" Jeonha !" Chae-Ryung gasped and kneeled as the elegant female in the flowing blue hanbok treaded forward, waving her hand to acknowledge her greeting.

" Where's your lady ?" She questioned, her gaze unsettled as she tried searching for the familiar face.

" Agassi isn't keeping well Jeonha. I'd suggest you come back some other day." A newly appointed maid named Byeol answered calmly and Princess Hwang Bo-Yun Hwa's eyes narrowed in slits as she turned to face the maid.

The attendants accompanying the Princess paled, fear marring their features, feeling terrified for what might happen to the maid.

" And who, are you to tell me that ?" She demanded to know as Byeol's head ducked down.

" I'm just a lowly maid Jeonha. I have no rights to tell you anything. But as a maid appointed for Agassi, her well-being and health is the first thing I must keep in mind and as my priority. Agassi truly isn't well."

The Princess' gaze fleeted towards Hae-Soo's first and old maid, Chae-Ryung who nodded her head vigorously.

" Then I should get the Royal Physician, mustn't I ? Your Lady keeps unwell more than my dear sister-in-law here."

" As Her Highness pleases. The thing is that, Agassi had an accident on her way back from Baekje, and lost her memories. Ever since, she's been receiving frequent headaches. The Physician had said it's because of the memory loss and there is no cure to it until she gets her memories back."

" Who knows if the Physician appointed to her was the right one or not ? I must call for the Royal Physician. I'm sure he must have a cure to this." The Princess said, determined to know whether Hae-soo had actually lost her memories, or was simply pretending to avoid her, being the coward she always had been.

" It surprises me how a Princess would worry so much about her sister-in-law's cousin. I don't see why."

Bo-Yun Hwa's head snapped towards the chamber door where stood Hae-soo, calmness marred on her face and her gaze held hers, firmly.

Her brows knitted in confusion.

This was Hae-soo?

It couldn't be.

Hae-soo was timid. But the female who stood before her looked nothing timid, she appeared calm, confident and relaxed, nothing like Hae-soo would appear before her.

Her demeanour did not falter, at all.

" You seemed to have forgotten your greetings before a Princess !" Bo-Yun Hwa glared, finally finding her tongue.

" I even forgot my own name after the memory loss and you expect me to remember my greetings ? Clearly you have high expectations from me." Pat came the snarky retort.

The Princess' eyes widened.

She wasn't the same old Hae-soo she knew, who couldn't take a stand for herself, but her revenge, would be quiet and cold.

However, the female before her had both a sharp tongue, and a yearning for cold served revenge.

" You—how dare you speak to me this way ?"

" I was simply telling you whatever that happened to me Your Highness."

" If you don't remember your greetings, how do you remember me ?"

" I don't. I don't fancy remembering faces, especially those that I probably was never fond of and I consider myself fortunate that I forgot everything. I'd like to thank my maids for helping me out with that."

" With that memory loss, you've become rude and ill-mannered! I can have you in flogged for your arrogant behaviour with me, a Princess ! But I'm letting you go keeping the relations in mind !"

" Of-course Your Highness. I've never seen anyone as merciful as you ! So I've heard right ! You're extremely kind, understanding, caring, and merciful." Sarcasm dripped from her voice and Bo-Yun Hwa was enraged, she marched towards Hae-soo with a glare.

" No one has ever spoken to me like that before !" She snapped furiously as her hand raised to come in contact with her cheek but Hae-soo held the wrist firmly, her eyes devoid of any emotion.

" You raise your hand at me, and see what I do. My father's an extremely powerful man, and he's just a letter away. In-fact, I don't even need him to exact my revenge. I'm capable of doing it myself, and doing it in such a way, that all those subjects there, who think of you as someone so kind, so lovely, so understanding as that pretty face of yours insists, shall blame you instead of me. If you don't want me turning them against you, you'd like to keep your hands to yourself, and your mouth shut." Her voice was dropped into a low whisper as she yanked her hand away.

The maids stared wide-eyed as Hae-soo turned away without a bow as a form of formal greeting and sauntered back to her chamber.

On the other hand, Bo-Yun-Hwa had anger consume her from every inch of her body.

Hae-soo had never stood up to her.

She'd just quietly apologise and walk away, but later, her accidental treatments towards Bo-Yun-Hwa would make her aware of how wrong it was messing with her, yet, to satisfy her fragile ego, she'd try humiliating her all over again.

But today, today Hae-soo was having none of it. She wouldn't stand anyone trying to humiliate her.

And it stumped the Princess.

So the rumours were right. Hae-soo was an entirely changed person. Either an imposter replaced her on her back to Goryeo, killing the real Hae-soo or she did actually lose her memories in an accident.

And Bo-Yun-Hwa took it as a challenge upon herself to uncover secrets Hae-soo was now hiding, unaware of how it might lead her to her own destruction.