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What took you so long?

Your Majesty.

Please forgive me for overstepping my bounds...

Inform His Majesty.

Your Majesty,

Hong Gyeong-rae is alive.

What did you say?

Nan-hui.

Gyeong-rae?

You need get away from here. Where's Ra-on?

Ra-on? She's up on the hill.

Come this way.

Stay right here.

No, you can't.

No...

You two.

Are you looking for me?

He is being escorted to the Royal Investigation Bureau as we speak.

How dare you!

Do you take me for a fool?

I can't believe it either,

but it's the truth.

No, this can't be. He died ten years ago.

The rumors about

him surviving at Jeonju Castle back then and plotting another uprising was true.

-Your Majesty. -Your Majesty!

-Your Majesty! -Your Majesty!

Your Majesty...

Bring in the royal physician!

Your Majesty.

Your Majesty...

Your Highness, His Majesty has fainted.

Hong Gyeong-rae has been arrested.

Mom, are you all right?

They took him.

Took who?

Your father...

What...

What do you mean?

Your father...

I thought he was dead.

I wished that he was alive somewhere...

But I thought he was dead.

Please don't die...

He's alive.

Clear a path!

Make way.

-Hong Gyeong-rae. -It's Hong Gyeong-rae.

Hong Gyeong-rae was alive!

Tell me about it. My goodness.

Move out of the way!

Dear god, it's Hong Gyeong-rae.

He was alive all this time.

Make way!

Move!

I've waited for so long.

Is this the only way we could've met?

What a pity...

I heard the King ordered him to the palace and not the Royal Investigation Bureau.

I don't care if it costs me my life.

I will help him escape.

We're guarding this place thoroughly, so don't worry.

How's your mother?

She must still be in shock. She can't seem to wake up.

She will get better with some rest.

Don't you worry.

Yes, Chief Eunuch.

Take care then.

Sir.

I have something to ask.

No.

Have you really no idea how dangerous the palace is for you?

I know.

He is a felon who took ten years to capture.

The life of you and your father is at stake.

That's why I'm pleading.

If things don't turn out right...

Chief Eunuch.

The whole nation knows my father.

I'm the only one who doesn't.

I can't put you in harm's way too.

One last time...

No, it'll be my first time.

Please help me meet my father.

He was alive.

A few nights ago, he came by while I was sleeping.

It wasn't a dream. It just wasn't.

We were supposed to celebrate the Prince's marriage today.

How could this have happened?

Your Majesty, we will soon set another date,

so please don't worry about the royal marriage.

You need to focus more on your health.

He played me like a fiddle for over ten years.

Dismemberment would seem like a mercy right now!

Of course.

I am as horrified as you are.

Since he committed high treason,

you should interrogate him yourself

and sentence him to death by beheading.

Premier Kim, how dare you suggest that.

You very well know how His Majesty responded to the arrest.

I agree. You aren't strong enough, Your Majesty.

No.

Like Premier Kim suggested, I will interrogate him myself.

Keep your head down and follow me closely.

Are you the one

who will escort me?

Do not ask questions until we get inside.

Your Highness, where are you going?

To prison.

But why at this hour?

I have to see him myself.

I will wait here.

-He can't avoid it. -Exactly.

Are you

really Hong Gyeong-rae?

Yes, I am.

What brings the honorable Crown Prince

all the way to prison?

Is your family

aware of your arrest?

I don't have a family.

I heard you want the King to perish.

If so,

am I also your target?

Has the interrogation already begun?

I lost

something I hold dear because of you.

Heaven chose the leader

for the people.

Not for one man to rule over others

to fulfill his own greed.

Is that

what Baekwoon Group believes in?

No, not quite.

I believe there is an error in that statement.

What would that be?

Heaven does not choose

the leader for the people.

The leader for the people

is chosen by the hands of the people.

We shall stay in Jahyeondang until daybreak to avoid the risk.

I put you through too much trouble.

Did you bring her here?

My apologies, Your Highness.

Are you sure it was her?

I thought it was strange when he avoided eye contact.

He was unusually small, too.

I checked the drawing when I came back

and it was definitely her.

How dare she set foot in here?

You must capture her before the interrogation.

Yes, sir.

No one can leave or enter under these circumstances.

I wonder what the Crown Prince would say when the father meets the daughter.

If anyone

follows you to Jahyeondang,

hide in here.

Even the door is hard to find from the outside.

I didn't know

this place existed inside Jahyeondang.

My mother

used to come here.

Are you all right?

Yes, Your Highness.

When the guard change shifts

I'll help you meet him.

He is the one

you are longing for.

Pass.

Pass.

Pass.

Pass.

This is terrifying.

HONG RA-ON. AGE 18. THE DAUGHTER OF THE REBEL HONG GYEONG-RAE

Is that a familiar face or is it my imagination?

I hope I am wrong.

Eunuch Hong?

The daughter of a rebel?

Not even a son,

but a daughter?

Eunuch Hong?

What is this?

The eunuch His Highness favored from the Crown Prince's palace

is a girl.

What?

We found out that she is the daughter of the rebel Hong Gyeong-rae.

In two days,

we will break him out at 1 p.m.

Seize the palace guards at the time of their rotation.

We will be dressed in camouflage and open the prison doors.

Lead him to the underground passage,

and I will smuggle him outside the palace.

Yes, sir.

How many will be in camouflage?

Ten, including you.

Yes, sir.

Remember.

Keep the child hidden and safe.

I will, sir.

What brings you to my palace?

We weren't able to exchange nuptials,

but I guess I am now the Crown Princess.

I was allowed to wait here

even in your absence.

I am sorry for keeping you waiting.

However,

since it's late why don't you come back during the day?

Your took...

the bracelet off?

I'm only asking because

I thought it was special to you.

I just left it somewhere else.

Sharing the bracelet

ties one's fate to another's to make sure that

the two meet again.

Street merchants come up with odd sayings these days.

They know the desperation

of those who want to believe what is obviously a lie.

I have feelings for someone else.

Who is

that woman?

Your Highness, it is an emergency.

Eunuch Hong...

What is it?

You should head to the Queen's palace.

Hurry.

Do not come in here,

ever again.

Do you have anything to say?

I was only asked to fill in for the guard.

Is it the same guard who asked you here yesterday?

Ra-on.

Yes?

Hong Ra-on.

I gave you that name to live a better life.

I am...

so sorry.

When...

were you going to show yourself to me?

I don't know.

I guess the day

that you're safe enough to no longer pretend

to be a man.

You...

didn't have to change the world.

You could've...

been there for me...

as a caring father.

The world is a mess.

I didn't want

to raise my child in an environment where I couldn't do anything for her.

That's why

I wanted to change its ways.

I wanted

you to live in a much better world.

Still,

I would have liked to know that...

you were alive.

I would have missed you

and called your name out many times.

Father.

Forgive me, My Lord.

I just have urgent news.

What's with the ruckus?

My Queen...

I found her.

What do you mean?

I mean Hong Sam...

No, Hong Ra-on.

Is she really within palace walls?

Yes.

Fearless, isn't she?

So, where did you see her?

I saw her exiting the palace prison.

She's now on her way to Jahyeondang

with the Crown Prince!

To Jahyeondang with the Prince?

Call for the Commandant of Palace Guards.

I want to see this myself.

Yun-seong, what brings you by?

Your Highness,

Grandfather asked me to deliver this tea.

There is something I have to tell you first though.

Thank you, but this is not a good time.

-Perhaps-- -No.

You will want to hear me out.

Come back some other time.

It is about

a newborn baby that was sneaked out of the palace recently.

Shall we really talk later?

I see you have the audacity

to disdain the Queen with such treacherous lies.

The person belittling the people isn't me but you.

You very well know that.

Shut your mouth!

Forget what Eunuch Seong said.

Don't tell the King or Grandfather.

If you do so, I will keep quiet about--

What will you do if I tell?

Will you tell the King about the baby being swapped?

No one would believe you.

I would need evidence to back up my claim.

Yet, here you are blackmailing me.

"Blackmailing"?

What if that baby is still alive?

Would that change things?

I did my best not to put Your Highness in danger

ever again.

Do not say that.

Before you and I even met,

our fate led us this way.

So don't

be sorry.

or blame yourself.

It is getting too late.

You should go back, Your Highness.

The clouds covered the moonlight.

How could I walk through the dark alone?

Let me stay...

just a little longer.

Countless times a day,

I imagine what it would be like

if we aren't who we are.

Even for a moment,

in a place where no one knows,

can't we forget everything

and face each other?

Ra-on.

Tonight, I think I will

fall asleep in peace for the first time in a long time.

Did you break out of prison?

The prisoner is on the loose.

Seize him.

Guards! Bring in Premier Kim.

I command you

to open the courtyard for Hong Gyeong-rae today.

I didn't expect the courtyard to open so soon.

Breaking him out of the courtyard

is ten times harder

than doing it from prison.

Yes, sir. I am aware.

Byeong-yeon.

Jang Ki-baek died in prison.

I did that.

Even if he betrayed us,

he was my friend of over ten years.

But,

feelings are a luxury for the cause.

Give everything you have...

to help the man escape from that courtyard.

Yes, sir.

Dress Ra-on in camouflage

and tell her to hide next to the palace door.

We will smuggle out both.

It is safer that way.

Yes, sir.

The interrogation is about to begin.

What makes you so impatient?

About what you said before,

by "the leader chosen by the people,"

do you mean another puppet monarch

who listens to the people?

No.

I want it, too.

Politics for the people.

However,

how could the people choose a King to rule above them?

What we want

is more than politics for the people.

We want politics by the people.

A King chosen by heaven like you

think you are the sun.

The absolute power.

The King chosen by the people is different.

How so?

He believes that he is equal to his people

as a person.

People dream of being treated as such.

Ironic, is it not?

Why do you think

the solution is to rid of the King?

No King can give up his throne.

You and I,

nobles and slaves,

women and men.

An offspring of a traitor and the heir to the throne.

Can you allow all these people

to be equals when you are King?

You must attend the interrogation at the courtyard, Your Highness.

The one chosen by the people

isn't the only one who will treasure them.

A leader who treasures each and every one of his people

can never treat them like animals.

So,

what are you trying to say?

You and I

dream of the same world.

The only difference is

how long it will take to build.

I will return after the interrogation.

Perhaps,

we can do this without wasting any lives.

We can work together

to build the world we dream of.

Hong Gyeong-rae, do you confess to committing high treason?

I don't know what that is,

so I can't confess to anything.

There is evidence that you betrayed this country and your people.

So stop telling lies.

What is this betrayal you accuse me of?

How dare you!

Begin the torture on this traitor.

Continue until he confesses to his crimes.

Lie to His Majesty once again,

and you'll be sentenced to a beheading.

Hong Gyeong-rae,

you began an uprising 10 years ago,

brought misery to the people,

and killed thousands.

Do you confess?

Is that what you meant?

Is that your definition of treason and betrayal?

If so, then I admit all charges.

That's not all.

Those who shared my vision that day

are here right now.

They extorted the people with too much taxation.

Noble families pocketed most of it

just so that they can live cushy lives.

I led the starving people

to fight until they met their ends.

All they wanted was a better life,

but the King demolished all hopes and dreams

by firing explosives at them.

Come hither!

Off with that traitor's--

I'm confessing!

Sentence them to an execution by beheading too.

That's the way of repaying for the bloodshed

by the thousands of people.

I order you

to behead him immediately. Immediately!

-Yes, Your Majesty. -Yes, Your Majesty.

Your Majesty,

please recant.

Crown Prince!

Please compose yourself.

It's proper procedure

to handle sentencing after the interrogation is over.

Lower your swords!

That's not the real reason though.

We're in the midst of punishing a traitor.

This is no time to be swayed by your personal feelings.

Premier Kim.

Rumors regarding your relationship with his daughter have been flying around.

Premier Kim, what are you talking about?

Are the rumors true?

My Prince, why aren't you saying anything?

Is he telling the truth?

Bring her in.

This is the girl.

My Prince!

Is what he saying true?

Hong Ra-on, the daughter of traitor Hong Gyeong-rae.

Is she the spy you've been hiding in your quarters?

You fell in love with a traitor's daughter.

Is it true you hid her for that very reason?

Let me answer to my own sins.

I've never even seen her once or called her name before.

She has no connections to me!

Convince us all that you weren't in league

with the traitors.

All you have to do

is behead this girl.

My Prince, why are you hesitating?

Come hither. Off with her head!

-Yes, Your Majesty. -Yes, Your Majesty.

Your Highness.

As of this moment,

do not love me anymore.

Only

remember me as a traitor's daughter.

I don't want you to feel guilty

for the rest of your life

for not being able to save the woman you love.

Protect the King and Prince!

How dare you!

Off with all the traitors' heads!

If you wish to save his life,

lower your swords.

Byeong-yeon...