"What are you doing here with me girl? What wrong did you do now?" "I haven't done anything My Lady; nobody has called for me, visited me, spoke too me or even served me for weeks, so I cannot image what I am doing here myself, other than keeping you company whilst Seo Yeon obliterates your entire family." "Now what are you going on about? You and your obsession with that girl, that is the reason why you have ended up as a ghost in your own home!" "A ghost? Ah yes, that is the joke that everyone made up about The Seo's for almost a decade, and now they have made me into one for the past decade myself. But fret not; after the events of today, she will surely be the one to turn into a ghost, not myself." "No wonder everyone ignores you, a woman who has let herself go and her mind wander is of no use to anyone…" "Yes, that is how ambitious your nephew is; despite being a social pariah all of his life, he only hones in on people that he can exploit for his own use; even his few loved ones that he cherishes, and he has borrowed his wife's luck so that they also benefit from his exploitations. That is the only reason why his circle accepts them and he does do a lot for them in return. But when I was the one who put my reputation on the line and graced hm with my presence, he hardly took me seriously enough at all! But when I set his precious wife on fire, then he will look at me once again; I shall be the one to reclaim my pain by his side." "Fire? What fire? Will you kill the girl? When? And how?" "I will do it tonight after she has decimated your entire clan for the poison scandal that she is about to expose. Why? You really didn't think that anyone would notice what you , your mother and even your sister was doing to your father behind his back? Behind ours? Yeon has the most unique perspective out of all of us, that is why he marred her. She knew everything and she was just waiting for the right time to bring it up on the order of her husband who has now successfully dealt with any and every blood relative of his late father's."
"So she knew! And now my family….my mother and father…my sister and her lover are already ruined, but what about me? What shall happen to me now?" "i even heard from the servants that she was experiencing labour pains this very morning, and he was so excited that he prepared lanterns for her to be lit tonight, and that is where the fire will come in…" "That bitch! No matter how lenient I have been with her, she still will not spare me, will she! Even after my clan protected her child, she still bit the hand that fed her! Just like her husband did before her…how dare these lowborn rise above us like this! Just who do they think we are! No, this cannot happen! I must stop her!" "So you will not even spare her unborn child now? We all know that going into labour is like taking a trip to hell…" "And what would you know of such pain, madame! Your empty womb is just as useless as your empty mind! What happened to you! I thought that the beauty of our village was also the smartest one of them all…" "What can I say? I lost my edge as soon as I lost Seo Hwi and I haven't managed to get it back, no matter what I have tried." "Do you see the servants readying the lanterns outside of the window? Should I set fire to the place now to set in some confusion on her most important day? SeonHo could always remark and have other children I suppose…wait a minute, can you smell that? What is it and why is it so close to us?" "That bitch! You yourself sad she was all=knowing! So how could she not have seen what you were planning when she has meticulously trained every servant herself! As usual, you are completely useless, aren't you! Her servants are the one who are sending those lanterns over to our very courtyard! We will be the one who becomes ghosts, not her! Help us! Someone release us! Our courtyard is on fire now! Please help us!"
"Servants! Release them and arrest them both and arrest them both on the charge of arson!" "Just what are you asking about? You are my adopted son and my nephew's nephew! How can you turn on me like this!" "Turn on you! I only sought out your clan's protection because my uncle wanted nothing to do with me at first! But you are worth nothing to me now, especially since I know that you were the one who deliberately crippled me like this! I may even be rewarded by The Emperor himself for handing you over to him personally! And as for this sire, I only have to say that the wind blew so strongly that the fire that you started yourself blew over here!"
"But you are my son! My family! And you have no proof otherwise…." "You haven't schemed for me even once or made plans with me, so why am I so precious to you now? You've never cared about what I needed, so I had to beg my aunt for everything that I have now! You only shove the bare leftovers in my mouth, unlike my uncle who can train me to be exactly what he needs, so that I can flourish by his side! He can give me what I want, so I can hand you over to him in return!" "No! I will kill that man myself before I am escorted out of here! Get your servants off of me! I need to see him one last time!" "Nephew? What is going on here? What is all of this about a fire where my wife sleeps!" "I have already prevented that and I have arrested these 2 witches, but your aunt insists on talking to you first!" "Very well, we have already made a spectacle of ourselves, so let us take this inside and have the guards on standby, but you need to take a rest right afterwards nephew." "I am not crippled so much that I can barely work, uncle!" "Very well, but you will rest after they have been arrested!"
"Here you are! The rising star of the palace! The Emperor's right hand man! Is there a relative under the sky like you! Look at what you have let your wife do to us! On your order! You even let your nephew set our courtyard on fire!" "What on earth are you talking about woman? I had you under house arrest, why would I want to harm you? What is she talking about, nephew?" "I have no idea uncle, I was simply arriving here when I saw the fire and I helped put it out, but I guess she is just in shock and becoming hysterical. It isn't my fault that the air is dry in winter, is it uncle?" "You indeed cannot blame my nephew for that! You have clearly lost your mind, and therefore are no longer fit to parent him, so I shall absolve you of his adoption and…" "No! You cannot! He is my only child left and I will not let you take him away from me!"
"Get out of her before I kill you myself, just as you killed your father!" "My father! Did I kill him! No, I did nothing to him before you dragged us all here wih your actions! I hadn't even seen my father since he married me off and seeing him once again under your roof pushed me to take vengeance for my miserable married life, but I would have never had the opportunity if it wasn't for you!" "What bullshit! You repay a loan with money and a life for a life, and your father did nothing but pamper and spoil you for your entire life! Your marriage went sour because you claimed someone that wasn't yours, and your father went along with it, despite this slapping your sister's face, so what was his fault exactly?" "I am a noble wife of an official! My father should've pampered me but he let me down when he went along with the only mistake that I have ever made in my life!" "Well this confession is enough for an indictment I suppose…" Inducement! You almost burnt me to death, what about that!" "Well? Are there any witnesses? Servants! Anyone!" "I have The Mistress Han here at my side, so…." "I can assure her that if she speaks a single word pertaining to your innocence, then I will expose her ongoing affair wih our esteemed neighbour in front of The Emperor himself! And you know how severe that crime is, don't you Madame? It will especially look bad on you since she is your guest in your home and you allowed her to do such a thing! Or did you maybe sell her to him yourself, and that is when you both collaborated to harm me and my wife by framing us for your poison scandal? Which theory do you think sounds better wife?" "The second one does sound better indeed husband, and here, do not forget to show of The Mistress Han's broken lanterns that were shot down by a rather specific arrow, one that you might be familiar with husband? Take this in case hey frame us for this fire disaster." "Go and rest up wih my nephew wife, we have a long journey ahead of us now and you are not leaving without me." "I shall wait for you husband and pack some food for you just in case, but I cannot wait another day. I am warning you husband." "What about me uncle? Can't you take me wih you?" "You will be sent to a special pharmacy that will train you to use your leg again and I do not want to hear another word about it! It has cost me a fortune to set up, so that is final! Someone will pick you up tomorrow morning and your aunt has already packed up your bags."
"Your conduct and excuses will be used against you, aunt. This will also heavily reflect on your son's sentence and I will personally make sure to add another decade to his sentence and he will personally know that he is suffering nonsensically due to his mother's hysteria. This of course will be backed up by the evidence that I have secured from your husband's household, his servants in particular; one dead from breaking a teacup, one beaten to death whilst pregnant and another dead from…" "One rotten fruit will spoil the whole basket; your father should have killed you long ago!" "He should have, but he didn't even have the courage to do that, aunt." "You dare to murder an entire clan of nobility!" "I do dare if I have The Emperor's backing; your clan has lost it's protection ever since my father died of reason, and the only way that I could survive was to turn him in and the rest of his clan. I cannot lie and say that my wife's luck for this family will always protect us, but I have at least lived long enough to produce my own family that will surely survive long after my own demise." "So you lured us here to kill us all!" "Wha are you asking about? I wasn't the one who invited you here, was I?" "You mean…" "Mistress Han? Are you going to confess to my aunt that your lured her here because you knew of my non existent relationship with them? You needed to show the world of your non existent family image by calling them over here, but you knew that your last hope with me was to bring them here so that I could 'heal my childhood trauma' by eliminating those who harmed me? And yet it was my wife who sorted everything out for me flawlessly." "How can you sit here and smile as you tell me you use your wife as a tool?" "My wife is the tool that I used to exploit? No you have this all wrong madame; my wife did what she did for me because she is my wife. You were the ultimate tool that I used from the beginning Hui=Jae, don't you know that yet?" "What are you…?" "Do you sit have no idea why I didn't cut off my ties with you until now? It was because keeping you around finally made my wife keep her wit and senses around her; keeping you nearby finally made her devoted to me in a way that she was fighting from the start, and it was because of you. You lived with them in this home, and you dare turn a blind eye to their antics? No, I finally have a use for you that will sever our ties for good, I owe my wife that much at least to compensate her for her emotional distress."