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Episode 14 So Hwi had to die and disappear

for you to come to me?

Even after his death,

even though he's not in this world anymore,

I couldn't go to anyone else.

Then, why?

Is it because I've become the king now?

Do you want to hear my answer?

It was so that I could get back at my enemy.

I came in here to kill you with my own hands.

- Open the doors. - You cannot go in.

Kill me.

Pierce me.

Do you think I killed Eun Seong myself?

I did not.

He brought upon himself by his foolish attempt to escape.

At the beginning, who's the one who falsely accused him?

Who's the one who sent an innocent person into exile?

Is Court Lady Hong outside?

Yes, Your Majesty.

I already told her that she could not come in.

- Your Majesty. - Escort the lady.

Take her to the Secret Pavilion and allow no one to visit her.

Do not let her go outside either.

Yes, Your Majesty.

Please come with me.

You've come all the way to the palace.

Will I die, too, Your Excellency?

"Your Excellency?"

Looks like it's not the time for us yet.

What a difficult journey it's been for us to get here.

I cannot let go of the lady that easily.

- Your Majesty! - Your Majesty!

Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Your Majesty!

Your Majesty! Is no one there?

Your Majesty! Your Majesty!

Go and find out which palace they're from.

Yes, Madame.

He might have drunk too much.

- Or he could have taken medicine that was wrong for him. - Medicine?

Will he have any future complications?

He has a high fever and has been vomiting.

We will give him ginseng juice and detoxing tonic made of barberry roots.

His fever should come down during the night.

Is he really not harmed?

The doctors will keep an eye out all night.

Who is it?

Roo Si Gae?

Gi Teuk?

Move aside. Do you not know who I am?

His Majesty's orders stand above everyone else's.

He ordered us to let no one come in.

I have a message from the king. Open the doors.

What did you do to the king?

Since you couldn't lure him in, did you use a love potion?

Not a love potion, but poison potion.

Refer to me as "Your Highness!"

Since you've confessed, you won't live now.

It's what I wanted. Kill me. I'm not afraid of death.

Death is a way for me to unite with my lover.

It's the one and only way for me to be with him.

I will kill you.

I don't know with whose help you came into the palace to harm His Majesty,

but I will look into every detail and find the culprit.

You will find nothing but the heart of one woman who tried to protect her fidelity with a dagger.

Who's out there?

- Yes, Your Highness? - Wake up the inspection palace maids.

Tell them that there is a criminal that needs to be interrogated.

Yes, Your Highness.

That girl, how crude.

Hey, hey! What are you doing?

Hwi, is that you?

Come here.

- Hwi. - That Organgkae (derogatory term for Juchens) wench.

I am sorry. I couldn't inform you earlier.

Were you greatly shocked?

It was a dangerous mission.

It could've easily gone wrong.

There wasn't any other way at the time.

What happened?

The corpse and the burial.

What was all of that?

I'm angry for being accused of a crime I didn't commit.

If the loyal servant's sword in the hands of his filial son kills me,

I will take that as an honorable death.

Your Highness, are you alright?

Have you come to your senses?

General, you've got it wrong.

Our grand prince is not a traitor.

When he was taken as a prisoner in the north, when he could've negotiated his way out of there,

when he had multiple chances to get away on his own,

he insisted on leaving with his people, and endured the life as a prisoner.

He risked his life and fought to rescue all the prisoners of war.

If you wait, time will prove it.

The true traitors will be planning other things again.

Why did you save me? I will not let my enemy live.

Open your eyes and see who the real enemy is!

Since the grand prince has saved you, I hope that you can understand his real intentions.

Your Highness!

What is this? Why are you doing things you never did?

Hyung-nims!

Gi Teuk! Gi Teuk!

Hyung-nim!

How'd you get here?

After hearing that His Highness was suffering, how could we stay put?

Guests have arrived.

Your words were true, Your Highness.

Those people have no intention of letting you live.

Your Highness.

Then, do you believe me now, General?

I remember the opinion my deceased father

had of you when he was alive.

What?

That he felt sorry for you

because you had to reluctantly follow the wishes of the royal family and the ministers

in order to break Grand Prince Jin Yang's ambition.

Your late father wanted to see the ruler of this country

follow the proper path.

We must return to the capital so that we can comfort the spirits

of the loyal servants who died tragically during the revolt and reveal the truth to the world.

If you die, the truth will be buried with you.

I won't let that happen.

I need a corpse.

It needs to be the corpse of a man who has a similar body figure as His Highness.

I will wreak revenge for the death of my father.

I do not see anything. I'll have to check the corpse.

Aigoo.

Ouch!

We cannot recognize the grand prince's face.

When the body was being pushed in by the tides, the face must've been damaged.

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But why did you not follow the lady? Why are you here?

I didn't believe it.

- What? - That Hwi died.

There was a corpse, though.

The face was smashed up.

You catch on quickly.

Even though Hwi had died, you weren't there.

Would Park Gi Teuk have put his own life first? No way.

I thought that if you were alive,

Hwi would've been, too.

I'm pretty loyal, right?

If it were a fight you'd survive, Hwi couldn't have died either.

At any rate, I worry about Lady Ja Hyeon.

She must believe that His Highness helplessly died.

We need to go back quickly

and tell her.

It will be two days until the boat that went back to the capital city returns.

Are there no other boats? I'm in a hurry.

I don't know what that brokenhearted woman might do.

There is a warship.

But, it's impossible for your entourage to get on without being found out.

If I had known that she was your loved one,

I would've given hints.

You have not done anything wrong, General.

I didn't know she'd come, either.

The more I think about it, the more I realize she's amazing.

She took such a rough path in order to try and warn you of danger.

During the three years that you disappeared, she is a woman who firmly endured it.

She'll be okay.

This is different from then.

She saw the corpse and burial with her own eyes.

She is bound to be in great despair.

I'm worried that she'll act recklessly.

It's fine. I don't need any more medicine.

You are not feeling well, Your Majesty.

The alcohol was just strong, is all.

That's not the case.

While trying to pick flowers that you shouldn't have,

isn't that how you turned out this way?

Ja Hyeon must be punished as a person who committed treason.

You could've died, Your Majesty.

Do not interfere.

I will take care of it myself.

Your Majesty, I am your wife.

If I don't interfere, who will?

Don't you know jealousy is one of seven grounds on which you can be dethroned?

Does it look like I'm being jealous right now?

It is not jealousy, but it is to protect you.

How could you bring disgrace upon yourself on the first day of ascending to the throne?

Even if you have all the women in the world to yourself, you can't have Ja Hyeon.

Are you trying to be referred to as an immoral king, right from the beginning of your reign?

Shut your mouth.

She was always mine.

She's a flower Eun Seong stole from me.

I'm saying that she was always mine.

She was my friend.

My father and my grandfather

fell for the sibis around the palace, (Sibi: low-level girl servants in the palace)

but they kept the protocol of the inner court in dealing with court ladies.

Don't get in my way with the excuse of a childhood friendship.

Is this why you rose to the throne?

Is this why you became a king?

You must know that had it not been for Chief Scholar, it would've been hard to remove Eun Seong.

Thanks to the fact that his daughter is no different than a virgin widow,

I was going to save her to get Chief Scholar on our side.

But, why did you not discuss it with me?

The matter regarding a court lady is under my control.

If I had powerful in-laws,

I wouldn't need a concubine to strengthen my position.

Previous kings made sure they filled all nine concubine positions

in order to strengthen their throne and ensure a brighter future for the nation.

Have you forgotten about my pledge and loyalty?

I am not your woman, but your liege.

Since my loyalty wouldn't change, I said for our fate to be together as well.

Do not lower the dignity of the queen's office with a useless sense of jealousy.

I will not forget about our vows.

Take no notice of what occurred last night.

I will ask Seong Ja Hyeon about her wrongdoing myself.

My wife, do not interfere.

The palace felt uneasy last night, so I looked into it.

It appears as though there is someone locked up in the Secret Pavilion.

Secret Pavilion?

There was a place like that in the palace?

It is used to punish court ladies instead of putting them in jail.

Who in the world is locked in there?

That... I'm hearing horrible rumors among the court ladies.

Stop!

Tell me what kind of evil medicine you fed the king.

Is the wound on the king's body your doing?

Who ordered you?

The queen? Did they want to restore the previous king?

Just tell me. Then you won't hurt anymore.

By torturing me in this way

instead of killing me right away,

are you trying to embroil innocent people again?

I'm trying to find out the truth.

There is none of that. Just kill me.

This won't be enough. To have a spiteful woman confess, there should be another special method prepared.

Bring it over.

Your Majesty, you must appoint Secretary of the Cabinet first,

so that you can set the path for your rule along with the ministers.

Since we do not have a full court,

I will not open the Gyeongyeon for a while. (King's meetings with scholars and ministers to discuss national affairs).

Saying you are not opening the Gyeongyeon is

like saying you will not hear the voice of the people.

The former king did not seek out the Gyeongyeon either.

Are you saying that he didn't do his job as a king?

Your Majesty, he avoided Gyeongyeon because of ill health,

but he held Gyeongyeon and bent his ears to the opinions

at the beginning.

The important thing now is not the Gyeongyeon but

obtaining consent from Ming China

for His Majesty's ascension to the throne.

Please order the chief scholar to prepare the declaration.

But, I cannot see Chief Scholar.

There are troubles going on in the household, so he could not attend.

I will go see him.

The former king was in ill health for a long time,

and the power of the throne was further weakened in care of the baby king,

The people have fallen into a sense of despair.

I plan to go back to the time when our nation was founded

and make this country strong by upholding the principles of the founding fathers.

We are thankful for your grace, Your Majesty.

Your Majesty.

- What's going on? - The queen took the lady from the Seong family from the Secret Pavilion and

is torturing her.

Thoughtlessly torturing a noblewoman is not allowed.

You can't breathe, right? With every layer that is placed upon your face,

as we lay more and more layers of the cloth,

you cannot breathe and eventually,

do you know that you'll suffocate and die?

So, tell me. Hm?

What are you doing?!

Bring the lady inside and call the royal doctor right away!

Everyone who went against my order and opened the Secret Pavilion will be expelled.

Anyone who goes against my order again will be beheaded.

You said you wanted to be the queen, but you didn't know the laws?

If it's in her hands, are you prepared to give your life?

When I think about what she did to you, tearing her apart wouldn't satisfy me.

If she dies, didn't I say that I'd be the one to kill her?

How could you do this to me?

To me, who put her life on the line for you, Your Majesty.

Then, do you want to share the royal authority too?

Did you not say yourself that political power can't be shared even between father and son?

Any gratitude has to come from within my heart,

not from your demands for expression.

Why do you not refer to me as a queen?

This is not our private home.

I still haven't decided whether I'll make you the queen or not.

Whether you are capable of fulfilling the role of a queen,

I cannot make the judgment yet.

You'll have to remain here a day longer.

When the boat arrives, we will take you back right away.

I've been appointed to the court, so I can help you in the city now.

As for me, I am thankful.

But the royal court is a different world from here.

The days ahead of you may be rough.

Have you forgotten the work of my late father?

That path is my duty.

Where will you stay in the capital city?

There's a temple in the mountain where I can lie low.

If I can get the approval from the chief monk, I will hide there as a bulmokhani (a laborer at a temple).

While you are meeting with your lady, I will go see the chief monk.

I heard that you were feeling unwell.

They say Chief Scholar's daughter is in the palace.

That cunning wench entered the palace to harm the king.

The queen has misunderstood.

Queen Mother, you already have many worries.

Do not mess with her feelings by saying unnecessary things.

She made the decision to do that and came in.

She harbored hatred based on what happened to Grand Prince Eun Seong.

Why would the lady harbor hatred over what happened to Eun Seong?

Did Eun Seong die while being innocent?

- I am asking if the two of you killed Eun Seong! - Queen Mother.

If that's not the case, what is there for Lady Ja Hyeon to resent?

Thanks to her father, they were able to get themselves off of the criminal charge,

and save their lives.

Send her back as soon as possible

before the rumors turn into a scandal.

All of this is because

I have not been appointed formally as the queen, in my opinion.

If I can be in my place quickly, I can serve those above me in earnest

and get a firm handle on the business of the inner court.

Speed up the process.

I won't allow any more of this noisy matter.

I came to kill you with my own hands!

What will you do with Lady Ja Hyeon?

I can't let her live after what she did,

but even though she held a knife to my throat and poisoned me,

even as I was bleeding because of it,

what are these feelings that make me want to keep her in my hands?

You may lose many things as a result of trying to get one thing.

If Eun Seong disappeared,

I thought everything in the world would be the way I wanted.

Now I have to battle against a spirit without a body.

Let's go.

Notice of Abdication: In great honor of my ancestors who had accepted heaven's mandate and

had established this great dynasty in the east. In this time of calamity, for the greater good of the nation,

royals and officials are to yield to this ascension which will again not be by the first in line, the eldest grand prince.

The abdication of Honorary Sangwang will be on June 11, 1453, in Geunjeongjeon.

Can you read that from looking at it? You're illiterate.

People don't know it.

You think you can read just because you are standing here?

It's saying that the thief has become the king.

The queen couldn't endure it.

She was afraid that her young son might die of poison.

I will bring these people to the mountains first.

You have to go somewhere, right?

I'll trust you.

She killed her husband and went right into the palace, they say.

The dead person's the pitiful one.

A household that has a disloyal subject, a daughter who isn't faithful.

Oh, the world has become rotten!

Those dirty beings!

Honestly...

In her situation, really.

These people. Where do you think this is for you to be stoning the house?

When did you come?

I thought you went back to your hometown.

Is the lady inside? She didn't go anywhere, right?

You're talking down to me.

You are, too.

I'm a nobleman, though.

- I'm a princess. - What?

I'm a Jurchen princess.

You are tricking people like someone I know.

I need to see the lady. I have to talk to her.

Our Ja Hyeon can't see people like you now.

- After there was a new king, she went to the palace right away. - Why?

She became a royal concubine of this country's king.

Does that make sense?

Even though Our Ja Hyeon can be reckless,

she's pretty smart in important moments like this.

It was suffocating for her, too.

To be a married woman without being a married woman.

No noble family would take her in now.

She made the bold decision. She volunteered herself!

Are you in the right mind? You don't even know anything.

Don't act like you know everything.

- You fool. - You just swore at me, right?

I felt that! I have a good sense of things, you know!

How dare you just leave while a nobleman is talking to you?

Your Highness.

My wife, stay home. I'll go and bring her.

I wasn't thinking clearly and let her go when she said she'd go herself.

We haven't heard from her and we don't know if she's alive or dead.

How could I, her mother, wait in a room?

That's why I said I'm going.

The world is cursing our household.

They are spitting and throwing rocks at our house, but I'm okay with that.

Since you are alive, I am grateful.

As long as my daughter returns to my embrace, it's okay.

If he were to appoint her as a concubine, we would have received the notice by now.

I'll enter the palace and try to understand the situation.

Please bring Ja Hyeon in front of me.

Please calm yourself, Your Highness. There has to be a reason.

You don't know the situation well yet.

What reason?

After seeing that he had died with her eyes, she gave up.

She could have given up in despair thinking you'd died.

She might have been dragged there under unavoidable circumstances.

- Your Highness. - I thought if I died,

she might follow me to death.

That was my greatest worry.

♫ I try to fix it ♫

Forget her! She's a traitor.

She went to the palace to become the king's woman in order to live and eat well.

Do not speak thoughtlessly.

♫ It has rusted ♫

There is an explanation.

There will be something.

♫ It's because my chest feels tight ♫

♫ I feel frustrated because my chest feels tight ♫

♫ As much as it is sad, this mean love ♫

♫ You don't know it yet ♫

I can accept the humiliation of my family but this incident has brought the dignity of the royal family to the ground,

and the newly anointed king is being spoken badly of.

Before unpleasant rumors spread any further, please allow me to take my daughter home.

Your daughter will be sent out of the palace.

But, from this moment on, she must reside in Jeongubwon (a temple for female monks).

That is too much.

She has suffered nothing but hardships because of the grand prince.

Must you make a Buddhist nun out of her?

Will you be able to marry her to anyone now?

Will she obediently become a royal concubine based on the king's greed?

To settle all of this turmoil,

the only way is to commit suicide or to be married.

Don't you think her life should be saved?

Go back. Your daughter will be sent to the Jeongubwon.

Queen Mother will send Ja Hyeon to Jeongubwon.

She'll need to stay in the palace for a little while.

Her body must be treated since she cannot even move.

Do you really want to hold onto her even a day longer?

Nothing will change even if you do that.

You misrepresented me, went against my royal order,

and tortured the daughter of Chief Scholar.

Don't you know that this is enough for you to be sent out of the palace, too?

If the daughter who came here healthy goes out half dead,

I'm sure Chief Scholar would be so grateful.

If this becomes an issue at the Samsa (an agency in charge of public opinion)

will you take responsibility for that?

Lady Ja Hyeon must leave the palace with an unharmed body.

Then, you will also be unscathed, Queen.

Thank you for receiving the offering from the king's envoy.

I'm not helping because of the offering.

It is due to my long-cherished wish that our country will become a country

that lives by the teachings of the Buddha more closely.

Where the king is reborn

into someone who's merciful in the greatest ways.

I'm praying for those days to come.

Na mu gan sal bo sal (Korean monk's prayer).

She's not someone who'd walk into the palace with her own two feet.

Undoubtedly, there was some peculiar reason.

What happened inside and how she is doing now,

can you please find out?

He's about to break into the palace himself.

I need your help to stop him from doing that.

There is no one who knows anything about the lady in the court.

I will have to connect with the court ladies at the queen's and king's quarters.

I will find out the story.

The militia from the rebellion

and the wench who laid the false charge against you, have you found out anything?

I don't think his wife would have done it herself.

I am suspecting the courtesan near Grand Prince Jin Yang, Jo Hwi Gyeong.

Jo Hwi Gyeong?

A woman who's bold enough to deal with assassins

and not even blink while laying false charges against you.

She can't be a woman from an ordinary neighborhood.

He called Jo Hwi Gyeong to every banquet.

He sent her every time he tried to find out things from me.

She is for sure Grand Prince Jin Yang's person.

I will meet with her.

How do you feel, Lady? Are you able to move a little now?

I can exit the palace any time.

I will prepare the palanquin on the day it's approved.

Before I leave the palace,

I have one wish.

The pavilion Grand Prince Eun Seong used to reside in.

Is it possible to see it before I go?

That would be difficult.

You are not allowed to leave this room at all.

On the day I am to leave the palace. Before I get into the palanquin...

just once, can I stop by there?

Congratulations on your appointment to the important post.

Please come by here often.

You'll need to make connections and find out what's going on.

Speaking of which, I've come to ask you something.

There is someone we have not caught from the last rebellion.

Did you not catch everyone from the leader to the bottom soldier?

The woman who bought the rebel army.

We haven't caught her yet.

Some of the rebel armies are still in prison,

so I'm sure we could find out.

Is there someone who saw her?

But why are you telling me about it here?

It couldn't be a woman from an ordinary neighborhood, could it?

Investigators were onto her but she was never caught.

The woman who made sure every dying rebel army member

confessed that he was acting on the order of Grand Prince Eun Seong.

Who could possibly

be that woman?

Courtesans deal with people from all walks of life.

We don't tell on a criminal, nor do we throw out a beggar.

But still, you are speaking of something very dangerous.

Are you suggesting the criminal is hiding in the courtesan house?

A courtesan house is a place where all manners of information are exchanged,

I'm asking you to tell me if you hear anything.

I will remember.

Shouldn't we tell His Majesty? Why is he asking about things that are all finished?

I can't tell whose side he's on yet.

He's the one who killed Grand Prince Eun Seong, so he must be on the side of His Majesty.

He's not one who was with the great cause from the beginning.

Is he acting overly loyal to get on the good side of the king?

Let's keep an eye on him a little longer

to see whether he's an ambitious guy looking for a promotion

or a son looking to avenge his father's death.

If not,

is he someone who wants to start a whole new game?

I think it's Jo Hwi Gyeong. She was shaken when I said there was a witness, but she denied it decisively.

It's the response of someone who knows what happened.

That horrible wench.

The one who laid a false charge can also be the one who can remove it.

No matter what, we have to get her.

And the lady is coming out of the palace.

Does that mean everything is okay? Is she going back home?

It is true that Grand Prince Jin Yang tried to make her his concubine.

But the queen's jealousy was severe and the queen dowager would not give approval,

so she's been sent to Jeongubwon (a temple for female monks).

Are they turning our lady into a female monk?

Are you going to let her be turned into a female monk?

It's good that you are going to Jeongubwon.

For the rest of your life, pray for the rebirth of Grand Prince Eun Seong.

Isn't that the kind of life you desire the most?

In Gwa Eung Bo.

I will pray for a world where a criminal is rightly punished.

Show your manners. She is the queen.

You cannot treat her like a childhood friend.

Let her be.

This is her last protest.

Gaining a title that was not rightfully won,

your whole life will feel uneasy.

There will never be a day where you won't feel uneasy.

At night, you won't sleep well.

You will be suspicious of every mouthful of rice and every drop of soy sauce.

Silk fabrics will sting you and even gold threaded bedding will feel like a bed of nails.

You don't need to worry about me.

You are the one who was defeated.

Are you happy? After holding all that you wanted,

are you happy now?

Can it be as much as your unhappiness?

Escort the lady.

♫ Believing and believing ♫

♫ In a life together ♫

♫ Living and living ♫

♫ In eternal darkness ♫

You have to take her away before she sets foot into Jeongubwon (a temple of female monks).

Let's go.

Let's go.

♫ Believing and believing ♫

Your Highness, she might be better off being at Jeongubwon (a temple of female monks).

If she's there, no one can touch her.

If we bring her back, we can't even care for her properly.

Her current circumstances make her unable to return home.

Let's tell her that you're alive and until your false accusations are lifted,

I think that it'd be safer for her to remain there.

I need to see her.

I need to see

Ja Hyeon with my own eyes.

Every month, the same amount of money will be offered.

We will take Chief Scholar's daughter.

But, the public is to think that she is here

and that she will not be meeting anyone.

Then, we will be off.

Take care.

What are you doing?

Lady Monk! Lady Monk!

Let go of me!

Do not touch the lady!

Let's go!

Stop them!

Am I... dead?

Have I now gone to the next world to meet you?

♫ So I keep walking till shadows disappear, one, two, three, ♫

♫ As I keep walking, I meet the moon ♫

♫ The weaning and filling up, ♫

♫ how much more do I have to watch it to know? ♫

♫ I don’t think I can do it anymore, no matter what I blame ♫

♫ But wherever I look, it’s only painful roads for me ♫

♫ The places I want to go to ♫

♫ The places I need to go to ♫

♫ Perhaps I don't want to know forever ♫

♫ I just wanna follow this path ♫

♫ To a place no one knows ♫

♫ When I get there, will I call out only then? ♫