MY LORD HAS RETURNED!
OH, GYEONG!
THANK YOU, MY LORD...!
GYEONG, GIVE YOUR FATHER A PROPER THANK YOU!
NO, THERE'S NO NEED FOR THAT.
FATHER!
THANK YOU FOR COMING TO SAVE ME.
I WAS SO RELIEVED THAT YOU CAME YOURSELF.
I SAID IT'S FINE...
SOHYUN-
......?
I ENDED UP AVOI- DING MY HUSBAND ALL DAY...
HE DIDN'T EVEN GO FLY KITES TODAY,
AND IT FELT LIKE HE KEPT TRYING TO STRIKE UP A CON- VERSATION...
I JUST DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO REACT...
THEY LOOKED LIKE SUCH A HAPPY FAMILY.
SOHYUN.
WHAT ARE YOU SO DEEP IN THOU- GHT ABOUT THAT YOU DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE ME COME IN?
H-HUSBAND...
YES. YOUR HUS- BAND.
THE HUSBAND WHO'S BEEN CAST ASIDE BY HIS WIFE ALL DAY LONG.
HAVING MY WIFE IGNORE ME ALL DAY HAS PUT ME IN QUITE A FOUL MOOD.
IF... IF A SINGLE DAY MADE YOU FEEL SO LONELY,
HOW DO YOU THINK I FELT, BEING CAST ASIDE FOR FOUR LONG YEARS?
CAST ASIDE? YOU?
Y-YOU NEVER SOUGHT ME OUT. NOT ON OUR FIRST NIGHT,
...NOR ANYTIME AFTER THAT...
IS IT REALLY ALRI- GHT FOR ME TO SAY SOMETHING LIKE THIS...?
I'M THE MISTRESS OF THIS HOUSE IN NAME ONLY, WI- THOUT EVEN THE KEYS TO THE ESTATE.
FOR FOUR WHOLE YEARS, I WAS MOCKED BY THE SERVANTS,
AND AMONG THE OTHER WIVES...
"LADY HONG BORE TWO CHILDREN WHILE SHE COULDN'T GIVE HIM EVEN ONE, RIGHT?"
"IS THERE ANYONE IN THIS HOUSE WHO AC- TUALLY CARES ABOUT THAT WIFE?"
"TO THINK THE PRI- MARY WIFE IS TREA- TED WORSE THAN A CONCUBINE..."
WHAT?
WHAT ABOUT THE WIVES?
AH, WELL...
THE ATMOSPHERE...
H-HE'S FURIOUS.
I MUST BE OUT OF MY MIND... HOW DARE I COMPLAIN...?!
DID THE CONCUBI- NES DARE ACT IN- SOLENTLY TOWARD YOU?
PARDON...?
TELL ME WHO DID IT.
I WILL MAKE SURE THEY LEARN EXACTLY WHO THEIR SUPERIOR IS.
YOU NEED NOT CONCERN YOUR- SELF WITH IT. I WILL HANDLE IT.
TH-THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT...
PLEASE GET UP FIRST! WHY ARE YOU KNEELING ON THE FLOOR...?
WHO ELSE SHOULD I KNEEL TO IF NOT MY OWN WIFE?
SOHYUN, LISTEN TO ME.
HASN'T THE COUN- TRY BEEN IN TUR- MOIL WITH TREA- SON AND CIVIL WAR ALL THIS TIME?
AND BECAUSE OF THAT, THERE WERE MANY THINGS I COULDN'T EASILY EXPLAIN TO YOU.
THAT'S RIGHT... SINCE MY FAMILY WAS INVOLVED.
EVEN IF THEY LEFT ME WITH NO FOND MEMORIES, BLOOD IS BLOOD...
I WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ABLE TO BRING IT UP EITHER...
...WHAT IS THIS?
INSIDE ARE THE KEYS TO THE ESTATE THAT WERE ENTRUSTED TO LADY EUN,
AND I WILL SEND THE LEDGERS THROUGH A SER- VANT LATER.
I WAS SIMPLY WAITING FOR YOU TO GET ACCUSTO- MED TO MANA- GING THE HOUSE- HOLD,
AND THE TRUE OWNER OF THESE KEYS HAS NEVER CHANGED.
EVEN WHEN PUT- TING MY LIFE ON THE LINE, THERE WAS NEVER A MOMENT I WASN'T THINKING OF YOU.
AMIDST THAT MOUNTAIN OF CORPSES,
I WONDERED WHEN I COULD RETURN TO HOLD YOU,
OR IF YOU'D FORGET YOUR HUSBAND'S FACE...
THAT WAS ALL THAT FILLED MY MIND...
ONCE I CLEARED AWAY ALL THOSE TROUBLESOME MATTERS,
I FULLY INTENDED TO STAY RIGHT BY YOUR SIDE, EVEN IF YOU TURNED ME AWAY.
I PROMISED MYSELF I'D EXP- LAIN EVERYTHING SLOWLY ONCE I RETURNED HOME.
SO PLEASE, DON'T BE ANGRY......
I WASN'T ANGRY...
EVEN THOUGH YOU WOULDN'T LET ME NEAR YOU ALL DAY.
HOW COULD I EVER DARE TO BE ANGRY WITH YOU?
IF NOT YOU, WHO ELSE HAS THE RIGHT TO BE ANGRY WITH ME?
YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE I SHARE MY BED WITH EVERY SINGLE NIGHT.
W-WAIT... HUSBAND?!
DO YOU KNOW HOW ANXIOUS I WAS WHEN YOU WOULDN’T EVEN LET ME SPEAK TO YOU?
I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEEPLY ANGRY, SO I WAS WHIMPERING ALL DAY LIKE A DOG...
DIDN’T YOU KNOW?
SOHYUN... PLEASE BELIEVE ME.
AH!
CASTING YOU ASIDE? THAT'S PREPOSTEROUS.
WHAT MAN IN THIS WORLD WOULDN'T FEEL DESIRE FOR A WOMAN LIKE YOU?
AH,
MMH...
I WAS SO ANXIOUS AND AFRAID...
YET WHEN HE WHISPERS SUCH SWEET WORDS TO ME AGAIN...
FOOLISHLY, I WANT TO BELIEVE HIM...
I'LL... BELIEVE YOU......
S-SO THAT I WON'T FEEL ANXIOUS,
PLEASE HOLD ME......
With the Lord's return, Gyeong thanks his father for saving him. Sohyun thinks about how she avoided her husband all day, unsure how to respond to his attempts to talk. At night her husband comes to her room; he says being ignored for a day has made him grumpy, that he has felt cast aside for four years. Sohyun tells him that she was the one who was truly excluded, humiliated among the servants and the other wives without even having the keys. Her husband kneels in anger, asks her to believe him, and gives her the manor keys.
