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Hwa Jeong

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Episode 2

Your Majesty!

Your Majesty.

Your Majesty!

Your Majesty!

Your Majesty!

No...

Your Majesty.

Your Majesty, you can't...

Please open your eyes, Your Majesty.

Please open your eyes, Your Majesty.

You can't be this way.

You can't leave us like this.

Please look at Princess Jeong Myeong.

Please look at Yeong Chang, Your Majesty.

Who is going to protect these children from now on?

What will I do with these children, Your Majesty?

Your Majesty.

Your Majesty.

Your Majesty!

1608 Seonjo dies at age 56

Your Majesty!

Your Majesty!

Your Majesty, please come back!

Your Majesty, please come back!

Aigo, Aigo...(Sound for funeral.)

Aigo, Aigo...

Aigo, Aigo...

My Queen.

Father.

All of a sudden, how could it be?

Please stop crying.(Queen In Mok)

It was going to happen at some point.

Your Highness.(Boo Won Goon, Kim Je Nam)

Father, the important thing is to protect my children...

Yeong Chang and Jeong Myeong.

Did you look into the thing that I asked you to?

I think your assumptions are correct.

Last night somebody broke into the Grand prince's quarters.

They were going to kill the Grand prince.

They were able to hide the bodies of two soldiers

but they couldn't get rid of the traces of their blood.

How? How could that be?

In the end, the Crown Prince is saying that he will not let the prince live, Your Highness.

Just as everybody assumed.

Even so...

I trusted the Crown Prince.

You know his personality...

No. A person's true character

is revealed when he's cornered.

You can't let the Crown Prince take the throne.

But... how can I not?

The late king has passed away

and now you're in the highest position in the palace.

If the Crown Prince can't get the royal seal and edict,

he can't ascend to the throne!

Prince Im Hae

You...

seemed excited during the national mourning.

Your Excellency the Prince.

Why don't you try managing your expression a bit? Lee I Cheom

The king was still my father.

I beg your mercy. It seems that, after serving the Crown Prince, I...

Still, isn't it extremely fortunate?

Whether it was that Heaven and God helped us,

in the wake of the late king passing away,

the Crown Prince is able to rise to the throne safely.

What, this rascal? Fortunate?

My father the King's death is due to the help of Heaven and God?

Ow, ow, why are you being like this, Your Excellency the Prince? Please forgive me. I...

My mouth has become flippant.

The most damnable good-for-nothing in the world!

I beg for mercy, aigoo, mercy!

Help of Heaven and Gods, not for all the world!

Even if we didn't have those things, the Crowned Prince would have been elevated to the throne.

Because I would have killed Yeong Chang.

Yeong Chang...I could have killed that boy.

If the alarm bell didn't ring at the moment...

What did you say just now, Your Excellency the Prince?

Do what?

What nonsense are you uttering?

So Im Hae foolishly provoked the Queen.

Damn it! We had to go through all sorts of trouble to kill the King...

That wreck of a bastard...

If he had just left her alone, the feeble queen would not have been able to do anything.

Since he moved in to capture her offspring, she will reveal her talons now.

What should we do? Now at the least, should we have the queen...

No. Wait.[ Lady Kim Gae Si ]

Now the Crown Prince will act.

According to his ways.

How could you be that foolish?

Crown Prince. It was only for you that I...

I said not to do anything. Brother, not a thing.

- Crown Prince.- The royal seal is still in the queen's hands.

I'm saying that I am not yet the king.

What will you do if that incident causes the queen's mind to take action?

It's not only me. It's become dangerous for you too.

Why could you not be cautious and foul up things?

Nonetheless, how could I be still?

Your concerns are the same as my concerns.

Please leave.

- Crown Prince.- I'm saying for you to go since there is nothing more that you can do.

Keep out, you're saying?

To me, after all we've done?

When what I've done for you?

What are you doing? Escort Prince Im Hae!

Let go! I will go on my own two feet!

How many soldiers can we mobilize now, immediately?

Excuse me? [ Yu Hui Bun, Gwang Hae's brother-in-law ]

But, if not a surprise attack, the number that can take on the palace guards...

I'm not trying to attack the palace guards.

I'm trying to find a way now for me and everyone to live.

Because His Majesty's condition has worsened, we have been preparing.

But this suddenly...

Still every cloud has a silver lining.

Doesn't the Crown Prince get to rise to the throne, no?

Well...

you can never tell. [ Yi Won Ik ]

Whether the Crown Prince can safely claim the empty throne.

Excuse me?

Your Excellency, what are you saying?(Lee Deok Hyeong)

Excellency!

If the Crown Prince ascends the throne,

we are all dead anyway.

Spill your blood instead for the His Highness the Grand Prince. [ Yoo Yeong Gyeong's faction to enthrone Yeong Chang ]

Is His Excellency Yu Yeong Yeong Gyeong here?

- He's left saying that he had business? - Then what about the Ministry of Rites' Heo Seong and the Right Minister?

They're not in their offices.

Lord Han Eum!

Your Highness.Yeong Chang's quarters at Chungreung Palace

Go find the princess and the grand prince.

Privy Council, I beg of you.

Right now, the only thing that can get through the Official Documents Office...

-is only Your Excellency.- However, it's not possible.

This is clearly beyond your authority, Crown Prince.

I know but

I'm saying that, even by doing so, I hope to prevent war in the royal family.

It's to not shed blood. Me and Yeong Chang, for everyone.

So we don't have to point our swords at each other for the throne.

Crown Prince.

For the past sixteen years,

I've endured.

To become a kingly king of this country,

to raise Joseon that has been trampled and to become a king who protects my people,

not for one moment

have I forgotten that resolution.

If you think I, who am like that, am not qualified,

then fine. Then turn your back on me.

However, if you believe me, Your Excellency, please help me.

So that I can stop tragedy in the royal family, so that I become king

and to govern wisely.

What you're saying,

is it something I can believe?

What you've said about protecting His Highness the Grand Prince,

that you won't wield your sword against each other,

can you guarantee that?

Yes, I can.

In my reign, it will be so.

So long as they don't covet the throne, no one will get hurt.

It's to prevent bloodshed; for me, Yeong Chang and for everyone.

However, that is...

Seung Jeong Won, Royal Secretariat (Official Documents Office)

We don't have time! We have to catch every one of them. Every one of them.

My little princess.

I knew you would be here.

Older brother.

Your Highness. Your Highness.

Why are you hiding. Isn't this the place that you come when you play hide and seek?

It's because I'm scared.

- Because you are scared? - The King has died and

I dreamed that my little brother died.

The scary people, to my little brother...

Older Brother,

it isn't true, right? This is just a scary dream, right?

My little brother is okay, right?

That's right, Jeong Myeong.

It will be.

Jeong Myeong.

Here, your older brother will make a promise to you.

That kind of thing will never happen.

You trust your older brother, right?

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The king's official decree (Queen dowager or the queen as proxy in case of king's mishap)

Yu Faction ( Powers behind enthroning Grand Prince Yeong Chang )

Get ready to proclaim it right away.

- Now, we must depose the Crown Prince and...- Your Highness the Queen!

The princess is not here.

Her Highness, I mean.

- What?- Your Highness. Hurry, the decree...

What are you talking about? How can the princess be...

-My queen!-No!

Until we find the princess, no.

Your Highness. Your Highness.

Find the princess immediately. Search the entire palace!

Jeong Myeong! Princess.

Are you looking for this child, Your Highness?

Princess!

-My baby.-Mother Queen.

What do you think you are doing, Crown Prince?

-Crown Prince?-What do you mean, Your Highness?

Are you afraid when I am with this child?

- Look here, Crown Prince!- Shut your mouth, Queen's father. To whom do you dare!

I am the one who is curious as to what you were doing.

Why were you with them, Your Highness?

What did you do with them?

You can't trust me to this extent?

Did you assume that I was going to harm this child?

And Yeong Chang as well?

What are you doing? Arrest the Crown Prince immediately. He's the criminal who tried to assassinate the Grand Prince.

Dongbuseungji!( Sixth Royal Secretary at Royal Secretariat )

What are these people?

They are the criminals who assaulted the Grand Prince's residence.

I mean they're those who tried to assassinate His Highness the Grand Prince last night!

I beg your mercy, Your Highness.

All is due to my incompetence.

However, are you saying it was something you did not know?

- Really?- All of them will be summarily executed.

I'll annihilate their entire family and relatives for attempted murder of the Grand Prince.

Only, please let my older brother Im Hae keep his life.

I know that crime is unforgivable, but

please forgive a moment's foolishness.

- Crown Prince!- And as for Yeong Chang,

so that no one can ever harm that child,

I will protect him with my own hands.

I mean both children, Yeong Chang and Jeong Myeong.

Can you not believe this resolve, Your Highness?

You say you are going to protect Yeong Chang? You, the Crown Prince?

No. I can't trust you.

In the palace, whose words can I trust?

Even if your words are true now, as soon as you sit on the throne, it will be different.

It'll be worse as the Grand Prince grows.

Then, Your Highness, difficult times will ensue.

This is...

It is my father the king's will.

I mean the will that was kept at the Royal Secretariat that conferred the crown on me, that he could not change, alas.

How can you have this, Crowned Prince?

Even if so, you still can resist.

In the end, between me with the will and Your Highness, blood will likely be shed in the palace.

Are you certain that you can win that battle?

Are you certain that you want it?

Is this what you want to see happen?

Why...

did you seek me out when you have the will in your hands?

It's because I wanted to convey my true feeling.

Because I did not want to go against you.

I know what you want.

Isn't it to protect Yeong Chang and Jeong Myeong?

I too feel that way.

I do not want to sit on the throne by spilling blood of my own family.

Please help me be the King who can open a new era.

Your highness...

can't you take my hand?

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Older Brother.

Mother Queen.

Oh, Princess.

Are you okay? You must have been really surprised.

Yes, Mother Queen. Why did you do that back there?

You were upset. Did you have a fight with Older Brother?

I was supposed call him the Crown Prince...

Baby, do you like calling Crown Prince as older brother ?

It's okay. Tell me.

Yes, if I can call him that.

Since he's my older brother, I like that he is really my older brother.

Just now, did you say that a royal decree has been promulgated?

That's right.At the Royal Secretariat.

It has to be five days...

after the late king's death before taking the throne.

This soon?

Then, do you mean that it's a royal edict deposing Gwang Hae as crown prince in the end?

Royal Deposition Edict -- to remove Gwanghae from his position

Your Highness, you cannot accept this.(Dae Book Pa, Strong Supporter of Gwang Hae)

Let's go.

Hear me, Crown Prince.

At this moment as queen, I order Crown Prince...

this is a strict command for the stability of the royal family and its future accomplishment.

By issuing a decree, I am...

transferring the throne on to the crown prince.

Your Highness.

What are you saying? Transferring the throne?

No, not the Crown Prince!

Stop Chief State Councillor.

Your Highness, you will regret it!

You'll end up losing the Grand Prince!

What are you doing?

Your Highness! Your Highness!

Your Highness!

Crown Prince, receive the decree.

However, it's only been a day since the late king passed away. How dare I...

Chief Royal Secretary.

When King Ye Jong passed away, the next king wasn't decided.

Queen Jeonghui determined the enthroning of King Seong Jong. We have a precedent.

Now is the same as then.

We cannot leave the throne unoccupied even for a moment.

Bring the royal seal.

Please. Only these children...

'There will be an endless amount of blood shed and the red fort will burn.

Your Highness the Queen.

I pray you will protect the royal family, and

become a king who governs justly, Your Majesty.

Your grace is immeasurable, Your Highness!

Your Majesty the King!

First year of Gwanghae's Reign, the court moved to Changdoek Palace

Did you just say that we should cover this up?

Police Chief Hong YeongHan Eum, but this letter, surely...

Yes, it is.

If my memory is correct, the corpse that was found...

was the 16th Century's Prophet Nam Sa Go from Yeongyang Provence.

He probably was the revered prophet during the reign of the late King. I'm sure of it.

Then, is this the last prophecy that he left?

Long ago, when I was with another prophet...

To Jeong Yi Ji Ham, I saw him.

Tell me Gyeok Am. What did you see?

Is there a way to stop the prophecy?

There is no way to stop the Palace's future tragedy?

Truly, must innocent people's blood

cover the earth?!

Gyeok Am (Nam Sa Go's pen name)

Why do you want to cover this letter up, especially knowing he's Nam Sa Go?

From this nation; the one who studies astrology, you cannot simply say that it is superstitious belief.

Furthermore, if it belongs to Prophet Nam Sa Go...

That's why. That's why we should cover it up, Sir.

The last sentence, which states,"The One who rules the fire of this nation,"

"Only the pure blood will become the real owner of the world."

That refers to Grand Prince Yeong Chang.

If he had spoken about this, what do you think could have happened?

Are you worried about an uprising?

We have barely stopped a possible Palace coup and

there is a new king now.

This can become the spark which can start the fire again.

However, if this prophecy is true...

if the rightful owner of the throne must be the Grand Prince and not the Crown Prince,

then what's going to happen?

My Excellency, I have studied and mastered the "Book of Change and Astrology." (Book of Change- Like a new age book.)

As you may agree,

you are aware that you can foretell the future of someone through astrology.

However, I, personally believe what is stronger than one's fate is

a person's own will. I remember the words of Scholor To Jeong Lee Ji Ham.(To Jeong was Lee Ji Ham's pen name)

Elder.

You must have heard?

I see.

I don't know whether a sad and long winter might come to this land.

What?!

Those faithful retainers will fall,

pitiful lives will fall,

and the days full of lies and injustice will continue.

You will have to live in that world.

But then child, even at that don't forget,

that it is people who allow barbarism and injustice to prevail

and it is they who can recover.

That it's human will that is stronger than Heaven's intentions.

I believe that.

I mean people.

Isn't it Han Eum?

What brings you here, Sir?

I was in the area so I stopped by.

Ah, I see. Ah...

I came to deliver these two rascals.

This rascal is Hong Yeong's eldest son.

This one's my child.

Nice to meet you. My name is Joo Won.

- My name is In Woo, Sir. - I see.

I've heard a lot about you from my teacher.

You're the pupils of Oh Seong?

They finished learning the Discourses of Mencius.

-Joo Won is reading the Doctrine of the Mean.-Is he?

Excuse me, Sir. Would it be alright if I were to ask you to teach me some time soon?

Huhn?

Like you, Sir, I'd like to master a great deal of learning

and accomplish my dreams.

Me too. Please make me your student too, Sir.

These kids...

Yes. They're very ambitious kids.

If you choose them, you'll regret it.

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Let's play Jachigi (ruler game) just for a little!

No, I need to finish until chapter three.

Nerd...

I don't know. I'm thinking of just losing to you.

What?!

This studying stuff, I'm doing because I don't like losing to you.

After all I...

might not be able to seek out public office.

What are you talking about?Why can't you?

But I have a dream now.

Later, I'm going to become the king's brother-in-law.

The king's brother-in-law.Yeah, the princess's husband.

Why? We met her, that time.

Your Highness, should we play hide and seek?

How about Toho? (throwing sticks in a container)

You like to play Toho.

Your Highness. These days, you don't even sleep at all.

Are you feeling sick?

That's not why.Lady Choi.

Repeatedly in my dream...

What?

It's hot.

It's so hot.Lady Choi.

Princess!!

Princess!!

What's wrong, Princess?

What is wrong with the Princess?

Queen Mother!

What is it? Your mother is here.

They die, Royal Mother.

People are repeatedly...

What?!

Aigoo. Why is it like this!

Aigoo!

Aigoo...

I'm sure you already know who those people were earlier.

Chased out because they could not pay excessive taxes,

they're nomads.

In the capital, places like those are overflowing and then some.

However, the royal family looked away from such subjects and...

spent effort only on reconstructing the palace.

I'm getting a scolding.

Forgive me.

Reconstructing the royal palace was inevitable.It's also for the subject

since we have to set right the royal authority.

However, I also will not

look away from the people who've fallen into distress.

I will institute the Dae Dong Law. [ a system of substituting rice for regional specialties to reduce the negative effects of tax tributes ]

Dae Dong Law?

The court's opposition will be great

since it's telling the nobility who have land to pay taxes.

I'm telling them to do such, yes.

Not the commoners who don't have, but the nobility who do should pay.

With their money, I will aid the people.

This is how I plan to rescue this kingdom.

Do you also have the strength to overcome the opposition without wavering?

Of course.

Since I will do that work together with you who will be the new Chief Minister.

Excuse me?!

Please accept the post of Chief Minister, Sir.

Your Majesty, that is unreasonable.

How could I... such a duty!

Isn't Dae Dong Law your long-cherished wish?

My long-cherished wish is

to govern the country with a man of talent with no ulterior motive, like you.

Thus, let's go together.

Please become my right-hand man.

Your Majesty.

Han Eum? What do you mean Han Eum?

The one who pounded away to exhaustion was I.

But just because he did minimum work, he's the one who gets to eat it ?

Not anyone else but Han Eum?

Did you expect to be a minister from the beginning?

That wasn't it but

A section chief at Ministry of Defense is still two low of a rank.

Isn't it I who elevated His Majesty to the throne?

So,

Do you want to reveal to His Majesty that you killed the late king?

Look here!!

It's alright. She's Court Lady Oh who took me in.

She has come out of the palace because, like me, the person she attended has passed away.

I'm getting help from her.

To His Majesty, Han Eum is someone necessary...

for the intention he has harbored for a long time.

However,

soon he will realize,

what kind of thing the throne is.

How many promises he must betray from that place.

Leaving the palace will be helpful. The doctor also said so.

If only she'll get better by recuperating outside the palace.

Your Majesty. Queen Dowager. There is a big problem now.

Right now... in the palace...

What's wrong? What has happened?

Let go, you rascals! Let go of me who am the late king's eldest son!

Your Majesty. Criminal Im Hae tried to raise an army to attack the palace.

Those who were captured have all confessed to their crimes, Your Majesty.

You must take care of Im Hae's crimes through death.

However, there are only a few pieces of weaponry and Prince Im Hae is protesting he's being wrongly accused.

Please be cautious, then even more cautious, Your Majesty.

No, there are other matters deserving caution.

Does someone who's been falsely accused don a blouse and skirt to run away?

Is dressing like a woman a hobby? To commit sodomy?

Lee I Cheom!

You're too immoderate with your speech. This place is the royal palace.

It's because it is harsh that I'm saying it. Do you know what Im Hae is claiming?

"I am yielding the throne to His Majesty. Originally, that position was mine."

"So I'll reclaim it," he supposedly said.

Daring to covet the throne, His Majesty's only full blood relation at that intended to stab him with a sword.

That's enough!

Please all of you, stop this.

Section Chief!

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Me?

You...

Do not disturb his good faith. Right now is when counsel is needed.

Who knows?

I too was seeking to offer counsel.

Wouldn't that be so when I elevated His Majesty to the throne with much difficulty?

When it comes to loyalty, I can kill it too.

- Milord. - Your Excellency.

So, Sir, you should not be too concerned with only your character but show your loyalty too.

If we look, you've been a miser ever since you were young.

Aren't we actually distant cousins, no? So I know you a bit, Sir.

Your life has been on track from the beginning, so you won't know me.

No, I know you too.

However, now, it seems I must not only know but keep an eye on you.

- Keep an eye on me?- Your loyalty.

No, it's ambition probably.

At that, a very vulgar one.

- What did you say? - However,

it'd be good if you didn't think to grab power with such vulgar ambitions.

While I'm in this position,

I will stop it.

I think you sought me out far too early.

I must remain further still at the village for palace personnel who've exited the palace.

I know.

There will be a lot of talk probably if I kept you, who was my father's court lady, next to me.

However, it doesn't matter.

You're a long-time kindred spirit and friend, are you not?

Kim Gae Si

So there's something I want to ask you tonight.

Tomorrow,

the Ming envoys will be arriving.

I heard so.

I'm told it's to discuss Your Majesty's investiture.

That's right. Because I am

Joseon's king who can be acknowledged as king only if I receive the Ming emperor's written approval.

Those who disparaged me so much while I was the Crown Prince

will only now throw me that thing called the investiture.

But then,

before that,

they say they must see Prince Im Hae.

What do you mean that the envoys are trying to see Prince Im Hae?[ Police Chief Hong Yeong ]

The reason Ming did not acknowledge His Majesty all this time was that

he was not the legitimate son but a concubine's son and not the eldest son.

When we sent a delegation few years ago,

they made an issue out of that Prince Im Hae is not the Crown Prince.

But, you also know about our situation at that time.

We tried to make up the excuse that Im Hae was mentally ill.

Could it be they came to confirm?Whether Prince Im Hae is crazy or not?

But Prince Im Hae won't pretend being crazy to put them at ease.

I don't know about back then but right now, Prince Im Hae is...

If my older brother truly harbored treacherous thoughts,

he will probably reveal the truth before them.

And if that happens...

Then everyone will say, "Kill Prince Im Hae".

Since you cannot put him forth before the envoys in this state.

I don't know what I should do.

Older brother is saying he's innocent. That he did not plot treason.

I want to believe that, Gae Si. To believe my older brother.

Then Your Majesty,

put forth

Im Hae before them.

If you sincerely believe him, I mean.

However, Your Majesty...

you must be aware of one thing.

They will probably try to kill me, right?

Certainly, on a day like today.

Criminal Im Hae, receive the king's command.

Vice Chancellor,

I already informed you that Prince Im Hae is in lying sick in his bed.

Therefore, please the next...

This is the command of the Emperor, Chief State Councillor.

If you keep coming out like this, we have no choice but to be suspicious of your king.

What is the reason that you cannot bring forth Prince Im Hae?

- To hide the truth?- Vice Chancellor...

Vice Chancellor, outside right now...

Tell me, Prince Im Hae.

We are trying to help you, Lord Prince.

Whether your mind is sound, I mean.

Lord Prince.

I...

I...

Lord!

That is... I..

Please, Prince Im Hae.

Poison? That's not true.

His Majesty believes to the end in your innocence.

I have only received the king's command to escort you.

My Lord.

What is it that you want me to do? What do you want me to do!

That's right. I'm crazy.

That's why I'm still in the palace, I who am His Majesty's only bloodline.

So I am here looking like this!

Prince Lord!

The King's only bloodline...

Is that really how it turned out? Im Hae did that for the King's sake?

Yes, Your Highness. As a result, the envoys all went back, I'm told.

Thank goodness.

For His Majesty and for Im Hae too. Though it must not have been easy.

I'm thankful to His Majesty who believed in his bloodline.

His Majesty.

Since the palace has settled and the princess has improved, I think it'll be alright for you to return to the palace now.

Let's do so.

So pretty.

Child.

Queen Mother.

The night is cold. Let's go in.

We should return to the palace tomorrow.

Yes, Queen Mother.

What is that?

I brought it from the Buddhist temple a little while ago.

Because it's so pretty.

It must be something that they use at the temple. To carelessly...

Hold on. This is...

This is...

I will unveil your unfair charges and move you to a better place.

I will stop the court's opposition.

Since it's been confirmed that you did not harbor treacherous thoughts.

- Hon.- Also,

for doubting you even just a little, forgive me.

Although I knew it was impossible, I foolishly...

Hyungnim.

I'm a crazy fool.

I was the one who should have been killed.

But, please, please forgive me.

Why are you like this, Hyungnim?

Humans are all creatures of ambition, just as Your Majesty was.

Moreover, the throne on which Your Majesty sits is the culmination of that ambition.

Soon now, you will come to know ambition even greater than you did these past sixteen years.

So it was... true.

It was not a false charge. You really betra...

Is that so? Did you really covet the throne?

But... I didn't mean it.

I wasn't in my right mind.

It was like that. I felt wronged.

I yielded the throne to you but you...

Yielded, you say?

That's right. Since our father the king's eldest son was I.

Wasn't it my place to begin with?

- Hyungnim.- So I thought you'd make me your Crown Prince once you rose to the throne.

Since the next in line would have been me naturally. I did not know you would cast me away like that.

At the least now...

Crown Prince...

Are you asking me to give you that position?

Hon, can you do that for me?

If you do that for me, I will swear my loyalty to you.

Of course, no matter how long you're on the throne, I will not be greedy.

Hon, believe me.

Aren't we brothers?

You will come to know,

that man's promise is false and that there is no one to trust.

The throne is strong and beautiful like a fierce fire.

Your Majesty.

Entrust it to me.

That it can swallow up Your Majesty too.

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Preview

To earn this position, I thought that was already a quite prohibitive price I paid.

If it wasn't me but someone else who became king would it have been different?

Since Yeong Chang will be able to act as king when he's 8 years old.

Even from the Queen Dowager's, an advance seems to have been initiated already.

His Majesty's thoughts also seem to be headed in a precarious direction.

It might pour oil on this unstable political situation.

Are you saying that I cannot do even this much?

It's for your younger brother. Only you can save that child.