Why are you late?
Jeonha...
Forgive my intrusion.
Go ahead.
Jeonha.
Hong Gyeong-Nae is alive.
What...what?
Nan-Hee.
R-Ra-On's father?
We must run.
Where's Ra-On?
Ra-On...there...on the hill...
Run with me.
Stay right here.
No. No!
No!
See here.
Looking for me?
He was just arrested and will go to Uigeumbu.
You!
You mock me?
I too couldn't believe it,
but it's true.
No, no. he died. How?
Rumours were true he survived
Jeongju Fortress explosion, and plans a new revolt.
Then...
- Jeonha. - Jeonha.
- Jeonha! - Jeonha.
Jeonha.
Call the Physician!
Jeonha...
Jeoha. Jeonha has collapsed.
Hong Gyeong-Nae was arrested.
Mother, are you okay?
He got caught.
Who?
Your father.
What...do you mean?
Your father...
I thought he was dead.
I hoped he was alive...
though he died.
He didn't.
He's alive.
He came back.
Ra-On.
[ Chapter 16: The World You Dream Of ]
Move out of the way!
Move.
Oh, it's Hong Gyeong-Nae!
It's really Hong Gyeong-Nae.
He's really alive.
Oh, my.
My gosh.
Move. Move!
It's Hong Gyeong-Nae.
Oh my gosh.
So he wasn't dead.
Step aside. Move.
Oh my gosh.
How can this be?
I waited so long.
Why must I see him like this?
It's a pity.
Jeonha ordered him brought
to the Palace, not Uigeumbu.
I will risk my life
to free him.
We'll guard this place,
so don't worry.
How is your mother?
The shock was too much.
She can't seem to wake.
She'll be fine after rest.
Don't fret..
Yes, Master.
Well, then.
Um...
I've something to say.
No way.
Don't you know
how dangerous the Palace is for you now?
I do know.
They caught him after 10 years.
Your father and you
will be hard to protect.
That's why I ask.
If things go wrong...
Master.
Everyone but me knows Father.
I can't endanger you.
One last time.
No, for the first time,
help me see Father.
He was alive.
He came in my room
a few days ago.
It wasn't a dream...
How'd this happen on Seja's auspicious wedding day?
Jeonha. We'll set a new date,
so don't worry,
and get better.
He mocked me for 10 years.
Ordering his dismemberment won't be too much.
Yes, Jeonha.
It's hard to hold my anger.
He committed treason.
Hold a Royal Interrogation
and order his beheading.
Premier Kim. A Royal Interrogation?
You know
how his health failed at news of the arrest.
Yes, your health is poor.
It's a bad idea.
Not so.
As Premier Kim said,
I'll interrogate him.
Keep your head down. Keep close.
You're escorting me, Kim hyung?
Don't talk.
Jeoha, where are you going?
To the prison.
Huh? At this hour?
I must meet him.
I'll wait here.
I know. I agree.
Are you
truly Hong Gyeong-Nae?
I am.
What brings the precious Seja
to see me in prison?
Does your family know of your capture?
I have none.
You wish to eliminate kingship.
So am I also your target?
Has interrogation begun?
Because of you, I lost something precious.
"Heaven appoints a leader for the people's sake,"
"not for one person's own selfish interests."
Is that White Cloud's belief?
No. There's more to it.
That thinking has an error.
Why is that?
A leader for the people isn't chosen by Heaven.
A leader for the people
is chosen
by the people.
It's unsafe to leave. We'll go to Jahyeondang.
I'm sorry to trouble you.
You brought her here?
My apologies, Jeoha.
Are you sure?
He oddly avoided eye contact.
Rather small frame.
I saw the side profile.
I'm sure it's her.
One traitor is bad enough.
Capture her before the Interrogation.
Yea.
It's impossible for even an ant to sneak out.
Let's see Seja react to the father-child reunion.
If someone trails you to Jahyeondang,
hide in here.
The door is hard to find.
I never knew Jahyeondang had this room.
My mother
used it sometimes.
Are you alright?
Yes, Jeoha.
I'll help you get inside the Prison.
You should meet the one you miss.
[ Hong Ra-On, 18. Daughter of Hong Gyeong-Nae ]
Pass.
It's scary.
[ Hong Ra-On, 18, Hong Gyeong-Nae's daughter ]
Am I imagining she's familiar?
I wish so, but I agree.
Eunuch Hong...
is a rebel's daughter?
Not a son.
Is "daughter" right?
Eunuch Hong?
W-what is this?
Seja's favoured eunuch
was a wench.
What?
She's Hong Gyeong-Nae's daughter.
In two days,
we'll free him.
During changing of the Guards,
take the Guards down
and open his cell.
Get him to the tunnel.
I'll get him out of the Palace.
Yea.
How many will assist?
10, including you.
I see.
You must protect her
so she isn't exposed.
Yea, Master.
Why are you at Dongungjeon?
We haven't had the wedding,
but I must be Sejabin.
In your absence, they let me wait here alone.
I'm sorry you had to wait,
but it's late. Come another day.
You removed your bracelet?
You seemed to cherish it,
but I don't see it.
I put it away momentarily.
If lovers share bracelets,
if they separate, fate reunites them.
Market sellers make up good stories.
They know people's hearts
want to believe such lies.
There's a maiden I like.
What is she like?
Jeoha. This is bad.
Eunuch Hong...
What is it?
Head to Jungungjeon.
Hurry.
Don't enter here again.
Ever.
Want to say something?
The Guard stepped out
and put me on watch.
Last night, you filled in for him too?
Ra-On.
Yes?
Hong Ra-On.
I didn't name you that so you'd suffer.
I...am sorry.
When...
did you plan to meet me?
I don't know.
Perhaps when you no longer needed
to pose as a boy.
Even if you didn't change the world,
still...
as my father with me,
you'd have given me strength.
I didn't want to throw my child
into a world of problems
I could do little about.
So, I wanted to change it...
into a world slightly better for you.
Even still,
to know you were alive...
would've been nice.
I would've missed you
and called out for you...
Father.
Oh my. Sorry, Naeuri.
I'm in a rush.
What's the fuss?
Mama...
I found her.
Whom?
Who else?! Hong Sam-
No, Hong Ra-On.
She's really here?
Yes.
She's gutsy.
Whereabouts?
I saw her exit the Prison and head to Jahyeondang
with Seja!
With Seja to Jahyeondang? Get the Internal Court matron.
I must witness this.
Why are you here?
Mama, I brought tea Grandfather sent
but I must say something.
Thanks, but not now. Come back.
No.
Listen to me first.
Come back.
It regards
a new-born baby sneaked out of here.
Really come back?
You dare scorn me,
Mother of the nation, with this absurd story?
You scorned the nation, not I.
You know that.
Shut up!
Forget what Eunuch Sung said.
Don't say a word to Jeonha or Grandfather.
If you agree, I'll keep quiet...
What if I talk?
Will you tell Jeonha I switched babies?
Who'd believe you?
I wouldn't say it without evidence.
Making empty threats?
Empty threats?
What if the baby isn't dead?
Will the story change?
I didn't want you at risk
because of me.
Don't say that.
Our destinies were entangled
before you and I ever met.
So don't feel sorry to me
or hurt.
It's late.
You must go.
It's cloudy and moonless.
Can I walk a dark path alone?
So...
I'll stay a bit longer.
Many times a day,
I imagine what might have been if we'd met in other circumstances.
Now, here, hidden away,
without thinking of anything,
let's look at each other.
Ra-On.
~ though my heart aches ~
~ this love can't be erased if I try ~
~ if the world freezes, this love won't stop ~
~ I would rather hurt more ~
~ don't worry about me ~
~ even if it hurts, it's love ~
Tonight, I...
might sleep well at last.
~ you are my person forever ~
~ I love you ~
You escaped from prison?
Catch the escapee.
Catch him now.
Anyone there? Summon Premier Kim!
I order him
to begin Hong Gyeong-Nae's interrogation.
Who knew he'd rush it?
Getting him off the torture grounds
is harder than out of prison.
Yes. I know.
Byung-Yeon.
Jang Gi-Baek died in prison.
I did it.
Though he betrayed us,
he was my comrade for 10 years.
However,
set personal feelings aside in a great cause.
Use all your power.
Help him whom we awaited
to escape the interrogation.
Yea.
Ra-On must disguise herself
and hide by the gate.
We'll take her out with him.
That's safer for her.
Alright.
Interrogation is soon.
What do you ask?
It regards your words.
By a people-chosen leader,
do you mean an obedient puppet king?
No.
I too want politics for the people.
However,
how can people choose a ruler?
What we want
is not only politics for the people-
but by the people.
You were born to be king
considering yourself the sun.
Absolute and shining.
But a people-chosen king is different.
How does he differ?
He considers himself equal to the people
as a person.
A person dreams of being a person.
Isn't it ironic?
But why
is removing the King the only method?
No king voluntarily gives up a throne.
You and I.
Nobility and peasants.
Boys and girls.
A rebel's child and a king's heir.
When you become king,
will you accept all as equal?
Jeoha, we must take him now.
Not only a people's leader cherishes them.
How can someone who cherishes each person
treat them like animals?
So then,
what are you saying?
The world I dream of
isn't different from yours.
Only, how far we are from it now.
I'll visit you after the interrogation.
Maybe...
without bloodshed, we can find
a path matching our steps
toward the world we dream of.
Criminal Hong.
Do you admit treason?
I don't know what treason.
Thus, I can't admit it.
We've proof
you betrayed and rebelled against the nation.
Will you still lie?
What betrayal?
What rebellion?
That, that!
Begin torture now.
Torture him until he admits his crimes.
If you lie again,
you'll be executed here.
Hong Gyeong-Nae.
You led a Revolt 10 years ago,
causing chaos leading to thousands of deaths.
You admit it?
Ah, you meant my Revolt was betrayal, treason, rebellion.
If that's it, I admit it.
Moreover,
accomplices guilty of that treason
are here.
Peasants were taxed extremely by Officials
to fatten their fortunes.
Starving peasants were gathered by me, Hong Gyong-Nae!
Till the end, they suffered,
their hopes and livelihoods destroyed by the King!
Hear me!
Behead that atrocious...
I am confessing!
Behead those people with me.
Only that will repay the blood
of thousands of people.
Royal Order!
Behead him! Now!
Yes, Jeonha.
Jeonha.
Revoke your Order.
Seja.
Calm down, Jeonha.
Decide the sentence
after Interrogation protocol.
Put up your swords!
That's not the reason.
You show personal feelings
in punishing this felon.
Premier Kim.
The Palace has wide rumours
you're intimate with his daughter.
Premier, what did you say?
Is that rumour true?
Seja, why don't you answer?
Is Premier Kim correct?
Bring her in.
That's the wench.
Seja.
Are Premier Kim's words true?
She's Hong Gyeong-Nae's child, Hong Ra-On.
Jeoha, she's the spy serving as your eunuch?
Did you harbour her
because you love her?
Only punish my sins.
I'd never seen her or called her name.
She's nothing to me.
Jeoha, prove you didn't plot treason with rebels.
Prove it now
by beheading her.
Seja, why are you waiting?
Men! Behead her now.
Hurry!
Yes, Jeonha.
Jeoha.
From this moment,
stop loving me.
Only...
remember me as a traitor's daughter.
I don't want to leave you
the terrible anguish
of being unable to protect the woman you love.
Protect Jeonha and Jeoha!
What are you doing?
Men! Kill the rebels.
Now!
If you wish to save Seja...
put down your swords.
Byung-Yeon.
~ though my heart aches ~ 418~
~ this love can't be erased even if I try ~
~ this love won�t stop if the world freezes ~
~ grasp my hand... ~