Gwon Ram and Han Myeong-hoe (4)

The world is vast, and there are many lunatics in it.

I do not know who first said this, but I think it is a saying on the level of, “A nation that forgets its history has no future.”

There are truly many people in this world who commit atrocities I could not even have imagined.

There are men like Gwon Je, who are extremely high-ranking members of society but engage in drunken violence once they return home, as well as a bastard who, during the reign of some Joseon king or other, impregnated a seven-year-old girl—a man worse than a dog or pig.

Ordinary people who live ordinary lives are sometimes appalled and sometimes deeply shocked by the deeds of such heinous criminals.

“Kim Sain, in all my years, I have never seen a memorial this insane. Just reading it gives me a headache. Is this not a memorial every bit as savage as that of the former Goryeo dynasty?”

That bastard Gwon Je had submitted a memorial containing things beyond even my imagination.

He claimed that, from the very beginning of their marriage, his wife had contradicted everything he said, and that because she nagged him over every little thing, he could never find a moment’s peace at home.

He also wrote that when he took a concubine, his wife had displayed such vicious jealousy that he became afraid to enter his own house and had to flee to a gisaeng house after finishing work on time...

He wrote that, in the process of correcting his wife’s jealousy and arrogance, he had no choice but to raise his hand and use violence, and that this had been the loving discipline he, as the head of the household, had been forced to administer to correct her faults...