Part 26
LAHEE / Princess of Nakrang Prince Hodong's chamber looks rather shabby
in broad daylight.
JAMYUNG
l'll be waiting on you from now on Princess.
Welcome to Suyang Hall Princess.
l will not accept greetings
from those who killed Nakrang generals.
lLPUM Donggobi's nephew
CHlSO Show the princess to her chamber.
Lady-in-waiting.
What are you doing?
Princess she must be crazy.
Puku are you mistreating my servant
because l'm here as hostage and
since you're Prince Hodong's woman?
Do you wish to die?
She has no fever and she's not sweating.
Her heart sounds healthy too.
Who told you to examine her?
DUCHAN / Smallpox l was just curious since she seems full of life
when she shared the room
with the lady-in-waiting who had smallpox.
l was born very healthy.
What's wrong with that?
Why are you so nervous?
l'm worried about Donggobi.
Did you found a house and a caretakerfor her?
Of course.
But l'm still worried. Let me go look in on her.
All right.
l'm an envoy from Nakrang.
You may go.
DO NOTENTER
Hey.
lt is smallpox. She had all the symptoms.
MlCHU / CHA CHASUNG Ourtroupe kids had it all the time.
No. l don't think so.
But Puku has a point too.
How come that foul-tempered lady-in-waiting
who came with herfrom Nakrang ate the same food
slept in the same room is perfectly fine?
There's one day to find out.
lts color has turned.
Boss.
Michu your hairpin.
lt's poison. She doesn't have smallpox.
We have to find her.
DONGGOBl
You can go.
Pretty lady l'll put you out of your misery.
Where's the cremation grounds?
Overthere.
You haven't even started the fire yet?
She's not dead yet.
You can't wait forever.
What if she spreads smallpox everywhere?
We have rules here.
YUMJANGl / Person who cremates and buries the dead We never burn people alive.
And she doesn't have a contagious disease.
l've cremated more than a thousand corpses.
You lowly...
Even the noblest man needs our service when leaving this world.
So keep the hoity-toity act to yourself.
Give her some food.
Some people abandon
their old parents here during times of famine.
What's the difference between
burying someone alive or burning them?
Leave her with some food and come back in about two weeks.
You can bury her if she's dead by then.
You can go now.
This is the fate of us servants?
You share a tiny bit of your master's glory.
And when your masterfalls you fall with her.
Don't resent me.
lt's yourfault for having the wrong master.
Hurry and put yourself out of this misery.
Lady-in-waiting!
- Lady-in-waiting! - Lady-in-waiting!
Lady-in-waiting!
- Lady-in-waiting! - Lady-in-waiting!
llpum.
Princess.
l'm here.
Princess Jamyung!
Lady-in-waiting!
Your Highness fish is very rare in Goguryeo.
Please help yourself.
Your Highness.
l'm back.
What about Donggobi?
ls she getting any better?
She was already dead.
You're still alive.
You must have grudge.
So pretty.
Can l have this?
We don't take anything while the person is still alive.
l want your permission at least.
Please...
Give this to the person who comes looking for me.
You're giving this to me too?
Please. You must give it to my princess.
There are several more places like this.
Let's go back to the palace for now.
And search again tomorrow.
Let's believe that she's hanging in there.
She must be healthier than others
since she's lived in a palace.
GUKNAE PALACE GOGURYEO l Wu Naru will take our army to inspect the site first.
JlNYANG PALACE NAKRANG
WANG HOL Your Majesty
WANG HOL l'll go and inspect the meeting place first.
All right.
CHOl Ll
EUNPO BORDER
WU NARU / Head of National Administration We meet again General.
You came.
Seeing you so often ljust might get attached to you.
BUDAL / Second general
You narrow-minded punks.
Just admit that you lost the battle.
lt wasn't a battle. lt was underhanded trickery.
You kidnap a princess like some kind of highway robbers?
You ignoramus.
You sure have a lot to say for someone
who couldn't even protect his own princess.
His Majesty is coming.
He just crossed the shoal.
BU TUNG / Lieutenant The King of Nakrang is coming.
PRlNCE HODONG Your Majesty it's nice to meet you again.
KlNG DAEMUSHlN Nice to meet you King of Nakrang.
l am glad to meet the King of Goguryeo as well.
EUL DUJl / Officer of Right Your Majesty
we offer wine from Goguryeo for peace.
LlU Jl / Minister Your Majesty it is wine from the fertile lands of Nakrang.
Why...
He's our great general after all.
This meeting will be a very fruitful one.
That was a clear breaking.
Six northern prefectures?
You can't demand one third of Nakrang territory
for return of our crown princess.
We're not demanding.
We merely want to exchange wedding gifts.
lf Nakrang and Goguryeo are united by marriage
you can stop Baekje and Mokji from invading Goguryeo
and we can stop Buyeo, Liaodong and Xuantu
from invading Nakrang.
We wish to be allies who protect each other.
Your Majesty
union through marriage is the most beautiful matter.
There are virtues you must adhere to for a beautiful union.
CHU BALSO / Envoy for southern district Exchanging wedding gifts is a beautiful tradition.
Return the crown princess to Nakrang
before we exchange gifts.
We'll discuss the marriage matters afterward.
Leave us.
This is the King of Nakrang's wish.
Leave us.
Prince Hodong.
Yes, Your Majesty.
Do you want to put the throne of Goguryeo in your hand by
kidnapping another kingdom's princess?
lf you want to be king earn your people's hearts.
You could win neitherthe hearts of the people of Goguryeo
northe support of the five tribes.
lsn't it too cowardly to win the throne by kidnapping a woman?
l'll take yourteachings to my heart Your Majesty.
Your Highness allow me to return with you to Guknae Palace
and see the crown princess.
l will if you send the proper documents and get permission.
You owe me Your Highness.
What do l owe you?
You took Lady Puku who was to be my second wife.
You should pay me back forthat.
How shall l pay you back?
Do you want Nakrang that badly?
Fertile lands and vast ocean...
They're too much foryou.
Don't think we just came upon them by chance.
The blood of over 70000 Joseon people
was shed overten years fighting forthe independence.
A man who cannot
protect his table of food
will always go hungry.
l cannot exchange Nakrang for my daughter.
l'm the king but Nakrang belongs to the people.
The land does not belong to me.
l'm glad to hearthat.
lt'll soon be in my land the land of Goguryeo.
l'll invite you to the wedding.
My daughter, Lahee, was raised as Crown Princess of Nakrang.
She won't be Goguryeo's puppet.
You have too much faith in your child.
We'll wait and see.
SUYANG HALL GUKNAE PALACE
Are you ready to leave?
l can't leave you
but Queen Jasil must be awaiting news of you.
l wonder what's the outcome of the kings' meeting.
Your Highness l'll wait foryou in Jinyang Palace.
Please stay well.
The Queen of Goguryeo will help you.
All right.
Don't let that girl nearyou.
And do not lend your earto her nonsense.
Lahee death always surrounds a king.
Life and death are like grass that grows in the same place.
So do not be afraid.
lf you can die to save the people of Nakrang
you should be happy.
You must not hang onto your life.
Why would you let the crown princess die?
lmagine how painful it is
for a fatherto suggest death to his daughter.
Stay quiet.
Your Majesty.
Deliverthis to the crown princess in the Goguryeo palace.
l'll give my life to bring the crown princess back.
Don't be foolish!
lf you die who'll protect Nakrang from Goguryeo?
Welcome back Your Highness.
Great General.
Your Highness.
Princess.
Rise.
Relieve the great general and his men of their weapons.
Yes, , Your Highness.
Don't be offended.
l can't have the great general try to take my princess away.
All right.
Prince only permitted one hour.
You must leave right away.
We know.
You rotten jerk.
You rotten tramp.
You'd better stay in this palace forever.
Our king has ordered you dead the minute we find you.
Such insolence!
lt's the royal letterfrom our king to the crown princess!
One usually hides small daggers in letters.
Prince.
Prince Hodong!
What did the letter say?
l didn't read it since it was a royal letter.
But the first line worries me.
Can you tell me?
Tak Chi Sip Bo ll Tak Baek Bo ll Sik Bul Gi Cuk Ho Bun Jung
What does that mean?
A pheasant may have to walk a hundred steps
before it can find food
but l don't want you to live locked up in a birdcage.
He's telling Princess Nakrang to kill herself.
Prince.
l'll obey the king's command.
Are you sad?
l can't be a burden on Nakrang when l'm the crown princess.
But l'll get out of here and return to Nakrang.
You should.
l came to rescue you on Queen Mo Haso's command.
Mother gave you such a command?
Yes.
There is cremation grounds outside the West Gate.
GUNSl / Time between 8:30 PM- 9:30 PM l'll meet you there at nine.
GUNSl / Time between 8:30 PM- 9:30 PM Can you escape the palace alone?
lt'll be easier if l'm alone.
lf l don't come by the promised time
you must return to Nakrang alone Uncle.
Your Highness.
lt's an orderfrom the crown princess.
l'll cause a commotion in the palace and make my escape.
Don't worry.
l'll wait three days.
lf you don't come by the day aftertomorrow
l'll return to Nakrang and return with our army.
Thank you.
l'll study the Goguryeo terrain while l wait foryou.
General!
Yourtime is up.
General.
Master.
Did you lose the Goguryeo soldiers?
Yes.
We have to go back to the inn now.
l pretended to be asleep.
DO SUGl Can't we wait forthe princess with you?
Hodong's men must be watching the inn.
Do Sugi return to the palace and inform His Majesty.
Butung go to Paesu River and find a boat.
PAESU RlVER / Chungchun River Wait forthe princess and me there.
He's telling Princess Nakrang to kill herself.
The First Queen of Nakrang's lady-in-waiting could be our aunt.
No Princess!
Princess.
You must die for me.
Puku stay out of this.
Prince.
Stay out of it!
l told you to stay out of it.
- No. - Let go.
Let go of me!
l have to die since l couldn't kill you.
Let go!
- Let go! - Even if...
this is yourfate as crown princess and mine as prince
l can't watch you die in front of my eyes.
Let go.
- Let go! - Lahee!
l was abandoned by my father because of you.
Let go!
l can't let you die.
Puku.
l'm all right.
When we were little...
That day l first met you in Jinyang Palace...
l should've killed you then.
Are you sad that your father abandoned you?
l can understand as crown princess
but l'm also his daughter.
lt doesn't hurt me.
My father abandoned me countless times.
Maybe what King Choi Li did is hurting you
but l've seen the greatest love a father can send.
Lahee.
You don't know what real pain is.
Send me back to Nakrang.
l'll take you to your room.
You said you loved me.
Were you lying?
Was it just a lie to take Nakrang and me?
You call this love?
You use people and toy with them foryour benefit?
How can you call it love
if you can't surrender and sacrifice yourself?
What about you?
Your position as the Crown Princess of Nakrang
your parents your pride...
Can you give up even one of those things for me?
l don't know.
You're Lahee the Crown Princess of Nakrang
and l'm Hodong the Prince of Goguryeo.
We're bound by who we are.
We're bound by our limitations and
we can only love within those limits.
This robe...
Where's the woman of this robe?
l don't know!
She was there until yesterday but she's gone.
l came to bury her if she's dead.
Please tell me.
She's a lady-in-waiting from Nakrang.
Maybe she's my aunt.
She was going to tell me who l was.
But l don't know.
l knew something was fishy
when they tried to burn the poisoned woman alive.
Here. Take this too.
Pu... ku...
You didn't go back to Nakrang?
Donggobi was poisoned?
lt was that Chiso lady's doing.
Did the second queen orderthis?
ls that Donggobi's?
Puku...
l can only read my name.
l have to go back to the palace.
Are you going to ask Hodong to read it foryou?
Yes.
She told me who l was didn't she?
Lady Puku pretend you never saw it and go.
l don't want to draw my sword on you.
Just leave.
You've improved a lot.
You've grown stronger as well.
l've been training of energy flow.
No matter how good you are
you can't beat a man's strength in the long run.
Pretend you never saw me.
Neither Donggobi's letter nor me.
You're also from Nakrang.
l hope you forget the whole thing
forthe sake of the crown princess.
You think l can't copy the letters
just because l can't read them?
The letters are engraved on my eyes, my brain and my heart.
l'll go back to the palace and ask the prince.
Erase them from your mind.
l beg you.
l can't.
So you tell me.
What did that lady Donggobi write?
You'll die if you knew.
Will you forget and live or hear it and die right here?
l'll hear it and die here.
Miss.
lt was my destiny to die
by the second queen's hands when l was a baby anyway.
l'll die by your hands.
l'll die knowing who l am.
Tell me.
Do you mean that?
Tell me.
Who am l?
Who am l? Who am l?
You are... !
You are the daughter of the First Queen of Nakrang.
You mock me?
l'm a princess?
You're mocking me because l can't read?
Your name is Jamyung.
lt means to cry and save your own life.
You're the queen's daughter
and the crown princess's younger sister.
You were both born on the same day at the same time.
l'm...
a princess?
The crown princess's younger sister?
Are you ready?
The queen...
My mother...
Can l see her even from afar just once?
Kill me.
Now that l know who l am...
Now that l know my mother didn't try to kill me...
l have no regrets.
l Wang Hol will take the princess's life
forthe sake of Nakrang.
Mother.
So what did you do with her clothes and things?
l'm so sick of it!
That lady from Nakrang is gone.
And l gave her clothes to your sister.
l also gave herthe ribbon with letters on it.
Where's my sister?
Way up there.
You have already killed General Ha Hogae and Takchi.
You have sided with our enemy Goguryeo.
Don't come to Nakrang.
Tell yourself that you lost your life to Wang Hol your subject.
Your roots are in Nakrang Princess.
Leave Hodong and go to Han.
Please don't let me be a disloyal subject who kills his princess.
- Let go! - Lahee!
l was abandoned by my father because of you.
You don't what real pain is.
Your position as the Crown Princess of Nakrang
your parents your pride...
Can you give up even one of those things for me?
Your roots are in Nakrang Princess.
Leave Hodong and go to Han.
HOGOK Royalty of former Nakrang Army
WANGGEOM NAKRANG
Your Majesty Hogok has arrived in Yangpo Harbor
and is being brought to the palace.
Prepare for questioning!
YOUNGYANG ROOM JlNYANG PALACE NAKRANG Bring fresh water.
- Yes, Your Majesty. - Yes, Your Majesty.
MO HASO l shouldn't have sent Donggobi to Goguryeo.
Only Heaven decides yourtime.
She'd have gotten smallpox here if that were herfate.
lt's betterthat she caught smallpox in Goguryeo.
Jasil.
WANG JA-SlL We don't know
WANG JA-SlL what danger Lahee is in now.
ls Donggobi more important to you than Lahee?
lt's because l believe Lahee will return.
His Majesty the King.
lt's all right. Stay seated.
No.
l've brought good news foryou Queen.
Do you have good news from Lahee?
You can't say it in my presence?
All right. You'll find out soon enough.
l brought Hogok.
Who is Hogok?
The name sounds familiar.
He's a vicious man.
He is resilient.
Stop!
Hogok speak.
Who are the siblings you taught on the beach of Dongmohyun?
ls she Jamyung the queen's daughter?
Do you really want to know Choi Li?
Are you going out of your mind with curiosity?
You!
Do you wish to die?
Oh no...
What am l going to do?
What am l going to do with him?
Have you seen a dead man talk?
Kill me if you so wish!
Hogok is refuse to talk?
YULGUHYUN NAKRANG lf things go wrong
Hogok might die before he talks
and then Younghojangwon will be robbed of the merit
of finding Princess Jamyung.
MO YANGHAE Merit isn't the problem.
MO YANGHAE Without him there's no one to prove Jamyung.
Wang Jasil is the problem.
Pardon?
His Majesty won't kill him since he has to find Jamyung
but Jasil will try to kill him. And a dead man can't talk.
Lady Mo l won't let anyone near Hogok's cell.
Provide him with food water clothes
even a mat he sleeps on from this house.
You never know what Jasil will do.
Yes, My Lady.
Just how much does Mo Haso know?
Your Majesty.
What took you so long?
Your Majesty
l carried out your order and came back from Bukyang.
Yes. You've done well.
OSUNJUN GUKNAE PALACE GOGURYEO Your Majesty the chief is here.
OSUNJUN GUKNAE PALACE GOGURYEO He came.
Your Majesty.
You've come a long way.
SONG OKGU l should be here to celebrate
SONG OKGU the prince's 100th-day celebration.
SONG MAESEOULSU Say ''Thank you Grandfather. ''
You'll be the next King of Goguryeo and l'm your subject.
You'll lose your authority if you appreciate your subject.
Take Haeaewu to the nanny
and bring the letters from the queens of Nakrang.
Yes, Your Majesty.
She wants us to release Princess Nakrang?
We must put a stop to the union of Hodong and Nakrang.
Do we have to take the risk when the Eunpo Treaty
was broken and the King of Nakrang abandoned the princess?
The King now takes interest in Haeaewu.
Ratherthan risk ruffling his feathers overthis
perhaps we should let Princess Nakrang be.
l'm an old man who's counting his days.
How much longer do you think l can protect you and Haeaewu?
You must get wiser. .
Father.
Muhyul thinks all will be well once Prince Hodong
marries Princess Nakrang and produces a child.
ln the worst scenario even if he starts a war with Nakrang
the child will have the right to the throne.
He can turn win the hearts of the people of Nakrang.
l was shortsighted.
Play the fool and release Princess Nakrang.
Today will be a perfect day forthat.
There is much going on both inside and outside of the palace.
Prince.
Come in.
Why isn't Puku coming back?
You don't know where she is?
No. l'm also waiting for her.
What a headache.
l've stayed up two nights and finally got two letters together.
Puku.
lt's Puku's name.
Come on. Hang in there.
You have a quick eye.
But are you sure we'll find out who Puku is
if we sew this back together?
l think so.
Maybe Puku has gone to Nakrang by herself.
But Hangkai and the prince are here.
She couldn't have gone there by herself.
Congratulations on Haeaewu's 100th-day birthday.
Thank you.
YEORANG Brotheryou've been looking well lately.
You must be elated by the birth of a son at your advanced age.
Yeorang.
That goes without saying.
You'll understand the king's feelings and mine
when you have a child of your own.
What?
You dare ask the Crown Princess of Nakrang to
play the lute at a banquet?
The queen has asked the favorfor Prince Haeaewu.
Do l look like a courtesan to you?
Get out of here at once!
YANGDEOK The queen wishes to keep her promise
to the Second Queen of Nakrang today.
Did you put poison in Hogok's food?
That's impossible.
Captain Budal is watching Hogok like a hawk watching its prey.
Do l have to set the whole palace on fire to kill him?
But there's another problem Your Majesty.
What could be a bigger problem than Jamyung?
Mo Haso has gone to the prison to meet Hogok.
What?
This is my daughter Jamyung isn't it?
Hogok l beg you.
A mother's pain of losing her child is
the greatest pain of a person.
Please help me find my daughter.
Please tell me if she's Jamyung.
Mom. l'll go.
Even if l have to die by General Wang Hol's hands
l'll go to you.