Episode 14 - So, Hwi had to die and he had to disappear
before you could come to me?
Even after his death,
even though he's not in this world anymore,
I couldn't go to someone else.
Then, why?
Is it because I've become the king?
Do you want to hear my answer?
It was so that I could get back at my enemy.
I came in here to kill you with my own hands.
- Open the doors. - You cannot go in.
Kill me.
Pierce me.
Do you think I killed Eun Seong myself?
I did not.
He brought it to himself by his foolish attempt to escape.
At the beginning, who's the one who falsely accused a person?
Who's the one who sent an innocent person into exile?
Is Court Lady Hong outside?
Yes, Your Majesty.
I already told her that she could not come in.
- Your Majesty. - Take the lady back.
Take her to the Secret Pavilion and allow no visitors.
Do not let her leave.
Yes, Your Majesty.
Let's go.
Did you come all the way to the palace?
Will I die, too, Your Excellency?
"Your Excellency?"
It's not the time yet.
We've come all the way here.
I cannot let you leave so easily.
- Your Majesty! - Your Majesty!
Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Your Majesty!
Your Majesty! Is no one there?
Your Majesty! Your Majesty!
Check which palace they're from.
Yes, Madame.
He might have drunk too much,
- He seems to have taken medicine that was wrong for him. - Medicine?
Will he have any future complications?
He has a high fever and has been vomiting,
we will give him ginseng juice and detoxing tonic made of barberry roots.
His fear should come down during the night.
Is he really not harmed?
The doctors will keep an eye out all night.
Who is it?
Roo Si Gae?
Gi Teuk?
Move aside. Do you not know who I am?
His Majesty order stands above everyone's else's.
He told no one to come in.
I need to communicate with her about the king. Open the doors.
What did you do to the king?
Since you couldn't lure him in, did you use a love potion?
Not a love potion, but poison.
Refer to me as "Your Majesty!"
You confessed by yourself. You won't live now.
It's what I wanted. Kill me. I'm not afraid of death.
Death is a way for me to unite with my lover. It's the one and only way.
I will kill you.
I don't know with whose help you came into the palace to harm His Majesty,
but I will look into every detail and find the culprit.
You will find nothing but one woman's heart who tried to protect her fidelity with a dagger.
Who's out there?
- Yes, Your Majesty? - Wake up the inspection palace maids.
Tell them that there is a criminal that needs to be tortured.
Yes, Your Majesty.
That girl, how crude.
Hey, what are you doing?
Hwi, is that you?
- Hwi - That barbarian.
I am sorry. I couldn't inform you earlier.
Were you greatly shocked?
It was a pretty dangerous mission.
It could've easily gone wrong.
There wasn't any other way that time.
What happened?
The corpse and the burial...
What was all of that?
I'm angry for being accused of a crime I didn't commit.
If the loyal servant's sword in the hands of his filial son
kills me, I will take that as an honorable death.
Your Highness, are you alright?
Have you come to your senses?
General, you are wrong.
Our grand prince is not a traitor.
When he was taken as a prisoner in the north, he could've tried to negotiate and leave.
There were multiple times where he could've run away by himself,
but he insisted that he'd leave with the people, so he endured as he lived as a prisoner.
He risked his life and fought to rescue the prisoners.
If you wait, time will prove it.
The true traitors will be planning other things again.
Why did you save me? I will not leave my enemy alone.
Open your eyes and see who the real enemy is!
Since the grand prince has saved you, I hope that you can understand his real intentions.
Your Highness!
What is this? Why are you doing things you never did?
Hyung-nims!
Gi Teuk! Gi Teuk!
Hyyung-nim!
How'd you get here?
After hearing that His Highness was suffering, how could we stay put?
Guests have arrived.
Your words were true, Your Highness.
Those people are not planning on letting you live.
Your Highness.
Then, do you believe in me now, General?
I remember the opinion, my deceased father
had of you when he was alive.
What...?
That he felt sorry for you.
Because you had to follow the wishes of the royal family and the ministers,
in order to break Grand Prince Jin Yang's ambition.
Your late father wanted to see the ruler of this country,
follow the proper path.
We must return back to the capital city so that we can comfort the spirit,
of the loyal servants who died screaming during the revolt and reveal the truth to the world.
If you die, the truth will be buried with you.
I won't let that happen.
I need a corpse.
It needs to be the corpse of a man who has a similar body figure as His Highness.
I will wreak revenge for the death of my father.
I do not see anything. I'll have to check the corpse.
Aigoo.
Ouch!
We cannot recognize the grand prince's face.
When the tides were coming in, the face must've rotted.
But, why did you not follow the lady? Why are you here?
I didn't believe it.
- What? - That Hwi died.
There was a corpse, though.
The face was mashed up.
You catch on quickly.
Even though Hwi had died, you weren't there.
Would Park Gi Teuk have put his own life first? No way.
I thought that if you were alive,
Hwi would've been, too.
I'm pretty loyal, right?
If you were alive in that fight, Hwi wouldn't die.
Anyway, Lady Ja Hyeon must be not doing so well.
She must think that His Highness helplessly died.
We need to go back quickly,
and tell her.
Until the boat that went back to the capital city comes back, that'll be two days.
Are there no other boats? I'm in a hurry.
I don't know what that brokenhearted woman might do.
There is a warship.
But, it's impossible for the people you came with to get on.
If I would have known she was your loved one,
I would've given hints.
You have not done anything wrong, General.
I didn't know she'd come, either.
The more I think about it, the more I realize she's amazing.
She took such a rough path in order to try and warn you of danger.
During the three years that you disappeared, she is a woman who firmly endured it.
She'll be okay.
This is different from then.
She saw the corpse and burial with her own eyes.
She is bound to be greatly unhappy.
I'm worried that she'll act improperly.
It's fine. I don't need any more medicine.
You are not feeling well, Your Majesty.
The alcohol was just strong, is all.
That's not the case.
While trying to pick flowers that you shouldn't have,
isn't that how you turned out this way?
Ja Hyeon must be punished as a person who committed a great crime.
You could've died, Your Majesty.
Do not interfere.
I will take care of it myself.
Your Majesty, your wife is me.
If I don't interfere, who will?
Don't you know jealousy is one of seven grounds on which you can be dethroned?
Does it look like I'm speculating right now?
It is not my speculation, but it is to protect you.
How could you bring disgrace upon yourself after your first day of ascending to the throne?
Even if you have all the women in the world to yourself, you can't have Ja Hyeon.
Are you trying to be referred to as an immoral king, right from the beginning of your reign?
Shut your mouth.
She was always mine.
Eun Seong stole her away.
I'm saying that she was always mine.
She was my friend.
My father and my grandfather,
fell for the sibis around the palace, (sibi: low level girl servants in the palace)
but they kept the protocol of the inner court in dealing with court ladies.
Don't get in my way with the excuse of a childhood friendship.
Is this why you rose to the throne?
Is this why you became a king?
You must know that had it not been for Chief Scholar, it would've been hard to remove Eun Seong.
Thanks to the fact that his daughter was no different from a grass widow, with her help,
we got Chief Scholar on our side.
But, why did you not discuss it with me?
The matters regarding a court lady is under my control.
If I had a powerful in laws,
I wouldn't need a concubine to strengthen my position.
Previous Kings made sure they filled all nine concubine positions,
to strengthen their throne and ensure a brighter future.
Have you forgotten about my pledge and loyalty?
I am not your woman, but your liege.
Since my loyalty wouldn't change, I said for us to be together.
Do not lower the dignity of the Queen's office with useless sense of jealousy.
I will not forget about our vows.
Ignore what occurred last night.
I will ask Seong Ja Hyeon about her wrongdoing myself.
My wife, do not interfere.
The palace felt uneasy last night, so I looked into it.
It appears as though there is someone locked up in the Secret Pavilion.
Secret Pavilion?
There was a place like that in the palace?
It is used to punish court ladies instead of putting them in jail.
Who was locked in there?
That... The rumors that are floating around amongst the court maids are pretty inappropriate.
I'm hearing horrible rumors among the court ladies.
Stop!
Tell me what kind of evil medicine you fed the king.
Is the scar on the king's body your doing?
Who ordered you? The queen's palace?
Did they want to restore things to how they were?
Just tell me. It won't hurt anymore.
Instead of killing me right away,
is torturing me in this way
Are you trying to embroil innocent people again?
I'm trying to find out the truth.
There is none of that. Just kill me.
This won't be enough. To have a spiteful woman confess, there should be another special method prepared.
Bring it over.
Your Majesty, you must appoint Secretary of Cabinet first,
so that you can set the path for your rule along with the ministers.
Since we do not have a full court,
I will not open the Gyeongyeon for a while. (King's meetings with scholars and ministers to discuss national affairs).
Saying you are not opening the Gyeongyeon is
like saying you will not hear the voice of the people.
The former King did not seek out the Gyeongyeon either,
are you saying that he didn't do his job as a King?
Your Majesty, he avoided Gyeongyeon because of ill heath,
but he held gyeongyeon and bent his ears to the opinions
at the beginning.
The important thing now is not the Gyeongyeon but
obtaining the consent from Ming China
for the ascension to the throne of His Majesty.
Please order the Royal Scholar to prepare the declaration.
But, I cannot see Chief Scholar.which
There are troubles going on in the household, so he could not appear.
I will go see him.
The former King was in ill health for a long time,
and the power of the throne further weakened in care of the baby King,
the people have fallen into a sense of despair.
I plan to go back to the time when our nation was founded
and make this country strong by upholding the principles of founding fathers.
We are thankful for your grace, Your Majesty.
Your Majesty.
- What's going on? - The Queen took the lady from the Seong family to the Secret Pavilion and
She is being tortured.
Thoughtlessly torturing a noble woman is not allowed.
You can't breathe, right? With every layer that is placed upon your face,
As we lay more and more layers of the cloth,
you cannot breathe, and eventually,
do you know that you'll suffocate and die?
So, tell me. Yeah?
What are you doing?!
Bring the lady inside and call doctors right away!
Everyone who went against my Order and opened the Secret Pavilion will be expelled.
Anyone who does it again, against my Order will be beheaded.
You said you wanted to be the queen, but you didn't know the laws?
If it's in her hands, are you prepared to give your life?
When I think about what she did to you, tearing her apart wouldn't even make me feel better.
If she dies, didn't I say that I'd be the one to kill her?
How could you do this to me?
To me, who put her life on the line for you, Your Majesty.
Then, do you want to share the royal authority?
Did you not say yourself. Political power can't be shared even between father and son.
Any gratitude has to come from within my heart,
not from your demand for expression.
Why do you not refer to me as a queen?
This is not a home outside of the palace.
I still haven't decided whether I'd make you the queen or not.
Whether you are capable of having the role of a queen,
I cannot make a judgment yet.
You'll have to remain here a day longer.
When the boat arrives, we will take you back right away.
I've been appointed to the Court so I can help you in the city now.
As for me, I am thankful.
But, the governors are in a different world from us.
The days ahead of you may be rough.
Have you forgotten the work of my late father?
That path is my duty.
Where will you stay in the capital city?
There's a temple in the mountain where I can lie low.
If I can get the approval from the Chief monk, I will hide there as a labourer.
While you are meeting with your lady, I will go see the monk.
I heard that you were feeling unwell.
They say Chief Scholar's daughter is in the palace.
That cunning lady harmed the king.
The queen has misunderstood.
Queen Dowager already has many worries.
Do not mess with her feelings by saying unnecessary things.
She made the decision to do that and came in.
She harbored hatred based on what happened to Grand Prince Eun Seong.
What is there for her to harbor hatred about?
Did Eun Seong die while being innocent?
- I am asking if the two of you killed Eun Seong! - Queen Dowager.
If that's no the case, what is there for Lady Ja Hyeon to resent?
Thanks to her father, they were able to get themselves off of criminal charge,
His life was even saved.
Send her back, even a day early.
Before the rumors turn into a scandal.
All of this is because,
I have not been appointed formally as the Queen, in my opinion.
If I can be in my place quickly, I can serve those above me in earnest,
and get a firm handle on the business of the inner court.
Speed up the process.
I won't allow any more of this noisy matter.
I came to kill you with my own hands!
What will you do with Lady Ja Hyeon?
I can't let her live after what she did,
but even though she held a knife by my throat and poisoned me,
even as I was bleeding,
what are these feelings
that make me want to keep her in my hands?
You may lose many things as a result of trying to get one thing.
If Eun Seong disappeared,
I thought everything in the world would be like how I wanted.
Now I have to battle against the spirit without a body.
Let's go.
Can you read that from looking at it? You're illiterate.
People don't know it.
You think you can read just because you are standing here?
It's saying that the thief has become the king.
The queen couldn't endure it.
She was afraid that her young son might die of poison.
I will bring these people to the mountains first.
You have to go somewhere, right?
I'll trust you.
She killed her husband and went right into the palace, they say.
The dead person's the pitiful one.
A household that has a disloyal subject... A daughter who isn't faithful.
Oh, the world has rotten!
Those dirty beings!
Gosh!
In her situation, really.
These people. Where do you think this is for you to be stoning the house?
When'd you come?
I thought you went back to your hometown.
Is the lady inside? She didn't go anywhere, right?
You're talking down to me.
You, too.
I'm a noble man, though.
- I'm a princess. - What?
I'm a Jurchen princess.
Who are you learning from to be tricking people like this?
I need to see the lady. I have to talk to her.
Our Ja Hyeon can't see people like you now.
- After there was a new king, she went into the palace right away. - Why?
She became a royal concubine of this country's king.
Does that make sense?
Even though Our Ja Hyeon can be reckless,
she's pretty smart in important moments like this.
It was suffocating for her, too.
To be a married woman without being a married woman.
No noble family would take her in.
She made the bold decision. She volunteered herself!
Are you in the right mind? You don't even know anything.
Don't act like you know everything.
- You fool. - You just swore at me, right?
I felt that! I have a good sense of things, you know!
How dare you just leave while a noble man is talking to you?
Your Highness.
My wife, stay home. I'll go and bring her.
I wasn't thinking clearly and let her go when she said she'd go herself.
We haven't heard from her and we don't know if she's alive or dead.
How could I, her mother, wait in a room?
That's why I said I'm going.
The world is cursing our household.
They are spitting and throwing rocks at our house, but I'm okay with that.
Since you are alive, I am grateful.
As long as my daughter returns to my embrace, it's okay.
If He were to appoint her as a concubine, we would have received the notice by now.
I'll enter the palace and try to understand the situation.
Please bring Ja Hyeon in front of me.
Please calm yourself, Your Highness. There has to be a reason.
You don't know the situation well yet.
What reason?
After seeing that he had died with her eyes, she gave up.
Your Highness, she was probably giving herself up in despair.
She might have been dragged there to unavoidable circumstances.
- Your Highness. - If I died,
I thought she'd try to die, too.
I was greatly worried about that.
♫ I try to fix it ♫
Forget her! She's a traitor.
She went into the palace to become the king's woman in order to live and eat well.
Do not thoughtlessly say that.
♫ It has rusted ♫
There has to be a reason.
There has to be something.
♫ It's because my chest feels tight ♫
♫ I feel frustrated because my chest feels tight ♫
♫ As much as it is sad, this mean love ♫
♫ You don't know it yet ♫
I can accept the humiliation of my family but this incident has the brought dignity of the royal family into the ground,
the newly anointed King is being spoken badly of.
Before unpleasant rumor spreads any further, please allow me take my daughter home.
Your daughter will be sent out of the palace.
But, from this moment on, she must reside in an abode for Buddhist nuns.
That is too much.
She has suffered hardships because of the grand prince.
Must you make a Buddhist nun out of her?
Will you be able to send her off to marry someone else?
Will she obediently become a royal concubine based on the king's greed?
To settle all of this trouble,
the only way is to commit suicide or become a Buddhist nun.
Don't you think her life should be saved?
Go back. Your daughter will be sent to the abode for Buddhist nuns.
Queen Dowager will send Ja Hyeon to the abode for Buddhist nuns.
She must be in the palace for now.
Her body must be treated, since she cannot even move it.
Do you really want to hold onto her for a day longer?
Nothing changes if you do that.
You misrepresented and went against my Royal Order
and tortured the daughter of Chief Scholar.
Don't you know that this is enough for you to be sent out of the palace, too?
If the daughter who came here healthy but goes out half dead,
I'm sure Chief Scholar would be so grateful.
If this becomes an issue at the Samsa (an agency in charge of public opinion).
Will you take responsibility for that?
Lady Ja Hyeon must leave the palace with an unharmed body.
Then, you will also be unscathed, Queen.
Thank you for receiving the offering from the King's envoy.
I'm not helping because of the offering.
It is due to my long cherished wish that our country will become a country,
that lives by the teachings of the Buddha, more closely.
Where the King becomes reborn,
into someone who's merciful in greatest ways.
I'm praying for those days to come.
Na mu gan sal bo sal (Korean monk's prayer).
She's not someone who'd walk into the palace with her own two feet.
Undoubtedly, there was some peculiar reason.
What happened inside and how she is doing now,
can you please find out?
He's about to break into the palace himself.
I need your help to stop him from doing that.
There is no one who knows anything about the lady in the Court.
I will have to connect with the court ladies at the Queen's and King's quarters.
I will find out the story.
The militia from the rebellion,
and the wench who laid the false charge against you, have you found out anything?
I don't think his wife would have done it herself,
I am suspecting the gisaeng near Grand Prince Jin Yang, Jo Hwi Gyeong.
Jo Hwi Gyeong.
A woman who's bold enough to deal with assassins.
And not even blink while laying false charges against you.
It's can't be a woman from ordinary neiborhood.
He called Jo Hwi Gyeong to every banquet.
He sent her every time he tried to find out things from me.
She is for sure Grand Prince Jin Yang's person.
I will meet with her.
How do you feel? Are you able to move a little now?
I can exit the palace any time.
I will prepare the palanquin on the day it's approved.
Before I leave the palace,
I have one wish.
The pavilion Grand Prince Eun Seong used to reside in.
Is it possible to see it before I go?
That would be difficult.
You are not allowed to leave this room at all.
On the day I am leaving, before I get into the palanquin...
just once, can I stop by?
Congratulations on your appointment to the important post.
Please come by here often.
You'll need to make connections and find out what's going on.
Speaking of which, I've come to ask you something.
There is someone we have not caught from the last rebellion.
Did you not catching everyone from the leader to the bottom solider?
The woman who bought the rebel army.
We haven't caught her yet.
Some of the rebel army are still in prison,
so we could find out I'm sure.
Is there someone who saw her?
But why are you telling me about it here?
It couldn't be a woman from ordinary neighborhood, could it?
Investigators were onto her but she was never caught.
Woman who made sure every dying rebel army
confessed that he was acting on the order of Grand Prince Eun Seong.
Who could possibly,
be that woman?
Gisaengs (female entertainer) deal with people from all walks of life.
We don't tell on a criminal, nor do we throw out a beggar.
But still you are speaking of something very dangerous.
Are you suggesting the criminal is hiding in the Gesaeng's house?
Gisaeng's House is a place where all manners of information is exchanged,
I'm asking you to tell me anything you hear.
I will remember.
Shouldn't we tell His Majesty? Why is he asking about things that are all finished.
I can't tell whose side he's on yet.
He's the one who killed Grand Prince Eun Seong, so he must be on the side of His Majesty.
He's not one who was with the great cause from the beginning.
Is he acting overly loyal to get on the good side of the King?
Let's keep an eye on him a little longer.
Whether he's an ambitious guy looking for promotion,
or a son looking to revenge his father's death,
if not all that,
unexpected someone who wants to start a whole new game.
I think it's Jo Hwi Gyeong. She was shaken when I said there was a witness, but she denied decisively.
It's a response of someone who knows what happened.
That horrible wench.
One who laid a false charge can also be the one who can take it off.
No matter what, we have to get her.
And, the lady is coming out of the palace.
Does that mean everything is ok? Is she going back home?
It is true Grand Prince tried to maker her his concubine.
But the Queen's jealousy was severe and the Queen would not give approval,
so she's been sent to Jeongubwon (a temple for female monks).
They are turning our lady into a female monk?
Are you going to let her turn into a female monk?
It's good that you are going to Jeongubwon (a temple for female monks).
For the rest of your life, pray for the rebirth of Grand Prince Eun Seong.
Isn't that the kind of life you desire the most?
In Gwa Eung Bo.
I will pray for a world where a criminal is rightly punished.
Show your manners. She is the queen.
You cannot treat her like a childhood friend.
Let her be.
This is her last protest.
Gaining a title that was not rightfully won...
your whole life will feel uneasy.
There will never be a day where you don't feel uneasy.
At night, you won't sleep well.
You will be suspicious every mouthful of rice and every dropful of soy sauce.
Silk fabrics will sting you and even gold threaded bedding will feel like a bed of nails.
You don't need to worry about me.
You are the one who was defeated.
Are you happy? After holding all that you wanted,
are you happy now?
Can it be as much as your unhappiness?
Take the lady.
♫ Believing and believing ♫
♫ In a life together ♫
♫ Living and living ♫
♫ In eternal darkness ♫
You have to take her away before she sets her put into Jeongubwon (a teample of female monks).
Let's go.
♫ Believing and believing ♫
Your Highness.
She might be better off being at Jeongubwon (a temple of female monks).
If she's there, no one can touch her.
If we bring her back, we can't even care for her properly.
Her current circumstances make her unable to return back home.
Let's tell her that you're alive, and until your false accusations are lifted,
I think that it'd be safer for her to remain there.
I need to see her.
I need to see
Ja Hyeon with my own eyes.
Every month, the same amount of money will be offered.
We will take Chief Scholar's daughter.
But, the public is to think that she is here
and that she will not be meeting anyone.
Then, we will be off.
Take care.
What are you doing?
Priest! Priest!
Let go of me!
Do not touch the lady!
Let's go!
Stop them!
Am I
dead?
Now, in another world,
have I met you?
♫ So I keep walking till shadows disappear ♫
♫ one, two, three ♫
♫ As I keep walking, I meet the moon ♫
♫ The weaning and filling up, how much more do I have to watch it to know? ♫ ♫
♫ I don’t think I can do it anymore, no matter what I blame ♫
♫ But wherever I look, it’s only painful roads for me ♫
♫ The places I want to go to ♫
♫ The places I need to go to ♫
♫ Perhaps I don't want to know forever ♫
♫ I just wanna follow this path ♫
♫ To a place no one knows ♫
♫ When I get there, will I call out only then? ♫
Grand Prince: Drawing Love