Part 11
How is Lahee?
She is in shock.
What if she doesn't recover?
CHOl Ll What can we do?
lt was herfate to be born to her mother.
MO HASO
Don't hate Jasil.
lf it weren't for her you and l could be dead.
Don't take her side.
There comes a time when one has to make a choice.
lt must've broken her heart to choose you and
forsake her brother.
Sometimes a man has to take a path knowing it
will lead to his death.
Honey.
Are you afraid of death?
l don't know.
But the fact that l can no longer see you and Lahee...
The thought that l can't see Jamyung ever scares me.
Could you have killed your own brother
if you were in Jasil's shoes?
Any woman could do the same.
There is a great difference between thinking about it and
actually carrying it out.
You could never do it.
ljust...
... feel sorry forJasil.
How dare you come here?
l do understand how you feel but this is enough.
Kill him!
Did you forget the reason we fought against Liu Xian?
Wang Goeng Choi Li who'll be king?
Who'll be the master of Nakrang?
ls that why we fought against Liu Xian?
BUDAL / Wang Geong's man-in-wait He's has the nerve to speak.
He's the one who killed our king.
Let's have him accompany our masterto the other world.
Go ahead!
Kill me.
l've disgraced my master!
General Wang is dead.
A dead man can't rule or save Nakrang.
Unless you want to offer Nakrang to Muhyul
end this right now!
Your hatred will change nothing.
l'm the only one who can stop Muhyul.
Hypocrite.
lf you wanted to be king
you should've made your intentions known
and fought it out with him fair and square like a man.
You lied about returning to your hometown
and now you say you're the only who can stop Muhyul?
You make me sick you hypocrite!
WANG JASlL
How do you?
Has your stomach calmed down?
Brother.
Has your soul left or can you hear me?
A greedy woman has ruined both of us.
l'll take you back to Nakrang and give you a king's funeral.
l ruin you?
l thought l'd saved you but you say l ruined you?
You don't know men.
What's so complicated about men?
l risked my life to save you but you blame me?
l would have preferred death!
l would rather have died in Brother's hands.
We must go on separate ways.
l'll sever my ties with you when we return to Nakrang.
Since you can't go back to Younghojangwon
you may go to Maesidal.
MAESlDAL / Choi Li's hometown in Wonchung sea Today's Wonsan
Have you really lost your mind?
Will you severyourties with Lahee as well?
Mo Haso will take care of Lahee.
l don't know whether Lahee will get better
but she's better off under Mo Haso's care.
You're a hypocrite.
Maybe l am.
Do you know how painful it was
to take my brother's life with my own hands?
But foryou l...
You did it foryourself not for me!
No! l did it foryou!
l did want to see Lahee become queen and
l wanted to become your queen but that wasn't all!
You insult me but l still love foryou...
Since you didn't want to get blood on your hands
l stained my hands with my brother's blood.
Stop pretending to be sad and tormented!
Stop pretending be a good and brave man!
Stop pretending you don't want to be king!
Lahee please.
My Lady.
You're not burned?
Even if l were it couldn't hurt as much as Lahee.
LAHEE Wang Jasil's daughter
The world is too complicated foryou to understand now.
You brat why did you sneak on board?
Why did you have to see that?
You shouldn't have seen that...
Why didn't Heaven protected her?
You have to be strong.
You were born to be strong. You can't fall apart like this.
What you saw isn't everything.
Lahee there are more beautiful things in your world.
l can't break up with you.
You think you have the whole world in your hands?
Mo Haso has all of your heart.
l have nothing else ... but power.
Yes thanks to you l'll be king.
A part of me wanted to be the King of the new Nakrang
and bring a peaceful reign to our people.
l shook off the irresistible greed for power
and wanted to leave empty-handed...
But you ruined it for me!
Did you want to look graceful by walking away?
With no regard forthe safety of yourfamily?
There's more!
You made me lose faith in myself.
Maybe l had secretly wanted him dead.
Maybe l wanted someone else to kill him for me.
Maybe l was just as greedy as you.
Maybe l too wanted to kill my brother-in-law
The image of his lifeless dead face will haunt me
and l'll live the rest of my life in guilt
listening to people mock me
for letting a woman put me on the throne.
Don't be a baby.
l'll be labeled a wench who killed her own brother.
lt was your cause.
l will never leave you as long as l'm alive.
But l won't live foryou either.
l'll live the rest of my life for Lahee.
Lahee won't succeed me.
lf Jamyung is alive she's the one who'll succeed me.
l never depended on him.
Love doesn't last a hundred or a thousand years.
YOUNGHOJANGWON Wang Geong's Hometown
My Lady...
MO YANGHAE / Wang Goeng's wife l was Her Majesty just until yesterday...
How quickly a woman's fate changes...
Your mourning clothes...
Get it out of my face!
l haven't even seen His Majesty's corpse.
My Lady.
Did Budal kill Choi Li?
Did he kill that wretched Jasil?
Only afterthey're both dead l'll let my hair down...
... and put on these on...
Get up.
l said get up!
The smell. Did you drink?
Of course l did?
Let's go.
WANG HOL Wang Goeng and Jasil's brother
But someone must stay here.
There's something more important to do.
Come with me.
WANG GOENG KlNG OF NAKRANG
Take guard!
Block my sword!
Pick up your sword!
No.
You brat.
Pick it up!
You're drunk. Get to bed.
Pick up your sword!
Your sisterJasil... killed...
... my husband... your brother...
But you didn't see her killing me.
Now you Wang Hol are the master of Younghojangwon.
BULGONGDAECHUNJlSU Enemies that cannot exist under one sky at the same time Wang Jasil is your enemy
with whom you can't live
underthe same sky.
You must... avenge...
... your brother's death with your own hands.
Answer me!
Kill or be killed...
Sister-in-law l won't do it.
ljust want to live a fun comfortable life.
You fool...
How can you call yourself the master of Younghojangwon?
You can be the master.
l don't want to!
Twelve noon!
SONG MAESEOLSU
l heard you drank till late
TA HOTAE / General with Ta Hotae.
You don't have much appetite?
lt's not easy going up against the Yeonna tribe.
What will Ta Hotae do?
Will he support the war?
SONG OKGU / Chief of Biryuna tribe Father-in-law of King Daemushin A drunken man can promise the world.
You can nevertrust a man's words.
His Majesty is calling for me.
The king's father-in-law can't even eat in peace?
You'll need to eat well to go against him.
You need to eat to ease your hangover.
lt's yourfavorite.
KlNG DAEMUSHlN l had enough.
You need your strength to
stand against those old men of the five tribes.
And one of those old men is your uncle Song Okgu.
Bring him down.
SONG SUJlRYUN Song Maeseolsu's cousin l'm sure there are people
who'll support you in the Biryuna tribe.
BlRYUNA TRlBE / One of the five major tribes of Goguryeo But you are here for
the sake of the Biryuna tribe.
Yes l am here forthem
OHSUN CHAMBER Song Maeseolsu's Chamber but l'm different from Queen Maeseolsu.
How so?
She says that she and l share common root
of Biryuna but l Sujiryun took root in you.
lf the Biryuna tribe is a rotten tree
you must set it on fire.
You have to eat well.
l'm sorry.
You're something else.
l want to be your woman not the Queen of Goguryeo.
Do you not care
BANDlT/ Roaming gang of thieves if the people of Goguryeo are called bandits?
How much longer must we sneak into Nakrang and steal food?
When we conquer Nakrang l'll distribute the land
equally among the five tribes.
l'll divide the 18 prefectures of Nakrang
SHlKEUP/ Land granted by the King as reward and award them according to your merit.
How can you not send yourtroops
EUL DUJl / Senior Head Officer of National Administration WU NARU /Head of National Administration after what His Majesty said?
The Biryuna tribe must send theirtroops!
That's impossible.
Ourtribe cannot agree to send ourtroop
no matter what the situation may be.
Fine.
The Biryuna tribe will stay out of the Nakrang invasion.
Only troops from the Gyeru Hwanna Yeonna
Gwanna tribes will join the war.
The Biryuna tribe will not receive a single parcel of land.
When the fourtribes are cooking their rice from Nakrang
the Biryuna tribe will have to lick their empty pots.
Just don't cook Goguryeo in that pot.
How big of a troop can you mobilize from the Yeonna tribe?
TA HOTAE Chief of Yeonna tribe
The Yeonna tribe will sit this war out as well.
She said to burn bring down Biryuna?
Yes Your Majesty.
She said you have your roots in the Biryuna tribe
SOYOJUN Song Sujiryun's chamber but she said she has taken root in His Majesty.
You scared me.
You must be headed to a fight with that gang of yours.
Do you have no desire to live?
How could a branch survive after having its roots burned off?
You want to live as His Majesty's woman so much
so that you'd deny your roots?
lt was you.
Forgive me Your Majesty. But it is my duty.
Yes l said that.
l'll appoint you as the Head Minister.
MlNlSTER OF RlGHT HEAD OF NATlONAL AFFAlR One level lower than Minister of Left
Do you want Nakrang that badly?
lf our Goguryeo is to prosper forthousands of years
be it l or Hodong or his son or his son's son
we must have the fertile land of Nakrang.
That's the future of Goguryeo.
lf you so desperately want Nakrang...
l wouldn't lower my head to you like this if l didn't.
Then let's come to an agreement.
Minister of Right isn't adequate compensation for
supplying 5000 troops.
You should be happy to break even.
Don't try to make a profit.
You can't appoint Hodong as crown prince.
My only purpose is to produce a boy.
Then both the Biryuna tribe and l will survive.
And you'll survive as well.
l'm grateful you would spare my life.
You're welcome.
We're cousins but we're still family.
That tongue of yours will bring you death someday.
And that temper of yours will bring you death.
To a woman herfather's home is her last refuge.
You'll also burn if you burn that house.
No a woman's last refuge is her son.
To the king Hodong is Goguryeo itself
before him comes his son.
Think very carefully what that means.
Listen Father-in-law
Hodong can't be included in this deal.
Who's there to succeed me if l should die?
Did you just call me ''father-in-law''?
Maeseolsu's mother cries
every night for her poor daughter.
And my heart breaks for my daughter.
l had no idea you cared so much for queen.
l can't stop you from giving Sujiryun a son.
But please have Maeseolsu give you a son.
Then l'll take my sword and go off to the battlefields
myself forthe next king of Goguryeo
and offeryou Nakrang.
LlU LlNG'S DONGMOHYUN RESlDENCE
HOGOK Royalty of former Nakrang Army
Even if Wang Goeng weren't dead
you couldn't have started your sea of fire.
Forgive me.
LlUREUNG / Minister of Han China l do not believe in fate or destiny.
Well that's that.
l guess Heaven hasn't given me its permission to
avenge my uncle's death.
You may come out of the doghouse.
l'm staying here forthe same reason King Goujian of
the State of Yue tasted bile every day.
Since Wang Goeng is dead this is my home until
l chew on Choi Li's flesh and offer it to King Liu Xian.
My...
These are narcissus.
They're just as pretty as our Lahee.
Be it people orflowers
you mustn't kill them to possess them.
You must enjoy their beauty from where they belong.
You'll understand when you grow up and fall in love.
Lahee.
Miss Lahee.
Let me carry you inside.
- Allow me My Lady. - lt's all right.
You've never seen a circus have you?
You'll see amazing things tonight.
You'll will have a great time.
Fourteen...
Thirteen fourteen and fifteen.
lt's ready My Lady.
All right.
CHlSO Wang Jasil's maid
ls it good?
l think most of the poison is flushed out of my body.
l've had enough of eggs. l can't stand the smell.
Yes My Lady.
We're returning tomorrow with the general's coffin.
You'll keep your promise won't you?
l guess nothing is free in this world.
Fine what do you want?
The day you enterthe palace as queen
l wish to follow you
LADY-lN-WAlT Maid serving king or queen as your lady-in-waiting.
Only a noble lady can become a lady-in-waiting.
You're just a worthless slave.
l may be a slave now
but l was born to noble family of Baekje.
l was captured in the war.
Were you?
Grant me land a house servants and money
befitting the status of a lady-in-waiting.
Only death awaits greed.
lt won't be hard foryou to kill me.
But you won't find anyone more loyal than me.
You'll miss me if you kill me.
You know how to make a deal.
l'll give you first assignment as my lady-in-waiting.
l'm waiting foryour command Your Majesty.
Find Jamyung.
You must find her before Mo Haso does.
DONGHOHYUN / TEMPORARY LOGDlNG OF HAPPYJOYATNABlNGWAN lf you're done eating
let's rehearse for tonight's performance.
CHA CHASUNG Leader of Troupe Happy Joy First the fire show!
MlCHU / Cha Chasung's wife The finest act in the Happy Joy Troupe Michu.
Next Cha Chasung's mask changing.
Next is candle twirling.
The pride and joy of Happy Joy Troupe our Michu!
Why don't you two just do the whole show?
Watch your language you little brat.
l'll give you a part.
Soso the jar juggler and Myori as the target.
No l hate doing that.
l'll do it.
What? You will?
So you can pee on the wheel again?
PUKU / Jamyung's new name means child who does not cry l need to have a strong heart
if l'm going to do the aerial acrobatics.
l won't pee on it again.
That works for me but your brother won't like it.
Hangkai.
l'll work for my fare.
But it's not something l can decide.
But why do you want to go to Nakrang?
HANKAl llpum's new name
Do l have to answerthat?
DONGOBl / Mo Haso's maid No you don't.
lt's not like l can give you a ride on the ship.
You picked the wrong time.
Things are very complicated right now
and nobody can aboard the ship.
BANQUETHALL ATNABlNGWAN
What do you think? lsn't he amazing?
Hello Jasil.
Let me pay you my respects my beautiful lady.
Lahee isn't it fun?
Why don't you give them a big round of applause?
And they'll show you even more amazing tricks.
That princess is so lucky.
That little girl is a princess?
l didn't know that.
l heard the pretty ladies talking.
She's about to become a princess
but she was possessed by a ghost.
She's not so lucky then.
But she has a mother who loves her.
l told you l'd find mom.
Even if you do find them they're the ones who
threw us away in the ocean like trash.
Coming up next is the daggerthrowing!
Will you be all right?
Who knows?
Maybe l'll scare the ghost out of her.
Let me introduce you to Cha Chasung the strongman.
And the target is the star of
Happy Joy Troupe Puku!
So funny.
She called that little girl a star.
You have no idea.
Puku will succeed Cha Chasung and
become the next strongman.
You look prettier in your costume.
Become a beautiful and the star.
Thank you My Majesty.
Wait.
Wouldn't the child be scared?
Her name is Puku meaning a child who doesn't cry.
A girl who's braverthan a boy.
l'm all right My Majesty.
And l'm a good daggerthrower.
Lahee.
No Lahee!
No Miss.
Why not?
The child might get hurt.
Lahee is trained in sword fighting.
But this isn't the same.
She's right My Lady.
Dagger-throwing and sword fighting and tricks
are very different.
You shouldn't take it lightly.
Even if she gets hurt she's just a lowly girl.
l'll put myself on that wheel if Lahee will come to her senses.
Jasil.
You don't care about Lahee
because you might find Jamyung.
How can you say that?
She can't do this.
ls she your sister?
She may be a lowly girl but her life is just as
precious to me as the princess's.
This is such a precious gift...
Thank you My Lady.
Get ready.
But Michu we can't do this.
What will you do?
We are just helpless souls.
She'll be fine.
She's supposed to be trained with swords.
She's pretty good with her sword.
As long as you don't turn the wheel...
lt's all right.
That dagger isn't that sharp.
Let the princess do it
if it'll help chase the ghost out of her.
Just don't aim for my neck.
l'm all right.
What are you doing? Push him down.
What are you trying to do?
That's enough. Stop it Lahee!
Puku!
Dear heaven.
Are you all right?
You brat!
Haso!
l won't tolerate your behavior.
Lahee.
Are you hurt badly?
Take off your clothes so we can put medicine on the wound.
No. l don't show my body to anybody.
This medicine is so precious that even
our mastertakes with him to the battlefield.
Please forgive her.
My daughter is very sick right now.
She's usually a very nice girl.
Even if she's a princess no matter how nice she is
you can't forgive someone who tries to kill you.
Yes. You're right.
And a nice person doesn't become evil just because
she's possessed by a ghost.
That's...
But that could happen to the nicest person when
she's faced with something she can't handle.
Wait.
This is expensive right?
lt could be.
Give it to my boss. l don't want it.
Wait.
Then take this at least.
A lowly girl like me heals with simple powder
in no time.
l don't need precious medicine.
Goodbye.
Wait.
What now?
Will you accept this then?
No.
Your name is Puku right?
l'm sorry l bruised your ego.
l guess people become shameless as they age.
They want to do things the easy way and take care of
everything with money even when they hurt others.
Please forgive me.
The strongman is yourfather?
l don't have a mom or dad.
Kids like us were all sold or abandoned.
They sold their children so they could fill their stomachs.
And some were abandoned to die.
- Puku. - Puku.
Puku!
Mother l hate you!
You're vicious and frightful.
l hate being your daughter!
l hate you too Lahee.
You're not pretty or strong. l wanted a son.
l see no future in you.
So why are you so obsessed with me?
Because you're my daughter.
That's what a child means to a parent.
You're precious to me whetheryou're good or bad
just because l carried you in my womb for nine months.
l want to lay out silk in your path so that
you don't step on mud.
Anyone can do that even if she didn't carry me for nine months.
Mom Mo Haso would do that for me.
Don't touch me! You make me sick.
You're my daughter not Mo Haso's.
And l can't stand it.
l wish Mo Haso were my mom.
You fool.
Why?
Ask Mo Haso.
Mom why did you try to kill me when l was a baby?
Liar.
Mom wouldn't have tried to kill me.
l'm sure she'll come up with some excuses.
Then ask her again.
Mom if you could save eitherJamyung your daughter
Who's Jamyung?
Ask heryourself.
l don't believe you.
That brat...
After what l did to save her...
No matter how much Mo Haso adores you
she can't love you as much as l do.
How unfortunate...
Why did he have to die on the journey to meet our emperor?
Please put in a good word to Emperor Guangwu for us.
You can say the new Nakrang is our enemy
but since people of Han ancestry also live there
it is also our brother country.
l know that King Liu Xian was your uncle.
What does it matter now?
The world belongs to the living.
When l see you next time it'll be as the King of Nakrang.
Congratulations.
You took down your rival very well.
Stop there.
Did l see a little boat carrying two babies?
l heard that you always train on the beach.
Maybe you saw something.
Did you?
Well...
You didn't?
Well...
ls there a reward on finding them?
You did see them.
No we didn't but if they floated this way
we can go look forthem.
As long as the pay's right...
You can ask forthe payment afteryou find them.
l was just curious
but what were the two babies doing in a small boat?
l think l've told this to someone before.
People have died trying to find that out.
You.
l've been looking everywhere foryou since yesterday.
Why are you so down?
We get hurt all the time during the show.
l've been thinking.
Yes.
l won't let anyone throw daggers at me again.
Not even a princess.
Not even a king.
l'm going to learn to use a sword.
l'll become the best swordsman out there.
Where are you going?
Puku.
Puku!
To find a teacher.
My Lady.
l keep thinking about what Puku said.
Parents abandon their children to die...
Would Jamyung be suffering as she is now?
Tell yourself she's living the good life with good people.
Did you find out about the boat?
l didn't have time to search
with the hasty return on but l hired a man.
He'll contact us when he finds Jamyung.
Hi Lahee.
You must be seasick.
You'll feel better if you chew on a piece of cinnamon.
Chiso told me...
Did you throw me in the pond
to try to kill me when l was a baby?
Lahee that was...
That's okay. Since it happened long ago.
But l have something to ask you.
You can't lie to me.
You have to tell me the truth.
All right.
Jamyung your daughter and l
are both drowning in a pond now.
You can only save one of us.
Who would you save?
Miss Lahee that's...
Donggobi you're not my mom.
Please be quiet.
Please answer me.
This is really important to me.
Lahee.
ljust want your answer.
l...
l'd have to save Jamyung.
But Lahee...
Miss Lahee!
But l'd have to do that.
l'd have to save Jamyung.
But Lahee...
l'd save Jamyung and...
... die with you Lahee.
JUMONG SHRlNE GUKNAE PALACE GrandfatherJumong
is death all that's waiting for me?
Grandfather show me the way.
enlighten me
for Goguryeo and the Biryuna tribe to live.
l won't let you die a virgin.
When you grow old and stop menstruating
and can no longer bear a child
and if l'm still alive l'll hold you as my queen.
Yangdeok l find my answerto life.
What is it?
Find me some medicine that will stop menstruation.
What do you...
lf you stop menstruating...
How will you bear a child?
What did you learn from watching the Biryuna tribe?
l learned how cold-hearted politics can be.
How pathetic a weak sovereign is.
The rumorthat Song Okgu's request to refrain Prince Hodong
from crown prince has widely spread already.
What was your answerto him?
There's also a rumorthat you didn't give him a definite answer.
We have to take the long way now.
What do you mean?
We have no other choice
since he wouldn't give us any troops.
We'll find a new way to conquer Nakrang.
Hodong is now old enough to wed.
Will you take his bride from the Biryuna tribe?
Hodong you have to marry Choi Li's daughter.
Propose to Choi Li's daughter when you go to
Nakrang as an envoy to attend Wang Goeng's funeral.
Father.
YOUNGHOJANGWON
Brother!
Your Majesty!
Open it.
My Lady!
Who's to stop me from seeing my husband?
Open it!
Brother...
Wang Jasil...
You wretch!
Follow me if you want to avenge his death!
My Lady.
Ready the horses! l'm going to Wang Jasil!
CHUNGHAEHUN
Open the door!
Lady Wang is here.
Open the door now!
You can't come in here guarded.
Nonsense!
l was on my way to Younghojangwon with Lahee.
You should be with your husband.
Since you brought death on my husband
l came to burn you to death!