Episode 15
♫ It's because my chest feels tight ♫
♫ I feel frustrated because my chest feels tight ♫
Have I died?
Now, in another world, have I met you, Your Highness?
♫ Love is so mean ♫
♫ Why do you keep shaking up my heart? ♫
♫ As much as it is sad, this mean love ♫
♫ You don't know it yet ♫
I saw a corpse wearing your clothes.
There was even a funeral in the island.
I saw you being buried with my own eyes, Your Highness.
With the general's help, we put up an act to gain freedom.
I switched with a body of a mariner who died.
If I became someone who had supposedly died, then I could escape the island.
Do you know what I did while thinking you had died?
You should have sent me a message. You should have told me.
Assassins came from the capital.
There was no time to inform anyone. As soon as we lived and became free,
To survive, and to gain freedom, we had to act in a hurry.
What has my older brother done?
Thinking that I'd died,
Did my brother really bring you in as a concubine?
Or,
do not say anything. It's fine if you don't explain it.
No matter what happened,
I know that it can't be helped. In the end,
this is all my fault.
Yes. That's true.
You promised that you wouldn't leave and that you'd protect me.
After letting go of you, who died, I walked into the palace with my own two feet.
I did it to become someone else's woman. A concubine.
Even before your body dried where you were buried,
I went to see someone else.
Is that good enough? Do you feel better now?
If you were thinking like that, why would you come to get me?
I couldn't send you to Jeongubwon (a temple for female monks).
I had to meet you in some way.
What did you want to confirm?
After ripping my heart out, what is your reason for finally coming to see me?
I had to see you.
If I didn't, I thought I'd die.
You didn't even believe in me.
I will return to the Jeongubwon (a temple for female monks).
You cannot.
I will leave and let you be alone. You can calm down and rest.
You lost the lady?
After the security force left the Jeongubwon,
we tried to take the lady but because of the mean that appeared....
Do not let him appear in my eyes again!
Do you think Chief Scholar used someone for that?
What happened to the people that used to follow Eun Seong?
The general at the Gyedong Island were to take care of them.
Look into what happened.
Those who were loyal to Eun Seong hasn't got their minds straight it appears.
Then, what about the lady?
Wouldn't she contact her family wherever she might be?
Keep an eye out in Chief Scholar's house.
To the public the Lady of the Seong family is at the Jeongubwon.
Yes, Your Majesty.
Make sure the Queen and Queen Mothers offices don't pay attention to her anymore.
Is the lady okay? Did you talk to her?
What will you do in the future?
Sending her off would be a good idea, right?
It's dangerous here.
We have many things to do.
At first I just wanted to let her know I was alive.
And I wanted to hear what kind of hardship she had gone through.
But, after seeing her...
You don't want to send her off, right?
She seems to be angry at me.
I think she suffered through great hardships in the palace that she cannot even speak about.
Even if I send her off when the time is right,
I want to feel better about it first.
It's unspeakably hard for both of you.
I had confidence, Gi Teuk.
I had the confidence to make her happy.
But in the end, I ended up making her the unhappiest,
bride in the world.
This is all because of Grand Prince Jin Yang.
Had it not been for him,
you two would have safely had a wedding and lived happily.
I shouldn't have been so greedy about her.
Your Highness.
When I went off to war, I should've said goodbye.
If she had not met me,
If we hadn't been engaged,
she would have married into a good family.
She could've drawn what she liked.
And lived a comfortable,
happy life.
This is not the end.
It's hard for you now,
but you will recover for sure.
When the day comes, the lady will smile like sunshine.
[Letter to (Yi Hwi): After entering the palace, I'm anxiously missing (you)... ]
Why are you here?
This is my room.
This is the only room for women.
- What are you doing? - I'm writing this for my family, so I can tell them the news.
Just in case they worry.
You're not going home?
I can't.
Why?
If I went home, my family would go through a hard time because of me,
If I go to the Jeongubwon as the palace instructed, I have to shave my head and become a monk.
There's nowhere to go.
Then, will you be with Hwi as husband and wife
and live here?
No.
Why not?
In the past, you tried to marry him.
That day, as the wedding fell apart,
our fate also changed.
Then, what are you going to do?
What will you do if you're not Hwi's wife?
Revenge.
To the people who messed up my life
and messed up my love, I'll teach them
that there are things in this world that you shouldn't do.
That you can't rise to certain spots using greed.
Ambition without mercy is not love.
You've changed.
Did something happen in the palace?
I'm not hurting like that.
His Highness doesn't believe in me.
He can't.
If you're going to live here, you need to take care of yourself.
I'll work. I'll cook and wash clothes. I won't just play around.
You can't do that.
No one can be good at it from the start.
You have to practice and learn to get better.
I'm good at sewing.
What if you're attacked.
You're just baggage.
You should learn martial arts.
Oh, that'd be great for me.
- Instead... - Instead, what?
Teach me letters.
You want to learn the letters?
I don't want to see Gi Teuk showing it off.
He makes fun of me for being illiterate.
If you learn the letters, you can convey your longing feelings.
You can convey things that you can't with words.
So cold.
Why do you do stuff like this yourself?
I don't have a maid here.
Give it to me. I'll do it.
Do you know how to do it?
Since I lived as a prisoner, not a grand prince, for three years,
I can cook, clean and get fire wood.
Gi Teuk and I can build a house without a problem.
- Thank you. - You said you'd live here.
No. If you don't want to be in the Jeongubwon, I'll find you a secret place.
and get you a maid who can look after you.
This is place is dangerous.
Do not misunderstand
I'm not saying that I'll be with you here.
I have things to do, so I stayed. The things that you and the others are doing...
I also want to do that.
You want to things back into order in this world.
For that great cause you had to be pretend to be dead no matter your loved one,
because of that I had to endure unspeakable hardship because of it.
I am not a spectator.
I was sacrificed at the rebellion and victimized by the King's rule.
I will give my enemy what they deserve with my own hands.
If you get hurt, I cannot take that.
When I wasn't with you, I was in danger.
And treated badly.
During those three years that you weren't here, during that time you were in exile,
after burying you, do you think I lived at ease?
There was only a brief time when I was happyin this love.
Afterwards, it was a longlasting pain.
I'm not staying here so that I can be with you.
I'm taking my own path.
What are you doing?
I feel weird.
Are you being jealous again?
I used to hate that woman.
When she was smiling in front of Hwi, my heart hurt.
But?
Now that they've fought, I also hate that.
It hurts here.
You're becoming an adult.
Real love is not when you have that person to yourself.
It's when you wish for them to be happy.
There's nothing like that.
People in love need to be happy together.
Even though it was hard on my body for three years, I liked it.
Since we were all together.
Was His Highness happy, too?
His Highness, who had left the lady behind, was in pain every single second.
So, what? Look at them now.
After meeting her again, he should be happy.
I know.
I cannot do that.
You're now a servant of new King.
Are you saying you want to deny the rule of the new King?
My daughter who went into the palace was kicked out into the Jeongubwon (a temple of female monks),
and not able to return to her family.
I do not know if she is alive or dead.
I pushed Grand Prince Eun Seongt to death with my own actions,
and ruined my daughter's life.
And now you want me to write a song praising it?
We have to get the consent of the Ming Dynasty,
in order to stablise the rule of our kingdom.
If bloodshed were to occur again,
you who denied the King's wishe be safe?
Are you threatening me again?
I'm only letting you know of reality.
Since we've put our heads together, we should agree on the general direction.
Woon.
Yes, Your Majesty?
Even though I have become the king, people do not like me.
Your spot allows you to give out orders.
Tell me what you'd like. Everything will follow through.
It feels as if everyone is smirking at me.
I am a king who cannot be acknowledged by Queen Dowager.
I am an uncle who stole the throne from my nephew.
I am the brother who killed his own younger brother.
You are the owner of the Kingdom.
You are the Kng who rules over every part of the Jeseon's eight provinces.
If so, I can't just stay still can I.
In the name of the servants who declined to write a declaration to the Ming China, I will have to call the ministers' meeting.
Call over Cho Yo Kyeong.
The lieges who act haughty must be suppressed.
Even if they refuse to play out their part as lieges,
I will play my own role of a king.
Have you gotten used to life in the palace?
I am comfortable here, as if I was born in the palace.
I feel protected having you and the Queen Mother above me.
I started off as a concubine.
I was a daughter of a high ranking minister but when the King
asked for a concubine to replace a childless Queen, I became a formal Royal Consort (bin).
A King cannot be without women.
The role of a queen is not just the partner of a man.
A multi-tasking Queen has to be patient and competent.
Are you reprimanding me over what happened with Ja Hyeon?
I too feel what happened to her should not have happened.
However, when you go through the same situation again in the future,
I hope you will be more generous then.
Then, you will be less hurt.
Once I give birth to an heir,
I will be able to be as generous as anyone.
What if concubines start showing up here and one of them has a son,
you can't even be certain of the position as the queen.
If you become too anxious about your position,
I worry that you will lose the affection of the king.
Please take care of yourself.
Drinking event at the protocol and cultural office,
no King before humiliated the scholars this way before.
You're being stubborn, so the King is
having to express his displeasure this way.
Why don't you just close your eyes and have a few drinks.
The King prepared this event to console his servants.
Are you going to continue to deny him?
Among all mnisters in the Court,
someone else will write the declation to Ming China.
You should write it.
Are you threatening me too?
I was close to your deceased father, how dare you?
You're curious about your daughter's whereabouts right?
Please burn it after you read it.
Is she ok?
Ja Hyeon's alive?
Please obey Grand Prince Jin Yang.
Become their person.
Be the King's closest confidant,
so that we can prepare for the time when the previous King reclaims the throne.
Is that something that a man who killed Grand Prince Eun Seong while on exile?
What knd of a trap are you worknig on?
Just write it as we tell you to
You will become a Joomoonsa (an Envoy that delivers the declaration) to Ming China.
If he obtains the consent of China, it woul be difficult to fight him.
It must be you who blocks it, and no one else, Your Excellency.
Why are you doing this?
What are you doing? What is this?
Must you treat a lowly person like me this way?
How dare you be coming in and out of the palace?
King ordered us to enter the palace because
he was hosting a banquet on behalf of loyal servants.
Do you no know this is not a private house?
This is not a place for you to not freely come and leave when you are called.
Because you've sullied the honourable place of learning,
the ministers' resentment is reaching sky high.
It was the king's order.
What would happen if someone lowly like me refused the king's order?
I would die.
Your existence is lowering the honour of his Majesty.
I cannot let this simply happen anymore as a queen.
The king still needs me.
Are you the only gisaeng?
In order to relieve yourself of you lowly station,
I know that you're eyeing the position of concubine.
The king gave me a promise, that's all.
What do we do?
You can't be a concubine, if you have a scar on your body.
I have a clean body.
There is no nick or scar on it.
Proceed.
You know what this is? It's mercury.
Do you know what happens when this poison enters your eye?
Your Majesty! Please save me.
If you don't approve I would not receive it.
It won't get in the way of selling your body gong forward.
But, you can't become a concubine!
Your Majsty! Your Majesty!
Your Majesty! Please save me!
She's pretending to be strong, but how hard it must be for her.
This won't do.
I will have to send Kkeutdan to look after her.
Please tell her to be careful on her way there and back.
We can't be found to be suspicious.
Your Excellency, I know enough to know that much.
I think Ja Hyeon is like that now.
What will happen to our son who hasn't passe the entrance level.
No matter what I decide, will you believe in me?
I know that this is all for our family.
Do as you would like.
Looks like the Chief Scholar has come around.
Isn't he the best writer in all of our nation?
Congratualtions, your majesty.
Appoint the Envoy who will deliver this declaration.
Before that, you have to take care of the former king.
How many times must I tell you?
If we bother that young child, the people will not be pleased.
People are still noisy about Grand Prince who died in exile.
If we touch the former king it could be difficult to handle.
When he grows up he will have to marry.
And if he gets children,
people could believe he is right path under the principle.
If you don't get rid of it at the bud,
you could suffer for the rest of your life.
But we don't have the justification at the moment.
An excuse to harass a young child who gave up his throne peacefully,
I have something to tell you.
Cho Yo Kyeong keeps putting in messages,
asking to meet with the King.
Cut her off.
I wil meet her myself,
so do not let him be distracted by a lowly gisaeng.
If you want to make yourself beyond anyone's reach,
you have to stay 2 steps away.
Try to touch me.
If you have a weapon, then 2 more steps.
-Attack me. -Me?
I'll show you how to block the attack.
Roo Si Gae, Wait! Wait!
Roo Si Gae, One moment!
Roo Si Gae!
Kkeut Dan! Have you gone nuts?!
Let me go! Kkeut Dan!
Let me go!
It's not what you think. I was learning self-defense from her.
How dare you! Go die!
- Let go! - Stop!
- Stop it! - Let go!
Ow, gosh!
Lady.
Aren't you supposed to be a warrior?
You're not that impressive.
Don't act high and mighty with me.
You can't even do anything if someone yanks your hair.
- Bring it on! -Yeah, why not?
You come here.
Stop it. Stop it.
Let me go.
Are you okay?
Let's go.
Then, are you punishing him?
What punishment?
It's just that my heart won't melt.
He went to war, then went missing in a foreign land,
then he was on exile and then he pretended to be dead in front of me.
He made me go through hell countless times.
But he couldn't bear it for just once... and he doubted me.
Well, that was the situation that time. That's what the whole world thought.
Even if the whole world misunderstands me and gets deceived,
he can't do that.
No matter what happened,
I always trusted him.
That's why I was able to stake everything.
What is this?
It's a piece of land with a house in the Gimpo Prefecture.
Leave the Capital for the time being and take some time for recuperation.
Is this the price of my eye?
Grant me an audience with His Highness.
He's busy with the affairs of the state.
It will be difficult to meet him any time soon.
He used me as a spy when he was in need,
and he summoned me for the slightest matter even after his enthronement.
You're saying you have no use for a blind with one eye?
Watch what you say.
His Highness has not forgotten you.
It's just not the right time.
I don't need anything else.
I'm asking you to let me meet His Highness.
I've been paitent but your ill manner knows no bound.
This is why even the Queen
went so far as to punish you.
You will get to see him one day if you wait patiently.
Leave the Capital and live quietly!
What did i do wrong do to "wait patiently"?
You are biting the hand that fed you.
The pay-off for staking my life to raise him to the throne
is to sell my eye?
You could've died without a trace.
Given your contribution to the great cause,
That is why we left you alive.
So be grateful,
and wait quietly.
I just took care of a headache for you.
Did I ever ask you to?
Then were you planning on letting a gisaeng enter the palace?
I was going to listen to all of resentment,
and avoid you from the mud. That was my desire.
Given the numerous unpleasant rumors about your involving women,
do you want to have a scandle involving a gisaeng as well?
I used the means to ensure there were no more noise.
Why do you always kick up a ruckus without even asking me?
Why do you do things you weren't even asked to do?
Don't get ahead of yourself.
Ignoring the basic orders turn into a treason.
Please give me some sense of security.
We still do not have a descendant.
I will bear you a son.
A son as healthy as you.
Thus, I will stabilize this nation.
Many queens, once they give birth to a prince,
are known to choose their sons over their husbands.
What do you mean...? -It's what the History says.
The husband is the setting sun,
and the son is the rising sun, after all.
A woman's heart is not like that.
Wanting to bear a child that resembles her beloved husband,
is a wish that every woman has.
What you want is to bear the son of the King, isn't it?
A new King to take on the next reign.
You weren't able to wash properly because there was no one to prepare the water, right?
I'm here, so you can take a wash today.
You can refreshed with a bath.
You don't have to do this.
What's wrong? You were such a clean freak at home.
Then, wait outside. I can take care of it myself.
You've grown distant during my absence!
Asshi, if you do this, I'll feel hurt.
Stop it.
Asshi!
Let me see.
Kkeut Dan, that is-
Who did this to you?
Were you tortured when you were in the palace?
No.
Let me see.
I told you to stop!
We received news from Cho Yo Kyeong.
Have they caught on?
She has lost an eye.
How so?
The jealous queen was worried that Cho Yo Kyeong will become a concubine,
so she has made her go blind, they say.
Because one cannot become a concubine if they have a disability.
How impressive.
It's the rule from the inside.
If she treated a gisaeng in such a manner,
That's why she even tried to turn our Asshi into a nun.
How dare you interrupt an adults' conversation. Are you taking after Roo Si Gae?
I have something to say about Asshi.
She entrusted that with me
before she went to meet Prince Jin Yang.
I was told to send it to you, if something were to happen to her.
But I thought you were dead,
so how was I supposed to deliver it to you?
I was holding onto it all this while.
My dearest, My Hwi,
You were the one who woke me up when I was slumbering.
You were my teacher, my lover
and yet another me.
In you, I will keep living the life I couldn't complete.
Therefore, don't be too sad.
One day, as you were leaving for war,
you said that your life was mine.
Your life indeed is mine.
I will leave first and wait for you.
Please come to me
after having lived a long life.
I will become a flower and wait for you.
This is...
something she wrote waiting for her death.
I was helping her wash herself,
and I saw signs of torture on her body.
Do you understand it now?
Asshi just can't go to someone else.
Even if she died.
Go outside.
It is late in the night. If you have something to say, do it when it's light out.
Go outside, I said!
Why are you being like that to someone who has no one else but you, your highness?
Ow, wait.
No, no, why are you doing this?
How painful was it?
What kind of hell was it for you?
I'll kill them.
I'll get rid of them all.
The scars remain,
but I could protect myself.
The scars will remain.
I did not doubt you.
I did not waver.
I just hated myself
for not protecting you.
I know.
You should just throw me away.
Until your fragile body was broken,
what hardship did you endure?
Would you have done that, if it were you, Your Highness?
You can't.
Did you try to die?
I did at first,
but after burying you, I wanted to give my enemy what they deserved.
I tried to kill your brother with my own hands.
I was punished for the crime of treason.
Grand Prince Jin Yang is not without blame,
so the Queen brought down the penalty of
sending me to Jeongubwon and buried the incident.
I am now a different person.
From one who wanted to learn to paint and watch the racing horses.
One who thought of killing someone and actually attempting to.
I've become someone like that.
I
am not the Ja Hyeon who
loved you in the past.
♫ To a place no one knows ♫
♫ When I get there, ♫
It is my wrongdoing.
Do not forgive me.
♫ Following this path, following you, I'm wandering ♫
Are they fighting again?
His Highness is probably apologizing to her.
What'd he do wrong?
Someone as simple as you,
coudn't possibly know what goes on between a man and woman.
You don't know, either. You don't have a man, either.
It's not that I don't have one, but I reject them.
On top, there's the young master back at the noble household.
And the servants all down below.
There's a line full of men who want to be with me.
But, why haven't you gotten married?
That's because I'm serving my lady.
Then, you'll never get married.
I will get married!
What is the reason for you wanting to see me?
I need to know who you are working for,
and what you are wanting to know. I need to know.
I am someone who lose his father in the hands of the rebels.
I want to know my real enemy.
[Cashier Record Books]
If I give you the information do you have the power to use it?
I'm asking if you could fight the king.
If you don't, you'll end up losig your life and the truth will be buried.
Come in.
This is my truth.
I long for it from time to time.
The time when I was a grand prince and went to hunt with you.
Why are you relieving the memory?
You can order it now and go hunting.
All of the eight regions in Joseon are yours, Your Majesty.
But if I did, the people will get tired of it.
I will satisfy myself by practicing shooting.
- Your Majesty! - Your Majesty!
Your Majesty!
It's position. Someone has tried,
to harm you
Your Majesty!
Not only the assaissins but they've paid off the palace staff.
Look here. The palace guards and the military,
even the court ladies are being paid monthly.
They spend this much money and prepare it for so long.
He brought together all these many people,
I was foolish.
I did't even know how wide his net of cooperators were.
And just went against him out of anger.
I was a naive fool. I have no right to save anything about what was done to me.
These people are the bad ones. You did nothing wrong.
- Why? - I feel ike you've become my true peer.
Even though I cannot fight well like Roo Si Gae, I will still go with you, Your Highness.
Even if I say you can't, you won't listen, right?
I don't have anywhere to go.
The poison that was on the arrow is from a bridal root.
That's poisonous, too?
It's used for the tonic that kills a life.
It was mixed in with the stone on the arrow.
You were injured when you pulled the arrow.
And the poison penetrated through the injury.
I was worried that a day like this would come.
Former King who's alive and keeps on growing.
- Uncle. - Study the situation.
If you're going to sleep at ease, that's the only way.
Your position is logical, uncle.
It is a negative action for the benefit of the king.
It hasn't been too long since Eun Seong died. To bother my young nephew again...
It has huge consequence for the government.
There's no way that Queen Dowager would stay still.
You shouldn't tell her but have it forced upon her.
If that' hard, you can send him on an exile first.
Confiscate all of it!
Yes.
Who ordered you to do it?
Are you not going to answer?
Let go!
We've done nothing wrong.
Why are you doing this?
We really havn't...
Your highness, they will take the former King out of Seungpyeongdeug and kick him out of the palace.
Where are they sending that child?
They feel those who want to reenstate the former king
poses dangers to the king.
so they arrested the servants from the Queen's quarters.
Take him.
What are you doing?
Where are you taking the prince?
Mother! Mother!
You can't! You can't!
Where are you taking the prince?
Mother!
I'll go. I'll go, I said!
Your Highness. Your Highness.
- No, you can't! - Your Highness!
Your Highness.
Grandmother! Grandmother!
Queen Dowager, please save him!
Who dares treating my grandson...
How dare you trying to kick out the former king!
It's been decided unanimously by the ministers of the court.
He has two queens who are alive,
but with no discussion with us, how dare you act this way?
You can never take him!
We are only following the royal order.
Bring the king!
I've been given a promise by the king.
That promise has already been broken.
What is this, Your Majesty?
Your highness's son is,
Joseon's king on the throne right now
I almost died from poison.
Even if he's the former king, if he's a danger to the current king, he can become a trator.
What would the young prince know about this?
We know nothing of it.
Did you not say you'd save his life?
That's why I'm stopping at an exile.
Since I don't have proof, I can't order death.
Why don't you dethrone us instead?
He is too young to be wihtout his mother.
Have you forgotten?
When I was even younger than him, I was living alone outside of the palace.
- Your Majesty. - You can't!
- Grandmother!
Your Highness!
- Grandmother! - You can't!
You can't!
Grandmother!
Your Highness!
- Your Highness! - Mother!
Grandmother!
Your Highness!
Please keep your promise. Aren't you afraid of the heavens?
You feel sad for your grandson,
Do you not even worry for your son, who almost died?
What would that child know?
What would the queen who lost everything have done?
Your grandson's fate is in your hands.
The higher up has to show the respect for the king,
in order for the servants and the people to follow.
But, you seem as if you haven't made up your mind.
Are you saying that we have a deal based on your young nephew's life?
Are you trying to make a deal?
It is what I learned from you.
Be on my side.
Please make sure the servants are not mocking me.
If that happens, those with treasonous minds
will do away with their ill intentions.
You have to dethrone the queen.
When the foremer king has been sent to an exile,
the mother cannot continue to be queen. Not possible.
If we send her out into the world,
she will contact her son in exile or form a rebellious movement.
It's better to keep her in the palace.
Under the circumstance, I cannot treat her like a senior like before.
What do you want to do, then?
Say that she's been dethroned as per the proper protocol
but that she's living at the palace due to the Queen Mother's ardent petition.
Doing it this way, you can save face.
Your Highness!
Your Highness.
Your Highness!
Former King!
Your Highness.
Uncle.
I will take you.
Your Highness.
Without his mother and his grandmother...
That young prince was sent on exile by himself.
Why did you call me?
In recognition of your service in taking care of Grand Pince Eun Seong,
That's why I called for you.
Can you do whatever it is for the king?
King's my ruler but before that,
he's one who's revenged my father's death.
In his name, there is nothing,
I cannot do.
This is chowoo.
Isn't this poison?
There is someone you need to get rid of, with this.
You won't be able to move troops
We will give you someone to work with
Why are you bringing in someone else, when I could be doing the work?
I have to check one more time as to whether he is one of us or not.
If Do Jungkook does not figure it out,
you will finish it. That is why I called for both of you.
Over there.
Here.
Hurry up.
Right.
Let's go.
[Notice: Usurp The Throne]
♫ Believing and believing ♫
Grand Prince: Drawing Love
What is this?
Is it poison again?
We didn't make a move. So who tried to kill hyungnim?
How big is the trators,
that they're distrubing the capital like this?
My brother will not stay still about this. Let's attack my uncle.
If they are careless, it'd create a gap. Don't let your guard down.
We have to take every step. We have to save his highness.
Your Majesty. Grand Prince Yang Ahn is a traitor!
Why did you do it?
You made me into a puppet.
Grand Prince: Drawing Love