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Spoiler from novel
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SPOILER BELOW
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It was actually her aunt faults. She put a poison in the medicine Yeon took that causes qi deviation and made her the way she is now. She tries to do exactly the same thing with Yeon cousin, Myung, (the older one, who has a sister) but Yeon arrives on time and is able to save him. She is also the one who exposes the aunt. It’s a very satisfying arc in the novel.
It’s so wild that she gets shit on for being crippled (in general but also) because it was a direct result of leaving potent medicine within reach of an unsupervised toddler. Apparently she ate really strong, valuable, impossible to remake medicine (that destroyed her internal qi structure)….which wasn’t put away or guarded at all. They left a toddler unsupervised, then act like it’s her fault for wasting something so valuable as if she hadn’t been a literal baby at the time and almost died as the result of their negligence. They are one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in the country, but they couldn’t be bothered to hire a proper maid or babysitter just because she was illegitimate.