"…how on earth do you expect my wife to answer for this! She was in active labour, there are even several witnesses in the palace who can attest for it, so how do you plan to pin my wife for murder? Of a disposed condone of all people who was deemed guilty by The Emperor himself? There are no witnesses, And my wife was clearly left alone to birth my son who I found her! So why is she having to go through this!' "My Lord Nam, this entire family fell from grace and where all found dead overnight, what are we supposed to do? Your wife was theist known person to be with them all, so…" "They were all in the presence of The Emperor, and even MoonBok himself has said the only thing on her person were poisoned ginseng slices! With cinnabar, the same thing that killed the son of the family of The Senior Scholar earlier that day also!" "My Lord, please calm down…" "Calm down! My wife had a traumatic birth all on her own, she is being framed for murder and is currently going on a fucking hunger strike when she should be eating enough to feed my newborn son as well." "Like I said, there are no witnesses to this all, so you cannot bales us for…" "I cannot blame you? Seriously? Your council here are determined to pin my wife to prove your alliance to The Third Prince because you all know that Seo Hwi is bringing him back here to the palace! But guess what? You cannot change the truth about this poison, you cannot change the fact that old woman had been severely ill for a long time and you cannot change the fact that Seo Hwi will never take this lightly! He has many followers in his name who have been boycotting everything in the kingdom to stand by his sister who has helped the people more than you ever have! And as for the rest of you, you all stand here today on a collective decision only to gain favours from the right people in the future for this! My wife deserves the highest honour for fulfilling her duties to her paternal and marital families! She deserves to live in the most expensive yangban instead of rotting away in the palace like this! A woman who was filled with grief for the downfall of her own clan within a day has mangled to fall you all! A woman who was already determined as guilty by her own husband who refuses to speak on her behalf, and you dare to make a court decision about this behind his back? I do not think so!" "The Emperor has been inconsolable with grief these past few days…" "I myself have taken the liberty to talk about this with The Emperor myself via my brother-in-law, who is discussing this situation with him right now!"
"And what of the rumours of your wife's involvement with the clan's downfall? More than one it seems?" If The Emperor has not said anything about this, then who are you to say so? Have you really not thought of the fact that he hasn't said anything about it, maybe because there was an agreement between them at the time that she is not at liberty to discuss? It was crucial to take down The Third Princess Consort at the time when her evil actions came to light, so why are you bringing her up as if it is a point against her? Rumours stop against wise men, but they can still hurt as deeply as knives, especially when it comes to women since their reputations are all they have." "But if people believe in the rumours, then they are not simply rumours are they?" "Then what about the numerous times my wife's life was in danger throughout her pregnancy? The people who have interacted with my wife are witnesses to it all! You haven't even put The Mistress Han on trial yet for her actions, so why must you all tera away a mother form her first baby? And a son at that! She needs to be at home to care for him! And since you have no reasonable charge against her, then I shall bring her home today no matter what you say! Only the decree of The Emperor can stop me! I will return her innocence to her even if you are determined not to!" "My Lord Nam! It. Is time to put your favouritism to the side and think about the people for once!" "For once? I always think about them! Nobody but this office is saying anything about this, so why should I pay heed to any of you at all!" "You stay in your place man! And stop using your Imperial Favours to run this palace how you see fit, just like your treacherous father did before you! We are no longer in The Goreyo Dynasty! This is Joseann now and everything is different! Just because something isn't going your ay for once, it does not mean that you can just throw a tantrum like this!" "The former Crown Prince's sister met with a gruesome accident, and as for the former Crown Prince himself, everyone kew how weak he was in his infant years when he was born prematurely and had to have medicine in half of his milk portion! He is not used to the life of the common folk since he has hardly set foot outside of the palace and there are no records of my wife even saying a word about his disposal when she was with The Emperor!"
"As it stands Lord Nam, there have been numerous complaints about your excessive pampering for this one woman in your life; from taking over the kitchens so that they can make her nourishing meals and her favourite teas, to growing her favourite teas so that she can get past this postpartum depression of hers after the brith of your child. You have replaced her furnishings with the ones from your very home, to sending her tailor suits to wear everyday. You have even given her as many visitors as you please to keep her mood light. The fact that you come here dressed in your casual home robes that she makes you already says a lot about your bias to this case against her, so …" "I can dress how I wish to since I have no official work in the palace going on at the moment due to my temporary suspension! Or will you dictate to these about these minor incidents as well as my personal ones?" "There is also the fact of your wife's birth pillars…" "…that has never been brought up as an issue until right now at the very moment where you are trying to tear her down! The daughter of Seo Geom! Even The Emperor celebrated her birth as well as many of you officials here, so if you bring up her birth pillars now, then you are all complacent in it! May people share the same birth pillars as her in this kingdom and nothing out of the ordinary has come about them!" "Is that why you even castrated the male servants that we have put in her service? You crazy bastard…!" "Not a single day goes by where I am not strictly adhering by the rules on Confucius and honouring decorum! Yes my wife is lively and interesting, but she has never gone against any laws of this nation!" "My Lord Nam! It is because you have never indulged in avarice that you gained stability over the years! But one woman whom you endlessly pampered has also dragged you down also! She deserves nothing more than a beating and divorce, rather than ruining you're years of prominence!" "It is my problems, so who are you to council me on my perusal matters!" "You should cherish your own health and reputation, what exactly is wrong with that!" "Do not admonish me or lecture me! You have no right to do that! Instead of investigating my wife, you should be doing that to The Senior Scholar on the account of his dead son and his bed-ridden wife! Pressuring me to divorce my own wife shall get you nowhere because it will ever happen, not even she will consent to such madness, no matter how upset she is! I have no complaints to make about her, even now she has been nothing but obedient to me and my words! She has never displeased meant even once! I was the one who held my affections back for her so she has always doubted herself! How I regret that now; but how can I blame her? Which woman can truly be at ease at the side of the man who sacrificed almost everything for my devotion to the palace, and this is what I get in return? For my attempts and my sincerity? Is this how you try to tear me down? Via a woman? A vulnerable one who just became a mother for the very first time in her life without ant help at all?"
"Are you therefore accusing us of scheming against you? The entire government is inly out to get you, is that it?" "I brought down The Third Prince and his wife before they damaged this nation more on the orders of The Emperor himself, including his second and fifth son! Indeed, the indefinite calculations and schemes of the palace tires a person out, and yet I was the one who carried out these tasks with clarity! You all were the ones who kept feeding into their power and delusions whilst I was the only one who stopped them, including my own father and his clan!" "Are you saying you never indulged in fake contraception medicines and jeweller containing large amounts of musk?" "My now wife has bene pregnant for a year, why would I risk exposing her to that at all, even if we were surrounded by my enemies? We were both devoted to preserving this first child of ours and there is no solid proof to argue otherwise!" "My Lord, do not terrorise everyone in the place for your dangerous obsessions with this girl; there are plenty more fish in the sea and I can assure you that you will eventually move on…" "If you punish my wife illegally behind the back of The Emperor, then I shall also go down with her! She will not be shamed and tortured over nothing! And believe me you, there is not any amount of wealth that you will be willing part from to buy back the trust of the people of this village who has benefited more from her care than anyone else in the palace, including myself! And your paranoia today will turn back on you just as the people will, I can assure you of that! Not even the lowborn wish to be led by selfish tyrants like yourself who are only self-devoted with severe inferiority complex's!"
"Enough of this! I need not take insults from a half breed such as yourself!""My Lords! There are reports coming out from the home of The Senior Scholar! All of his female servants have ended up dead outside of his home from cinnabar poisoning once again! The exact same same one that killed the former concubine one trial here! They all even have the same bruises in the exact same areas as those on her body! The Madame Nam has only entered their residence twice before the marriage of The Mistress Hand and The Senior Scholar, so she has nothing to do with this at all!" "Is that so? Really? Thence must send the office of Inspector Generals…" "They ere already summonsed over there just hours before this shocking incident took place! One of them was even rumoured to have been pregnant with the baby of The Senior Scholar himself!" "My Lords1 the verdict is in from The Emperor! The Inspector Generals reported it to him first before they even reported anything to us at all! The Madam Nam…has been set free of any suspicion on this case1 we are to arrest The Senior Scholar and his concubine…with The Lord Nam here leading the arrest! His wife is free to go and as for The Senior Scholar…his end has finally come."