She learns two important things. One; Hae-Soo's sister was the kindest and softest woman she would ever know. Ha-Jin is not sure how long she'll survive in this hell, but all she knew was that she saw an angel with her naked eyes and she might as well accept that it was not going to happen a second time. Two; her brother in law was a puzzle. He did not love Lady Hae, yet he held her with the softness of someone who had long decided that this was the hill he was going to die on.

Ha-Jin meets the infamous prince on a day that she would've much rather been in her bed, planning her escape and simultaneously lamenting her fate. There were much too many things she was forced to do that made not one lick of sense to her. Like the fact that she had to wake up at an unreasonable hour, get bathed and dressed by four women as if she was incapable of clothing herself, she was not allowed to sit, talk, eat nor walk on her own. Ha-Jin is angry and hungry by the time she gets to sit at the table. Her head feels heavy with all the jewelry that they've piled on her head. She could barely see clearly from having starved herself the past few days, and she wanted to go back home.

"Hae-Soo?" Lady Hae called as she entered the room. As it was custom or so, Chae-Ryung had instructed her; She stood up and waited for the lady to take her seat. Lady Hae looked as elegant as ever, her lilac robes swept the floor as she walked and every step she took echoed with the sound of her jewelry dancing on her hair. She looked worn out. Her face is as white as the tablecloth, her lips dry and blue. Lady Hae would speak, but she would mostly cough, and sometimes the ladies in waiting would give her new handkerchiefs.

"Are you not well, my lady?"

"Please, call me sister. You might have forgotten because of your memory, but we are quite close." Lady Hae said, a smile etching on the corner of her mouth before she coughed again as a splash of blood colored her lips.

"Excuse me, Hae-Soo. I don't think I will be able to accompany you today. I am afraid I underestimated my weakness. I shall see you at dinner time, don't be late" The lady having not taken her seat and Ha-Jin not having gotten the chance to sit back down stood awkwardly on the edge of the table as the ladies in waiting formed a stronghold around Lady Hae. As soon as the words had fallen from her lips, she had been escorted from the dining hall.

"Is she going to be alright?" Ha-Jin asked though the answer lingered in the corners of her mind, she did not want to think it out loud.

"She will be fine. I believe that it's in your best interest to eat before you collapse from hunger," She-Ryung replied. Her face having softened, as if to tell her, yes you can trust me; there is nothing to worry about. Ha-Jin felt very much like a child being protected by her parents against the real and prominent dangers of the word. She knew, yet she let Chae-Ryung sway her thoughts to another direction. Ha-Jin took her seat and ate much to Chae-Ryung's surprise like she would never see food again.

After her food had settled and Ha-Jin was less angry and hungry, she wanted to be by the Lady's side though Chae-Ryung did everything to steer her from that direction. Chae-Ryung showed her where the library was, where the market was, all the roots that they had discovered to disappear from the eastern palace undetected. Ha-Jin was grateful, she knew the information would be of use sooner rather than later but right at that moment she could care less about secret passages to the commoner's world. She wanted to be by the Lady's side.

"Enough, Chae-Ryung. The sun has set, and I have let you have your way. Please, take me to my sister." Ha-Jin said. She didn't have any siblings. Not any real one at least. Her father being the man that he was left their mother for a girl who was barely two years her senior. Her mother being who she was, couldn't handle that and moved to the country where she lived as she didn't have a daughter nor impending divorce papers that she needed to sign.

"Please, Chae-Ryung." Ha-Jin did not know why she insisted on going nor why Chae-Ryung kept her from going.

"I don't want you to see your brother-in-law," Chae-Ryung stated."You know; the one you told you loved and he rejected you?"

"Well, I won't see him. He'll be somewhere else doing royal duties." Ha-Jin said defensively. She wanted to tell Che-Ryung that she was not Hae-Soo and that did not feel anything for the Prince let alone love. She would never do such a thing to the Lady.

"I don't think you understand to what lengths you went just to be with him. It wasn't just that incident. There were much more before that. I don't want you to be in his presence."

"Well, if I remember correctly, I am the boss here, meaning you do as I say."

"You don't remember anything. You don't even know what your name is. I have to actually give a sign that people are talking to you because you don't remember what you are called."

"That's enough."

"No, it isn't. You don't care about your sister. Otherwise, you wouldn't be putting the moves on your brother in law while your sister could die any minute from now! Putting up this show is unlike you. Just go back to being who you were before you hit your head and had a personality change.

"I am not-"

"Yes, you are, and if you felt any ounce of remorse, you would stay away from him."

They both stood there in the middle of the marketplace quiet. Chae-Ryung having lost all of her softness, having lost all of her vulnerability. Ha-Jin knew that she was right, though she felt wrongly accused there was nothing that Ha-Jin could say that would make Chae-Ryung see that she was not the same person as Hae-Soo.

"You don't have to take me anywhere you don't want to. You are free to leave if you please."

Chae-Ryung's arms stayed crossed. Her face was screaming that she wanted to leave, but her feet stayed put. Her round face softened as the minutes ticked away and the night sky kept getting darker.

"I will take you to your sister, but I am not staying."

She walked in front of her. Her gray cotton skirt sweeping the dirt on their way home. Neither Chae-Ryung nor Ha-Jin said a word though she wanted to say that she was sorry. Though she wanted to say that she didn't mean anything she had said. Though she wanted to apologize Chae-Ryung's words rang true and she knew why she had wanted to go to see the Lady so much. She felt guilty. She felt that she had wanted to rob her of something sacred. What was the difference between her and the woman who had destroyed their family?

Hae Soo's sins had become hers, and she knew she had to make it right.