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BLOODY HEART

THE PEOPLE, GROUPS, PLACES, AND INCIDENTS IN THIS DRAMA ARE PURELY FICTIONAL

Send this traitor to the State Tribunal!

Halt!

Not to the State Tribunal.

Lock him up in the Internal Prison.

I will…

hold him responsible in the future.

Yes, Your Highness.

Take him away!

BLOODY HEART EPISODE 14

The subjects were beheaded?

Councilor Park won't let that happen.

That's what I find even weirder.

Councilor tried to take the Queen Dowager's life

and was put in the Internal Prison.

Councilor Park can't be that foolish.

But it seems to be true.

This is

simply tyranny.

What did the State Council do?

What about the Three Offices, the Royal Family, and scholars?

They used the law, causes, and honor for parents

to stop me from making any moves.

Why are they silent now?

Your Majesty.

I have another piece of news.

Please don't move.

You should be careful right now.

Have you heard?

I heard…

you are pregnant.

Yes, Your Majesty.

I'm sorry.

I put you through so much trouble even though you were pregnant.

I won't ever

leave you alone again.

Ttonggeum…

died.

She died in my place

in the hands of those who tried to kill me.

The Queen Dowager is a tyrant.

An oppressor.

She cannot continue like this.

It may be dishonoring your mother,

but you must do this for our people and the Royal Family.

You have no time to lose.

If her tyranny is prolonged,

we don't know how much our people will suffer.

The Queen Dowager must be

deposed as soon as possible.

She annihilated a good number of subjects

without questioning them once.

Even Councilor Park is locked up in the Internal Prison.

That's the prison for eunuchs and court ladies.

Turn a blind eye to it,

if you wish to live.

Inspector Park of the Office of Inspector General.

Please allow me in.

There is a rumor

that Councilor Park is imprisoned in the Internal Prison.

Do you know

anything about this?

Please spare him, Your Highness.

My lord does not have anything to do with this rebellion.

And it is told that

he dared to take your life,

but he's only getting framed.

You're asking me to spare him,

which makes me want to kill him even more.

I shall

cut off my tongue

since it dared to defy you.

If you ask me for my head,

I will give it to you.

And how shall I use that disgusting thing?

Keep your eyes on everything

with the same vigor when you humiliated me.

Your tongue, your head,

and your life as the wife of the left state councilor.

Mother, let us go.

Go meet your father.

The Internal Prison doesn't allow private visitors.

I'll find a way for you.

Go ask your father what he's up to.

I will do

as he asks.

TRAITOR

NO KYUNGMOON

Announcing that in these current times

is the same as saying that you are.

My lord.

I became a bystander of slaughter

although I was in charge of the palace's security.

I let some hoodlums take the palace.

Did you not find any bodies?

No, they cleaned up everything after killing the hoodlums.

It's not just a few.

That means the Consort is likely to have survived.

-Should I say I'm relieved? -My lord.

Please look.

This was found nearby.

This is a wooden tag for a regional army.

Does this mean

regional soldiers are near the palace?

Did I disturb you from your sleep again?

I'll soon find out if the court ladies are fine.

I told you not to worry about it.

I keep dreaming

about how you spit out blood and collapsed before me.

And Ttonggeum, right before her death.

I keep telling myself that I cannot forget about her.

Maybe that's why I keep seeing her.

-We'll return to the palace soon. -Once we return,

I'll find the one who tried to poison you to death.

The one who tried to hurt you

might be the one behind the Queen Dowager.

This isn't something she could have done alone.

This is someone

who put the country in chaos by using her.

I will not forgive this one.

I must have…

become weak.

I have more to protect,

and it only makes me more impatient and scared.

This must be why my late father

also cowered down.

I finally understand

how he felt.

What are you

so afraid of?

I was afraid I wouldn't be able to protect you.

And now,

I'm afraid I may

lose you.

I went through two selections

to marry a strange man.

And both times, it was with you.

We were meant to be.

We cannot be separated that easily.

Were you

really going to kill me?

Your Highness.

I am grieved that I could not take your life.

Just as I dragged down the old deposed king,

I will also drag you down.

A subject who rebels once is a vassal of merit,

but twice, they are a traitor.

Dragging down the Queen Dowager whilst in her regency?

That is rebellion.

In that case,

I will become a traitor.

You must have forgotten

that you were locked up trying to murder royalty.

Your crime is enough to have three generations annihilated.

In that case, you can punish me according to our customs.

I decide what the customs are!

Nobody…

stands above the customs.

You should step down

before you are dragged down.

What can you do?

Nobody in the Royal Court is on your side.

Even if you die in here,

nobody will step up for you.

Before I die,

I will have you deposed, Your Highness.

Where's Consort Park?

Is she alive or dead?

Is somebody hiding her?

Maitreya has not answered.

You must have

lost your power.

And where is my message of the King's death?

You continuously miss things,

so the chief eunuch had to send someone to the detached palace.

If a scout is here,

it means the Queen Dowager is suspicious of me.

Tell Siwol to stop going into the palace.

We need someone to cause trouble with the Queen Dowager.

We cannot do that without Siwol.

It'll take some time,

but it's doable.

Kyun.

I saw that kid's face.

If he gets hurt,

I'll never be able

to forget that boy's face.

And I only saw him once.

How would you feel?

If you came this far,

the situation must be very dire.

Councilor Park knows about you.

Eunuchs are also keeping an eye on you,

so the chief eunuch is also suspicious of you.

Everyone whom I planted in the palace has fled already,

so I can't find any details.

So you must leave immediately too.

Father.

I thought

after everything,

you would abandon me.

You have no use to me anymore,

so of course, I'll abandon you.

He'll now tell the Queen Dowager that I am still alive.

Your Majesty.

I sent Siwol away.

He should be out of the city by now.

Good job.

Father, it's me.

I have one last thing to do before I leave.

Don't worry too much.

You know,

I'm glad I have a father

I can say that too.

The ones who took Consort Park dropped that.

If you found the evidence, you should catch the Consort first.

Why are you so slow?

It's a regional army tag.

What?

I do not know which region they are from,

but that position shows

local soldiers under a governor are near the palace.

We never mobilized a governor's soldiers, so…

If His Majesty gave an order,

it would've been possible.

Why are you telling me this now?

How dare that disgusting eunuch!

Your Highness!

Your Highness!

Your Highness.

There is bad news.

The ones who took Consort Park

seem to be local soldiers working for a governor.

I haven't told any governor to mobilize his soldiers lately.

Why are they near the palace?

On top of that,

the troop dispatch token is still within palace walls.

If His Majesty signed the order,

it might be possible.

It looks like

His Majesty has woken up.

Hyekang said the King will not live.

He can miss everything else,

but he was never wrong about…

the King.

Did you just say that my uncle is to be sent to Jeolla Province?

You choose to send one of my few relatives

so far away.

His Majesty has

already appointed him as governor of Jeolla Province.

To honor the skies before the rain-calling ceremony,

he lowered his food intake for the past three days.

Since last night, he did not even drink water.

That is true.

Those who serve at his palace can testify to that.

How peculiar.

He fasted, you say?

Not even the former King did as such.

But yet, he somehow consumed poison.

Stop him.

Your Highness.

I have been away for too long.

Hyekang.

Yes, Your Highness.

Is there a possibility for the King to wake up?

That will not happen.

He's already about to go to the other side.

You dare…

deceive me?

Your Highness the Queen Dowager,

His Majesty has woken up.

I saw him walk around with my own two eyes.

I ask you once again.

Has the King

deceived me?

The King has…

deceived me.

The detached palace

is protected by the soldiers

of the governor of Jeolla.

I do not know!

All I heard was that

they were mustered by a written order.

His Majesty will

send the soldiers of Jeolla Province before him.

And he will

take the palace over.

He sent the troops here only with a written order?

He's more loyal to the Royal Family, even at the cost of his life.

What shall you do?

He sent the army here without the troop dispatch token,

so this is treason.

Go to the Office of Seals and Badges.

I have the troop dispatch token to deploy the local army.

I shall muster every single soldier of this nation

to burn down

the King's detached palace.

Halt.

The troop dispatch token belongs to the Ministry of Defense.

It was only transferred to you in a state of emergency.

But now, the Queen Dowager demands it.

-You must obey her command. -How dare you.

-Do not speak to Minister Cho like that. -How dare you!

My order is the Queen Dowager's order.

I have evidence of some traitors

surrounding his detached palace to plot treason

against the King while he isn't in his right mind.

I send the troop dispatch token.

All governors of Joseon shall send their soldiers immediately.

Your Majesty.

The Queen Dowager mustered all soldiers in every province.

She sent the fake token all around the provinces of Joseon.

The Queen Dowager finally showed her rebellious motives.

Send my order and the real tokens to the governors around the country

and muster the troops.

Your order is my command.

GOVERNOR OF HWANGHAE PROVINCE

Things are just as you predicted.

The Queen Dowager

took the troop dispatch token.

I did everything as you said with the wooden tag

and the troop dispatch token.

So tell me now.

Has His Majesty

woken up?

Yes.

You don't look too thrilled about His Majesty's return.

I am in charge of the palace's security,

yet I failed to carry out my duty.

How will I pay for my sin?

I am a little afraid.

Minister Cho, you should make a contribution.

But I do not think you'll have too much time to think.

Councilor Park, what are you scheming in there?

I'm trying to help His Majesty get what he wants.

Telling the world that

the Queen Dowager is a traitor.

And now, the times will become tough

for the Queen Dowager and her subjects.

Inspector Park!

Will you really hand in that appeal to the Queen Dowager?

Please move aside.

Stop being so naive.

Even the Left Minister was killed. What can you do?

Your father is also imprisoned in the Internal Prison.

You are the one who taught me that the Three Offices must lay down our lives.

If I was only worried about staying alive,

I would also turn in my appeal, at the risk of my family's annihilation.

Her Highness is making an attempt to change the system of the Three Offices.

I cannot let her bring down the Three Offices.

The Three Offices have already fallen.

If the troops of Jeolla's governor are protecting

the crafters of Bamboo Grove Village,

it must be His Majesty.

I'm not sure how far His Majesty is involved.

I'm not sure if the troops in the city are on the Queen Dowager's order…

or His Majesty's.

Which side do you hope they are?

APPEAL

Whether I should consider you your father's child

or your mother's child…

I was once troubled over it.

Treat me as inspector of the Office of Inspector General.

Did you think this appeal would work in any way?

Even if it does not,

my duty is to turn it in again and again,

whether it be ten times or twenty.

I'd rather have you beg me to let your father go.

If he has committed a crime, he must be punished.

That is my father's business.

From the Office of Inspector General I, Inspector Park Namsang, ask of you.

The tyranny of the Queen Dowager worsens day by day.

Also, a group of cunning eunuchs is

working with a pagan religion to even disrupt political affairs.

They assume power, threaten local leaders,

and even extort civilian farmlands and their women.

All those with common sense have come together

to denounce the Queen Dowager.

Drag Inspector Park out immediately!

WEST GATE

They have committed all these crimes with the Queen Dowager behind them.

Their crimes must be exposed in every detail--

Inspector Park, enough!

Your Highness!

His Majesty has come into the city.

How did the King come into the city?

The governor of Gyeonggi is here along with His Majesty.

Call Minister Cho now.

Tell him to close all gates

and not to let anybody in.

Open up the palace gates!

His Majesty has returned!

Drop your swords.

His Majesty commands it.

Tie up all eunuchs.

Make sure the court ladies do not leave.

-Yes! -Yes!

Your Majesty.

I'm very glad as your mother

to see how healthy you have become.

I heard

you have been troubled because of me.

Mother.

You are…

stepping on the King's road.

In that case,

drag me off it.

Go ahead and dishonor your mother and provide a good reason

for your political enemies.

If you shed a drop of my blood,

you won't be able to keep your throne.

I am still…

your mother.

Your Highness, I am a court lady of the King's Palace.

Put me down.

THIRD INNER GATE

Do you know what happened to the ladies of Chaeokdang?

Your Highness.

You were all right.

Thank you so much for staying alive.

The King has returned.

What do you hope will happen to me?

After high treason,

the people threw stones on the wicked woman's body

which became her grave.

Then the deposed king died in a hut without a single ray of sunlight

all alone.

That is only reasonable.

Bad news.

I'm not like the deposed king.

He was a king,

but I am

the Queen Dowager.

The King has deceived me.

Did you know about this?

Yes.

If I trusted you more than I had,

would things have changed?

I do not think

things would have been different.

What do you mean?

Even the female physician said His Majesty cannot wake up anymore.

Do you wish for His Majesty to pass away?

No, how could I…

But Father,

I am also scared of myself.

How can I meet His Majesty with this sinful face?

I couldn't possibly show my face even in the afterlife.

I shouldn't have

turned in your profile for the selection.

Come out.

His Majesty ordered your release.

Please get dressed properly.

I will run your bath.

Thank you, my lady.

Siwol.

I told you to travel far.

Why are you laying here?

Get up. Let us go home.

Let's go home, Siwol.

Siwol.

Open your eyes, Siwol.

Let's go home.

Siwol.

You can't lie here like this.

So Ttonggeum was buried in that forest?

Yes.

I asked the court ladies whom I trained.

They couldn't take her out of the city.

They have done well.

I should be able to give her a funeral soon.

Thank you.

Thanks to you, I got to say goodbye to her.

Are they yet to capture Eunuch Heo?

How can I

leave the palace?

I no longer have anywhere to hide.

All troops are looking for him.

Eunuch Heo took a noble family's house, took in a mistress,

and even set other houses on fire,

so they will not lose him.

A court lady saw him running into the library.

Eunuch Heo must have caught Ttonggeum in the secret passage.

It means he knows the passage is in the library.

He'll hide there and wait until things become quiet.

He'll be arrested soon. Please return to your dwelling.

Yes, Your Majesty.

What should I do?

Will you go over yourself?

I cannot let him die…

in peace.

I'll send him over to Siwol

as payment for his way to the other side.

Block off all exits of the passage.

I will never

use that passage again.

Never.

Excuse me! Open this door!

There is someone inside!

The things that happened while I was unconscious is

utterly wretched.

Taking the troop dispatch token

and creating a fake one to deceive the governors all around

is clearly and obviously

a rebellion.

And everything was committed

with my mother as the leader, although she has no business in politics.

This is a heinous crime that cannot be forgiven.

Arrest all those who created the Interrogation Bureau

and took part in the rebellion.

Even if you are a subject of merit, according to your crimes,

their honor will be stripped

and the land and slaves they received will be taken away.

Also, those who contributed greatly

in subduing this rebellion will be complimented,

and they will also receive an office.

Moon Simhyun is the leader of the Sarim in Songrim.

How can he be the Left Minister?

What is this shocking appointment?

He might change the three state councilors too.

Will you let him continue?

Yes.

We should let him.

This is our time to put up with this.

His Majesty will continue with the criminals, create justifications,

and take away the order of merit from all of his subjects.

Yes.

We will let him do this.

Why won't you hold Councilor Park responsible?

Is it

because of me?

No.

I have enough evidence that he tried to kill the Queen Dowager.

I can accuse him whenever I must.

I can put it off for a while.

I will use him

as a hunting dog.

Write down the names of the traitors who rebelled against me

by taking advantage of the Queen Dowager.

Everyone on this list will be eliminated, even if they are a subject of merit

or a member of the Royal Family.

I'm sure there is someone who convinced her to do this.

A woman cannot commit such an atrocious act

all by herself.

Your Majesty.

I wish to speak to you alone.

You may.

Who do you wish to take out?

The late king, my father, gave merit to the subjects

according to the list the subjects made.

I shall also punish those on the list

according to our customs.

How far do you wish to punish?

I can't finish it with a slap on the wrist.

After the limbs

come the head.

Your Majesty.

If you wish to lose just the limbs,

bring me the Queen Dowager.

I will treat the Queen Dowager with honor

until the very end.

I cannot dishonor my mother

and give cause to start a rebellion.

So you subjects must step up

and depose my mother.

That is

how you will get to keep

your petty lives.

I, Left State Councilor Park Gyewon,

accept His Majesty's order as my command!

I will…

depose the Queen Dowager!

You survived once again, thanks to your father.

Your luck

will not last long.

Councilor Park's power has fallen.

How can you last any longer?

You caused Ttonggeum's death.

One day, I will make you pay for her death.

After my installation ceremony,

I will treat you as the Queen does a concubine and subject.

What have I done wrong?

You're a fake.

You deceived the world and the Royal Family.

His Majesty may keep the crafters safe,

but that fact won't change.

The crafters are…

kept safe by his Majesty?

My father has kept an eye on them, so he's well aware of this.

When Eunuch Heo tried to take them in,

the troops of a governor kept them safe, didn't they?

Let's see how long His Majesty will

keep you safe.

How did His Majesty

know the crafters would fall in danger

and kept them safe?

Is His Majesty in bed?

No, he's still in his royal office.

It seems like he will be late, so please come in.

I will wait here.

He gave me the order

to escort you in immediately no matter when you come.

Is Consort Park here?

She is, Your Majesty.

Consort Park.

There were subjects who did not show up…

during the regency of the Queen Dowager.

Left Minister No Kyungmoon.

Minister of Taxation Park Chanwe.

Left Vice Minister Ko Inhyuk.

Minister of Commerce Im Joyong.

I have seen

this arrangement before.

I saw it before you collapsed.

The one who caused the regency by the Queen Dowager,

the one who shook this nation and let it fall in danger was…

you…

and your design?

BLOODY HEART

Ttonggeum has died.

She died because of your scheming.

They are not to be dealt with by justice and righteousness alone.

Please step down on your own.

His Majesty wishes for your death.

Deposement will not be enough.

She will once again use filial duty to pressure me.

Will you have her assassinated?

I would have done the same if I were King.

His Majesty and I are very much alike.

His Majesty is nothing like you.

He shall be different.

And so, I will…

keep His Majesty in check.

Translated by Eun-sook Yoon

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