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Her Tale of Shim Chong

· @manga_collector· Seri (세리)

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Chapter 19

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6. ""Ah, that's only for the most virtuous of wives!"" 7. Showing devotion to her husband

1. by feeding him her own fingers— 2. "Get off!"

1. "I said let go!" 2. "No!" 3. "Let go! You'll hurt yourself!"

1. "I know!" 2. "That's not the point!" 3. "Huh?!" 4. "Do you think I'm doing this for his sake?" 5. "I'm trying to make people change!"

1. "Don't you get it?" 2. "Just one finger and..." 3. "I can keep living!"

1. "What are you saying...?" 2. I thought she was talking nonsense. 3. But, 4. just like magic...

1. "People won't stop talking about how virtuous a wife I am." 2. "Now I think about it," 3. "it makes sense why everyone was mistreating me." 4. "I was failing to fulfill my wifely duties."

1. "duties." 2. "Despite my husband's state, I was wearing colorful clothes" 3. "and playing in the rear garden..." 4. "Come on..." 5. "That's crap, and you know it..." 6. "But it's just as my nanny told me..." 7. "Be a graceful wife

1. and a tender mother... 2. "Once I showed them I was an exemplary wife, it was all fixed." 3. "Just like that~" 4. ""Just like that"?"

1. I assumed a good marriage was enough... 2. "It's okay. It's over now, Chong..." 3. No, my lady. 4. It's not over yet. Not even by half.

1. I'm gonna kill 'em all. 2. "I guess the apricot seeds didn't work out..."

1. She should've started with something stronger. 2. "Is she scared to hurt her father-in-law too much...?" 3. "Ugh, yuck!" 4. "First mice, now bugs..." 5. "This"

1. "that?" 2. "Who...?"

1. "Kyaa!" 2. "Eek...!" 3. "Dammit, I missed. Rookie mistake." 4. I thought I'd learned all there is to know living on the streets, 5. "Ah..." 6. "No..."

1. but even after all these years 2. there's still one thing I haven't tried...

1. "Something about seeds and a mouse?" 2. "And what was that about bugs?" 3. "Spill, or you'll be getting a taste of them yourself." 4. "Nnnngg!" 5. "I-It was my mistress!" 6. "I was just doing what I"

1. "was told!" 2. "She wants to get that fox out of this house!" 3. "...It was all her and"

1. "all her and the maid." 2. "Straight from the horse's mouth, my lady." 3. "Apparently they wanted to use this to curse you."

1. "I know..." 2. "Perhaps I should offer her some kind of gift as a peace offering..." 3. "A gift!? Are you serious!?" 4. "But it's the right thing to do." 5. "She won't be like this if I'm a good stepmother..."

1. "Do you not see what's happening?" 2. "Look!" 3. "This was for you!"

1. "for you!" 2. "Kyaa! Keep it away!" 3. "I don't want to look at it..." 4. "Who knows what else they were planning, and you wanna be friends!?" 5. "I'm not going to be friends with them!"

1. "will like me..." 2. Selfless wives, 3. abusive stepmothers... 4. Every story is the same...

1. "And that's why you tried cutting your fingers off?" 2. "'Cause the books told you to?" 3. "What if they'd ordered one of the male servants" 4. "to grab your wrist like this?"

1. "Would you cut your hand off too?" 2. "I may not be able to read," 3. "but I know plenty about why people mistreat others." 4. "It's nothing to do with"

1. "to be reckoned with," 2. "that you're willing to draw blood too." 3. "I'll be with you every step of the way." 4. "We're in this together!"

1. "But..." 2. "Chong, I..."

1. "...I..." 2. "...did put something in the medicine..."