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What becomes of it?

He's still in the process.

Episode 60

Planned by/ Lee, Byung Hoon

Created by/ Lee, Eun Seong

Written by/ Choi, Wan Gyu

Directed by/ Lee, Byung Hoon

Sir. Your Majesty's spirits have recovered!

Has it, indeed?

Yes, I am returning from greeting Highness and Majesty.

I am delighted to hear that. What a relief!

Your Majesty, your decoction is here.

Can I get up now and go about now?

Be strict with your regimen and you'll fully recover.

Then no more illness will haunt you.

You've done a great job.

Forgive my doubt, even for a while, over your loyalty.

Your Majesty.

Doctor Yoo's wholehearted acupuncture

worked like a charm for your illness.

Please commend him for his contribution.

I was about to give him a grave punishment

for his lack of duty toward the Prince.

But your earnest request made me pardon his sin.

From now on, do not neglect your duty.

I am blessed by your gracious favor, Your Majesty.

Blessed by your gracious favor.

Sir.

Sir. Please forgive me.

Doctor Yoo.

I have caused you much pain.

Please forgive my wrongs.

Please don't.

When His Majesty asked me for your whereabouts during the flight,

I even slandered you and said that you might have fled,

and deserted your duty to attend to His Majesty.

Let bygones be bygones.

Not only that, but in the royal hospital...

Stop it.

I, as well, in the past...

I might have caused all this knowing all your resentments.

I caused you to be estranged from your master, Father.

And I was in the way of your advancement.

It's human nature that you felt mistreated because of me.

Sir...

More saddening is how we keep consuming each other...

By being caught up with such strong emotions.

Your remarkable talent has been blocked by such hatred.

It is more frustrating that your talent is not aptly used.

Sir.

Sir.

Sir! Sir!

What business here?

Pyungyang castle has fallen to the invaders.

What! Then, what became of my Hong Choon!

Aren't your family still inside the castle?

What did I say?

I said it's was just a matter of time before the castle fell.

We have to cross Amnok River and seek refuge in Ming.

Has the cat got your tongue?

Who am I speaking to?

Here comes His Majesty!

Please be seated.

What has become of Prince? Is he still alive?

Forgive our incompetence, we're unable to confirm it.

Your Majesty!

Your Majesty, it is painful to say this.

But Sirs Lim and Sunhwa, who fled to Hamgyung...

have been captured by the invaders.

- Your Majesty! - Your Majesty!

If Pyungyang Castle was taken, Weeju is far from safe.

Please be advised that we must cross Amnok River.

I don't even know what became of the Prince.

The Prince's life is at the hands of these barbarous invaders.

I cannot and will not leave!

Your Majesty!

Hong Choon!

Ohgun!

- Madam. - Madam.

Have you been well?

Ohgun, Ohgun...

You suffered long enough, Chaeryung.

Prince.

Prince.

How can we face you, after such a big loss?

Please chastise us, Prince.

How is my father now?

His Majesty had recovered, but

he went bedridden again, upon hearing the news about

Prince and Sir Lim.

I must see my father.

- Sir. - Sir.

You did a great job.

Do you know what became of my family?

Nothing's left for us to say.

Then?

As the castle surrendered, we were ordered to retreat.

So I tried to look for your families.

But it was like an infernal hell back there...

Couldn't find them.

Sir.

Yes, Prince.

Doctor Hur.

Ming finally decided to back us up with its forces.

Currently, the backup forces from Ming, led by General Lee,

have arrived near the castle and preparing to recapture it.

That explains why the invaders were slow to go up north.

It should've taken them only three days to reach here.

There is more.

The loyal troops across the nation are winning against them.

Furthermore, the naval forces of General Lee Sunsin crushed

those invaders and blocked their land supply route.

At this speed, we will completely repel.

So did you hear anything about your family?

I asked people around, but nobody seems to know.

The Royal Physician, over there , is my friend.

So please let me see him.

How dare you come in here!

- Please, sir... - Yangtae!

Ohgun!

- Sir. - Ohgun!

- Yangtae! - Joon!

You are all alive and well. What about my mother and Gyum?

They are all safe and sound. Don't you worry.

Where are they?

They are in Yongchun.

- Yongchun? - Yes.

They escaped and headed to Weeju to see you.

But your mother insisted to go back to Yongchun.

She said Weeju is the place every refugee will gather.

And you are busy attending to His Majesty...

So she said we should not cause any trouble.

Yangtae, you go and tell them.

The backup forces from Weeju are on their way.

And the local troops are winning against the invaders.

So we should be going back to Seoul before long.

Is that true?

Yes, it is. Go tell them what I said.

I will request for a furlough to visit Yongchun.

Yes, Joon.

What business?

I crave a word with you.

What is it?

Do you know what this is?

It is the news of victory from all over the nation.

The Ming's backup force has recovered Pyungyang Castle.

And continues to defeat the invaders in Hwanghaedo.

Not to mention the loyal troops led by Kwak and Cho.

General Gwon Yul's government troops won at Haengju Castle on a hill.

General Lee Sunsin's naval forces are on a winning battle streak,

in Okpo, Hansanpo and Dangpo.

It is all thanks to the virtue of Your Majesty.

No, it isn't. I feel so humble.

So what business here?

You tell His Majesty.

When I was on my escape with the medical books...

I saw hundreds of people dying miserably in this war.

Most of them died not because of guns and swords,

but because of endemics and diseases from the battles.

So I thought that new medical books must be compiled.

So, that the people didn't die in vain...

So as to offer solace to their unvindicated souls...

For those who weren't even given medical care ...

I know many medical books, from our ancestors, are in use.

And those from China are a guide for many medical officers.

But I realized there is no medical book for regular people.

Now you have recovered and return to the palace.

If you bestow your order on me, then I'll begin compiling a new medical book

led by the Royal Physician and other medical officers.

Please do consider my suggestion, Your Majesty.

I once had the same thought.

Do publish a medical book that remains for generations.

I agree with Your Grace.

Han Yang

We've finished classifying the medical books.

From the historical archives at Eui Bang Go and Chun Won Ok Chaek...

To nearly the 200 Chinese medical books.

We will start editing the medical book based on this.

There is something I would like to ask.

For your standard, in the course of compilation...

You said it can be classified into internal and external,

various diseases, decoction, acupuncture and moxibustion.

To me, that standard alone is unfamiliar.

I, as well. I've never seen such standards in other books.

All is well with the types of disease and how to cure them.

Why did you divide them into internal and external?

The reason I set up like that...

It is to cover minds, spirits, bodies, shapes and organs...

As well as head, face, limbs, veins...

muscles, pulses, bones and fleshes.

So, as to discuss ways to preserve one's own body.

This medical book we compile...

Is not a mere mention of diseases and cure.

We must organize and systemize the entire medication.

There are countless numbers of medical books in the world,

But the medical arts have become more vague,

Clumsy doctors fail to realize the deep principle of the whole,

And they operate in their own way or stick to the old ways.

It is a grave matter, since it cost people's lives,

That's the top priority in compiling our medical book.

While we refer to as many books as possible,

we must still set a clear standard.

Even more important is the research on our medicinal herbs.

I believe that the herbs grown on this soil

are the most appropriate for our body.

Also, the effort to disseminate such fact is insufficient.

Consequently, there have been countless of innocent people,

dying as quality local herbs are right in front of their eyes.

Even the ordinary people who can't afford to visit doctors

must be provided with easy solutions.

That is another important task we must undertake,

I heard you stayed up for 3 consecutive nights.

I fear that you might harm your own health.

There is much more to do than I expected.

It'll take years just to classify the references.

If I edit out the contents of each book...

and summarize the inquiry results on the herbs.

It will take even more years.

And, that is why you must look after yourself.

I feel increasingly impatient thinking we started too late.

I believe it just may be the most crucial task

that I undertake as the medical officer.

I am determined to produce a medical book

that is well organized enough for people to understand it.

It was the earnest aspiration of my master and the great Priest.

And it has become my passionate dream.

A decade from now... Or, even if it takes more longer,

I will complete this task.

I remember a time when I learned from the master.

Your eyes were sparkling with such passion.

I brought the wrong type of water and was scolded by him.

So he left the pharmacy in early dawn,

And asked me what water should be used for herbs.

When I heard there are 33 types,

I was startled.

What you have taught me still remains in my heart.

Doctor Hur.

I should be away now.

Isn't she a nurse from the Queen's Palace?

She is.

What business here, then?

I need to have a word with you.

Editing a medical book is, I suppose, for subordinates.

Not for the Royal Physician.

Delegation is crucial if you aspire to be a leader.

Why did you ask me to be here?

Tomorrow, His Majesty will order you to look after Prince Sung.

You will probably know when you see him in person.

But I was told his condition is too grave to survive.

That's why I needed to see you.

Concerns mount over his arbitrariness in the court.

In case he recovers with your medication...

It may backfire on you and you might get yourself in trouble.

How absurd is that!

The Royal Physician post is not only about medication.

It's also about politics to look over the situation.

Do you see what I mean?

My master always told me that...

the doctor must see the illness, not the patient's status.

With all due respect, sir.

I'll do my best in looking after the patient as the doctor.

I have no knowledge about forming factions.

To me, the patient comes first.

It is thus more important to save the life of the patient.

If you ask me what I'd choose; between patient and authority...

I will always side with the patient, no matter how much you ask.

Therefore, I will do my part as the medical officer.

I should be going now.

He has a special relation with Prince Sung.

It was too much to ask of him.

- Sir. - What is it?

Prince Sung has proceeded to the court.

Has he eventually recovered?

He is presented to His Majesty, along with the physician.

Looking at your complexion ...

I believe I can be relieved of an anxiety.

It is due to your graciousness, Your Majesty.

Your recovery is not due to my graciousness.

It is all on account of the physician's competence.

I also agree, Your Majesty.

I heard you should rest for a few more days.

But there was something I wanted to discuss with you.

The aftermath of the war is now upon us.

I think I should reward ths national contributors.

I will leave this up you. Thus, you must be strict in assessing.

So that every contributor receives what they deserve.

Yes, Your Majesty.

Especially, Doctor Hur Joon must be promoted for his patriotism.

Since he cured my illness and contributed to saving this country.

Sir, something came up. Sir!

Calm down. What is it?

Say this instantly. What is it that makes you impatient?

I extend my congratulations, Sir.

Your contribution during war, looking after His Majesty's

safety has been acknowledge as a meritorious subject.

And you've been promoted to prime minister position.

Is that a joke?

Even meritorious lieges, such as Park and Lee

were only promoted to the second degree.

He's been promoted to a prime minister position?

Should I even say more?

Our people were excluded from the promotions.

Will you just sit there and do nothing about this?

Should we be doing something about it now?

Hur Joon must go.

He's the son of a concubine.

If such low ranks become prime minister,

the officials will not stand for it.

Probe deeply into everything about him.

There is no one who has no fault.

Madam!

Madam.

I extend my congratulations, Minister Madam.

What are you saying?

The Royal Physician's contribution during the war was acknowledged.

And he's been promoted to the prime minister position.

The prime minister position?

The prime...

Do you even know what the prime minister means?

Advanced to the rank of prime minister ...

Now you're the wife of the Prime Minister.

Mother.

You worked hard.

Yes, whatever. You did hard work.

Prime minister position?

It is!

Unyun... what was the name?

At any rate, it's the rank of prime minister.

I knew it. I knew Dahee will be bestowed with something great.

The sky must've given him wings. He keeps rising higher.

Her current position is already intimidating.

But a prime minister's wife!

I'm shuddering!

Dahee is not that type of a person, you know that!

She will always be the same, no matter what.

I'll say!

Unyun must give up on Gyum now.

Gyum is the son of the prime minister,but you're low rank.

I don't care if it's Excellency or sovereign lord.

I will marry Gyum!

Oh my! Look what she spits out now.

Watch your tongue! Somebody might hear you.

No faults and weaknesses? How could this be?

You useless thing!

Then we should make things up.

To bury someone for good...

There is no better way than to rely on the ethical faults.

Come to think of it, there is one.

Continue.

He is known to be intimate with the Nurse Yejin.

For over a decade from the days at the public hospital...

They have been really close.

Scandal between the royal doctor and the nurse...

There was one who was dismissed from the former King.

Just drop a little hint, then officials will soon enter an appeal.

Sir, sir!

Look here. There you are.

It's been a while.

Here! Take my baggage.

This isn't the time for that.

Doctor Hur is under a barrage of appeals to impeach him.

Appeal? What on earth are you saying?

It's so obvious. They gossip over his birth.

So they want to reject his advancement.

For that reason, His Majesty had already refused their opinions once.

So do not worry.

No, it's not about that, sir.

Then what should the appeal be about?

They insist that Doctor Hur and the royal nurse have

had a decade old affair...

What?

Let me see you.

Is that true?

Yes, sir.

Think back to the days when they're were at the public hospital.

Doctor Hur was intimate with the nurse Yejin.

Then what about his unprecedented promotion?

It can't be done because of the officials' appeals.

What are you doing now?

Every time I empty my seat...

You never work and get together.

Busy gossiping around.

I might as well sit here all day long!

- You! - Who? Me?

Come hither.

You say to me exactly what you said before.

I don't understand.

The scandal between Doctor Hur and the nurse?

Hey!

I'm not asking this out of curiosity.

I'm asking this to tighten moral standards at the pharmacy.

Elaborate as much as you know.

Why do you keep making absurd remarks here and there?

It's not absurd.

It's spread around the palace.

All around the palace?

What a dirty trick!

I'll find out who started all this!

I'll absolutely find out the one who made up such a lie!

And will impose leg-screw torture.

Are you Yejin?

Yes, madam.

Follow me.

Majesty, it's the nurse from the Queen Palace, Yejin.

Send her in.

Be seated.

Head up.

Is the nurse here?

The nurse followed the court lady.

I see. Be gone now.

She went to His Majesty if she followed the court lady.

For crying out loud. The scandal further worsens.

Is your name Yejin?

Yes, Your Majesty.

She is the nurse who entertained the ambassadors

from Ming at Mohwagwan.

She displayed her talent and settled the crisis at the court.

She accomplished a remarkable feat.

I remember it as well.

While in the royal flight to Weeju...

You looked after myself with Doctor Hur.

Do you know why I called you?

No, Your Majesty. Forgive my ignorance.

I acknowledge Doctor Hur's contributions during war.

And ordered him to be promoted to a minister position.

But it is strongly opposed by the officials at the court.

I have known him for over a decade now.

So I don't mind such criticisms over him.

But the current scandal over him...

is too serious to overlook considering the given evidence.

And that scandal includes you.

Is it true that you have been intimate with him for years?

What are you waiting for? Tell His Majesty the truth!

Your Majesty.

My father was a doctor.

He wandered around the country with a bulk of acupuncture ...

Looking after patients.

But he died of a plague.

So I spent my childhood at the noted physician Yoo's pharmacy.

When I came to the age of 19...

I met Doctor Hur, as Doctor Yoo's disciple.

From the days when he wandered around Mt. Jiri as a herbalist.

To the days when he became janitor and caretaker at the pharmacy.

He did his best to become a compassionate doctor...

Sincerely understanding his patients.

He doesn't even hesitates to suck the bloody pus...

out of the patient's scars with his mouth.

He spent years living with lepers to cure them.

People are totally averse to be even near them.

I have embraced him in my heart until today.

I genuinely respect him and adore him.

But, Your Majesty.

What I feel about him...

is the feeling I am lucky to be with him ...

under the same sky, same place.

Doctor Hur wasn't afraid of death...

for the sake of his love beyond social position.

His wife also had to suffer much for her husband ...

All of which, I can't even imagine.

How can I dare to tarnish their genuine love?

Your Majesty.

I sincerely respect and adore Doctor Hur.

But it is something that I must cherish in my heart.

If that is something for which I must be blamed,

I willingly take that punishment.

But I don't want him to be blamed for a blatant scandal.

Please reconsider.

I will go present myself to His Majesty.

I will speak about this wrongfulness...

That has unjustly been imposed upon you.

It means nothing to me...

whether I become a public patriot or a prime minister, if it is

by sacrificing your honor.

Doctor Hur.

Please don't mind me.

I feel so painful that I was in your way.

Lady.

Please don't say a word.

I know how you feel.

- Sir. - Yes, Your Majesty.

Proceed with Doctor Hur's promotion as planned.

But what about the official's appeals?

Please do as I say.

Yes, Your Majesty.

Didn't you know?

That Yejin has had feelings for you

for a long time...

But you lived so peacefully without any worries.

You're a bad man, you know.

What is it?

Nurse.

There is a phrase in an old poem.

When I was eight, I secretly looked into the mirror.

And I drew my eyebrows longer.

When I was 11, I put on clothes with lotus flower print.

And I like going for mountain vegetables.

When I was 12, I learned to play Geomungo.

I didn't let go of its silver box.

When I was 14, I often hid behind my parents.

Because I felt shy in front of boys.

When I was 15, I felt sad about the spring.

So I turned my face and cried holding onto the swing rope.

It is the poem by Lee Sang-eun from Tang Dynasty.

When I saw someone in one spring day.

I was saddened by the spring for no reason.

Whenever I think of him, I feel pain in the chest.

- Sanghwa. - Yes.

I think I should leave the palace now.

Nurse.

I think I have to return to Samjuk Temple.

I'll spend the rest of my life looking after patients, serving the great Priest.

Before I leave, there's a favor I'd like to ask.

You must assist Doctor Hur with your utmost.

In order to complete the medical book he's undertaken...

Many years of painstaking effort will be required.

It'd be best if I stay and help him.

But circumstances will not allow me to.

Sanghwa, you must stay by his side.

Even the sounds of the scops owl are sorrowful.