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[An astronomical chart] You were trying to catch the book thief?[

Please give this to His Majesty.

Your Highness has caught the library thief, now.

My Lord!

I also am in the Daedong Society.

I hoped it would end with me by now.

I can't let that happen.

I..

am in love with Lady Ga Hee.

To Your Highness, how could my daughter ...

Now, I'm fine.

Ga Hee...

I thought that you had forgotten about me!

Please forgive me. I...

am very sorry for not being able to recognize you.

My ... wish has been granted.

Therefore, I can now live as a man for the rest of my life.

I have so many things to tell you.

Just wait for a while.

No matter what happens,

I will protect you for sure.

Episode 3 -Your Highness!

Are you really going to be like this?

Move aside.

I cannot do that!

How dare you to go against the words of your superior?

I have served you for my entire life.

This unworthy servant knows of everything about you; such as your light cough or your hand gestures.

To save everyone...

you're trying to enter a fire pit all by yourself!

Move!

Your Highness!

Yes ... what is your concern toward your father?

Please, spare the life of my brother, Im Hae.

You cannot interfere with the judgment of his unlawful act.

Go away.

Father, Your Majesty!

Please put a stop to this cruel interrogation.

If you utter anything once more, in this...

Then you'll become just like Im Hae.

It wasn't Im Hae that they were going to make the king.

What did you say?

Then, who is it?

That is... no other than...

Your Majesty, the Prime Minister is here.

Your Majesty, corroborative evidence that the Daedong Society was conspiring against you has been found.

How does he have the astronomical chart?

[Astronomical chart]

The world has no owner. Therefore, anyone can be king.

Hongmoonkwan's Deputy Head Scholar Kim Doo Seo is the main culprit!

What?!

The Deputy Head Scholar?

There is no more time to lose. Hurry and leave!

Should I just leave when I know about you?

Ga Hee ...

Yes, Father.

Ga Hee, the reason for your accepting to live as a man

was not because you believe in fate and the like,

but wasn't the reason because you felt guilty about your brother?

Indeed ...

Don't be led by such things as destiny.

Do not lose to destiny.

Get out from under all of that guilt and

now live fully as Kim Ga Hee.

Just what is going on?

Please tell me.

Is it possibly true that you are involved in the conspiracy?

I was just dreaming about a world where everyone lives well.

Hurry take Ga Hee and go.

Please hurry!

Ga Hee!

Ga Hee!

Ga Hee! Ga Hee! Make haste!

Aren't you one of Jookdo's disciples?

The Master ... by the royal forces' swords ... passed away.

Before it is too late, I want to rally the Daedong members in Hanyang.

Please help me.

It is already too late.

By now the royal forces ...

are approaching here.

Traitor Kim Doo Seo come forward in respect to the King's Order.

I have one favor to ask of you.

Mother! Hurry and escape!

Make haste!

How could I ... leave you here to run away?

I can't do that.

Ga Hee!

Mother!

Mother!

Let me go. I have to go to my mother.

It is already too late!

His Lordship told me to help you.

What has happened to Father?

The royal forces dragged him away.

My father is not a person who would have a traitorous mind.

Something is wrong.

It's useless!

His Lordship's astronomical chart, corroborative evidence of a conspiracy, has already been found.

What did you just say?

In the astronomical chart, there was hidden writing which is evidence of the conspiracy.

Someone gave the astronomical chart to the court.

Why don't you look at your leisure and look thoroughly without any suspicion?

In the end ... was it His Highness?

How could you do this to me?

Ga Hee!

Ga Hee!

Ga Hee!

Ga Hee!

Ga Hee!

Ga Hee!

Ga Hee!

Just what is hidden in the Cheonmundo (astronomical chart)...

that it became the evidence of a conspiracy?

The people, owners of the world,

the most fearsome being in the world

are the mass of people.

It is written that way.

Then...

My father...

Did he truly plot treason?

The Daedong Society are not enemies who have made a conspiracy.

It's all slander which has been fabricated.

Where are you planning to go? The royal army is everywhere.

Today's kindness ... I won't forget it.

Stop.

If you are to be seen by His Majesty, you must change.

I haven't yet...

said that I would become His Majesty's concubine.

I don't believe people's words.

However, I believe in physiognomy.

First, make me a promise.

That you will save my parents without fail.

I promise you.

That someday, for Your Highness...

I would wear such fine clothes...

I sincerely hoped for it.

I will not...

forgive His Highness.

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Father.

Ga Hee.

Yes, Father. It's Ga Hee.

How is it that you are in this place wearing those clothes?

It's all because of me.

I will save you, Father.

So please bear it for a little bit longer.

Just today there are already dozens of orders (to eliminate the members of the Daedong Society) .

At this rate, the Daedong Society will die off soon.

Song Kang ...

I must get rid of that man.

How? That man is already

receiving His Majesty's favor.

His Lordship, the Mayor of Hanyang ...

when he was being interrogated at the Royal Investigative Bureau...

Sir, it is I.

Come in.

We have found the person who interrogated the Mayor of Hanyang.

Song Kang, the donkey in lion's skin,

is now finished.

It is truly an amazing physiognomy...

a phoenix's forehead and eyes

which are gently supported by high cheekbones.

It will counterbalance the King's physiognomy and bring good luck.

However, this physiognomy...

shows that she will serve two dragons.

Which family are you from?

Her physiognomy is valuable, not which family she is from.

Kim Do Seo, His Lordship, the Hongmoongwan's Deputy Head Scholar,

is my father.

Lady Ga Hee?

Are you in your right mind? Do you know what the times are right now?

How can you bring in the daughter of a criminal?

She is the woman with the physiognomy that His Majesty has been searching a long time for.

It is a physiognomy that will be difficult to find again.

If you bring that woman in as a royal concubine,

the courtiers will rise up like a swarm of bees.

Doing that can leave a permanent stain on His Majesty's political achievment.

That woman has a physiognomy so valuable it will rise up and cover the stain.

Please leave it to me, Chief Eunuch.

Your Highness! Your Highness! Your Highness!

Th-th-there's big trouble! A woman has been brought to the Royal Observatory,

and she is meant to be His Majesty's royal concubine, but...

- It's Ga Hee! - What?

I definitely heard it. The woman that was brought in to be His Majesty's royal concubine

is the daughter of the Deputy Chief Scholar!

Just what are you saying?

It looks like Ga Hee will become His Majesty's new royal concubine!

Are you saying that you've finally found that woman?

Yes. She will complement Your Majesty's physiognomy.

It is a woman with a prized physiognomy which will promote the nation.

Where is she now?

I'm sorry. We received orders that no one is allowed in here.

Will you all not stand aside?

Since when is what the 6th rank servant, the physiognomist, says more important than the Prince?

Are you not going to get out of the way quickly?

Aigoo, Your Highness! Please understand our situation!

If you do this, we will be in big trouble.

Your Highness!

Ga Hee!

Why are you... here?

It's nothing you should be concerned about.

That is ...

What does that mean?

The astronomical chart ...

Did you give it to His Majesty?

However foolish, I believed in your promise the same as a dream.

- Ga Hee! - Did you think it was only a chart which I was giving to you?

I gave you my whole heart!

A year ago at the street book stall,

I stumbled onto you.

From that day, in order to see you again,

when it rained or snowed,

every day I ran to the bookstall and waited for you.

If I could perhaps see you once in a month

I lived joyfully for the rest of the month.

For the sin of giving my heart to you,

I am the most unfilial child in the world who caused the death of my parents.

Are you satisfied now?

Are you proud of distinguishing yourself by using a foolish woman to get what you want

and capturing a bunch of traitors?

Ga Hee!

I will listen to all of your grudge-bearing words.

Yes.

I am to blame for everything and it was all because of me.

I will listen to that resentment for the rest of my life.

However, now!

Get out of here. For now, get out ...

Do not touch me. This body belongs to His Majesty.

How can you ...

say that you will be my father's woman?

How can you say that to me?

That's the only way to save my father.

How can I hesitate to save him?

What?

I was told that, if I live as a woman,

this cursed face is destined to cause the destruction of my family, but

according to the face-reader, it is needed by the King.

Therefore,

if I become the King's woman,

I have been promised my father will be saved.

Why would I hesitate?

I will gladly serve the King.

So,

please leave first.

I will be serving His Majesty in the future,

so how could I stay in the same room with an unfamiliar man?

Your Majesty!

Your Majesty, I have an important matter to discuss with you.

-Right now? -Yes, Your Majesty.

It's a important matter related to the interrogation tomorrow.

I will see her after the interrogation tomorrow.

Yes, Your Majesty.

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Your Majesty! The Joseon Dynasty,

should not be freely controlled by just one person.

That's what I just said.

Song Kang, Jeong Cheol, abused his power.

Hundreds of lives and deaths are being determined by selfish motives!

At the gestures of his hands one by one, all of Joseon is crying.

I guess you feel uncomfortable about Song Kang getting rid of the members of Daedong Society.

They were eliminated not because they were the members of the Daedong Society but traitors.

Your Majesty! Song Kang

deceived the people and deceived you.

How can such person judge whether one is a traitor?

What exactly was the deception?

The name His Lordship, the Mayor of Hanyang,

said before he died...

was not Prince Im Hae.

What?

Prince.

Chief Eunuch,

just what is the Manual of the King's Face?

Isn't that the reason behind the current climate of treachery?

What on earth is that to cause this much bloodshed?

The Manual of the King's Face is,

a book about physiognomy, written by the Great Master Moohak, the biggest contributor...

at the founding of Joseon dynasty.

A book about physiognomy?

He was hoping the kings of Joseon will recognize the men of ability.

Thinking of the people of Joseon, he wrote it and left it for the kings.

It's a very precious book.

However precious the book may be, how can the attempt to steal a book be treason?

Because the manual is

about the faces of the kings.

The faces... of the kings?

The reason why there is endless chaos in Joseon

is because a person who shouldn't be the King is sitting on the throne.

For the sake of the country's peaceful reign,

we need a new King.

The "Manual of the King's Face" will validate that.

The Manual of the King's Face is

the standard of determining what a king should look like?

Your Highness, never again mention

the Manual of the King's Face.

His Majesty says that

he is getting a concubine because of her facial features.

I also...

am getting acupuncture treatment because of my facial features.

Why is His Majesty

so hinged on Physiognomy?

Right now, His Majesty

is trying hard to become a sage king.

To become a sage king,

he is getting a woman who will counterbalance his facial features

to be next to him.

The woman is

the one whom I have great affection for.

That woman

has the facial features to become the King's concubine in the end.

That is her destiny.

His Majesty can have any woman he wants.

But I only have her.

Chief Eunuch, please stop this.

Your Highness...

My father said so.

When a person dies, the person becomes a star like that.

Later on, will you marry me?

Really?

How is my nose? How about my lips?

Were you looking for me?

Before I met you,

I regarded Physiognomy as quackery.

However, you were quite useful to make provisions for the future.

At the interrogation, I will use your skill as my sword.

Is this your final judgment?

Yes, it is Your Majesty.

As you have commanded, I investigated thoroughly.

There is something that I just can't figure out.

Among the people you want to exile rather than kill,

There are clearly people for whom there is already evidence of conspiracy, but

why do you want to keep them alive?

Do you have any other intentions, Prime minister?

What do you mean by other intentions?

That is nonsense.

After investigation, the people who are to live

were just acquaintances of Jeong Yeo Rip and had nothing to do with the Eastern Faction itself so I let them go.

Please discern for yourself.

I understand.

I will trust your opinion since you were in charge of the case and

proceed.

However,

We may know what's under the water by looking but what's in a person's heart, one never knows.

Whether your opinion is right, I must confirm it.

Come closer.

With our tongues, we can lie.

However, one's face cannot lie.

Whether this incidence is properly wrapped up,

I'll make a judgment.

Your features show you to be a scholar of integrity.

Seeing how you have red blood vessels showing on the white part of your eyes, your liver is not good.

You must avoid alcohol.

There are pronounced muscles on your forehead which tells me you are constantly moving from one place to another.

We refer to the tail end of the eyes as one of 12 reading points.

If a man has a reddish birthmark or a wart at the tail end of his left eye,

it is said that the man will have many women.

It's likely that you had many lovers around you.

It's embarrassing that my secrets are exposed just by my facial features.

The drooping mouth contour is well defined so

your knowledge is deep and your skills are many.

Just now as you were speaking to the King, I saw your lips were moving before you talked.

This means you have other intentions in your heart.

You are harboring, not the truth, but a lie.

This guy, really. Then, I...

Are you implying now that I have lied to His Majesty?

Prime Minister!

Did you ever lie to me?

No, Your Majesty.

Wait a minute, is this person trying to make a fool out of me?

Bring him.

Just before the Mayor of Hanyang died, did he utter the name Im Hae?

No, he didn't.

The Mayor did not speak of anyone as he died.

You lied to me?

Your...Your Majesty.

Since this is the fact, how can I trust you?

Listen here! The ones who have been arrested for treason,

if they have any connection to Jeong Yeo Rip or

if they show any involvement with the Daedong society,

everybody will be deemed as a Daedong Society member and will be beheaded.

Your Majesty...

Your Majesty, please kill me.

Please kill me.

The power this old man had for a moment

has fled like the wind.

I was going to leave the people who will help you in the future but

because I was stupid, I ended up this way.

Why are you disregarding your own safety and showing me this generosity?

Because your generosity stemmed from slandering someone else, I cannot welcome it.

It's not for Your Highness but

I told you that it was for the future of Joseon.

I am not regretting it.

In your travel, please be in comfort.

Be wary of His Majesty.

The person whom he fears most

is you, Prince Gwang Hae.

Miss, now is the time to leave.

Deputy Head Scholar had a daughter like her?

Did you say you were Kim Ga Hee?

Yes, Your Majesty.

Are you here to be my concubine so that you can save your father?

Yes I am.

I came to save my parents.

Your Majesty, please save my mother and father.

Of all people, why did the woman I have been searching for have to be the daughter of a traitor?

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Your Highness, are you okay?

Please get up.

- Please get up. - I'm okay.

Your Highness.

I'm okay.

Look at you!

Is this all you can do?

Didn't I say I to prepare lots of money by selling a pillar of the palace?

Today is the day my Hyungnim came out of jail.

Play the music louder.

Quickly.

Quickly, play.

Your Highness, why are you acting this way? Please get up.

Hyungnim.

Since you came out safely, your brother feels like he's flying.

It feels really good.

However,

why does it seem like you are crying?

Crying? Why would I on such a good day?

Here, pour it for me.

Yes, Your Highness.

To my Hyungnim, who passed time with anger and frustration.

I have some matters to attend to, so I must leave.

Hyungnim. Hyungnim, where are you going?

Hyungnim, where are you going?

Hyungnim. Hyungnim, don't go.

Your Highness, are you okay?

♬ Though I insist and insist...

♬ Cry and insist...

♬ that won't...even if I insist...

Your Highness.

This song...

takes the worries and heartache away.

You sing along with me.

♬ Even if I insist and insist...

♬ Crying and insisting...

♬ that won't...

♬ Even as I insist and insist...

♬ Even as I cry and insist...

Elder, you charged the oldest son of the King with treason.

How can you just head for the countryside, as if you are running away?

You have to give me a change to repay the debt.

Get off the horse quickly, kneel and apologize.

It's regrettable that you had to spend time in jail but

the matter had to do with the country's affairs.

How can you have a personal grudge?

When I become the King, do you think I am going to leave you alone?

With your nature like that, you will never become the King.

Do you really have to be like this?

Just as you desire,

if you become the King, either slit my throat or destroy my household. Do as you wish.

However,

since I am headed for the countryside by the King's command now, please move aside.

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What brings the Queen here?

I heard you were here so I came to see you.

Your Majesty brought in a woman?

That's correct.

You must not bring that woman as a concubine.

Is the Queen jealous?

Jealous? You already have 5 concubines.

What difference is there between 5 and 6?

How is it that you want a traitor's daughter as a concubine?

I have not beheaded him yet.

Are you thinking about rescinding your command?

I have searched for her for the last few years.

Although I knew everything, I have pretended not to know.

Hundreds have spilled their blood during this interrogation.

If you change your command, it may be detrimental to your reign.

Your Majesty, that is why I am worried about the new concubine.

Your Majesty.

You...

You came on your own?

It's good that I am meeting with you.

Excited after a long time, I came to offer to look at Your Majesty's countenance.

Oh, my. Tsk Tsk Tsk.

With exactly what spirit does your face still appears so sour?

Because your face is looking pathetic, the country is in a bad state.

You...

You think your fate will change just because of a new concubine?

After taking so many lives, how can you with any grace expect to change your fate?

You, I'll...

Everything is your fault.

If you had not...

If you had not uttered that prophesy to me,

I would not have suffered as much.

The reason why you are in this state

is not because you burned the "Manual of the King's Face".

Trembling, afraid of losing the throne, it is because you are weak from terror.

Your Majesty, kill me right now.

I should die so you can escape from my soul.

Only in casting me aside will this country's subjects escape being ragged and hungry.

Quickly strike me and release yourself from futile senility.

Your Majesty.

What is the matter, Your Majesty?

Baek Kyung...

Baek Kyung was here.

It was your imagination, Your Majesty.

Is there a specific book that you are looking for?

I came from Jook-Do.

Mr. Kim, Mr. Lee, Mr. Yoo and Mr. Park from the lower village.

To these four men, make sure you clearly relay the communication. Got it?

-I'll deliver it. -Be careful.

As you wanted, I relayed the communication.

But I don't know how many will come.

As if we were inflicted with the plague,

they are killing anyone associated with the Daedong Society.

Everybody is afraid.

That's why we should be gathering even more.

In order to save the members who are being transported from the Royal Judiciary Office tomorrow, we need more hands.

Because Hong Yi broke into the palace, our Daedong Society got into this trouble.

The one who barely got out was caught at the checkpoint and

in the end, got killed.

Then, I'll see you at midnight tonight.

Since we don't know what will happen, please make few fake palace passes.

I understand.

But...

how did you know that I make fake palace passes and horse tags?

Only Hong Yi knows that.

Are you perhaps the one who sent Hong Yi into the palace?

Hong Yi was like a brother to me.

That's why I heard of you.

Oh, is that so?

Sorry for assuming the wrong thing.

It's the guy. How come he's the only one who survived?

I heard everyone was killed at Jook-do.

I have to go tell everyone.

You haven't left yet.

I forgot to tell you something.

I had no choice.

The truth you found out...

nobody in the world,

must know.

Who are you?

Drag her out immediately.

Yes.

Wait. Wait!

Be quiet.

Let this go.

Are you the girl who wants to be a royal concubine with your physiognomy?

Who are you to drag me out here?

How dare you! Mind your manners.

I wanted to see how good your face features were so I called for you.

As good as if you were attending His Majesty immediately,

I see you are very lovely.

By the way, I heard your father was a traitor.

How dare a traitor's daughter try to serve the King?

When the King is asleep, are you going to stab him with a dagger?

Your words are harsh.

You're really daring.

If you become a royal concubine, I'll be your superior.

As your superior, I am going to have to teach you some manners.

Court Lady Park,

after you teach the rules of court to this child well, send her.

Yes, Your Highness.

How dare you? Do you know where this place is?

Your Majesty, until my Prince Sin Seong is installed as crown prince,

you cannot have any other concubine.

♬Whimpering cholladong, cholladong ...

♬cholladong ...

Stop.

What is it that you are carrying?

She is a servant with a horrible disease.

We were commanded to take her outside of the palace.

Open it.

Prince.

I told you to open it!

Who did this?

I asked you who did this!

Prince, pretend you don't know.

Highness! If Her Highness finds out, we will die.

Prince. Prince.

This is the royal clinic inside the palace.

According to the physician, you will be okay with few days of rest.

Sleep here tonight.

I will go to my residence.

Am I...

that uncomfortable to you?

Don't worry and just stay.

I'll leave.

My parents are in jail.

How can I rest in the royal clinic? It's too extravagant for me.

Ga Hee.

It's not too late.

I have two horses as swift as the Red Hare.

If we immediately escape quietly and ride all night,

can't we find somewhere a world where the two of us can hide?

By running away, let's throw away this terrible fate which is binding you

and the life of a prince which is consuming me.

Let's throw all that away and start anew.

Are you telling me to flee with a man by night?

I am not the girl you met at the residence of Buddhist nuns any more.

I am only a traitor's child who is trying to save

my mother and father.

Is that child the best choice possible?

Drag her out.

Yes!

Wait. It can't be. It can't be.

Then, what will happen to my father?

Drag her out!

I have to meet with Professor Go.

Your Highness.

Your Highness, Ga Hee was dragged out by the palace guards.

Please...Please...