously a maid. I had been in pain for a few days, not that anybody noticed, so I chose to eave my quarters for the first time in a few days and walk around to get some exercise on my own since my man was nowhere in sight again. That was until I saw him in his old quarters where he doing some work and he was watching Yeon doing some calligraphy work on her brand new writing table. Despite the tutor that I had managed to find myself, I was always so constantly distracted to focus on learning anything new at all. I still couldn't read or write, I couldn't hold a witty conversation with the young master like his cousin did and I could not even give him simple advice because I knew nothing at all. No wonder he couldn't take me seriously at all, I really couldn't blame him at this point. "What are you doing here? Are you not supposed to stay in your quarters and get some rest?" "I cannot stay there on my own for such long hours." "And let me remind you that you were the one who wanted my mother's quarters in the first place. You fought tooth and nail for it, didn't you?" "But I didn't expect for you to...." "To what exactly? Defile the only place that holds the memory of my mother? It is already full up of so much of your junk that I can barely take a single step without tripping over something or another." "You wouldn't need to feel that way if you didn't give up your quarters that are big enough for the two of us for one single girl. I only went after her quarters because you didn't take the initiative to invite me to live with you now that we...." "Brother, she is right." "Excuse me?" "If your mother's quarters are not big enough for the both of you, then can you please return the quarters back to me? I was never really supposed to be saying here in the first place." "Are you sure?" "Do not inconvenience yourself just for my sake, and your work requires more space." "Ok then, I will get the servants on it right away." What a cuckold. He would scold me non-stop if I even talked at all whilst he was working, and yet he was running around his home for her sake. No matter how much I wanted rid of her in that instant, I still had to talk to her and get some long awaited answers out of her so I knew where she stood and how much of a problem she would continue to be to me and everyone else in this household that wanted to move forward and couldn't because of her constant schemes to undermine all of us. "You know, when I first met you, I was absolutely sure that you were the sister of his best friend. But after I have spent some time with you, I can be assured that you are not at all." "And what makes you say that? Was that girl a threat to you?" "Absolutely not, she was just a lowborn with an embarrassing crush." "So what are you trying to say exactly?" "You are still...a pretty young woman who can surely marry any man you want to with your intelligence and wit. So why do you not marry?" "Because I do not like anyone." "So what about the Young Master?" "What about him?" "Why do you not marry him?" "The Young Master has someone that he likes, that someone being not in this household at all." "So what? A man in our country can have more than a wife." "I do not want that." "Excuse me? What do you mean? With your background, age and disability, you can only hope to become a concubine..." "I do not want that." "What are you saying then? That you will never marry?" "Yes." "But why?" "I...have been through a a lot before I am even 20 years old. And I do not think that I can add heartbreak to the list as well; I am disabled, orphaned and penniless. I know my place in this world and I am fully aware that I may never be able to have a husband, or I may never be able to provide him with children even if I do. So why think about marriage at all?" "So will you stay with the Young Master forever?" "Of course not." "Then what is your plan?" "You do not need to be worried about that. But be rest assured that I should be out of here soon." "And the Young Master?" "What about him?" "You will not seduce him? Or take him away from me?" "I cannot love someone who doesn't love me or is forced to stay by my side. So no, I will not and I have never had the intention to do so in the first place." "Is that realistic for you? No man or woman can resist company or..." "Or...?" "Nothing, it is not for me to tell you about these things. But for that reason alone, you have become an old unmarried maid who has some weird obsession with her own cousin? You are wasting your best ages as a woman." "I know that this might come as a shock to you, but marriage isn't the only path that a woman can take." "Well, since you will not busy yourself looking for a husband, I am sure that you remember a promise that you made to me when the Young Master was still in the Liadong war." "Of course I will get onto it as soon as I can." "You can start making the material provisions tonight, I will send you all of the equipment that you may need." But just as I had successfully left her alone ad sure overwhelmed with the sheer amount of work I would leave her in, I almost fainted in shock when I saw what had been left for me outside my own quarters later on that day. In fact, I actually did and I came to later with a very deep pain in my stomach that made me feel as if I was going to explode with every injustice I had suffered since my time here in the Nam Mansion. "Where is the Young Master? Please...someone call the doctor? Hello? Is anyone there?" My servants had suddenly disappeared as well as the Young Master. Even the orphan wasn't to be seen anywhere and in fact, the whole courtyard was covered in a silence that I had not seen the likes of in a busy mansion like this. There was not a single soul about to help me, so I had no choice but to drag myself up from the bed and almost crawl onto the floor and reach the door. What on earth was going on? Where were all of the servants? Why wasn't anyone attending to me at all? I was already in a lot of pain and dragging my swollen belly across the floor wasn't helping matters at all. But when I opened my door and saw my servant whom I hadn't seen for months had turned into, I couldn't help but to release all of my anger and frustration in a huge scream that filled up my lungs. My poor trusted servant was beyond dead, her corpse was positively rotting before my very eyes and there were insects eating whatever flesh was left of her....My god, who on earth would be so evil to do such a thing?

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I was only having my monthly meetings with the servants and maids in the front courtyard when we all heard a horrific blood-curdling scream coming from my old quarters. It was so loud that could not help but to almost shoot up in the air like an arrow that had been released from its bow. I had my servant run over to he concubine to see what on erat could have happened to her, only to have her coming back to me white as a ghost as she tried to explain to me the best that she could what was going on. But before I even had the chance to go over there myself, Nam-Jeon had angrily called all of us to her quarters where we saw the rotting corpse. Even I had the exact same reaction as her when I saw what had been left out for her, so much so that I had to run away from the crowd to throw up somewhere privately. "Yeonnie? Are you ok? Why are you throwing up so much?" "It is ok brother, it usually happens after my fits." "Are you sure? I haven't seen you do this before..." "Stop worrying so much old man, you know I am always alright." "Come over here and let me check how you are..." "Brother! I just threw up! Stay away from me and let me bathe before I come near you!" "Yeon!" "Hwi!" Hwi. Seo Hwi. My brother who loved me and cherished me more than he did himself. My brother who worked like a dog for our survival and got nothing in return other than shame and neglect from everyone around us, especially those officials like the neighbour who were meant to help us. He didn't have anyone to take notice of him apart from the man who ripped me away from him. He had no-one to give him happiness apart from the man who I was so convicted about. And now I had a feeling why he was so miserable and yet so determined to be playful around me. Seon-Ho...he must be having a hard time as well. I couldn't forget the way he kept looking at Hwi when I had him over in my quarters and Hwi...there was pain behind the rage he had in his eyes when he saw him as well. Hwi, my brother, I swear that I will do everything in my power to help you become the most successful person in this entire kingdom. You deserve to be praised for your hard work, you deserve to be swimming in wealth and glory....you deserve everything that Nam-Jeon has...But so does Seon-Ho for the pain of his birthright...good god, what should I do? How can I help both of them? And what could I do to Nam-Jeon himself? "Young Mistress! Where are you...Young Mistress? What is the matter? Why are you crying?" "What...nothing. What is the matter? Why are you looking for me?" "The concubine..." "Now what has she done?" "She is currently being seen to by a doctor. She is in a lot of pain." "And why are you telling me this? What does this have to do with me?" "She is cursing you non-stop about this." "How could she possibly think that I can do something so disgusting and disrespectful?" "But she is shouting about you to the Masters of this household, what if they blame you if she has a miscarriage?" "I have a clear conscious, her curses won't be fulfilled no matter how much she blames me for everything that goes wrong under this roof." "But they are too unpleasant to hear." "She is more trouble than is worth reporting. She will get over this soon, nothing will happen to her." "She is holding onto the mandarin ducks that she was gifted by the Young Master..." "Mandarin ducks in a pair signify a lifelong loving couple, of course Yeon doesn't know anything about it." "And just what is that supposed to mean Dal?" "It means that the time for playing around with you're silly little games are up and it is my turn to have some fun now." "What on earth are you talking about?" "You and the Young Master, you two are really one of a kind?" "I have no time for this nonsense. Get out of my way and try to sober up in your quarters..." "Beg me." "Excuse me?" "Beg me for mercy before the Master Nam cals for you and blames you for dragging that corpse from the village." "Corpse? What corpse? What on earth are you up to now?"