It is done.
Now everything has returned to its original position.
The daughter of a courtesan is a courtesan.
Mistress!
Thus, this is where you belong.
A courtesan's daughter?
No! Please! Don't say anything!
Please don't say anything else!
Why are you just standing there? Go on and greet her.
She is your birth mother.
No, I am not!
Stop being immature. Is she not your daughter?
No!
I am not your mother.
I am nobody's mother.
No!
I am not your mother.
I am nobody's mother.
Does your heart ache
because your mother is dejecting you?
Is she really...
Is she really my mother?
Do you want me to take you to her?
No thank you.
Episode 2
Look here!
Hyun Geum, it is I!
What travesty is this?
Look at how her lovely face has changed.
Come over here.
Have something to eat. A mother cannot give up like this.
You need your energy if you want to change your daughter's fate.
Come here and eat!
Can you do me a favor?
What favor?
How did you get out?
I persuaded the prison official.
You still have your skills, I see.
I learned it all from you, Mistress.
That child Jin Yi is not my child.
How long will you deny the truth?
Please make it so that she is not my child.
What are you talking about?
I know this is not easy, but there is no record of her birth.
If you so choose, you can release her.
Cease your useless talk!
This is my last request.
I beg of you.
Let the child go, and I will do everything you ask.
Ask anything of me, Mistress!
Tell me to walk on fire!
Or tell me to die right here! I will do anything! I promise!
Please, just let the child go, please?
It is her destiny to become a courtesan.
Do not try to change fate.
No! I won't let you.
I won't let my child live like me!
Stop wasting your breath. It is already out of your hands.
The most important thing is that no one forced her to come here.
She made that decision herself.
But she is only ten years old.
She is a mere child! What can she know?
She is a child with a lot of potential.
She is merely attracted by the color and music of this place!
It was passion that brought her here!
She will be miserable.
What is wrong with being a courtesan?
How can you say that?
I understand how you feel.
But this will be the end of that.
No, you don't understand.
You don't understand love.
You don't understand the suffering a mother goes through for her child.
You don't understand anything. You don't understand the suffering a mother goes through for her child.
You don't understand anything.
You care for nothing except to become Mistress of the Palace Courtesans!
Please let my child go!
Go back to your cell. We are finished talking!
I won't let you use my child for your selfish ambitions!
I wondered who the reckless fool was.
Do you think that this is all for Hyun Geum's good?
When wood becomes too hard, it will split and break.
It would be better to oil the wood so as it will bend and flex.
And if I do not bend on this, then what will you do?
Please do not involve yourself in this.
That is the way you can help Hyun Geum.
Why are you just standing there like a corpse?
Go and call the guards!
Yes, Mistress.
So you are Jin Yi?
He was a handsome man.
He was worthy of your mother's love.
Your beautiful eyes are from your father.
Did you just tell me to... abort the baby?
Love is always accompanied by happiness and pain.
The happiness was shared equally between them.
But the pain... belonged only to your mother.
They say heartbreak and worry bring illness.
Her broken heart brought not only pain,
but even took away her sight.
It's dark! I can't see anything!
Someone please light a lamp for me!
That means...
I am an unwanted child.
First it was my father.
After that it was my mother who didn't want me.
I'm a worthless child.
Don't blame your mother.
You must pity her.
Say it again. What did you just say?
I asked you to release the music courtesan Hyun Geum.
You've gone mad. You're speaking nonsense!
You may be a mere courtesan,
but you have studied law, and should understand the severity of her crime!
I do not ask this of you because I am ignorant of the law.
Then is this your way of disdaining a government official like me?
- My Lord... - No!
I have already spared her life.
I will send Hyun Geum to Hamkyungdo as a slave.
My life... I offer you my life.
Offer your life?
Yes.
Hyun Geum is our finest musician. We cannot lose her.
If Hyun Geum trespasses on the law again,
you can take my life.
Baek Moo, are you... are you serious?
Are you sincere?
Or are they empty words?
You want me to find a new Mistress for the troupe?
The Songdo Troupe will lose its Mistress sooner or later.
- My lord. - And Hyun Geum will...
never give up on her daughter.
And Baek Moo will not go against her word.
Then we must monitor Hyun Geum,
and prevent future mishaps...
What a waste of time!
Are we here only to manage the courtesans?
Just let Hyun Geum be.
That Baek Moo is too unbending and stiff.
But in terms of talent, she is by far...
So what if she's talented?
She is so unfeminine!
If the Mistress is that way, what can we expect from her girls?
Stop this nonsense and start the search for the new Mistress.
It is a good opportunity to change the troupe.
When did you become so close to the Songdo official?
He is a man who knows the power of influence.
He knows that if he wants to advance,
he must seek favor from me.
Is that not so?
You are too young to understand.
I really don't understand, Mistress.
Why is this old village courtesan so important that we must unseat her...?
Old village courtesan? How dare you be so disrespectful?
Pardon?
You can dance your whole life and still not be able to follow her footsteps!
Mistress...!
If Baek Moo didn't feel the need to hide away,
neither you nor I would be here today.
I must send her away.
Yes, you must.
Will you help me?
Just wait a couple more days.
I will arrange a place for you and your child.
No. This cannot be.
I cannot leave.
What are you saying?
If she leaves, your punishment will be more than...!
It is my payment.
If I do not stay, others will be hurt.
Will you raise her as your own?
This scent. It was this scent.
I could not forget this scent.
It was so sweet.
My mother's scent.
You...
Why... did you deny it?
Was I... not up to your expectations?
So...
So you want to abandon me again?
You really can't see?
You can't see me?
Then... you will never know what I look like?
Jin Yi.
I'm not a very obedient and good girl,
but I'm not that bad either.
I mean... I'm trying hard not to be bad.
Do your hands tell you this when you touch me? Do they?
Mother.
I wanted... I wanted so much to call you that.
So I always said it in my heart...
Do you have to leave again?
Do you want to abandon me again?
Don't send me away.
Please don't abandon me, Mother.
My baby.
My lovely daughter.
Will you not regret keeping her here at the troupe?
I combed her hair for the first time today.
She was bald when I gave birth to her.
When did she grow so much hair?
I made this for her when she turned three.
When she was five, I wanted to make her clothes myself.
I wanted to tie a beautiful bow on her hair.
I raised her in my heart because I couldn't be at her side.
I wasn't able to do anything for her.
I shouldn't have embraced her.
If I hadn't held her in my arms,
I would have been able to let her go.
Heaven wouldn't forsake us, right?
Even if it is for a short while, I want to be with her.
Her loneliness is so heavy.
I cannot bear to leave her again.
Discard all desire to be the wife of one man.
When you are able to eliminate all useless emotions,
our life is much more joyous than other women's lives.
A courtesan must possess vast knowledge and learning.
The depth of our lives is profound.
When it comes to beauty, no one is given more freedom than the courtesans.
We do not worry over trifles like money.
Our splendor cannot compare even to the King's women in the Palace.
Furthermore, we possess something that not even the princesses have.
We have music.
It is the sound of our hearts.
It is the sound of the waterfall,
that cascades over and refreshes your soul.
A life that feeds on dance and music.
That is our life.
And when you skills have reached the peak,
even though you are low-born, you will more freedom than anyone else.
That is the life of a courtesan.
When playing an instrument, singing a song,
or dancing, the most important thing is your breath.
Controlling your breath is the start of all art.
Immerse yourself!
No, I can't.
Eun Ho!
It's impossible.
If I could do it, would I be begging you like this?
If a good student asks, he'll say yes.
I said no. I won't go.
Heartless bastard.
Just give up.
Sang Soo! Han Sang Soo!
Did you call me because you changed your mind?
- That... - Come to my house tomorrow.
Your house? Why?
Since I failed the exam again, my father will beat me to death.
You should at least come to my funeral.
What?
You still consider me a friend? Don't you, Kim Eun Ho?
Exhalation is more important than inhalation.
That is due to the essence of dance being the act of release.
The importance of release is not just in dancing.
In life, release is more important that obtaining.
We must release our sadness, our hatred, and our pain.
That is how we can survive this world.
Count to a hundred.
While you count, exhale slowly.
You will not leave the water until you finish your count!
But that's so long, Mistress! Can you cut it to fifty?
Rocks!
Expressions!
How much more must I hit you before you stop crying?
Do you want to starve for a hundred days before you stop crying?
Starve? I'll die if I have to, but I won't starve!
Next.
I taught you to never show your emotions.
A courtesan must never show happiness, hatred, sadness or surprise.
A courtesan must suppress all emotion so that even heaven won't find out.
Do you understand?
I do not wish to suppress my emotions.
What?
How can you be a companion to someone without showing your emotions?
How much more must you be punished?
You must not show your emotions.
Suppress it and suppress it again.
That is a courtesan.
The test question.
Kim Eun Ho. Kim Eun Ho.
Move your arm a little!
Let me see.
If you got the skirt, I wouldn't even ask you.
Eun Ho!
Eun Ho, please let me see.
Let me see for a while.
You...!
How dare you disdain the dignity of a scholar?
Maybe it's because he doesn't have any courtesan's skirts to sit on!
- What do you mean? - Don't you know?
You...!
Looks like the proverbs are right!
Like Father, like son! No, no...
That's between father and son.
In this case, we would have to change it.
So it would be... Like Teacher, like student.
What are you talking about?
Am I not right?
I think it was 20 years ago?
You failed the exams about three times and got drunk.
You heard that sitting on courtesan's skirts during the exams would make you smarter.
So you came to our grounds and stole all our skirts...!
You...!
You can go back. I will make sure these boys are punished.
How can that be enough?
Please come visit our grounds and bring your money with you.
You used to come so often. Why have you been...?
Really... you!
How can you say that in front of my students?
That's why I said like teacher, like student.
Like teacher, like student.
Is there a young man that captures your fancy?
I don't know.
Why are you being so shy?
It's not like that.
I told you I have no interest in that.
It can't be true.
If a flower does not accept the love of a butterly, it is not a flower.
A flower can only bloom when it has met its butterfly.
Let's go.
When are we going to stop walking on this small village road?
I'm tired.
Really? Should we stop walking?
It must be tiresome to walk with your blind mother.
It's not like that.
I'm tired because of the training that started early this morning.
It must be a wedding procession.
From the sound of the footsteps following the horse, it must be more than 3-4 people?
From the sound of the footsteps, they must be carrying a palanquin, right?
Even though nobody is looking,
the new bride is shyly bending her head.
The ornaments on her head are shaking, and shaking again.
It is a happy occasion.
A woman's happiness is always like that.
Being a man's wife,
cooking for him, bearing him a child.
Look at this hand.
That tiny hand has already become so big.
You are already a grown woman.
You have to live like a woman.
Not as a courtesan, but as a normal woman.
Don't say anymore.
It has been 6 years.
You've been saying the same things for the past six years.
Aren't you tired?
I'm a person too. Courtesans are people too!
How can we be people?
Our fate as a courtesan is to be a toy, something to be played with.
We are like flowers by the roadside. Anyone can pick us if they choose.
Mother.
Stop learning the arts. And don't think about living with the troupe anymore.
Why can't you understand that the more talent you have, the more you will suffer?
It's not too late. Leave the troupe.
I will help you...
Stop. Let's stop here.
It's all for your own happiness.
I'm happy.
I'm very happy.
I like living with my friends here.
I like learning how to dance and play instruments everyday.
I'm so happy that I could die right now.
Jin Yi, please.
Don't compare me with yourself.
I'm different from you.
I have no interest on marriage and men.
Be careful with this one. It's really expensive!
Just move it to the house there.
Young master, why are you so late?
What is this?
What else can it be? Take a look!
The master has found another mistress.
Is she the second or the third?
You should go see your mother.
She's locked her door since morning and she won't even eat.
Mother. It is I.
You're back.
Please do not upset yourself.
Do not be like that.
You must give all your heart to your wife.
The most important thing to a person is sincerity.
How can one be a good person when you lose sincerity?
This is a key pouch.
This is head-rest cover.
And this is a folding screen...?
Eun Ho is really fortunate.
You... you and your words.
It's not like that. I just made them to practice my sewing.
Everyone knows that you're making this to take with you when you marry him.
Go to your room.
But what should we do? My sister is spending all her time preparing for her wedding.
But Eun Ho is busy thinking of ways to steal a courtesan's red skirt.
What happens if he meets a courtesan and falls in love with her?
Stop talking nonsense and go back to your room.
I'm saying the truth.
He's not that kind of person. He must have his own reasons.
You're truly in love with him!
Why are you reading the book with your hand?
Are you worried about something?
Why is it so difficult to breathe?
Are you that worried about your mother?
My heart also aches the whole day.
You have chest pain too? What should we do?
Not only that, but my legs are weak and my whole body feels so tired.
Isn't it strange to be feeling this way when you're worried about your mother?
Strange? What is strange?
It doesn't seem like sickness from worrying about your parents.
It seems more like love-sickness.
A courtesan should draw flowers. Why do you draw bamboos?
It's too much. Too much emotion.
It shows your impatience.
Who says that art is just at the tip of your fingers?
You are too impatient, and your hands are too heavy.
Is this yours?
Your drawing is extraordinary.
I wanted to throw it away. Please return it to me.
Throw it away? Why? I think...
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There must be someone that Jin Yi likes.
If that man is not sincere in his intentions towards Jin Yi,
I wish to stop them before it's too late.
But if it is like a bee to a flower,
or a heavy cloud to rain,
then I wish to help them in their love.
The only way to move a person's heart is their sincerity.
Your poem...
...touched me with its profound emotion.
Did you need a flower to pick?
Who is she to you?
- How far will you go? - What do you mean?
Are you willing to give up everything for her?
Absolutely.
I wish you wouldn't dance in front of others.
Because you are too lovely...