Chapter 284 – Who is that woman? (2)
As Kang Yoon was about to storm out in frustration, the guards of Lord Sungyeon were facing off against Ma Sohyang.
They had been guarding the perimeter of the residence, unable to watch over their lord all night. But when the peak martial artist Ma Sohyang suddenly appeared in the dead of night, they were on high alert.
“I know who you are… but what are you doing here? If you don’t answer honestly… I’ll cut you down.”
They had eyes and ears, so they knew roughly what kind of situation this woman was involved in with Kang Yoon.
But no matter what the situation was, leaving a potential threat to the nobility alone was unacceptable.
Especially if someone approached the residence of the nobility in the dead of night.
“Who are you guys? If you don’t reveal your identity, you’ll be the ones getting cut down.”
Meanwhile, Ma Sohyang was also extremely flustered. She had only been trying to investigate the situation lightly.
After looking into it, she couldn’t find Kang Yoon or Jegal Mireng’s residence in any of the clinics.
This was because the special district was built beyond the area where the doctors lived, so that no one could enter without permission. It was normal not to be able to enter the place where doctors treated patients, so unless someone like Lord Sungyeon roamed around everywhere, there was no chance of being discovered.
“It must be here after all. But who are these people…?”
Judging from their attire, they looked like a group of thugs, but their tone was as if they were treating her like an intruder, so she couldn’t figure out their intentions.
Although she was able to hold her own against the leader of the group in a brief exchange of blows, it was difficult to guarantee her safety as Ma Sohyang if they attacked her in a group using their thug tactics.
As Ma Sohyang and the guards faced off against each other, the clash of swords and screams could be heard as others rushed over.
“Ma Yeo-hyeop? What brings you here at this late hour…?”
“Namgung Dae-bu-in?!”
Ma Sohyang was momentarily surprised when she saw Eon Soyoung, but soon calmed down.
Come to think of it, she had seen her face briefly on the day she first came. It was just that on that day, she was so overwhelmed by Kang Yoon’s face that she couldn’t see anything else around her.
“What brings you here?”
“…I came with a medical carriage. Jegal Yeo-hyeop wanted to see the child, so I came to show her face.”
After answering, Eon Soyoung glanced at Ma Sohyang.
Only after realizing that she had been too flustered to answer Eon Soyoung’s question, Ma Sohyang quickly opened her mouth.
“I was trying to find Jegal Yeo-hyeop… I heard she was staying at a clinic, but I couldn’t find her anywhere…”
Ma Sohyang felt embarrassed as her excuse sounded childish and weak.
“Why? Why did you come looking for her at this late hour?”
At that moment, Jegal Mireng and Dang Hye-won appeared. Ma Sohyang couldn’t recognize Dang Hye-won since she had never seen her before, but judging from her smooth movements, she could tell that she was also a martial artist.
“…”
“Tell us. What’s the urgent matter?”
There was nothing urgent. Ma Sohyang had mentioned Jegal Mireng just to have a better excuse for coming to find the man who had impregnated her.
But then, she saw a woman she had never seen before half-hiding behind the man’s back.
“Who is that woman?”
Ma Sohyang shouted in surprise, and the woman who had been hiding half-revealed her face.
When Ma Sohyang saw her reaction, she felt even more uncomfortable. Eon Soyoung spoke with an awkward expression.
“Ma Yeo-hyeop… I heard you came to find Jegal Yeo-hyeop, but it’s not appropriate to cause a disturbance without answering why you came at this late hour.”
As Eon Soyoung spoke in a low voice, reflecting her discomfort, Ma Sohyang suddenly realized that she had caused a commotion for no reason.
Looking around, she saw that many people had come out at this late hour because of her.
In the end, she had come to find Jegal Yeo-hyeop, who was just across from the clinic, and Ma Sohyang was willing to admit that she had made a mistake.
As she was about to leave the place, she noticed that the man and the woman next to him were dressed properly, unlike the others who had rushed out in their nightclothes.
‘Clothes…?’
Come to think of it, Eon Soyoung, Jegal Mireng, and the unknown woman had all appeared in a hurry, but Kang Yoon and the woman next to him were dressed properly.
Even though they were wearing light clothes, why were they dressed like that at this hour…?
“Oh…!”
At that moment, Ma Sohyang had a sudden realization.
“What, what…! Could it be that you two…!”
One night, Ma Sohyang recalled the words whispered to her by the man from Namgungse and looked at the faces of the women who each possessed different charms, feeling shocked by the thought that came to her mind.
She thought that the possibility she had come up with was absurd. However, there were too many things that the man had done that didn’t make sense.
“Why are you like this?”
Eon Soyoung was staring at her as if she didn’t understand English.
Meanwhile, Ma Sohyang realized too late that if she were to speak her mind here, she didn’t know what would happen.
Cursing her recklessness, Ma Sohyang quickly changed her expression and opened her mouth.
“I-I’m sorry. I couldn’t resist my curiosity… Huh?!”
“I’m sorry.”
Ma Sohyang realized she had been attacked by Eon Soyoung and had lost consciousness, feeling her strength leave her body and her eyelids close.
‘It can’t be… How…?’
Ma Sohyang had let her guard down due to Eon Soyoung’s reaction, but her martial arts skills that she had shown at Namgungse were not at this level.
Ma Sohyang caught a glimpse of Eon Soyoung’s apologetic expression as she caught her falling body, and then she lost consciousness.
This is the worst luck. No, it’s not just bad luck, it’s the worst.
It would have been better to be caught having sex with Lord Seongyeon. If I had just denied that I had touched another woman, it would have been a simple matter.
“Is this really okay…?”
“There’s nothing wrong with Soyoung. I told her to do it.”
But Ma Sohyang knew that all the women here, including her mother, were or had been in a relationship with someone.
She herself was also partially accepting of her relationship with Na, but she still didn’t fully trust this woman.
“We did the right thing by catching them, but what are we going to do now?”
My mother came up to me and asked. She seemed to think that it was right to hold them by force.
“Mother, of course, I wouldn’t even think of murder.”
“Son, but we can’t just let them go like this. Don’t you understand that?”
“…Yes.”
“Your mother and brother might be okay. But if Ma Sohyang says something wrong, even if she denies it, we’ll eventually have to scatter.”
“Yes, I know.”
It was a problem of seniority.
If we had enough power to be considered a force, almost no one would be able to criticize us even if we were exposed to the outside world.
However, if we were to try to grow our power after being exposed to the outside world, we would have to endure a lot of criticism.
It wasn’t just us. Even the children would be exposed to such criticism, and that was something that could never happen.
In the end, we would have to split up whether we denied or admitted the truth, and in the meantime, the children would live a life that seemed to exist and not exist at the same time.
“I’ll try to figure something out.”
“Yes, mother, you should think about it too.”
With the problem of Ma Sohyang’s pregnancy still unresolved, the situation had become even more complicated, but I couldn’t give up.
‘I have to find a way to shut her up.’
I was ready to do anything for that.
The first thing that Ma Sohyang found strange was the fact that the man had never come to see her.
Whenever she met him, she would make an excuse to touch his body, but here, she didn’t even have a chance to say a word except for the first day.
For her, her husband was the top priority, and her relationship with the man was not a priority, so she didn’t pay much attention to it.
It could be because she was concerned about her pregnancy, or maybe there was something else, but either way, if she didn’t have any desire for him, it was over.
‘Either way, if I can avoid giving birth to a child, it doesn’t matter which one…’
But her body, which still remembered the man’s touch, seemed to feel regret instinctively.
It was because she had admitted that the time she spent with the man was more enjoyable than the night with her husband, who was lacking in passion and time.
So she had secretly sneaked out at night, hoping to at least find out the situation if she knew where the man was.
But the man she met there was dressed in full clothes and showed his face to a woman she didn’t know.
‘Other people might believe that he’s practicing martial arts at night, but…’
Was it natural for two people who were suspiciously close to each other to appear in full clothes?
It looked more like evidence that the two suspicious people had made an excessive effort to hide what had happened between them.
As she thought about it, she realized that everyone who had come out to the commotion except for the man was a woman.
Ma Sohyang was surrounded by middle-aged women who were proud of their beautiful and voluptuous bodies, just like herself (she didn’t think she had anything to be ashamed of). She thought that these women were Kang Yoon’s women, and if this was a place where only such women were gathered, her intuition might be right.
She wished she could hide the fact that she had intuitively realized this, but foolishly, Ma Sohyang revealed it.
And now… now?
“Oh.”
Ma Sohyang finally realized that she was dreaming. At the same time, she felt her consciousness crumbling, and her consciousness seemed to be trying to escape from the dream world.
