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I'll come back.

Episode 18 I'll go back to my master to beg for his forgiveness.

Master...

Master.

Please, forgive me.

Go away.

Master...

I Said, 'Go away.'

Finally, I know...

why you burnt the letter.

Now I know why.

I was too blind to understand

who the real doctor was.

What fills my heart and saves my soul

is not a letter that helps me enter the royal hospital,

but the suffering of the patients.

I hadn't realize that before.

For me, there's no other way.

I can't forsake the patients.

Please, forgive me.

Leave me...

Master...

Leave.

Master, forgive me.

Forgive me. Master! Master!

It is impossible for you to change his mind.

You'd better go.

Master...

Master...

Master...

Master...

Are you leaving?

A home without its host doesn't need a guest like me.

Do you have something to say?

I want to beg a favor of you.

Go ahead.

Take care of Dr. Hur.

I really respect Dr. Hur's heart.

He will be a real doctor. He should never give up his way.

It was only a one time mistake.

Please, let him follow you.

Don't you have anything else besides being a doctor?

I don't have anything else.

Do you really think it is the suffering of the patients

that fill your heart and save your soul?

Yes.

Then, follow me.

Pardon?

I've been taking care of the lepers.

I think you already know.

They are the most suffering patients in the world.

If you really want to be a doctor,

don't seek smooth sailing under Yoo Weetae.

You need to follow me to take care of them.

Your heart still fears the patients.

You still have a long way to go.

If you change your mind,

come to Anjum Mountain located about 10 kilometers north of Hamyang.

Samjuk Temple is there.

Follow the priest.

Master will not open his mind. There is no other way.

He was chosen as a royal doctor.

His medical skills are great.

Throw away your fear of lepers.

Look at me.

I've already been there to take care of them.

Fear of leprosy is only a bias of the world.

How was it?

Did he accept your apology?

You apologized so earnestly.

How could he ignore your apology so cold-heartedly?

Don't talk like that. We can't blame him.

As he knew, I acted out of self-interest.

I used other people to achieve my own success.

I tricked people and I was flogged in the government office.

No wonder he didn't forgive me.

I feel no hatred towards him.

Joon's home?

- Yes. - What did he say?

He said Dr. Yoo didn't accept his apology.

He must be so frustrated.

Your heart still fears the patients.

You still have a long way to go.

Throw away your fear of lepers.

Look at me, I've already been there

to take care of them.

Dahee, Dahee. Dahee.

What's the matter?

I have something to say to both of you.

At daybreak, I'll leave for Samjuk Temple,

at Anjum Mountain, in Hamyang.

Samjuk Temple? The Buddhist temple?

Why are you going to the Buddhist temple?

Are you going to renounce the world?

A friend of Dr. Yoo's is there. He's the priest.

He was chosen as a royal doctor. His medical skills are great.

I'm going to study medicine under him.

Great decision.

Don't worry about here. Just go to study.

I don't know why you have to live a hard life like this.

With the medical skills you've learned so far,

you can open a small hospital.

He should not stop. He's got to proceed further.

He's got to go as far as he can go to enter the royal hospital.

It's not easy.

It's difficult. It'll raise us upward, but it won't be easy.

Raise upward?

We can rise to a higher social status.

Is that true?

Can we raise up to a higher social status?

If he enters the royal hospital, we'll move upward.

We are not identifying ourselves,

hiding from the government office.

With the help of Ilsuh, we've made our identity tags.

But, someday, if somebody reveals our secret,

we would lead lives of servants from generation to generation.

It's not just for us. It's for Gyum, too.

I never imagined this could happen.

We can change our social status. Oh, my God!

Don't worry about here.

From your wages at the iron mine in Mayoundong,

we can manage the winter.

We can make porridge with the abundant herbs in Spring time.

And, if we do errands and odd jobs at funerals or at ancestral rites,

we can endure the spring famine.

Dahee...

Farewell, my son.

Excuse me.

What are you doing here?

I brought this for you.

What is that?

I boiled a chicken with some ginseng.

Chicken broth?

Eat it before somebody sees it.

It's too good to eat.

Oh, God!

Hadong, what are you doing here?

Why? I'm not allowed to come? What about you?

I'm here to get my pulse examined.

Oh, my... What the hell is this?

Get your hairy face out of my bowl.

Disgusting.

A widow sympathizes with a widower.

Hadong seems to like you. Go for it.

I have standards, too.

Being with Hadong? I'd rather...

You'd rather what?

- I'm not going to say. - He's not going to say.

Sir! Sir!

Where's Sir Doji?

What's the matter?

Yejin's very sick.

Ma'am...

Ma'am, wake up.

- Leave us. - Yes.

What's wrong?

What kind of disease is that?

Father...

It's a sickness of her mind.

She won't recover until she has suffered enough.

Sickness of her mind? What do you mean?

What?

Doji's attending to her around the clock?

Yes.

What is her disease?

What is all the fuss about?

I don't know, ma'am.

Sickness of the mind?

What is the reason that you're so broken-hearted like this?

Is it because of Joon?

Does he know your heart towards him?

Yejin, know my heart that wants you.

Please, wake up.

What's her disease?

You have to prepare for the exam.

How long are you going to attend to her?

I'll let Yoowol nurse her. You may go.

Doji.

If you don't stop, the servants will start a rumor about this.

If you don't want gossip, go back to your room.

Leave me alone!

Until she wakes up,

I'll stay here.

Let me ask you something. Is this Anjum Mountain?

Yes.

Where's Samjuk Temple?

There is no Samjuk Temple.

Master! Master! Master! Master!

Master! Master! Master! Master!

Why are you doing this to me?

What the hell are you doing?

Priest!

He's the doctor who will take care of you.

Don't be hostile to him.

Leave us.

Your face tells me you're out of your mind.

I was so surprised.

A result of having leprosy ...

They are insulted and despised by the world.

If they were not here and is elsewhere, they'd get beaten to death

for stealing out of starvation.

Or, kill themselves, out of not being able to stand the loneliness.

They are still hostile to the world.

You should try to understand them.

You must be tired from the long journey. Let's go.

Yes.

At the end of the mountainside, there's Samjuk Temple in the valley.

- Okay, let's go. - Yes.

Dr. Ahn's here.

Okay.

The crazy guy is so blessed.

The fake priest calls me a crazy guy?

Wake up. It seems you have had enough sleep.

I'm not sleeping. I'm meeting the Thousand-handed Goddess of Mercy.

What a jackass!

The Goddess saves the world with a thousand hands,

but you always try to have some meat.

You...

You are Joon, aren't you?

Master...

What're you doing here?

Were you driven away because of the letter?

You're so stupid.

He's also one of those people who suffer from lust and false reputation.

Everybody in the world suffers from that kind of greed.

I don't care about what Buddha said.

If a doctor wants a successful life, and doesn't care about the patients,

that is not greed. It's a sin.

I'm repenting sincerely.

What do you know about leprosy?

It is the disease that makes white powder on the flesh,

rots the nose, tears off the flesh,

and finally corrupts the flesh and kills the patient in the end.

The medical books say the evil wind that enters the body causes it.

But we don't actually know the origin, and there's no cure for it.

I believe every disease has its own medicine.

I know the medicine for it.

Human bone and liver.

Will you shut up?

It's a vulgar belief.

Everybody thinks like you.

Will you follow me to get that effective medicine?

There are a lot of harmful people in the world.

We can kill them to get the medicine.

I don't want to be a doctor who kills people.

Dude!

Every doctor kills at least a couple of patients.

Weetae, who you respect,

made a couple of wrong diagnoses that took a couple of poor lives.

Without that kind of failure, he could never be a great doctor.

Stop it, Gwangik!

Priest, we've made a room for the guest.

Go to sleep.

Yes.

And...

it's time for everybody to go to bed.

Tell him to stop beating the drum.

Sir...

This is the water to wash your face and hands.

I'm sorry. I'll get you another one.

No, you don't need to.

And you don't have to do this from tomorrow on.

I'll get it for myself.

What kind of doctor gets sick from the medicine?

If you can't stand it, throw up in the valley.

I'm fine.

Decoction of medical herbs and snakes.

It'll take quite a while to get used to the smell of it.

Time to take the decoction.

Take the decoction.

Stop beating the drum.

I said, stop beating the drum.

Put the decoction there and go.

Yes.

I've said that this is harmful for the patients a million times.

Aren't you going to listen to me?

Take the decoction.

Listen to me!

Take the decoction!

Master...

Who is he?

Samjuk's son.

What?

Why? Don't you believe that he's the son of the priest?

No... I mean,

His eyes were unusual, at first sight.

No wonder you felt that way.

But if he's the son of the priest,

why is he looking at his father with blood in his eyes?

There is a reason for it.

It's finished.

This decoction will drive the fever out through the pores.

Keep your body clean. Here.

Thank you.

Master...

I thought you'd run away in less than one day.

You're doing great.

What are you waiting for? Stab me.

If this erases your hatred, stab me.

Taking care of you, I was saved from hell.

But the mercy of Buddha

didn't heal the hatred in your heart.

It's time to kill me and let your hatred go.

Stab me now.

What do you think you are doing?

What an undutiful son!

He's your father, who's been taking care of you.

And, you're trying to kill him?!

Who's my father?

He's my foe.

A foe who killed my parents.

I'll kill you some day,

in revenge for you killing my parents.

I swear to God I'm going to do that.

I said, 'Do not keep him around you.'

Why don't you give up your pity for him? You're asking for trouble.

Your life is not yours alone.

Think about the patients who rely on you.

For their sake, drive him away.

I can't do that.

Minse!

I don't understand.

You said Sanghwa's the son of the priest.

Sanghwa is Samjuk's adopted son.

What an evil destiny.

How could Sanghwa accept him as a father when Samjuk killed his parents.

How could Samjuk call him, son, when Sanghwa's parents killed his son?

What happened?

It's been more than ten years.

Minse and I entered the royal hospital at the same time.

Minse received the highest score on the exam.

So Yang Yesu, the royal physician, favored him.

What the hell are you doing?!

The symptoms of the Crown Prince are getting worse.

Can you call yourself the doctor of the prince?

The prince is taking the decoction. If we wait a couple of days...

How can I trust you?

My God...

Were you looking for me?

Prepare to go to the Crown Prince's Palace right now.

Pardon?

What're you doing?

Diagnose the abscess of the Crown Prince

and heal it, as soon as possible.

The affected part is so corrupted

that the pus wil spread into the bone marrow.

We have to cut the affected part off to get rid of the pus

and remove the deadly Chi that's spread into the bone.

Are you going to use a knife on the affected part of the Prince?

No way! Seek another way.

It's too late to heal with acupuncture and decoction.

We must use a knife.

What're you talking about?

It could raise trouble in the peaceof the royal hospital.

If anything goes wrong,

Dr. Yang, as well as you, will die.

Dr. Yang left everything in my hands.

I'm going to do as I said.

Let's go.

How impertinent!

Prevent him from doing that.

If he can't heal the disease damaging the Prince's body,

you will be responsible for it.

You have to prevent it.

Let him do it.

Dr. Yang!

I trust Kim Minse.

Well?

The fever went down and the Prince recovered.

I knew it. What do you think?

Don't you think he's the most suitable man

to be the next royal doctor, after me?

After that,

Yang Yesu favored Minse even more.

And all of the doctors in the royal hospital

believed that Minse was going to be the royal doctor after Yang Yesu.

Lee Gonggi, Civil Hospital.

Jung Sehoon, Dried Medicine Warehouse.

Song Hakyu, Civil Hospital.

Ahn Gwangik, Dried Medicine Warehouse.

Kim Minse, The Crown Prince's Palace.

Kim Ungtak, Decoction Center.

Finished.

Fulfill your duties faithfully

and tighten the discipline of the royal hospital.

I have something to say.

What is that?

Let someone else take care of the Crown Prince.

My medical skills and my experience is not good enough to do that.

I still have to study prescriptions

or the effects of the medicine in the warehouse or the Decoction Center.

Let me do that kind of job.

No way.

I already knew that your medical skills were great.

Go to the palace.

Let me do what I want to do.

If you're saying so, it seems there is no choice.

I'll let you do what you want to do.

The Crown Prince's Palace is the center stage

that guarantees success. So everyone wants to have that assignment.

But Minse didn't care about success or political power.

We were contemporaries in the royal hospital,

who studied day and night, about

the effects of the medicine. Either in the warehouse or Decoction Center.

Then, when he was over the age of thirty,

he married the sister I introduced to him, who was 10 years younger than him,

and fathered a son.

He was Sanghwa.

Minse fathered so late

and Sanghwa was so smart in his childhood,

Minse loved Sanghwa so much.

The wind always blows and the parents never wait.

The tree wants to be still but the wind never stops blowing,

The son wants to be dutiful to the parents, but they never wait.

So, what does it mean?

Be dutiful to parents when they are alive.

Well done, well done.

I'll give you a prize.

Unpack it for him.

Yes.

He was the future royal doctor and he had a harmonious family.

He was the happiest man in the world.

Until...

My lord! My lord!

You should go back home quickly.

I got a message that says your son's missing.

What?

Sanghwa's missing? What happened?

Honey...

What happened?

He should be at home. Why is he missing?

Honey.

Tell me what happened to him.

I saw him reading a book in the yard until noon...

What?

My lord! My lord!

They have returned.

What happened to Sanghwa?

What happened?

Did you find Sanghwa?

Answer me!

They couldn't find him.

Why can't such a large number of people find one child?

Does that make sense?

They said...

Go on.

In the morning when the young master was playing in front of the main door,

lepers passed by.

What?

Ma'am! Ma'am! Ma'am!

Wake up, ma'am!

Ma'am, wake up!