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‎DONHWAMUN GATE

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‎May His Majesty
‎have remained in good health.

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‎THE SCANDAL

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‎You said your farewells already,

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‎so why are you asking for
‎your clothes now?

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‎Good grief.

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‎Damn it!

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‎Here.

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‎All right.

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‎Head back to Hanyang first.

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‎Just me? Why?

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‎You fool, do you think

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‎I came here for pleasure?

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‎Well,

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‎His Majesty ordered me
‎to inspect the construction site.

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‎I wasted the entire day, so I am busy.

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‎Off with you now.

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‎But I just got to see Eun-sil.

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‎My lady!

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‎My lady!

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‎My lady!

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‎I have brought your change of…

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‎clothes…

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‎Wait.

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‎My lady.

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‎When did you change?

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‎Oh, right.

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‎Here.

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‎Well…

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‎Where did you even

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‎find these clothes?

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‎You are

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‎remarkably quick.

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‎There.

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‎My lady.

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‎Are you awake?

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‎May I come in?

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‎My lady.

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‎My lady!

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<i>‎Since my husband passed,</i>

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<i>‎I have lived bearing the shame and guilt
‎of not following after him at once.</i>

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<i>‎Now, it seems the time has come.</i>

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<i>‎I take my leave with the joy of knowing</i>

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‎-Is that true?
<i>‎-I shall see him again.</i>

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‎Hui-yeon!

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<i>‎Farewell.</i>

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‎Hui-yeon!

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‎It seems Hui-yeon came to see
‎her brother one last time

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‎before taking her leave of this world.

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‎Listen. Search every well in the village,
‎the lower reaches of the river,

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‎and every mountain
‎within ten <i>‎li</i>‎ if you must.

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‎Bring me Hui-yeon's body.

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‎-Yes, sir.
‎-Yes, sir.

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‎And you, Eun-sil,
‎go to the Left State Councilor at once

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‎and inform him of Hui-yeon's noble death.

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‎Yes, sir.

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‎My lord.

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‎Yes, tell me.

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‎The truth is, when I was there that day,

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‎I was taught
‎that taking one's own life is a sin.

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‎The Lord forbids
‎the harming of human life,

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‎so surely taking one's own life
‎is no different.

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‎I felt I had come to know
‎something I ought not know,

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‎and I was afraid.

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‎And then, of all places,
‎I encountered you there.

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‎On the day you came to know
‎what ought not be known,

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‎you met the person you ought not have met.

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‎And yet…

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‎my heart longs for you, my lord.

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‎My lord.

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‎Good to see you back.

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‎It has been some time.

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‎I hope you have been well.

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‎Yes, well then.

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‎Young master!

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‎Goodness! Young master!

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‎Have you been well?

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‎Yes, sir.

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‎I shall stay in the outer room,

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‎so give this fellow my room.

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‎Young master,

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‎are you telling me
‎to give a room to a servant?

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‎He is no servant.

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‎There are circumstances, so hurry now.

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‎Follow me, then.

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<i>‎"After reading the letter
‎hidden in the tobacco box,</i>

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<i>‎I fell utterly for your manly charm,"</i>

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<i>‎the young widow said.</i>

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<i>‎Dear cousin</i>‎.

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<i>‎She is all but ready to yield.</i>

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<i>‎Her undergarments
‎are practically in my grasp.</i>

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‎What a lovely aroma.

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‎Please wait here a moment.
‎I shall fetch the young madam.

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‎Thank you.

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‎"In filial piety

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‎and brotherly devotion
‎lies the root of benevolence."

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<i>‎"Fine words</i>

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<i>‎and an insinuating appearance are</i>

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<i>‎seldom associated with virtue."</i>

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‎A concubine?

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‎How can she be…

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‎What lousy handwriting.

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‎That wretched girl.

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‎I should have been the one to come here.

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‎She broke this?

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‎She's out of her mind!

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‎TO YOUNG MASTER

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‎Mother!

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‎Yes, you are back.

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‎Did you find anything?

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‎Here.

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‎I found this in So-ok's room.

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‎You read it.

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‎I am too drowsy to read it myself.

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‎"Young master,

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‎you may not believe me,

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‎but thoughts of you leave me breathless,

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‎and I spent the night
‎thoroughly drenched."

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‎"My…

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‎thighs seem to part of their own accord,

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‎yet there are no great hands
‎to spread them further."

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‎"I long for you, young master."

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‎Leave us now.

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‎Leave at once. Quickly!

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‎What on earth?

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‎You…

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‎You really found this in So-ok's room?

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‎Yes, Mother.

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‎But why would she… Why?

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‎"Young master."

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‎"Young master"?

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‎That little vixen.

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‎That must be what she calls the minister
‎when she dallies with him in private.

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‎What?

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‎Surely not.

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‎What do you mean, surely not?

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‎Then what?

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‎Are you saying my So-ok…

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‎-No…
‎-Mother!

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‎I sent her there
‎to become a concubine, and instead…

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‎Are you heading out?

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‎I am off to see my brother-in-law
‎at Janganmun Gate.

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‎See to him well, would you?

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‎He must be quite weary
‎from the long journey.

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‎You are the only one I can trust.

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‎Of course.

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‎Safe travels, sir.

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<i>‎Everything written in my prior letter was…</i>

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‎-<i>‎falsehood and jest.</i>
‎-"Everything was falsehood and jest"?

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‎"Everything was falsehood…"

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<i>‎Remembering the feelings
‎I once held for Lord Cho Won,</i>

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<i>‎I merely teased him for amusement.</i>

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<i>‎So I pray</i>

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<i>‎you laugh my letter off.</i>

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<i>‎Do not trouble your heart over it,</i>

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<i>‎and I beg your generous forgiveness.</i>

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‎"Everything was falsehood and jest"?

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‎"Feelings I once held"?

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‎The banquet requires
‎a great many hands, all right?

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‎Men shall be sent from the palace,

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‎but there is much
‎to be prepared here beforehand.

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‎I understand your concern,

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‎but the construction is proceeding
‎faster than expected.

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‎With things going so smoothly,

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‎if we start pulling men away
‎to other duties,

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‎people will surely talk.

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‎We cannot allow that.

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‎Which is precisely why
‎we must find another way.

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‎I say this only because I truly wish
‎to see this matter carried through well.

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‎Come here, all of you.

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‎Well, we are finally…

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‎Brother.

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‎You seem rather occupied,
‎so I shall leave you to it.

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‎My apologies.

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‎The matter is of such importance
‎that there is much to settle.

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‎Come by my quarters sometime.

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‎Let us sit together and speak ill
‎of your cousin for once in her absence.

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‎Very well.

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‎Thanks to you, we were able
‎to supply paper again as before.

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‎I hardly know how to repay such a favor.

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‎It is no favor.

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‎It is simply

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‎His Majesty's benevolence

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‎spreading throughout Hwaseong.

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‎What are you doing? Make haste!

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‎Pull harder. That's it.

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‎My lady, it is I.

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‎May I come in?

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‎Have you been crying?

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‎Do you regret it?

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‎It was my own choice. I have no regrets.

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‎Then what troubles you?

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‎It says everything was falsehood and jest.

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‎I did feel something was amiss,

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‎but if you

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‎have merely been toying with me…

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‎-If that is the truth--
‎-In my haste to bring you away,

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‎the matter of this letter
‎entirely slipped my mind.

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‎You should have told me sooner
‎instead of troubling your heart over it.

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‎You saw the earlier letter as well,
‎did you not?

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‎There was another?

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‎Pardon?

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<i>‎So you did not deliver that letter
‎to the widow after all.</i>

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<i>‎Your thoughtful resolve to hand me
‎the widow and grant me my reward at last</i>

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<i>‎nearly moved me to tears.</i>

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‎Now that matters have come to this,

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‎I must begin with the first letter.

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‎This shall be a somewhat lengthy tale,

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‎so I beg you steel yourself well.

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‎There was a time when I traveled around
‎the country writing on tobacco.

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‎I came to know a woman
‎who dealt in tobacco,

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‎and as she was knowledgeable
‎in such matters,

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‎she offered to assist me in my writings.

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‎Whenever the flavor of tobacco
‎clouded my senses,

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‎that woman made no effort
‎to conceal her lewd desires toward me.

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‎One day, she went so far as…

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‎to beg for my love.

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‎Wishing to prove myself a man,
‎I put on a show of reckless bravado.

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‎In the end,

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‎I indulged in that woman's lewdness.

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‎However…

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‎just as the blazing heat of midsummer
‎flees before the crimson leaves of autumn,

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‎my wandering too came to an end.

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‎I believed that brief affair

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‎had vanished
‎before it could become a scandal.

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‎And yet,

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‎not long ago, she somehow discovered
‎where I was and sent me a letter.

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‎She wrote of her lingering desire for me…

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‎in the filthiest and most obscene words.

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‎I had no intention of replying.

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‎I meant to cast it straight into the fire.

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‎But through my own carelessness,

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‎I feared it had been sent to you
‎among my own letter.

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‎I was deeply ashamed.

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‎I could think of no remedy.
‎I was at a complete loss.

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‎So in the end, I sought the woman out

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‎and pleaded with her
‎to write that everything in the letter

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‎had been falsehood and jest.

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‎I clung to her

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‎and begged for it.

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‎How could you do that to such a woman?

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‎Because my affection for you…

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‎is more sincere

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‎than any feeling I have ever held

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‎for anyone else in my life.

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‎That is enough.

247
00:21:22,030 --> 00:21:24,074
‎You have laid everything bare before me…

248
00:21:27,494 --> 00:21:30,289
‎so I shall fill the void in your heart.

249
00:21:41,550 --> 00:21:43,552
‎This wretched past of mine…

250
00:21:45,262 --> 00:21:49,975
‎Those shameful days
‎that have torn your heart to pieces…

251
00:21:54,062 --> 00:21:57,733
‎No, how am I to show you
‎this desire I have

252
00:21:58,734 --> 00:22:01,361
‎to punish myself for it all?

253
00:22:31,767 --> 00:22:33,351
‎It is all right.

254
00:22:44,071 --> 00:22:45,530
‎Thank you, my lady.

255
00:22:49,076 --> 00:22:50,368
‎My lady!

256
00:22:51,328 --> 00:22:55,791
‎Whatever am I to do

257
00:22:56,374 --> 00:23:00,504
‎with this miserable past of mine?

258
00:23:09,304 --> 00:23:11,264
‎How shall I ever

259
00:23:13,266 --> 00:23:16,311
‎earn your forgiveness

260
00:23:17,145 --> 00:23:20,982
‎for those shameful days…

261
00:23:21,942 --> 00:23:25,070
<i>‎When I offered the widow some flowers,
‎she faintly smiled.</i>

262
00:23:26,279 --> 00:23:29,282
<i>‎She learned how to make</i> ‎hwajeon
<i>‎from Mrs. Asan and made some herself.</i>

263
00:23:30,575 --> 00:23:33,954
<i>‎She said the scent of flowers may fade,
‎yet their taste lingers in the heart.</i>

264
00:23:35,163 --> 00:23:36,248
<i>‎And told me</i>

265
00:23:37,165 --> 00:23:39,376
<i>‎to gather flowers for her again
‎this time next year.</i>

266
00:23:40,418 --> 00:23:41,503
‎Look at that.

267
00:23:42,546 --> 00:23:43,588
‎She speaks of spring?

268
00:23:45,340 --> 00:23:48,927
‎She means to live until the new spring,
‎when the streams thaw and run free again?

269
00:23:53,140 --> 00:23:54,224
‎Dear me.

270
00:23:55,684 --> 00:23:58,019
‎So she does not wish to die.

271
00:24:00,814 --> 00:24:02,524
‎She wishes to live.

272
00:24:05,527 --> 00:24:08,363
‎That widow has found the will to live.

273
00:24:38,768 --> 00:24:40,270
‎She came back alone?

274
00:24:48,653 --> 00:24:50,238
‎-What happened?
‎-My lady.

275
00:24:52,032 --> 00:24:53,033
‎The young madam

276
00:24:53,992 --> 00:24:56,620
‎has left this world in the end.

277
00:25:11,885 --> 00:25:12,719
‎My lady.

278
00:25:14,012 --> 00:25:16,847
‎Is something troubling your mind?

279
00:25:16,848 --> 00:25:18,641
‎Why do you ask such a thing?

280
00:25:18,642 --> 00:25:22,562
‎The flowers in your painting seem angry.

281
00:25:25,690 --> 00:25:29,444
‎I wonder whether you get that wit
‎from your mother or your father.

282
00:25:31,112 --> 00:25:33,113
‎Madam, it is Gye-hwa.

283
00:25:33,114 --> 00:25:34,824
‎I have something urgent to tell you.

284
00:25:39,871 --> 00:25:42,873
‎The Left State Councilor's
‎daughter-in-law's servant has returned.

285
00:25:42,874 --> 00:25:44,208
‎However,

286
00:25:44,209 --> 00:25:45,460
‎she came back alone.

287
00:25:48,463 --> 00:25:49,798
‎Of course she did.

288
00:25:52,092 --> 00:25:55,136
‎At first light tomorrow,
‎I shall visit the Lady of the First Rank.

289
00:25:55,762 --> 00:25:57,305
‎Yes, I shall make the preparations.

290
00:26:04,104 --> 00:26:05,522
‎All right, let us go.

291
00:26:08,775 --> 00:26:10,986
‎You look quite unwell.

292
00:26:11,987 --> 00:26:13,571
‎Do I?

293
00:26:14,155 --> 00:26:15,031
‎Yes.

294
00:26:16,074 --> 00:26:19,244
‎Word has come
‎from my daughter-in-law's family home.

295
00:26:21,329 --> 00:26:22,372
‎It seems

296
00:26:24,082 --> 00:26:27,043
‎the poor girl met her end there.

297
00:26:30,714 --> 00:26:31,548
‎What?

298
00:26:32,882 --> 00:26:36,720
‎You mean your daughter-in-law
‎has passed away?

299
00:26:37,971 --> 00:26:41,391
‎I suppose
‎there is some comfort in thinking

300
00:26:42,767 --> 00:26:44,853
‎my Geum-ho shall no longer be alone.

301
00:26:46,062 --> 00:26:46,896
‎Yet

302
00:26:48,148 --> 00:26:51,151
‎there is no telling
‎whether she threw herself into the river

303
00:26:51,735 --> 00:26:53,653
‎or cast herself into a well.

304
00:26:56,781 --> 00:27:00,035
‎They have not yet found her body.

305
00:27:01,870 --> 00:27:02,995
‎Oh, dear.

306
00:27:02,996 --> 00:27:05,290
‎I cannot begin

307
00:27:06,416 --> 00:27:08,501
‎to imagine your sorrow.

308
00:27:09,836 --> 00:27:12,505
‎I, who shared a friendship with her,

309
00:27:13,131 --> 00:27:16,134
‎am overcome with grief as well.

310
00:27:17,719 --> 00:27:21,973
‎I cannot fathom how painful
‎this loss must be for your family.

311
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:33,234
‎Well…

312
00:27:34,944 --> 00:27:35,820
‎Lady Cho.

313
00:27:37,030 --> 00:27:38,531
‎Though I am ashamed to ask,

314
00:27:39,616 --> 00:27:42,034
‎may I beg a favor of you?

315
00:27:42,035 --> 00:27:44,245
‎Yes, of course.

316
00:27:44,788 --> 00:27:46,080
‎Do tell me.

317
00:27:46,081 --> 00:27:48,625
‎We would not wish for rumors
‎to begin spreading.

318
00:27:49,751 --> 00:27:51,920
‎Would it be possible

319
00:27:52,796 --> 00:27:56,132
‎for a virtuous lady such as yourself
‎to submit a petition to His Majesty?

320
00:27:59,260 --> 00:28:00,177
‎You wish me--

321
00:28:00,178 --> 00:28:03,932
‎Could you not do that for me
‎with Lord Yoo's assistance?

322
00:28:15,527 --> 00:28:16,611
‎Yes.

323
00:28:17,529 --> 00:28:19,197
‎I shall do so.

324
00:28:40,301 --> 00:28:42,970
‎"Would it be possible

325
00:28:42,971 --> 00:28:46,641
‎for a virtuous lady such as yourself
‎to submit a petition to His Majesty?"

326
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:51,354
‎"Lady Cho?"

327
00:28:56,025 --> 00:28:58,445
‎To think she would come
‎begging favors of me now.

328
00:29:10,248 --> 00:29:11,750
‎-So-ok.
‎-Yes, my lady.

329
00:29:12,459 --> 00:29:14,084
‎I shall not be long.

330
00:29:14,085 --> 00:29:16,503
‎Do not stir up trouble
‎and give people cause to talk.

331
00:29:16,504 --> 00:29:19,007
‎Yes, my lady. Safe travels.

332
00:29:20,467 --> 00:29:22,051
‎All right, up now.

333
00:29:24,095 --> 00:29:24,929
‎Let us go.

334
00:29:28,391 --> 00:29:30,018
‎All right, make haste.

335
00:29:30,602 --> 00:29:32,270
‎We must finish before nightfall.

336
00:29:32,854 --> 00:29:33,938
‎A letter for you.

337
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:40,904
<i>‎There is something I must tell you.</i>

338
00:29:41,404 --> 00:29:42,989
<i>‎Please, you must come.</i>

339
00:29:44,783 --> 00:29:46,785
<i>‎I shall wait all night at the study annex.</i>

340
00:29:51,706 --> 00:29:52,748
‎Oh, my goodness!

341
00:29:52,749 --> 00:29:54,666
‎Wait, who are you?

342
00:29:54,667 --> 00:29:56,503
‎-Quiet now!
‎-Mom?

343
00:29:58,963 --> 00:30:01,090
‎Come here! Come!

344
00:30:02,550 --> 00:30:04,469
‎Oh, for heaven's sake.

345
00:30:08,181 --> 00:30:11,100
‎You meant to give this love letter
‎to that young master?

346
00:30:12,018 --> 00:30:13,352
‎Yes.

347
00:30:13,353 --> 00:30:14,895
‎Have you gone insane?

348
00:30:14,896 --> 00:30:16,355
‎Come now!

349
00:30:16,356 --> 00:30:19,316
‎Even the madam gave her permission,
‎so why are you hitting me?

350
00:30:19,317 --> 00:30:22,402
‎Do you know anything
‎about the lives of women in Bukchon?

351
00:30:22,403 --> 00:30:23,905
‎What did you just say?

352
00:30:24,614 --> 00:30:26,031
‎Who gave permission?

353
00:30:26,032 --> 00:30:27,242
‎The madam?

354
00:30:28,910 --> 00:30:30,328
‎The… The madam?

355
00:30:31,746 --> 00:30:35,499
‎So the mistress of this house
‎knows of it all as well?

356
00:30:35,500 --> 00:30:36,876
‎That's right, Mother.

357
00:30:37,627 --> 00:30:40,379
‎She said it was all right.

358
00:30:40,380 --> 00:30:43,674
‎In fact, she even encouraged me
‎to seek Lord Cho Won's help,

359
00:30:43,675 --> 00:30:47,261
‎saying it would benefit me.

360
00:30:47,262 --> 00:30:49,763
‎Can you not tell at a glance?

361
00:30:49,764 --> 00:30:51,683
‎Those are not words
‎I could have written myself.

362
00:30:53,059 --> 00:30:54,185
‎Cho Won?

363
00:30:55,103 --> 00:30:59,065
‎I know well enough
‎what worries you, Mother.

364
00:30:59,691 --> 00:31:01,901
‎But you need not fret.

365
00:31:02,569 --> 00:31:06,072
‎Neither the madam
‎nor the servants of this house

366
00:31:06,823 --> 00:31:09,701
‎treat me as nothing more than
‎a womb to bear children.

367
00:31:11,077 --> 00:31:13,287
‎Mother, are you even listening to me?

368
00:31:13,288 --> 00:31:14,330
‎Be quiet, you fool.

369
00:31:18,835 --> 00:31:23,214
‎So you wrote this letter
‎together with Lord Cho Won?

370
00:31:24,048 --> 00:31:25,300
‎That is what I said.

371
00:31:28,678 --> 00:31:32,514
‎Do you happen to know him as well?

372
00:31:32,515 --> 00:31:35,268
‎So-ok, tell me the truth.

373
00:31:37,312 --> 00:31:39,898
‎Aside from writing the letter,

374
00:31:40,523 --> 00:31:43,651
‎did anything else happen
‎between the two of you?

375
00:31:45,236 --> 00:31:47,030
‎What else would there have been?

376
00:31:47,655 --> 00:31:50,450
‎Truly nothing else happened?

377
00:31:51,075 --> 00:31:52,493
‎I told you, no!

378
00:32:09,636 --> 00:32:13,890
‎Then I suppose you never saw
‎the tiger-shaped birthmark upon his chest.

379
00:32:16,351 --> 00:32:17,518
‎He had such a thing?

380
00:32:18,394 --> 00:32:20,729
‎Confound it!
‎I was the only one stripped bare.

381
00:32:20,730 --> 00:32:23,065
‎He never even undressed, so I saw nothing.

382
00:32:23,066 --> 00:32:24,108
‎You little…

383
00:32:31,616 --> 00:32:34,243
‎Now that I think of it,
‎I never took off my underclothes…

384
00:32:34,786 --> 00:32:36,746
‎Oh, you…

385
00:32:38,748 --> 00:32:40,041
‎Oh, that's right!

386
00:32:41,292 --> 00:32:42,501
‎What?

387
00:32:42,502 --> 00:32:44,462
‎What now? Is there more?

388
00:32:45,672 --> 00:32:46,673
‎You darn little…

389
00:32:47,382 --> 00:32:48,548
‎Not that!

390
00:32:48,549 --> 00:32:50,385
‎I was in the madam's quarters.

391
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:55,807
‎I just remembered
‎something I overheard there.

392
00:32:57,100 --> 00:32:58,934
‎They were speaking in secret

393
00:32:58,935 --> 00:33:01,938
‎of how the Left State Councilor's
‎daughter-in-law's maid returned alone.

394
00:33:03,481 --> 00:33:05,566
‎Well, I do not know the truth of it,

395
00:33:06,317 --> 00:33:08,611
‎but I heard the maids here whispering.

396
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:12,197
‎They said the daughter-in-law
‎was as good as waiting for death,

397
00:33:12,198 --> 00:33:14,409
‎so she might have fled
‎in the middle of the night.

398
00:33:23,459 --> 00:33:25,128
‎Fled in the middle of the night?

399
00:33:28,464 --> 00:33:29,298
‎Eun-sil.

400
00:33:32,343 --> 00:33:33,177
‎Go on.

401
00:33:36,931 --> 00:33:39,683
‎I know you grieve
‎for the young lady you served,

402
00:33:39,684 --> 00:33:40,727
‎but that is enough.

403
00:33:47,567 --> 00:33:50,611
‎This brings great honor upon this family.

404
00:33:51,404 --> 00:33:54,740
‎So if you keep weeping like this,
‎you shall only earn their displeasure.

405
00:33:54,741 --> 00:33:56,451
‎What will happen to me now?

406
00:33:59,037 --> 00:34:00,704
‎Now that my lady is gone,

407
00:34:00,705 --> 00:34:03,624
‎they will treat me
‎worse than a dog, will they not?

408
00:34:06,711 --> 00:34:07,879
‎How should I know?

409
00:34:09,172 --> 00:34:11,799
‎That is why I am telling you
‎to stop your crying.

410
00:34:14,218 --> 00:34:16,596
‎And go outside the main gate.

411
00:34:18,931 --> 00:34:20,808
‎What's his name, Chil-seong or something?

412
00:34:21,392 --> 00:34:23,894
‎The servant of that lord
‎who was staying here waits for you.

413
00:34:23,895 --> 00:34:25,521
‎I nearly drove him off,

414
00:34:26,272 --> 00:34:27,815
‎but I felt too bad for you.

415
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:30,776
‎Did you say Chil-seong?

416
00:34:30,777 --> 00:34:31,652
‎Yes.

417
00:34:45,083 --> 00:34:46,374
‎Are you all right?

418
00:34:46,375 --> 00:34:48,169
‎Good heavens, your face has grown so thin.

419
00:34:55,093 --> 00:34:56,177
‎I heard

420
00:34:57,553 --> 00:34:59,347
‎that your lady has passed away.

421
00:35:01,682 --> 00:35:04,060
‎This is beef. Dried beef.

422
00:35:05,061 --> 00:35:06,145
‎Here.

423
00:35:08,898 --> 00:35:10,775
‎Even if grief has turned
‎your mouth bitter,

424
00:35:11,442 --> 00:35:12,692
‎you still must eat well.

425
00:35:12,693 --> 00:35:14,153
‎The living must go on living.

426
00:35:16,072 --> 00:35:17,532
‎It took some effort to get this,

427
00:35:18,157 --> 00:35:19,283
‎so savor it.

428
00:36:16,465 --> 00:36:17,841
‎Young master!

429
00:36:17,842 --> 00:36:20,052
‎Young master, you have a visitor.

430
00:36:29,103 --> 00:36:31,731
‎You came all this way
‎without so much as a word?

431
00:36:33,232 --> 00:36:34,150
‎Have you perhaps

432
00:36:36,027 --> 00:36:38,905
‎come to grant me my reward in person?

433
00:36:39,530 --> 00:36:41,115
‎There is something I must tell you.

434
00:36:49,582 --> 00:36:50,750
‎Dear cousin.

435
00:36:52,168 --> 00:36:53,252
‎Do tell me.

436
00:36:56,047 --> 00:37:00,092
‎In Bukchon,
‎they believe the widow is dead.

437
00:37:00,676 --> 00:37:01,636
‎I would imagine so.

438
00:37:03,304 --> 00:37:06,641
‎And that is now tightening the noose
‎around both our necks.

439
00:37:09,352 --> 00:37:10,478
‎Well now.

440
00:37:11,896 --> 00:37:13,063
‎How interesting.

441
00:37:13,064 --> 00:37:14,273
‎Won.

442
00:37:15,149 --> 00:37:16,484
‎We must stop now.

443
00:37:17,151 --> 00:37:18,611
‎None of this can have happened.

444
00:37:20,071 --> 00:37:21,072
‎Don't tell me.

445
00:37:23,866 --> 00:37:25,952
‎Do you mean to withdraw our wager now?

446
00:37:27,578 --> 00:37:28,412
‎Come now.

447
00:37:29,538 --> 00:37:31,457
‎What an absurd thing to say.

448
00:37:32,583 --> 00:37:34,042
‎If this continues,

449
00:37:34,043 --> 00:37:38,130
‎your honor and our family's standing
‎may be dragged through the mud!

450
00:37:40,424 --> 00:37:41,425
‎My honor, did you say?

451
00:37:42,718 --> 00:37:43,636
‎Did you?

452
00:37:44,553 --> 00:37:45,763
‎My honor?

453
00:37:48,599 --> 00:37:52,770
‎Do you truly claim
‎to worry for my honor now?

454
00:37:54,397 --> 00:37:56,190
‎Since the day we became literary friends,

455
00:37:57,984 --> 00:37:59,944
‎I have always followed your wishes.

456
00:38:00,820 --> 00:38:03,488
‎As time passed,
‎I vowed I would no longer do so.

457
00:38:03,489 --> 00:38:05,866
‎Yet each time I watched myself
‎crumble so helplessly,

458
00:38:06,450 --> 00:38:09,995
‎I thought that until the day I die,
‎I would never defy your wishes.

459
00:38:09,996 --> 00:38:10,955
‎However,

460
00:38:11,580 --> 00:38:12,540
‎this wager?

461
00:38:17,461 --> 00:38:19,588
‎I mean to see it through no matter what.

462
00:39:48,344 --> 00:39:49,762
‎Wait here.

463
00:39:50,971 --> 00:39:51,806
‎Yes, madam.

464
00:40:09,407 --> 00:40:10,241
‎Miss Yun?

465
00:40:15,996 --> 00:40:17,957
‎Miss Yun, is that really you?

466
00:40:26,382 --> 00:40:28,384
‎How long has it been?

467
00:40:30,052 --> 00:40:31,303
‎It has been a long while,

468
00:40:32,763 --> 00:40:33,764
‎Mrs. Asan.

469
00:41:33,282 --> 00:41:34,116
‎Lady An.

470
00:41:41,207 --> 00:41:42,625
‎It is you, isn't it?

471
00:41:48,130 --> 00:41:50,216
‎I never thought I should see you again.

472
00:41:57,097 --> 00:41:59,058
‎So this is where you have been.

473
00:42:06,774 --> 00:42:09,193
‎How could you be so reckless?

474
00:42:11,820 --> 00:42:13,113
‎I am deeply ashamed.

475
00:42:13,614 --> 00:42:16,867
‎You could have told me at least.

476
00:42:18,118 --> 00:42:19,328
‎I believed

477
00:42:20,246 --> 00:42:23,331
‎you had gone
‎without so much as a farewell.

478
00:42:23,332 --> 00:42:26,877
‎How are my mother- and father-in-law?
‎Are they in good health?

479
00:42:28,837 --> 00:42:31,382
‎In Bukchon, everyone believes

480
00:42:32,341 --> 00:42:33,926
‎you took your own life.

481
00:42:34,969 --> 00:42:37,304
‎You can never return now.

482
00:42:38,055 --> 00:42:39,723
‎What is done cannot be undone.

483
00:42:40,516 --> 00:42:43,435
‎What on earth did you intend by all this?

484
00:42:48,107 --> 00:42:49,108
‎Was it my cousin

485
00:42:50,276 --> 00:42:52,194
‎who brought you here?

486
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:55,030
‎It was my own choice.

487
00:42:56,532 --> 00:42:58,075
‎I chose to follow him here.

488
00:42:59,410 --> 00:43:00,411
‎Even if only for a while,

489
00:43:01,870 --> 00:43:04,540
‎I wished to remain by his side
‎as nothing more than

490
00:43:06,125 --> 00:43:07,960
‎an ordinary woman.

491
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:35,904
‎I envy you.

492
00:43:40,159 --> 00:43:41,660
‎I truly…

493
00:43:45,372 --> 00:43:47,416
‎wished to be like you.

494
00:43:53,005 --> 00:43:53,881
‎I…

495
00:43:58,927 --> 00:44:01,013
‎wished I could be another An Hui-yeon.

496
00:44:18,405 --> 00:44:22,201
‎As a child,
‎I learned proper script from my father.

497
00:44:22,951 --> 00:44:25,996
‎Thanks to that,
‎I can make it look proper enough.

498
00:44:33,962 --> 00:44:35,589
‎What is that?

499
00:44:41,553 --> 00:44:44,139
‎"The son, Won of the Cheongyu Cho clan,

500
00:44:45,140 --> 00:44:47,393
‎humbly seeks a marriage match

501
00:44:47,935 --> 00:44:50,145
‎with your esteemed daughter, Hui-yeon."

502
00:44:51,230 --> 00:44:52,856
‎"We respectfully submit this proposal

503
00:44:53,774 --> 00:44:56,902
‎and await your gracious consent."

504
00:45:05,702 --> 00:45:07,579
‎I am but his cousin,

505
00:45:08,831 --> 00:45:10,457
‎so I have no true right to this.

506
00:45:15,587 --> 00:45:16,922
‎Madam.

507
00:45:18,757 --> 00:45:19,967
‎You said you wished

508
00:45:21,009 --> 00:45:24,930
‎to be with my cousin as an ordinary woman,
‎even just for a moment.

509
00:45:27,558 --> 00:45:28,725
‎Then do so.

510
00:45:29,935 --> 00:45:30,769
‎And…

511
00:45:33,689 --> 00:45:35,566
‎leave with honor.

512
00:45:38,694 --> 00:45:42,197
‎You must follow the fate laid upon you.

513
00:45:43,490 --> 00:45:44,615
‎That is the only way

514
00:45:44,616 --> 00:45:48,996
‎to uphold the dignity of a woman
‎who shall never be called by her own name

515
00:45:49,746 --> 00:45:51,206
‎until the very end.

516
00:45:52,291 --> 00:45:53,542
‎All of this

517
00:45:54,626 --> 00:45:56,128
‎is for your sake.

518
00:46:24,948 --> 00:46:26,074
‎I know.

519
00:46:31,955 --> 00:46:34,166
‎Though I can no longer call it honorable…

520
00:46:38,378 --> 00:46:40,964
‎I suppose I must
‎atone through death in the end.

521
00:46:46,553 --> 00:46:48,013
‎I have one request.

522
00:46:48,597 --> 00:46:49,931
‎Anything.

523
00:46:49,932 --> 00:46:53,726
‎The letters I exchanged with the lord
‎remain somewhere in my quarters.

524
00:46:53,727 --> 00:46:55,478
‎I ought to have burned them long ago,

525
00:46:55,479 --> 00:46:57,981
‎yet I could not bring myself to do it
‎and left them there.

526
00:47:01,527 --> 00:47:02,819
‎I only wished…

527
00:47:05,572 --> 00:47:07,741
‎to yearn for him a little longer.

528
00:47:12,538 --> 00:47:13,830
‎Do not worry.

529
00:47:17,417 --> 00:47:20,337
‎I shall see to everything.

530
00:47:30,264 --> 00:47:31,598
‎You should simply

531
00:47:33,141 --> 00:47:35,852
‎spend the rest of your days
‎by my cousin's side

532
00:47:37,688 --> 00:47:40,232
‎and make this
‎the most tender ending of your life…

533
00:47:42,985 --> 00:47:44,987
‎with no regrets left behind.

534
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:48,657
‎Do that.

535
00:48:08,969 --> 00:48:09,886
‎Young master.

536
00:48:11,179 --> 00:48:12,888
‎You are late.

537
00:48:12,889 --> 00:48:15,975
‎Has my cousin left?

538
00:48:15,976 --> 00:48:18,395
‎Yes, she has.

539
00:48:18,979 --> 00:48:22,232
‎She spoke to the guest
‎in the outer room before departing.

540
00:48:53,555 --> 00:48:55,682
‎Lady Cho wrote this for us.

541
00:49:19,456 --> 00:49:21,291
‎I wish to remain by your side, my lord.

542
00:49:39,768 --> 00:49:41,186
‎"I care not if they point fingers

543
00:49:42,145 --> 00:49:44,189
‎and say we have defied Heaven's order."

544
00:49:44,856 --> 00:49:46,400
‎Just say that to me.

545
00:49:52,447 --> 00:49:54,491
‎I, too, wish to remain by your side.

546
00:50:04,876 --> 00:50:06,044
‎I care not.

547
00:53:51,603 --> 00:53:56,608
‎Subtitle translation by: Yoonjung Song