My husband was naturally uncomfortable around women he didn't know, so I already knew that he wasn't going to like anything they did or made for him. He complained that the food they made were too bug and they just wasted a lot of ingredients, his clothes weren't pressed the way he liked it, which was the way I did it and these girls had the audacity to spray their own scents on this clothes instead, which he did not appreciate in the least. He beat me to telling the Madame, who could only bow her head in embarrassment and scold then all quiet loudly without saying if they were going to be let go of yet or not. "You clumsy little thing! If you ruin the Young Master's clothes, how will you pay for it? You cannot afford this with half of your yearly salary!" "But Madame! I just…" "We haven't had any peace since they came in wife. Our home is supposed to be a safe haven for us, but I don't even want to come home anymore." "We have been barely married for a month, and yet we are still having so much trouble, but you cannot leave me home alone with them. Or don't you miss me anymore?" I pouted to him once again as we began locking ourselves in our bedroom away from the girls who were running around like headless chickens to please us, when we both knew that they were spies from the palace. "I miss you like crazy, but this won't do. Seon-H always warned me about the Prince and since I met him, I have had no peace either." "They both have they're ulterior motives, but we know who we can trust, even if I haven't met him myself." "I am going stark raving mad here with these women. Let us quickly throw this banquet so I can start looking for that son-of-a-bitch and get my life back on track." "How long will you be gone for? Please don't leave me on my own."
"I do not wish to leave you alone either, not ever. I would much rather keep you with my sister or sister-in-law Hwa-Wol when I am away." "So I can come with you?" "We need to find an escape route, these women will never let you leave their sight." I was happy enough t meet an important figure in his life, so much so that I descended on his face and gave his face so many kisses, that he had to wrestle away from me whilst I figured out a way to deal with these women once and for all.
"These are the Young Mistresses clothings and not yours! Just what are you thinking!" "Haven't you heard about his sister, Madame! She is an epileptic orphan and she managed to seduce the rising star of the palace! He is raking all of these villages, trying to look for her! So why can't I get the same chance with this Young Master!" "Because this isn't some sort of brothel! We are here to serve and not steal anything!" "That wasn't the deal! And the Young Mistress doesn't even scold me, so who are you to do so!" "I am the one in-charge of the servants here! Just be on your best behaviour until this trial is over, or I will have you whipped!" "Are you the Master of this courtyard or the Young Mistress Seo!" "No-one now, since I will personally chase you out of here myself!" "You are not the boss here! You cannot chase me out!"
I made sure to open the front doors to expose these moments just like Yeon taught me how to before confronting them openly in front of everyone. "Ladies! What on earth is going on here!" "Young Mistress! Please forgive me! I am clumsy and I accidentally made. The lapel on your husband's clothing badly! If you wish to beat me, scold me, or chase me out, then I am content! But I cannot let this Madame press me any longer!" "Heaven's Lord, you have already ruined his clothes and scolding you is considered oppressing? You haven' t gotten a singly chore right, why else would I scold you for?"
"What a pitiful thing, it is only a piece of clothing, you should just take it back and fix it." "Young Mistress, thank you for your mercy…" "Although the Madame is right, you haven't completed any chore correctly and even my own husband is berating me to fire you. And as a representative from the palace, you wouldn't be want to be seen as a woman to meddles with the newlywed period of a new couple? And as for you already listing out your punishments to me, is that you trying to make me look cruel and tarnish my image? Or are you trying to turn my husband against me this way? I haven't harmed a single person in my life, so what makes you think I will start with servants? I can simply have you sold off without even touching you if I deem you unfit to serve me, which my husband already does, and I cannot be so insensible to go against him so early on in our marriage, don' you agree? Besides, ruining such beautiful satin clothes is definitely worthy of being whipped, and as for you repeatedly talking back to your Madame from the place itself, do you think that this is something I can respect? Please leave before you embarrass my family even more. That goes for you too Madame, since you clearly cannot control these women anymore. And there is no need to report this back to the Prince as my husband has already sent him a letter regarding this situation long ago."
The looks on their faces were priceless and I could hear my husband chuckling away in his quarters, but were still left with 2 maids that I needed to rid us off before my husband and I set off on an adventure to find his friend and his sister.
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The 2 maids were now killing themselves in competition to become our maids, so much so that multiple fights and arguments had broken out and we were no longer able to manage this situation. It even got to the point where they woke us all up in the middle of the night and started tearing each other's hair off and I had to run outside to stop it before my husband woke up, and then we would all really be in trouble.
"Young Mistress! Please give me justice! I haven't had nay peace since this girl keeps trying to sabotage everything that I do for you! She insults me too much, she ruined your clothes on purpose and blamed it on me, and…" "enough of this! I have exercised enough patience for the both of you! Now you have both when up the entire neighbourhood, what do you have to say for yourselves!" "It isn't my fault! Young mistress! If you do not discipline her, we will have no survival left1" "Harmony is more important than anything, and scoldings are well-deserved. You are all from the palace, but look at what little respect you have for everyone else around you! So why shall I bother expending any more energy into managing something so unattainable! You even have so little respect for us that you didn't even take my family's reputation in account! Pack your things and go home! This instant! No, I want you both to kneel here all night long and then be gone in the morning!"
Fortunately enough, the neighbours were willing to lend me some of their servants to help watch over these 2 witches that gave us nothing but issues. I could only thank them by treating them to some wine and go back to bed before my husband woke up, but I was already too late for that.
"Just what on earth has happened now? Where did you go?" "Your fears were confirmed husband, they would much rather tear each other apart than return to the palace it all of it's glory. Something is going on there, something that has to do with us since they were sent to us and nobody else." "Get a good rest wife, we shall leave first thing in the morning, no, we shall leave in the afternoon. I need to give my horse plenty of rest and food before we set off to god only knows where." "I cannot wait….what? Why are you laughing at me?" "It really doesn't take much to make you happy, does it?" "I can say the same thing about you."
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"Young Mistress, the Madame has come to visit again." "Very well, I wish to know what she was to say for herself about this mess that she has created for us. Let her in whilst I brew up some tea." "Let us see what pretence she has for herself, like she did with withholding our wedding gifts…" "The Third Prince approved of our marriage, the only one who could have anything against it like this must be the Princess Consort herself, she must be furious that I got away, and not just myself. I am nothing in her eyes,, she must be venting her anger at having lost Yeon." "This Madame has rejected our requests to see her, but she has already frequented our home many times this month already, I wonder what she can come up with now to save herself."
"Good morning Young Mistress Seo, you look very pretty today indeed, no wonder you husband was in such a rush to marry you. But forgive me for my poor health that disallowed me to send you your betrothal gifts sooner, I hope I have not missed anything this time." "Madame, myself and my husband have a rather busy day ahead of us, so please say what you have to say before we…" "Yes? What do you have planned?" "Excuse me? Must you be this forward with us?" "Well, forgive me, I just…I have included some more gifts for you that were not on the official list, including those 2 servants that are well-rounded in musical talents and…." "Madame, I hope that you are not pushing those trouble makers onto my husband, even after I have expressed to you multiple times that he is dissatisfied with them already." "But…" "I have just started sharing my husband's bed to fulfil my wifely duties, and you are so desperate for us to carry the burden of those useless girls who cannot put a simple meal tougher that my husband approves of?"
"I would think that a young lady of your nobility and standing would be intelligent enough to read the situation…" "what situation? Are we talking abut what Her Highness has already put me through? And now she wants to sow discord in my marriage by weighing me down with the burden of keeping useless maids? The same ones that comes from her husband's quarters?" "How…how can a young lady such as yourself be so wreck-less to speak such unfunded words of insanity?" "My apologies, do you find my words unfit? And this is coming from a woman who created a brothel to house her husband's mistresses? She betrayed her own sex like this, and she finds my words to be obscene? She can commit obscene acts but I cannot use obscene language? How absurd is that? Especially when I have heard that her husband has her locked up in confinement, I wonder how this will affect her even more?"
"How dare you humiliate us? How did we ever offend you? Is this how you treat your guests?" Madame, the Third Prince our employer, it only makes sense that we take his side, does it not? And other than trying to probe around here, you should report to himself instead of creating rumours on your way back to the palace." I really didn't know how Yeon had the guts to fight against her seniors like this almost everyday, but I was being drained already and I couldn't help but to wait for this adventure my hushed would take us on to forget all of this, for a while at least.