Roo Si Gae!
Don't touch her! She is my person!
I understand your obedience but this is not loyalty.
The King has already been adjudged and dethroned.
He's been confined and waiting for punishment.
Bring the king here if you don't want to see her die.
Put away the sword now!
Release Roo Si Gae!
Bring the king here!
- Attack! - Attack!
Roo Si Gae!
Roo Si Gae! Roo Si Gae!
Roo Si Gae!
Roo Si Gae.
Roo Si Gae. Roo Si Gae!
Roo Si Gae!
Gi Teuk. Gi Teuk!
Send someone to the infirmary and bring a royal doctor!
Hurry!
The wound is too deep. It will be impossible to recover.
She has lost too much blood.
Treat her! Save her life!
Make the blood stop from hemorrhaging and heal the wound.
Roo Si Gae is really tough.
She is not a person. She is more like a beast.
I'm telling you she is stronger than the ordinary person.
She will live. You can save her!
Are you coming to?
Are you alright? Does it hurt a lot?
I told you to not get hurt...
I even made you a protective shield to wear.
Don't try to talk. Save your energy.
Beautiful "Hwi"
Your highness...it's your name.
You have learned to write?
My name...
you know how to write it?
Roo Si Gae. Roo Si Gae! Wake up.
Roo Si Gae!
No! Roo Si Gae! Don't go!
Roo Si Gae!
Roo Si Gae! Don't leave us.
Roo Si Gae. Don't go.
Roo Si Gae.
Hey you, wake up. Wake up.
Roo Si Gae!
There is nothing
that I could do for her.
She has saved me countless times.
Following me for three years, all she did was suffer.
Now that good times lie in front
I wanted to repay the debt to her.
Instead of scorched rice,
I wanted to serve her proper food.
To dress her in fine clothes.
And silk shoes.
I was going to make her a norigae (female ornament)
to carry around.
But only suffering
we shared with her.
My heart bleeds for her.
She lived only looking at you.
She was only on the giver's side for us.
A fool.
Mother.
You've grown a lot since I last saw you.
You've grown taller and bigger.
Aunt and uncle have treated me well.
Did you say your aunt?
Yes, pretty aunt.
You think we can get into the palace?
On the North Gate side, there is a wall we can climb.
It's a secret path the king used to go in and out.
After we get into the palace?
We have to bring the king out.
As long as the king is alive, we can mobilize the troops.
What about the Queen?
Once we enter the palace we will travel in two groups.
I will escort the king and you will look after the Queen.
Your Excellency.
Court Lady Hong.
I waited for you here because I thought you would come this way.
What's happened to the king?
He's being held at the Secret Pavilion.
The Queen's being confined at the Gyotaejeon (Queen's Pavilion).
It appears as though he will be punished when the Sun comes up.
Let's get back here once we secure our king and queen.
Who are you?
We are the next shift.
But it hasn't been long since the last change...
Intruders!
Ah!
My apologies for being late.
- We will accompany you. - Where to?
Once we get out of the palace, I will arrange for a place to stay.
There are vacant houses owned by officers.
You want me to live in hiding?
Prime Minister has died and the Chief Royal Secretary has betrayed us.
Chief Scholar has completed your mission but there is a high chance he will side with them.
There is no one on my side...is what you are telling me?
Your Majesty, please plan for the future.
For now, you have to survive.
So now I have to be worried about my life?
Where did Court Lady Hong go?
Should someone tell us what's going on outside?
Please calm yourself, your majesty.
Brother!
Court Lady Hong! Her Highness, please, hurry!
Yes.
Brother! Brother!
It's the Queen, arrest her.
Brother!
Search for her every where.
Yes, sir.
Your majesty. Your majesty?
If I leave the palace now, will I be able to return again?
Eun Seong and Seunpyunggun aimed at my royal procession
because it was difficult for them to come into the palace.
I cannot leave.
Your majesty!
Even if I die, I will stay in the palace to see the final outcome.
As long as Eun Seong is gone, all will be well. Only if Eun Seong is gone.
That child and Queen Mother cannot fight me.
But, the Chief of Royal Investigation Agency took control of the military.
Chief of the Royal Palace Guards are with him. We cannot trust anyone.
I don't trust anyone anyway.
Your majesty!
Your majesty, my brother...my brother!
Minister of Defence was killed by the Chief Do.
Your majesty, you need to leave now. The palace is too dangerous.
Court Lady Hong is to escort the Queen.
Please go ahead first. I will revenge your brother.
I don't want you to be in danger as well. You have to protect your royal body.
Our numbers are too small.
It grieves me to tell you we do not have enough to go against the rebels.
This is a rebellion not a war. Once we get Eun Seong,
things will settle back to normal.
I am staying with you.
I can't leave you behind, your majesty.
You're pregnant. Please think of the baby in your womb.
Court Lady Hong.
If you are not there, what will become of the child?
You need to be there, so that there will be a meaning in tomorrow.
I know you must have been upset with me about a lot of things.
I will pay you back one by one.
When I avowed loyalty to you when we were living outside,
it was out of,
my desperate attempt to win your heart, your majesty.
Since you had another woman in your heart,
by promising to be your servant,
I wanted to convey my truth,
not to share the power with my husband,
it was not based on such a greed.
I simply wanted to be,
your woman.
Your support and your passion
have always made me stronger.
I thank you for that.
Until we meet again
take care of yourself.
Your majesty...
I will wait at the Main Hall. Bring Eun Seong to me.
If you tell him it's my request, he wouldn't reject it.
He is that kind of a boy.
Escort the King.
Yes, sir.
Your highness, you need to hurry and distance yourself from the palace.
Is it ok to leave the king like this?
He is a man of firm resolve.
Once he makes up his mind, he doesn't change.
Whether I shouldn't be staying with him,
should we be making him this lonely?
Think of the future, your highness.
Even if the sky falls, there is always a room to get out,
Let us go please, your highness.
your highness, we got the Minister of Defence but lost the Queen.
If the Minister came in the Chief of the Palace Guards would be in as well.
What happened to hyungnim.
He's waiting for you at the Main Hall.
He escaped the Secret Pavilion?
It's my job to keep the king alive.
I tried to take him outside of the palace but he wishes to see you.
Don't go. Who knows what sort of trap awaits you?
He's looking at his last moment.
I can't let him go like this. He has to live,
so that he can pay for his deeds.
I will bring Queen Mother there.
You two will have to persuade Grand Prince JIn Yang.
You don't want to kill your brother, your own blood.
Escort her.
Jin Yang escaped the Secret Pavilion?
He wants to see Grand Prince Eun Seong alone.
I was going to tell him to,
relinquish the throne and live quietly outside of the palace,
but he insists on seeing blood.
Your majesty.
If you want to save both of your sons, please show your affection.
Grand Prince is standing on the edge of precipice.
If you are harsh on him, no one know how he would react.
To my child who did wrong,
I thought a scolding would suffice.
Still that I love him.
I should have told him.
Regret is piercing my heart.
It's not too late.
You still have a chance, your majesty.
Let us go.
Open the way. I will see my hyungnim.
Your highness.
Go.
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Please come down.
This is no longer your seat, brother.
It was never yours to begin with.
If it wasn't for you
tomorrow I would open the morning assembly
with the officials right here.
Now it is all over.
You cannot reclaim the throne, or overturn the rebellion.
You think this is because of me?
Because you have a nephew who can carry on the throne,
and a mother who doesn't acknowledge you? Not so.
You don't have the support of the people.
If I only had time,
If I had time to rule the nation properly and change the view,
I could make the country strong and give them hope.
I could have been a good king who give them long lasting prosperity.
People are not stupid.
The people who brought you down,
and put their lives on the line to put the king back on the throne,
they didn't do it to eat well and live well.
Not to secure a place for themselves after the rebellion is over.
They knew they could die,
and knew this could be their last chance, but still did it.
They didn't get much from the nation but at a time of need,
they are the people who would put their lives on the line.
It is that support that never rested on you.
You never had the right way to be on the throne.
Once you became king by unnatural force,
you could not protect the throne.
Even I
know now.
That's why,
I couldn't gain love either.
I wanted to steal her because she was your woman.
But this time, I wouldn't let her die like Yeonni,
I was going to steal her from you,
and have her heart to come to me.
I thought that would be a proof,
that I am a man who is valuable enough for that.
You already have your wife.
It was with that feeling I married,
and even afterward, I didn't give up.
Once I became king, I thought,
all of that would become mine.
That everything I wanted would become reality.
That's what I believed.
Please come back now.
As a member of our family.
As my brother,
even dethroned,
adjudged and punished.
One your exile is over, you can live.
Even though not a king,
our family will stay beside you.
Let's do that in our next life.
No, in next life,
I probably should not make these choices to start with.
Kill me.
Living in hell does not suit me.
Rather than a long pitiful life,
I will pay back with my life.
You will,
not think of the family to the end.
Do you want to do that to mother?
You can't do it?
Long and pitiful life in hell,
is the punishment you must accept.
Please accept it.
Right, that's the kind of brother you are.
Proper grand prince.
Nice and pure man.
But you know that already,
I'm the most evil man under the sky who tried to kill his brother many times.
Don't do this! It doesn't have to be like this.
Do I have to kill my own brother?
If not, you die!
Why on earth?
Why? Why? WHY?
If he got into a fight with you,
since you couldn't do it
he asked me to slay him.
He came
prepared to
die.
♫ Believing and believing ♫
You need to finish my last place.
Your majesty.
Eun Seong won't be able to do it.
How can you give me such an order.
When I think of it,
you are the only one who is my person.
Your majesty...
I don't want to die by any other man's blade.
You do it, please.
I can't, your majesty.
Your majesty...
Your majesty.
Kang!
My Kang.
Mother...
I am sorry.
♫ In a life together ♫
This mother
♫ Living and living ♫
is at fault for raising you the wrong way.
Don't cry.
My younger brother.
Older brother.
The people
I love
are all here.
Don't you cry either.
No one is to cry.
Not for me.
Hyungnim.
Now that I have let go of everything
I feel free
and this peace.
Kang!
- Kang! - Brother!
Kang!
Brother!
Kang! Kang!
In your next life
live receiving lots of love.
Since we are not allowed to keep a dead person in the palace,
move Roo Si Gae to our house. I will make preparations.
Thank you.
I can't even hold a funeral for her because I'm the Grand Prince.
Why do you say thank you?
She was like family to me.
Sire...
What's so great about being the king
that my brother was ready to trample on his own family
to keep it.
He was difficult to understand.
He always watched me with sad eyes.
I wondered why he looked as if he was crying inside
when he is clearly a bad person.
For some reason, I felt guilty.
Don't blame yourself.
It's not your fault.
Being born to the royal family...
was not a blessing but a tragedy.
You live too close to the highest seat of power
so you're very vulnerable to its temptation.
His hunger for power grew till it overshadowed his family
and created this bloodbath.
His Majesty passed away?
He told me let's meet again.
He told me to be careful till we meet again.
That's what he told me.
It seems he was already prepared to meet his end
when he decided to stay in the palace.
He made his last request to Eo Eul Woon.
What do you want me to do? What about me?
How come you never spared a thought for me
till the very end?
I trusted you and dedicated myself to your great cause.
So you should take responsibility!
I'd rather you said let's die together.
Your Highness, we have to flee.
They're going to find this place soon.
Go where?
Is there even a place on this land where I can stay?
Think about your child.
If you give birth to a son, almost definitely
they'll kill him.
Look what happened to prince Seung Pyeon. His majesty tried so hard to kill him
because he was a threat to his power.
His Majesty's heir is... a seed of dispute.
If it's a girl, she'll be made a lowly maidservant.
You have to live even though His Majesty is gone.
As a mother, you have to protect your child.
It's good that the throne has been restored and secured our future but,
this mother who's sinned greatly,
have not only seen Grand Prince Eun Seong die and come back twice,
but had to witness the dying of Grand Prince Jin Yang in front of my eyes.
I brought it upon myself by trying to
interfere in the nation's affairs even though I was a woman.
Until the young King grows into a full adult,
I will relinquish the regency to Grand Prince Eun Seong.
But Your Highness, usually
if the Queen or the Queen Dowager is alive,
no one else takes over the Regency.
Even though it may be difficult, it's only lawful that
Your Highness take over the Regency.
I've gone through so much recently
and I don't have strength even to get out of bed.
It'll be more than 10 years till His Majesty comes of age.
Do you think I'll stay alive till then?
Even though he was sent on exile under false accusations,
Prince Eun Seong never gave up and investigated what really happened,
and he risked his live to set the Royal lineage right.
There's no one more suitable to the task than him.
Until your nephew grows up,
Just like what Duke of Zhou did for his young nephew king in China,
please create a beautiful history,
that will be remembered in history as a model.
I know what many of you are worried about.
Among you are one who worried about the young king being restored to the throne,
and told my brother about the rebellion,
and those who dreamed of a stronger Joseon,
and supported our cause, I know.
But it was my brother who had to carry the burden of it all.
Everyone who were hyungnim's servants as well as those who supported the rebellion,
all of you have different perspectives but acted with the good of the nation in your heart.
The Queen Dowager and I wish to forgive your past deeds
so that there will be no more sacrifices.
and make a Royal Court unified under a common cause.
Please help us.
Don't go.
I've faced so many deaths and unwanted goodbyes.
How can I endure it if you also leave my side?
I apologize.
Your Highness, when I look at you
I can help but think of Roo Si Gae.
I start to hate myself for not being able to protect her.
Is this how you're going to punish me?
Please forgive me. Right now, my remorse towards Roo Si Gae
is greater than my loyalty to you.
So I cannot serve you well.
It's difficult to see Asshi too.
If, with time, I learn to suppress my longing
and my pain grows faint...
if I feel I can serve you well again,
Then I will return.
Promise me.
Be healthy, Sire.
Are you asking me to just come and live in your house?
I don't want another wedding ceremony, and I don't want to live in the palace.
If I wear a wedding dress, I feel I'll be reminded of that day
when so many people died and you were falsely accused.
And it'll be depressing to live in the palace quarters that we got as a wedding present because it reminds me of Prince Jin Yang.
It's weird to hold another wedding ceremony when we have already consummated our marriage.
Why look at what you say in the broad daylight!
Since I can't live inside the palace, you just come out.
I want to become a filial daughter to my parents who went through so much.
If you like being apart from me, then you may as well live alone in the palace?
I worry that living with the in-laws could be uncomfortable for you.
So what if he is uncomfortable?
He has to bear at least that much, considering all the suffering he put our daughter through.
Honey.
What? Did I say anything wrong?
Mother.
I will use my life to repay the debt I owe.
I know how much hardship I've brought onto you all this time.
We will live treasuring each other under your care.
Please give us a chance to be filial to you.
Let us wait and see.
Mother, if you keep acting prickly we could move out on our own.
Who would be short handed by that?
This is the room we prepared for you.
It's not as large as in the palace, but still, pretty clean?
It's nice, sure, but I don't really care since I won't stay here.
If you are not planning to stay in your room, where will you be?
In your room.
Well, that is..we can visit each other but,
It's proper for a couple to have separate rooms.
How many months have we stayed apart?
From now on, I plan to stay right beside you.
In my life, there will be no separate rooms.
My family will speak ill of us.
So? Are we the kind to be afraid of such a thing?
You have the job of regency.
If you are not planning to leave my side, how will you take care of the country?
From now on only make promises you can keep.
When the regency is over, I will leave the court and live in the country.
From then on, I will only live for you.
I'm fine. You are only doing what you have to after all.
Even after the regency is over, you don't have to live for me.
Go forward on the path that makes you happy.
I will be beside you.
[ 10 years later ]
10 years is a long time to hold myself back.
Until when do we have to accept the endless and bottomless demands of the Jurchens.
Your Majesty, the reason for the situation with the Jurchens is that, under a brief rule by Grand Prince JIn Yang a long ago,
had entered into an agreement that was highly unfavourable to us, and we've been trying to
- work through them since. - So what have we gained from it?
They are the ones who's making the gains in all our dealings.
Instead of being grateful, their demands are getting larger every year.
if so, you should conquer them.
Grand Prince.
It is true that an unfair agreement was entered into 10 years ago.
If you think our external relationship with them is inadequate,
you can do away with it and confront them forcefully.
Are you picking on the fact that I'm still young and inexperienced in military affairs?
If you hesitate, you can't gain experience.
You should make a decision. If you feel we need to conquer, we will do it.
I don't know why his majesty is acting like that.
He's especially going against you this year.
He eventually follows your suggestions anyway,
why does he have to show his opposition in front of the ministers.
Are you really smiling?
Father in law. I think it's time.
Haven't you been saying you wanted to rest?
I think your wish will come true soon.
No your highness. The king still needs your help.
The national affairs have just been stablised.
If you leave his side, I fear we will have instability again.
The king has the former king's wisdom and,
the strength of Jin Yang hyungnim.
Not only on domestic affairs but on foreign relations, he has unique way of making his own decisions.
He no longer needs the assistance of regency.
If you leave, wouldn't the young King be shaken by the older courtiers.
No matter how intelligent he is, his inexperience can't be ignored.
We will begin by getting rid of the Prime Minister.
Prime Minsiter?
The father in law of the uncle who was his regent.
If he eliminates the strongest man in the court and begins his sole rule,
no court minister will look down on him for being young.
Would the prime minister retreat so easily?
He's asked to resign at least twelve times.
He will gladly take the step if it's for the king.
Then, can you wait until the king gets married.
That will be best. Once the Queen's quarters is established,
he can begin his own rule.
You want me to fire the prime minister? Aren't you being too harsh.
You have to go at least that far if you want to take control of the court,
and manage the national affairs.
Can't you just stay where you are?
Who is the king? You are.
What are you going to do when you leave the capital?
Since I have a beautiful wife as opposed to you, I have a lot to do even when I go home.
I have a lot to do when I go home.
But do not worry.
Since the royal bride selection process has begun,
you will soon have a queen.
Did you not choose your own bride?
Well, if the truth be told, I think she might have chosen me first.
It's a bit confusing.
I want to pick out my own wife as well!
Is that not possible?
It's rather strange,
how you've taken up,
the traits of all my siblings and me.
- Please help yourself. - Congratulations!
Your elders are doing well?
Please eat a lot.
You traitor!
How am I a traitor?
When I decided to resign from the post Grand Prince Jin Yang gave me and go for the national examinations,
you should have waited for me, but no you got married?
You are a yangban. I am a servant.
We would never have worked out anyway, so why wait?
You should have trusted me.
Ja Yeon waited for her love even when she was told he'd died.
You couldn't wait for someone who was well and alive?
I waited for three years.
How can you write exams for ten years?
There are many who don't get it done in ten years.
How excellent.
And now, you can get married.
- Traitor! - Coward!
Traitor!
Who?
Come one in. It's a special celebration today and everyone is welcome.
Anyone is welcome. And there is a lot of food!
Want to try this?
I have something to ask.
Ask away.
Is this Grand Prince Seonguk's house?
Where Grand Prince Eun Seong and Lady Ja Yeon lives.
How do you know mother and father?
Are you a lady of this household too?
I am here to see my aunt.
Aunt?
I heard my aunt live in this house.
What is it? Is he someone you know?
My long lived revenge is now finished.
What does that mean?
Life can be endlessly meaningless,
and good fortune can turn into disaster in an instant.
Is that why you gave away a chance to be something else?
I didn't think you'd go back to being a gisaeng once the rebellion was over.
You have to be entitled, in order to receive a reward.
Lucky to avoid being punished.
Even if I no longer try to become noble,
whether I am a gisaeng or anything else,
I know I am precious person.
Where did you get this?
My mother gave it to me.
Her close friend gave it to her.
What is your name?
So ha. It's So Ha.
Lee So Ha.
Little flower...what a pretty name.
How did you come all the way here?
Mother took me here.
Are you two really my uncle and aunt?
Honey.
I thought you had died.
The world is big with many places to go.
It's been 10 years, 10 years. You should have at least contact me once a year.
If you keep going like this while I'm eating, I'll get indigestion.
- I will go back.>br>- Are you threatening me?
Are you going to forget everything now?
Have you forgotten?
Sadness has subsided but I cannot forget.
Roo Shi Gae, Jooni, Deokman and Hochi.
I can seen them in front of me.
Now that I see you,
it feels good.
I've sent our So Ha to Ja Yeon.
She can raiser her better than me.
How is it where you are?
Are you acting the part of King that you've wanted very well?
If not,
are you lonely there too,
and longing for this world?
Isn't it time for you to call for me?
I want to see you.
I miss you, your majesty.
Hyungnim, So Hwa is here.
She's pretty like her mother and strong like you, hyungnim.
We will raiser her well as our daughter.
We will give her lots of love.
What was my father like?
He was the most handsome and brave among all brothers.
When you are able to understand a lot as you grow up,
your uncle will tell you a lot about your father.
Aunti!
Ah, you're home.
- Unni. - You're here, Danbi.
She is your aunt's cousin on her mother's side. She comes often to learn to draw.
She's older than you so you can get along well like sisters.
You want to be eliminated from the Royal Bride selection?
Yes. I don't want to be Queen.
I told my parents I really don't want to be wed to the palace
and went on a hunger strike but they are not budging.
That's why I've come to see you.
It's something that the Queen's court decides on.
It's not something I can help with.
Then, can you tell me how I can fail it?
Why do you hate it so much?
His Majesty is smart and strong. Not bad looking either.
I can hardly handle being a noble lady.
How can I handle the palace, or the Queen on top of that.
It's to the benefit of the palace that they don't get a daughter in law like me.
Where would the blood of our family flow?
Why do you take after me when we are only cousins?
Me?
Uncle.
How many times have I told you? Royal bride selection is the responsibility of the inner court.
If you are going to have a temper tantrum you have to go to your mother or grandmother.
I can't get through to them.
You are the one who knows my feeling on this.
It sounds like I am easy picking.
You met your wife without going through the selection process.
You didn't want to marry someone without knowing how she looked like.
I was a grand prince but you are a king.
You are the king of this nationa, Joseon.
So, did I say I will just meet with anyone on the street?
Or go on dates ignoring all of my duties in managing national affairs? I didn't.
I just want to be able to see the candidates and have a final say.
Is this a greed too big?
What kind of woman are you looking for anyway?
Someone who's totally different from my mother.
Someone who's strong enough to go on horses and go hunting with me.
Please take good care of her.
Please don't worry. Even someone like Roo She Gae,
couldn't do anything in front of me.
No matter how tom boyish,
she's a lady from a noble family.
I will trust you Court Lady Jang.
When you sit, sit like a flower landing to the ground.
Softly, with both of your knees.
As someone who's been selected to be a candidate
of the royal bride selection, what's going on here?
If one was most reckless, it couldn't be this bad.
That's why, please talk to the masters at the palace.
Please tell them a lady called Danbi is utterly unsuitable to be a queen.
She will wreck the king's palace.
That's why you need to practic. Practice.
Do not give up yet. Again.
Seriously, you can only look.
If you do anything, we will be in big trouble.
Uncle, don't worry too much.
This is not the first time we've been in a disguise.
Your head is not a decoration.
Don't pay attention only to your outer appearance.
You have to gain knowledge.
In that vein, will someone read it?
How dare you steal a look at the ladies? Who are you and where do you live?
I will make sure you're humiliated for this.
Where I live is,
Won't you stop?
Why? Do you see something?
Stop looking at me and get to your painting.
It's good.
That I'm dirty?
It's a beautiful day and we are out here drawing.
I know. How long has it been?
We could come out every day from now on.
WIth your words, you can bring me a star from the sky.
I have lots of time now that I've quit the regency.
Even if you are no longer a regent, his majesty will call for you day and night.
Speaking of which,
how about if we leave the capital and move to the country.
You think you can leave?
I've fulfilled all my duties as a grand prince.
I want to live the rest of my life the way I promised you.
We can draw together and have drink at a picnic.
What else did we promise to do?
An ocean will be nice. We can go fishing.
Would the kids like it?
Our children are happy as long as their busy father
will stay with them. They'd go to a smallest shack.
What about you?
I'm sorry. It wasn't intentional.
Wife. Wife.
One moment. Wife, wife.
- Come here. - One moment.
No
♫ Believing and believing ♫
♫ In a life together ♫
♫ Living and living ♫
Grand Prince - the end -