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On the day I should have held the wedding I had longed for all my life,
the husband I loved beyond measure branded my father a traitor.
And five years later, at a banquet where my enemies raised my head as a trophy,
we met again, as a courtesan and her guest.
“You are quite lovely. What is your name?”
“…I am called Nagyeong.”
My heartless husband did not recognize me, and yet…
“If anyone asks, tell them you spent the night with me.”
He shielded me from my enemies, who swarmed like a pack of dogs.
“I cannot leave this place because I am afraid of you. If I am not here, you will seduce another man and poison him, will you not?”
…He also shielded the very enemies I was trying to kill?
“Did you put poison in this wine as well?”
“I had no poison left, so I could not.”
And fearing he would die by my hand along with them, he shielded his own life too.
“What sin could this dried croaker possibly have committed to suffer dismemberment at your hands? Now put down those chopsticks, open up, and say ah.”
…Why is he shielding a fish from dying twice at my hands?
Just what is this husband of mine, who sold me out to advance his career,
doing abandoning that precious post to become an idle wanderer,
hovering around the very woman he cast aside?
My idle lord, just who exactly are you?
