[The following program recreated historical events by adding fictional characters and situations]
Final Episode
Are you...
Why... Why did you come all the way here?
Prefect Shin is trying to use me to lure you into a trap.
Don't let him deceive you no matter what.
You came here to tell me that?
Is he aware of your disappearance?
I'm sorry...
While coming here, I've been spotted by one of his men.
Let's go in, for starters.
We need to alert everyone else here.
Naeuri!
Gather the troops at once.
We're going to ransack the forest.
It would be heedless.
Infiltrating their stronghold at night is much too dangerous.
Are you going to defy my orders?
All right.
Did you follow us all the way here?
You've fallen head over heels for him, all right.
You didn't look like that at first...
But you sure are fearless.
Who is that woman?
She is my wife.
Is that so?
I didn't know you two were married.
Escort her inside.
Yes.
We'll have a meeting, so await here a moment.
Yes.
I'll leave her to your care.
So they tried to use her to lure us all into a trap?
Yes.
It's a relief we learned of their plans beforehand,
but Shin Myeon's troops shall soon be deployed here.
We must hasten and alert the rest of our troops.
Doing so at this hour would be reckless.
We could be giving our foes the perfect opportunity to attack us.
You want us to contend with them with the few men we have here alone?
Don't attack until I tell you.
Naeuri.
Aigoo... Hyungnim. I need to take a leak here.
Hyungnim! Hyungnim!!
Let's go.
Spare the women, and kill everything else that moves!
Naeuri. There are no rebel troops in sight.
This is a trap.
Naeuri.
- We must retreat. - Don't let them advance!
If this keeps up, we'll be annihilated!
Withdraw!
Jabeon...
Jabeon!
Naeuri... You must survive.
We must leave.
Jabeon!!
I don't think we'll be safe here anymore.
We might have repelled them today, but they'll come back with even bigger numbers.
How about we move our stronghold?
Where else would we go, now that we're in Hamgil Province?
We're about to face an even greater battle.
It's a confrontation we can't run away from.
Are you injured?
You've been at Myeon's residence all that time?
He never crossed the line with me.
I never imagined you'd be in that situation, I thought you were doing fine.
Thinking that one day you would come back for me, I felt at ease.
You hate this stench of blood, don't you?
At times, when coming back from a battle drenched in blood,
I can't tell whether I'm a human being or just a beast.
But to me you remained someone I always longed for.
I better go.
You can rest here.
Stand back.
I couldn't even thank you once.
For always following my foolish orders...
and protecting me to the very last moment, I thank you.
Bury him.
What happened to Prefect Shin?
By now, he either will have captured or killed Kim Seungyu, I trust?!
If that's the case, why haven't we been alerted yet?
Maybe he's hesitating because he still considers Kim Seungyu a friend?
How could that be possible...
You're only saying that because you're his father.
What if he changes his mind and the two join forces?
Sire...
It's a jest.
Would he turn his back on me, while you're still by my side?
Sitting here like this feels so liberating.
I come here from time to time.
Whenever you're distressed?
When I felt distressed, or I was longing for someone.
We are about to embark on a huge battle today.
The entire Hamgil Province will turn into a battlefield.
So return to the capital, and wait for me at Seungbeop Temple.
I don't want to go.
Sending you away is the last thing I want to do.
However, I could never leave for battle knowing you were in danger.
You must make it back.
Survive, and come back to me.
I received a message from His Majesty.
He seems quite enraged by your hesitation in subjugating the rebels.
So take this opportunity to rid us of them all with this battle.
That is the only way you'll regain His Majesty's confidence.
And so I will.
I shall cover your back, just in case.
Because should you lose your composure and once again endanger yourself,
wouldn't you need reinforcements?
You need to go now.
We just moved here?!
I don't really want to go...
I'd love to.
Don't go back to Bingok Mansion yet, go to our hiding place.
Be careful.
See what happens if you die without my consent.
When we meet again, we'll never have to separate anymore.
Here, let's hasten.
We'll be lying in ambush here, and once they pass...
The troops have deployed from Hamheung.
- Their size? - Seems like a full contingent.
We'll be waiting here.
Treacherous vandals are before you!
Not a single one of them shall be spared!
They're Suyang's minions!
We shall slaughter every last one of them and march to the capital!
You will die by my hands today.
Aren't you even ashamed of yourself?
There is no more time to waste.
Aim at Kim Seungyu and shoot!
But Prefect Shin is right there with him.
We can't lose this opportunity. Shoot at once!
Weren't your troops sent by Suyang? Why are they shooting at you?
Why are you trying to save me?
Hyungnim.
Let's get out of here.
I said let's go!
You always end up making a fool out of me.
I'll go to Jong first.
Go!!
Forget it all and go, Shin Myeon.
Charge!
It was a triumph!
Less than a hundred government troops survived.
You were amazing out there.
Suyang will send even more troops.
We'll just have to strengthen our numbers, then.
You take care of the vanguard force.
No.
There is something else I must do.
If Suyang keeps sending troops here,
it will weaken the capital's defenses.
We need to take advantage of this.
Do that.
Go ahead first, and observe the situation.
If you send us word, we'll discreetly deploy troops your way.
Why couldn't they subjugate the rebels?
Am I supposed to sit back and watch Lee Shiae and Kim Seungyu continue this infamy?
My apologies.
Prefect Shin couldn't answer his calling, after all.
But I'm sure he did everything in his power.
When his efforts end up in failure, what does that matter?
You don't seem in any condition to help me, so take your leave.
I have to go now.
You were just starting to grow on me, and yet we part.
We're heading to Bingok Mansion.
If you find nowhere else to go, don't hesitate and come right away.
Yes.
Will they be safe...
Of course.
Let's go.
So you plan to meet with Kim Seungyu here?
Yes.
You can stay with me, then.
Prefect Shin is dead.
Despite the kind of man he was, my husband cherished him until his last moment,
so I feel badly.
He brought a lot of suffering upon Seungyu.
Don't let things you have no control over weigh on your mind.
What's the matter?
I suddenly felt a fit of nausea.
It can't be that...
Pregnant with his child?!
What is the matter?
Did you have a nightmare?
You seem a lot feebler these days.
Let us go to the temple, and pray together for Sung.
Lee Shiae was captured?!
How did it happen?
There's a traitor within our ranks.
The hideout was attacked.
The general told me to convey you his words, as he was being taken away.
He wants you to fulfill what he couldn't at all cost.
Listen.
What are all those people gathered there for?
Didn't you hear His Majesty will pass through this road?
The king left the palace?!
He's going to pray to Seungbeop Temple.
What do you plan to do?
Hyungnim.
The king left the palace.
He's gone to that temple, Seungbeop or something.
If Suyang left the palace, it's an opportunity for us.
I'll have to head to Seungbeop Temple and meet Suyang.
You go with him to our hideout.
What are you talking about?
We should go together.
I want you to do something much more important than staking your life on this.
My wife might be at Seungbeop Temple.
What?!
No matter whether I die or Suyang does, it will make her unhappy.
I leave my wife to your care.
Don't leave her alone, and watch over her.
Hyungnim...
Are you really going there alone?
I always had a hard time moving on.
All those unfair deaths became a huge burden on my shoulders,
haunting me for countless nights without sleep.
It is time I get rid of that burden.
And it's something no one can do on my behalf.
All right.
Go, and fulfill your wishes.
Let us meet again at all cost.
The weather is as radiant as your father's smile.
Your Highness. Their Majesties are coming.
Is that Gyeonghye's child?
Yes...
Even my father?
So stay here and don't come out.
Any mother will know you're pregnant with a single look,
so what would you have to gain from being seen?
Who else got pregnant?
Seryeong, what are you...
Then, the one who is pregnant...
Sire...
Pregnant?
And who...
Don't tell me Kim Seungyu is the father?!
That man is now my husband.
What?
Husband?!
Confine her to her quarters and make sure she doesn't move.
Yes.
What were you trying to accomplish?
Wasn't taking the crown prince enough?
Now you even torment my daughter with a child?
Un.
I wouldn't mind a drink.
Is Kim Seungyu aware of it?
He still doesn't know.
As if children of mortal enemies seeing each other wasn't enough,
now even a child?!
This child has nothing to do with any such petty grudge.
You really think you and Kim Seungyu have a future together?
Why are you purposely sowing the seeds of tragedy?
Nobody can decide this child's path.
It'll be up to him to make that decision.
What are you doing, wandering about?
Is it you, Un?
Suyang.
I've come to take your life.
Will doing this be wise?
Think of how Seryeong will feel if you kill me...
What's so different between you and I?
Just like the crimson tide which paved my way to the throne,
did you not cause countless deaths in the name of vengeance?
Shut your mouth.
It is only my duty as the lone survivor.
You really think you can vanquish me?
Failure does not concern me.
For if I fail,
someone else shall learn from my mistakes, and bring justice in my stead.
And if you kill that man, another one will surface.
- What? - For the rest of your days,
you will be haunted by distress and fatigue.
By the regret of all the bloodshed your throne is drenched with.
And by the lamentable tears you will shed because of your greed.
Why... Thought your blood would look any different?
You really...
Kneel before all the people you so unfairly slaughtered in the afterlife,
and beg for forgiveness.
Seryeong is pregnant.
Kim Seungyu.
You are the father.
Don't try to inveigle me.
Will you beg for my forgiveness?
I'm asking you if you still wish to survive.
If you beg for forgiveness and acknowledge me as your king...
on behalf of your father Kim Jongseo,
I shall allow you and Seryeong to live far away from here.
Behead him at once!
No!
Behead me in his stead.
How can you commit murder at a temple?
Don't you know in what state Seryeong is?
I shall execute him in the morn, then.
Escort him to the state tribunal prisons.
Seryeong is pregnant.
Kim Seungyu. You are the father.
Should we not save him?
If you keep enraging your father this way, you'll risk as well.
"I beg for His Majesty's forgiveness, as the one and only ruler of Joseon."
It is all it will take.
So convince Kim Seungyu to say that just once.
If he does, then he can save the three of you, can't he?
He will never do so.
Seryeong!
Think of the child in your womb.
Your life doesn't only belong to you now.
Beg him to forget about his cause and stay by your side.
Shouldn't your child see his father at least once?
Don't cry.
I will not.
"Let us forget all this, and together run far away from here."
I will not even tell you that.
Knowing what went on between you and my father,
I will let you follow your path until the very end.
Should I meet my father in the afterlife,
I will tell him that there was a woman who cherished me...
even more than I did.
Why aren't you saying it?
You know already?
Even in our next life, you must...
You must...
recognize me.
Master...
Master!
Let me come with you.
Stubborn fool.
Are you happy to be here, side by side?
At least they got the chance to pass away together, at the same time.
Seungyu Hyungnim.
It's thanks to you that she and I were able to get together.
Thank you.
Orabeoni, be happy with her in the afterlife.
I cannot believe you are no longer with us.
You had another sleepless night?
Are you heading to Onyang Palace?
I'm itching all over, and I cannot take it anymore.
Let us discreetly go there, then.
I shall escort you.
Halt.
From here on in, you are both dead.
Run away, and never...
ever let your father see you again.
Are you satisfied now? Seryeong took her own life.
I buried the two of them myself, so don't you think of desecrating their graves!
Mother!!
Always favoring him, aren't you...
I'm here for you, my Lady.
Are you behind that?
Don't you regret not accomplishing your goals because of me?
I might have lost my sight, but I regained my love.
I could not fulfill my vengeance, but I gained you instead.
Here we are.
Aren't you afraid?
With you by my side, nothing will daunt me.
"What is love, to the world I ask."
"But here is my answer."
"It means you and I becoming one, with nary a hesitation,"
"Until death do us part."