1. 63. Exposed
2. Night of the wedding
3. "A golden turtle?!"
4. "Yes. It is the one caught from the indangsu river."
5. "That's not just any turtle, but the child of the dragon king."
6. "Did anything unusual happen when you were capturing it?"
7. "No... Nothing out of the ordinary..."
8. "Whatever. You have to return it at once. If this continues..."
9. "Ah, we can't do that."
10. "What?"
11. "We can't do that. The turtle has already been..."
12. "Boiled into soup, and fed to the minister."
13. "Hearing that it could help with virility, the minister asked for it to be served before consummation..."
14. "Hahahaha! So that's why the minister is lying here!"
15. "You...! How dare you laugh at the minister?!"
16. "You'll be given a beating if you continue to laugh!"
17. "How am I supposed to not laugh?!"
18. "Lusting after a young bride, can't believe he'd eat just about anything to help improve virility!"
19. "Then... Is there a way to fix this?"
20. "The child is already dead, how can there be any way to fix this?"
21. "There is no way! Not unless you cut open his stomach and remove it!"
22. "So..."
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1. "You want to offer up a bride for the dragon king to birth another child?"
2. "Yes, exactly."
3. "There has long since been the tradition of offering virgins to the river gods."
4. "I, too know that it is cruel to do this, but we are left with no other alternative."
5. "But..."
6. "Who is going to jump into the indangsu river?"
7. "So..."
8. The responsibility fell onto the shoulders of the bride who had brought the golden turtle,
9. But the nanny would not allow it no matter what.
10. ""Absolutely not!""
11. ""This marriage between miss and the minister has already been consummated!""
12. ""She is no longer a virgin. She is already the minister's wife, how can she be the sacrifice?""
13. Back then.. I had brushed it off as the squabbling of those of high status,
14. "But I never imagined that you'd drag cheong into this!"
15. "I have been forced into silence for a very long time. I also worry that you might not believe me,"
16. "But there's no reason for me to keep quiet anymore."
17. "Cheong, do you understand? This woman is tricking you into taking her place as the sacrifice."
18. "Whatever she told you about loving you are all lies!"
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1. "Is this true?"
2. "Yes..."
3. "So..."
4. "When you asked me to come arrange flowers in your hair,"
5. "When you told me to teach you how to care for the minister,"
6. "You saved me that day. To me, it is an incredibly precious bond."
7. "I am still inexperienced in taking care of others. Will you stay by my side and teach me how?"
8. "I hope you will let me be the one who knows most about your body."
9. "When you dressed me up, when you were so gentle with me..."
10. "It was all to make me into a sacrifice that could take your place...?"
11. "You idiot..."
12. "Did you think I wouldn't know?"
13. "What?"
14. "You knew all along?"
1. "Let us stay here a little while longer..."
2. But I forgot about one crucial thing.
3. The moment madam stops calling for me, this would all end.
4. ""If I fatten you up,"
5. "Would that mean part of your body will belong to me?""
6. "Now that this belongs wholly to madam,"
7. "Whenever madam wishes to dispose of it is entirely up to you."
8. "I'll be leaving now... Take care, madam."
9. "Cheong..."
10. "This is for you."
11. "I brought you something to eat since you've been starving all these days."
12. "But you can just throw them away if you don't need them anymore."
13. Translator's note: with what cheong said in the previous panels, the "Throw it away" part definitely does not refer to only the food but herself, too.
14. "Because... I don't think I'll be able to eat them even if I am starving..."
15. "Wait a minute, cheo..."
16. She left...
17. "So, what are you going to do now?"
18. "Now that you've dragged cheong into this,"
19. "Are you going to get yet another sacrifice? Or..."
20. "...never mind."
21. "After all, thinking and making decisions was never your job."
1. "In their eyes, you became the exemplary wife of the minister once more."
2. "You get to hold on to your life."
3. "As long as the sacrifice isn't cheong, I don't really care..."
4. "Very well, this is the best outcome..."
5. "This is what I ask of you."
6. "Prepare enough money for the virgin sacrifice. I will pay the other half."
7. "Ah, that explains it. So this was about the indangsu river's sacrifice after all."
8. "However, the madam who has already wed shall not be the sacrifice."
9. "But you can demand for her to take responsibility at a later date."
10. "The madam cannot be the sacrifice..."
11. "You need not concern yourselves with who the sacrifice will be,"
12. "You only need to focus on gathering the money. Now..."
1. "Oh, it's raining so heavily."
2. "Why hasn't my daughter shim cheong returned yet?"
3. "It's been so long since I've waited for her..."
4. "Ah!!"
5. "Hel..."
6. "Help me!!"
7. "Anyone!?"
8. Someone will come forward to volunteer as the sacrifice.