Episode 9
Your Highness, where are you going?
Where are you going leaving us behind, Your Highness?
Please don't be like this. He'll be back. He will come back to save you.
- Your Highness! - Your Highness!
Get them!
Please go!
Catch them!
Your Highness! Your Highness!
Your Excellency.
Lieutenant. Lieutenant!
Lieutenant.
Your Highness...
His Majesty, please...
Baby Wonja, please...
Lieutenant.
Lieutenant!
3 years later
Father.
News of the king's illness cannot spread beyond these walls.
We are taking extra measures to makes sure it does not.
Should a word of it get out, all those responsible will be beheaded.
Father.
But, he's bravely endured this for many years.
The king will rise again.
The crown prince is so young.
The king will rise for sure.
Tell me to die instead.
I have already told you that I'm not getting married to another man.
Okay, just die then.
After three years of prayer, even Mangbuseok would have turned around. (Mangbuseok: A faithful wife who died praying for her husband's return and turned into stone in Korean folklore).
If you get older, don't you know that the only chance you'll have is to a man remarrying after the death of his first wife?
Only three years have passed.
Do you not think about your parents?
You're heartbroken over your love who left before you,
but you don't feel pity for your own mother, who is so worried about you?
I will not get married.
If it isn't the prince, I will not be anyone's bride.
Alright. Do whatever you want!
Madam! Why are you doing this?
We'll do what we want to do.
Lady, let's leave. Hurry.
You will marry even if we have to forcefully bundle you and carry you out.
Lady.
So upsetting.
Lady.
Are you really not getting married?
Are you really like this, too? Why are you treating His Highness as if he doesn't exist in this world?
He's not here.
People have forgotten about him.
It's like he wasn't ever alive.
Even if the world forgets about him, I can't do that.
You didn't even have a wedding. Why are you hanging onto him and not meeting other men?
No, the two of us had a promise ceremony.
It was between the two of us, but we made our vows and exchanged love tokens in front of Buddha.
No one knows about it, though.
I know! His Highness knows, and the Heavens know.
Lady!
If we continue down on the path, we'll be at the capital city in a bit.
You should see the lady first.
Is this Joseon's palace?
No, it isn't, you fool.
Your Highness. Should I inform them?
No. If I appear like this, it'd cause so much surprise.
But, she'd be happy.
In the past three years, she probably never stopped waiting for you.
If it's possible, you should see her and leave.
Who?
Let's go to the palace. I must see my mother and greet the king.
I'll meet the lady when I'm looking more like a person.
[Dragon Turtle\i}
Myeong Rye Palace.
Move aside. This is Grand Prince Eun Seong, who has returned from the north.
Geez.
The day's this cold and these crazy people are going around like this?
How rude of you! Show your manners towards His Highness.
If you want to keep talking, show me an identification or an entry pass to the palace.
He died long ago on an expedition and was buried ever since.
How dare you speak of Grand Prince Eun Seong now?
He survived death. Go and report to the Great Hall.
Your Highness.
We just need to notify the chief eunuch or your attendant lady.
Once they come out and see you...
I can't simply let you leave like this. How dare you tell me to step aside while you're holding weapons?
To find out what faction you treason-planning beggar bastards are,
I'll have to take you away and punish you through the leg-screw torture!
Take them away!
The king is in a coma and nearing death.
The queen is searching everywhere in vain. His whereabouts are unknown.
Good work. Be careful on your way back.
We're at the same level. Half of the people are on the king and his mother's side,
and the other half are on our side.
What will you do? The king's illness is severe.
The king's mother is not meeting you or the ministers.
If you lose this timing before he dies—
Before the extreme event occurs, we need to get the gomyeong (king's will including succession).
While Grand Prince Eun Seong is not here, if you receive the gomyeong,
the throne will be yours, Your Highness.
I'm going to the palace.
Brother, ask the Chief Minister and all other ministers to enter the palace.
Yes, I will.
I will bring you your palace uniform.
Madam, a guest is here.
I came to see the grand prince.
The grand prince will enter the palace soon.
He doesn't have the time to freely talk to you.
What should we do?
Go back.
Your Excellency, it's Ja Hyeon.
I have something I must talk to you about.
Come inside.
Royal family member Weol Yeong sent an offer of marriage to my house.
Please ask him to withdraw the offer. He's one of your loyalists.
So, please resolve this issue.
Did you not want another groom to consider?
What are you saying?
You refused to be my woman for three years.
I gave you a different choice with great generosity.
Are you asking me to be a gold digger?
Hwi is not coming back.
He is dead.
You should acknowledge that.
The one who cruelly pushed away his brother was you, Grand Prince.
He went of his own will.
He had a sense of duty as this nation's prince.
Do you... intend to ruin my life in the end?
Weol Yeong is my cousin.
Being married to someone from a royal family means your life gets ruined?
Other girls would be shocked to hear that.
I do not want to get married.
I do not want to be anyone's bride.
Do you dislike Weol Yeong that much?
If you really feel that way, just come to me.
I'll accept you even now.
I've said these words in vain.
In believing that there was a small slice of a decent man left in you,
I was foolish.
Be careful out there in the night.
You will soon become a bride.
What are you doing, Madam?
Is it not enough to ruin one grand prince?
Are you fearless or are you ignorant of the law?
How dare you carelessly meet a man from another person's household?
Are you that worried?
Do you still not have confidence?
Is that why you wanted to get rid of me this way?
Be thankful.
If it wasn't for our effort, you would have died as a virgin ghost.
Have you forgotten all about the time when we were friends?
Don't you know that you're the one who ended our friendship?
When you started seducing the grand princes, we stopped being friends or anything else.
My life and my fate will not be determined by you and your husband.
If you hate getting married that much, why don't you commit suicide?
Let's go, Lady.
Pretend you didn't hear it. Let's just go!
If you were going to die, you should've died three years ago.
That amazing love you had, if you'd died, you would've been praised for your devotion toward one person.
Let's go. Hurry, let's go.
I wish you happiness!
Please, do get married, have sons and daughters, and live well!
Pass the message on to Ja Hyeon's household.
What should it be about?
To observe Ja Hyeon well until her wedding day.
So that she doesn't die or run away.
She's someone who went on the battlefield to follow Grand Prince Eun Seong, who had gone on a conquest.
You don't know what she'd do if you left her by herself.
Yes, Madam.
[Entry Pass: 'Grand (Prince)']
Will she be able to do it well?
She can't even speak Joseon's language well.
As long as I find the queen, it's okay.
Dowager! Queen Dowager!
Oh, right!
Dowager! Queen Dowager!
Hwi
Entry Pass
You may enter.
I just have to walk forward.
Forward. Queen?
Dowager. Queen Dowager.
Forward. Forward.
As a court lady being paid,
how could you enter the grand prince's home as your personal affairs?
I was just doing what was told by the higher-ups.
Who are those higher-ups?
If you want to live, tell us all about it.
I was just delivering a letter.
Who sent that letter?
Your Highness! Your Highness!
Your Highness, this will not do.
Tonight, please rest in your chamber.
No, it's okay. I'll get changed and get back to the king.
If you continue this way, you will collapse first.
The queen will have a tough time if she's by herself.
How rude of you. How rude of you. How dare you block the path of the queen dowager?
Queen?
Ah, Dowager. Queen Dowager.
What are you doing? Take her away!
Is nobody there?
Call for the Royal Guards. Royal Guards!
Hwi
Your Highness.
Hwi
Hwi.
This.
This is...
Hwi's blood. My son, Hwi!
Yes.
Your unworthy son
has returned now and
greets Your Highness.
You were alive?
Where did your jade-like face go?
How hard. How hard it must have been for you.
The king is on the brink of death.
The heavens must pity this mother
because they've returned you to me.
How severe is His Majesty's illness?
In a time like this, I do not know what is ahead of us.
Due to Jin Yang's scary greed,
the court ministers and royal family members have not been notified.
My older brother probably knows all about it.
I found a court lady who was traveling from and to the Myeong Rye Palace.
Closer.
Come closer.
Now, I
can pass on with an easy mind.
What are you saying?
I have returned. Your youngest brother, Hwi, has returned.
You must become healthier so that we can make up for the time as brothers that we lost.
I thought about it, again and again.
Whether it would be right to give the throne to Jin Yang.
Whether it would be the right path for this country.
Your Majesty.
But, Jin Yang
wouldn't let the crown prince live.
He wouldn't let you live, either.
You should protect the crown prince.
- Your Majesty. - You must
protect our family.
If this new country experiences a fight between princes again,
we cannot win the trust of the people.
- Your Majesty! - Your Majesty!
Your Majesty!
Do not let anyone die.
You must save our family.
Your Majesty! Your Majesty!
Your Majesty!
You cannot today.
Since His Majesty is ill, I've brought calming medicine.
I want to bring it to His Majesty, please let them know I'm here.
The Queen Dowager issued a strict order not to let anyone in tonight.
Are you treating His Majesty's younger brother as a simple visitor?
Please return in the morning.
I said I'd give His Majesty the calming medicine.
If something bad were to happen to His Majesty tonight
would you be able to handle the consequences in the future?
Move aside!
Your Majesty!
Your Majesty! Your Majesty!
Your Majesty!
Mother.
What is the matter?
What about the king?
He has passed away.
Chief Eunuch.
How could you let things happen this way?
How can you let His Majesty go alone without me, his closest family, by his side?
Who in the world would receive his last will
and testament?
Do not worry about that.
Grand Prince Eun Seong!
I received his last will and succession edict.
Until the crown prince comes of age,
Queen Mother will act as regent
and the grand princes will pledge their loyalty to the crown prince.
This is the dead king's last wish.
You're the one who received the last will and succession edict?
I have arrived, Brother.
I did not die.
I came back alive.
Give up.
Brother, please.
Had it not been for the prince's bride, you would've been put through shame again.
You're lucky she sent a message to protect you well.
Na Gyeom did that?
Starting today, every night, you will guard the outhouse.
If you lose the lady, you guys will be dead. Okay?
Yes, Young Master!
You have many scars.
Since I was on the battlefield.
It's a relief you've survived and come back.
I couldn't die because there was someone waiting for me.
Since you have returned at the unfortunate time of a royal death,
I cannot reveal my happiness for your return in the midst of the sadness of king's death.
It must be hard for you since you can't run to the woman you've longed for.
But it'd be best not to see a woman who will marry another man.
I'm talking about Lady Ja Hyeon.
But, since you two have an old affection as friends, how delighted she'd be to see your safe return.
Ja Hyeon is getting married?
She's getting married to royal family member Weol Yeong.
Your Highness! Your Highness!
Your Highness!
Everyone, leave.
What do you wish to do now? Since Grand Prince Eun Seong received the last will...
Every day for three years,
I listened to what I was told and held my breath.
Only three days remain.
Within three days, before the baby saeja becomes King with Eun Seong's protection,
we need to overturn the Will and obtain a new edict from Queen Dowager.
Will things work out that way?
I must go to the Queen Dowager's Palace.
Since Eun Seong is not in the palace,
Everything that happens will be up to me.
Who are you?
Excuse me! Where are you going?
Is His Excellency here? Where is the lady?
Who are you to be doing this?
What is all of this noise?
What are you doing in someone else's house this early in the morning?
Your Excellency, it is me, Eun Seong.
Are you alive, or are you a ghost?
The king has passed away.
Your Majesty!
I need to meet your daughter.
Please tell her that I have arrived alive.
No, I cannot.
What are you doing?
I will go into the mountains and become a Buddhist nun.
The grand prince has arrived.
He's alive. He's looking for you.
My daughter is already set to marry another man.
Your Highness, you can't!
Lady! Lady Ja Hyeon!
Your Highness! You should return to the palace.
You must observe the royal mourning.
Lady!
♫ I cannot even laugh ♫
♫ My loneliness has piled up ♫
♫ Everything has been broken ♫
♫ I try to fix it ♫
♫ I can't do anything ♫
Your Highness!
♫ Because of you, it has rusted ♫
♫ What do I do with myself? ♫
♫ It's because my chest feels tight ♫
♫ I feel frustrated because my chest feels tight ♫
♫ No matter how much I hit until I get bruised, ♫
♫ You spread across my heart ♫
♫ Love is so mean ♫
♫ Why do you keep ♫
Did you mean for the last will to be that way?
It was the dying wish of the late king, who was worried about the country.
He thought a lot about the decision.
I didn't know you wanted to be the queen, Mother.
How rude of you!
It was a dying wish meant for protecting the young saeja (crown prince), and you twisted it like that.
Your eldest son has passed away.
It's now time for your highness to rely on me.
Please rescind the royal edict.
The late king's dying wish has already been released. I cannot change it as I please.
I am your son, too, Mother.
Why can't it be me?
Do you think the throne is something everyone can wait for their turn and try out?
If Joseon does not establish the line of succession, the roots of this country will be shaken.
It must be established that a competent person can rise to the throne.
Like how Father pushed away Uncle to rise to the throne.
Joseon has established that the first-born son should be the king.
Your uncle dragged a gisaeng (female entertainer) into the palace.
He was immoral as he laid his hands on other people's wives. That's how he got sent out of the palace!
The saeja (crown prince) is young. He cannot be the king!
I, your mother, am alive!
Stop with your useless greed.
Are you not the greedy one, Mother?
Your greed to become the queen has made your son turn into a useless scarecrow.
This is the last time.
If you shake up the royal family again with your irreverent statements,
even though you are my son, I will not forgive you!
Has my uncle entered the palace? Where is he?
He's probably heading to Queen Dowager's pavilion.
Jin Yang doesn't plan on obeying the late king's dying wish.
However,
once Saeja ascends to the throne he will have no choice but to accept it.
It's three days. As long as those days safely pass by...
Please find Eun Seong.
Eun Seong has to block Jin Yang.
Yes, Your Highness.
What happened to your hair?
The woman who has never stopped missing me all this time...
This is not your appearance that I used to know.
You don't seem like how you were in the past, either.
You're very thin and you seem to have gotten a little older.
You're like a baby.
But, you are always beautiful.
I endured and endured,
but I could not do it anymore, so I cut my hair.
Even if I had to become a buddhist nun, I would have avoided being someone else's wife.
Thank you.
I hoped that you would wait for me,
but you could've already gotten married to someone else.
But, I didn't have the right to resent you.
That's how I controlled my mind.
You promised that you'd come back and you wouldn't die.
You didn't even trust me?
Every day for three years, everyone said you'd died.
I put my hands over my ears and didn't listen. I waited and waited.
You thought I had gotten married to someone else already?
♫ As I keep walking, I meet the moon ♫
♫ How much ♫
I am afraid
that this might be a dream.
For many days, I dreamed of you, Lady.
After I realized it was a dream once I woke up,
I didn't want to open my eyes again.
♫ The places I want to go to ♫
It's not a dream.
The person in front of you is me.
It's Ja Hyeon.
We are together again.
♫ To a place no one knows ♫
♫ When I get there, will I call out only then? ♫
♫ Following this path, following you ♫
♫ I'm wandering ♫
Are you not injured anywhere? Or hurt anywhere?
I'm okay.
Where were you?
What suffering have you gone through during that time?
The important thing is that I'm back.
Please promise me
that you will never leave my side again.
You've lost His Majesty as soon as you returned.
I don't know how to console you.
Since I returned, he could close his eyes at last.
As much as you have,
he's had the reason to endure all this time.
We have to suffer like this and make her bathe?
How could we present someone like her to our masters?
Why do we have to look after an Orangkae (derogatory term for Jurchens) wench?
Not even an obedient but one that bites us like crazy dog at that?
Hey, you. You smell, you know.
If you are going to serve the Grand Prince,
you need to clean and change your dress...
She bit me!
Have you not finished dressing her?
She is not human.
She's an animal.
Everyone, leave.
No, she is a dangerous child.
We will...
Take it off yourself.
[Dragon Tiger]
Do not worry about anything.
I won't. My wish has already come true.
I didn't even dare to expect to be together with you again.
My wish was just to know whether you were alive or not.
If you had really died, I could've followed you there.
But, I thought that maybe, you could still be living.
I didn't want to die first. So, I endured it.
Go inside.
I will figure everything out.
I will watch you leave.
Your hair will grow back soon.
When things in the palace settle down, I'll return.
This isn't a dream, right?
It's really you who are here. It's not a mirage.
If it hadn't been for you... If you weren't there,
I would've already given up.
I wanted to return to see your face again.
That's how I got through it all.
It's not a dream.
If you keep being like this, I can't leave you.
I know you have a lot to do.
Wait here. This time, without fearing anything.
Eun Seong has come back alive?
The effort we have put in together is all in vain.
Is there any possibility of the Queen Dowager rescinding the Will?
She was not on my side, of course.
But the public opinion is with you. All of the minister,
and the royal family members will be of one voice
in petitioning against the baby King.
If we object to saeja succeeding the throne,
Queen Mother will install Eun Seong instead.
The dead King wanted him as saejae (King's brother as saeja).
Make up your mind then. If Queen Mother refuses to accept,
we have no other way but to do it by force!
Before he ascends to the throne, take over the security of the Eastern Pavilion (Crown Prince's quarters).
Use our people at the King's quarters to find out exact situation of the Saeja (Crown Prince),
and we will go there with our ministers and
have them hand over the King's seal to us.
How are you going to overcome the Left Minister and Grand Prince Eun Seong?
If saeja is in our hands, they won't dare to act recklessly.
If they still insist on blocking us at that time,
we will have to slay them.
Tell the ministers to gather at my place when their meetings are over.
Before we go to see Queen Dowager I want to confirm our solidarity.
I will contact every one of them.
Where have you been?
Queen Dowager is looking for you ardently.
I will go to her quarters soon.
Grand Prince is opposed to the Dead King's will,
he's had a big row with the Queen Dowager.
Who's looking after the security of the Eastern Pavilion (Crown Prince's quarters).
It's Yook Wee Sa, of course.
Once he ascends to the throne, it will fall to Naegeumwi.
Isn't the person-in-charge of Naegeumwi, Grand Prince Jin Yang's brother-in-law?
The head of Queen Dowager's security is hyungnim's person also.
We cannot have them in charge of the Crown Prince.
Please be courageous.
You've had to send your husband off,
but you are now the mother of the man who will ascend to the throne.
You have to show strength
in the days ahead for His Highness.
Please don't cry, Mother.
Promise me, saeja.
Become a great king who will love his people.
What is the matter?
Naegeumwi will be in charge of the crown prince who will soon ascend to the throne,
in accodance with the order from above.
Who from above issued such an order?
As it's always been done, the security of the Crown Prince
is the responsibility of the Eeg Wi Sa.
Once he ascends to the throne, Naegeumwi can take over.
Our master is concerned about the well being of the Crown Prince.
If it's not the order of Queen Dowager, dismiss the security personnel at once.
I am the head of Naegeumwi.
It's proper for Naegeumwi to take over the security of the crown prince about to ascend to the throne,
why are you asking me to go against the rule, without authority?
You've been told to dismiss the security from here!
The superior you are talking about,
is it Jin Yang hyungnim?
Where is he?
Have you made up your mind?
I will be meeting with select ministers from the court tonight.
I need your help.
Even if I've to risk my life for you, I will not hesitate.
Grand Prince and Madam, Eun Seong is here.
Grand Prince, what has happened?
I'm happy that you're back, but the king has died.
I have nothing to say, Sister-in-law.
You must have suffered a great deal.
Please come in. Your brother is waiting for you.
Were you able to work it out with your loved one?
One day late, she would have become a buddhist nun.
She'd already cut her hair.
Brother,
would you believe that I would return?
Were you ...
waiting for me at all?
I didn't wish for you to die.
If so, why
then did you abandon me and leave me in the enemies' hands?
What nonsense are you talking about?
The Orangkae (derogatory term for Jurchens) kept me hostage for three years.
I heard everything.
I know everything.
The people will abandon you if they know that you've sold the country
in order to ascend the throne.
Is that not so, brother?
Brother,
did you think that no one would know about it?
How can you speak so casually without any evidence?
There's no way that I could give you a guarantee on your life in the battlefield.
That secret letter given to the Chieftain of Huligai Tribe.
If that dirty negotiation is revealed to the world,
never mind the throne you've coveted all this time,
you won't be able to keep your position as Grand Prince.
No minister at the court will stand with you,
nor any of our people,
will submit to you.
Be a servant of the Crown Prince,
be loyal to the Saeja and Queen Dowager.
If you do, I will bury it so that no one will know.
You think you will be safe making up such a false lie?
Is it not so? What's the reason for changing the security of the Saeja in a hurry?
What about the reason for pressuring Queen Dowager who's just lost her son?
Show me the proof.
The proof that I was involved with the dirty negotiation!
I have that secret letter.
♫ Believing and believing ♫
♫ In a life together ♫
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I'm asking if you are prepared to go that far.
Until you give it all up,
I will not stop for one moment.
[Wedding Day will be on April 3rd, 1453 (Year of Tenth of Ten Heavenly Stems, and Tenth of Twelve Earthly Branches).]
Isn't this Eun Seong's wedding date?
It's a day all of our enemies will be one place.
It's a singular chance to get rid of Grand Prince Eun Seong and all his followers.
It's a war. A war!
- Hyungnim - Call the security!
What's happening? Who's behind this?
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