Go away!
Don't become a spirit and follow me around!
Episode 2
I've prayed this much for you
so don't follow me around anymore.
Got it?
I've been having nightmares so haven't been able to sleep well.
I mean, suddenly, two feet came popping out of the ground
and then when I try to bury it back up
the feet start fighting back.
I mean, I did bury a barbarian in someone else's backyard...
I'm going to be punished for this.
Aren't I?
I just know that in my next life
I'm either going to be born a nasty bug
or a groundhog
and spend my whole life digging before I'm eaten up by a fox.
What kind of person do you take me for?
It's not that--
Now that you have something against me
you can do whatever you want.
Is that what you were thinking?
Of course you did!
You are your mother's son! You're no different than her!
Hey! At least try to explain yourself somehow.
What's running through your mind?
I--
I what?
Just wanted to comfort you.
Then you should have said it in words!
Don't even think about doing that again!
I have never thought of you as a man!
I told you to stay home and study.
Where have you been all day?
Aren't you even the least bit resentful?
Wrongfully labeled a traitor and--
How can I avenge what was done to my father?
That's why you need to apply for a position at the court--
What use is that?
There's no way they'll pick a traitor's son!
Do you want to see your mother die?
Fine! I'll die!
Then you can do whatever you want with your life!
Are you going to give shots all day?
My mother is perfectly fine.
The Lord of the house is home.
Who?
Who do you think?
The father you can't call your father...
Great!
I ought to tell him to watch out for the shot doctor.
I'm not scared!
There are injured people all over the village!
Not like no one will be needing my services!
Really? Then let's go at it.
That girl...
kills me!
What are you doing just standing there and not saying hello?
Just have a seat.
You don't need to bow.
I would have died for sure if it wasn't for her.
A girl playing with knives...
She's like you and has a tomboy side to her.
You'll be faced with many difficult situations in the near future.
Lord Kim Ja Jeom, who I was working for, was
exiled and sent to a deserted island.
There's no way I'm safe.
You go wait outside.
Sit down.
I may not be able to look after your mother anymore.
So you must take good care of her.
Yes fath--
My Lord...
I wouldn't recognize you if I ran into you on the streets!
You raised her well.
She's pretty good-looking.
Hurry and marry her off.
There aren't any appropriate marriage proposals...
There's an abundance of concubine opportunities!
I--
How dare you speak up!
You are a bit too pretty to give away as a concubine...
You brat!
I'm too pretty to give away as a concubine?
Who's fault is that!
Listen...
He was complimenting you endlessly before you got here!
I told him you saved me from the barbarian!
I'd rather bite my tongue and die than to become a concubine!
I'd rather bite my tongue and die
than to live like you!
Yeah right...you think you're so much more special or something?
How dare a concubine like you try to take my place!
How dare you look straight into my eyes!
This is unfair My Lady!
What am I supposed to do when My Lord comes here often?
It's because a sly bitch like you had a child!
What are you doing? Beat this girl!
Yes!
My Lady! My Lady!
Please save me!
My Lady! My Lady!
Beat her until she shuts her mouth!
That that that! You have your mother's eyes!
Listen carefully to your mother's screams.
If you're like your mother, you too will become a concubine.
So I'm telling you to remember clearly
what happens when you do not know your place!
I'm going to tell my father!
Hit her! More! More I tell you!
You sly bitch!
I'm dying!
Please save my mother!
My mother is about to die!
Who are you?
Please let me see my father.
My mother is about to die!
What do you mean father?
Who are you saying is your father here?
The Lord of the royal court that goes by the name of Cho Ki
is my father.
What?
Please let me see my father now!
Where do you think you're going?
Go I say!
Let go of me! It's important I tell you!
- Go now! - What's all the noise?
Father!
Father, some woman is hitting Mother.
Please save her, Father!
How dare the concubine's daughter call the Lord 'father'!
Father!
Go tell your mother.
If the concubine forgets who she is, the Lady of the house
will put her back in her place just like today.
Is the devil's blood any different?
You just wait and see.
One day, My Lord, you will kneel at my feet
and beg me for your life.
You just wait and see!
[Kim Ja Jeom]
[Injo]
Is he dead?
Since I sent him off to a deserted island
by now he should have either starved to death
or frozen to death.
Would you like us to find out, Your Highness?
We can send someone to--
He might still be alive.
Kim Ja Jeom is more stubborn than steel chains.
Your Highness, during troubled times like now--
I need someone like Kim Ja Jeom.
I apologize Your Highness.
[Court Lady Lee Seung Eun]
Why is it...
That whenever you're sitting in front of me
I feel a cold breeze blowing through?
Even in your smile
I can feel the wind.
Do you hate me?
Answer me!
Why do you just lay there as stiff as a log?
Are you still afraid of Queen In Hyul?
Please forgive me Your Highness.
No matter how hard I try to forget
I keep seeing Her Majesty's eyes...
My child... I... I long for you right now.
Here. Hold me. Hold me now. Go ahead.
Being alive is so painful for me right now.
I hear laughter belittling me everywhere
so just breathing alone is difficult and painful!
My child... I'm asking you to melt my soul....
If anything, at least make me feel human...
I'm begging you right now!
Have they had relations?
How dare you!
What use is it if you're a woman?
There's not a single aura of a woman in you!
Why you!
I will dedicate my life
to protecting you Your Highness.
Yes...
If it wasn't for you
I wouldn't have even thought about becoming king.
If someone else had risen
to the throne in my place
I would be kissing up to him begging him for my life!
Your Highness!
Kim Ja Jeom! How dare you!
You're still alive, aren't you?
Even if you die, do not blame me!
Look at yourself.
You're being punished for what you've done!
- Your Highness! - Your Highness!
That's right...
You see me, don't you?
You weren't a friend to the King.
Why you, Kim Ja Jeom?
Your Highness.
How could you do this to me?
Who helped you get to where you are right now...
[Year 1623, Gwanghae Injo Reformation]
We have a problem! They will not open the door for us!
I'm afraid Lord Yang may have changed his mind.
What do you mean?
Are they saying he will not take part in the uprising?
They will not open the door no matter what I say.
I will go.
Our lives are in your hand.
I will bring him here no matter what
so you gentlemen should start heading to Changduk Palace.
Let's go!
What about pushing back the uprising?
Absolutely not!
We have brought our men together for this!
This is a matter of life or death anyways.
Let's trust Kim Ja Jeom and head to the palace.
Follow me!
- Break down the door! - Excuse me?
Are you deaf? I said to break down that door!
- Break down the door! - Yes!
[Lord No Yang]
If Kim Ja Jeom is unable to bring Lord Yang
what do you plan to do?
Lord Yang is not the only one that can become a king.
There are Lord Heung Ahng and Lord In Sang as well...
We have an abundance of candidates.
Don't you think?
True...
Let's first kick out those living inside Changduk Palace.
When news of the empty palace spreads
everyone will want to rise to the throne.
Come with me.
You cannot change your mind now.
I am a sensitive person.
I am not fit to become a king.
Everyone else nominated Lord Heung Ahng and Lord In Sang
but I nominated you and pushed for you!
You know very well.
You must go to the palace with us right now!
When my father was alive
he overcame death many times.
His drink was poisoned many times
as was his food countless times!
He died early in his life because of that!
Would becoming a king change that?
It would be walking into a death trap.
There has to be countless people looking to rise to the throne!
One court lady was kicked out for trying to avenge her mother's death
and you were kicked out for doing your mother wrong!
That's not it.
There are many kings who were killed within the palace!
You know I... I just...
want to live a long ordinary life.
There's no point in regretting it now.
If you fail to come with me, you will be targeted a traitor and be killed.
And if Heung Ahng or In Sang become king
they will also try to kill you first.
How did I get myself into this...
Trust me.
I will protect you Your Highness.
I will dedicate my life
to protecting you Your Highness.
After the king overthrew our last king and became king
he had the nation's blood on his hands to the day he died.
'King' is just a nice title.
A king is no different than his court's puppet!
Do you think I will be any different?
I'll just be paranoid all my life...
Fine.
Let us go.
I was faithful as I'd promised.
Listen!
Follow me!
I gave my life to my kingdom...
and all I get back for it...
But why are they still standing by Him?
We cannot continue like this anymore!
The public is turning their backs on us.
Hundreds of people are starving to death everyday!
How much longer are you going to stand back and watch?
It's not like we have a solution.
Of course His Highness must take responsibility!
For what reason do you wish to speak to me?
Look at this.
I heard about that as well.
Then you probably also know who did this.
How would I know?
Must I tell you myself that the anonymous
letter came from your group?
How dare you!
That's enough gentlemen.
Our nation has been shredded to pieces
yet how can a letter like this come about?
That is all I am trying to say.
It's no surprise that the people
are demanding a new king.
Please watch what you say Prime Minister!
How can the army's problem be His Highness's fault?
It is those that urged His Highness to
surrender to the barbarians without even putting up a fight
that are to blame!
Then will you feel better once everyone is dead?
I said that's enough!
What kind of power do we have to fight the Chinese?
That doesn't mean we surrender!
I will take all responsibility
and resign.
I wrote my letter of resignation as
I left my home this morning anyways.
Prime Minister!
What do you mean resign?
You cannot!
Was it your doing?
There is a time and place for everything!
What is this?
It is a letter of resignation.
A letter of resignation...
What for?
Why are you trying to step down from such a great position?
Your Highness...
I won't stop if you insist on stepping down.
Then... who would you recommend to take your place?
Your Highness!
What do you think of Choi Myung Kil?
Thanks to him I had the honor of meeting Hong Taiji up close.
Giving him the Prime Minister is the least--
Your Highness!
Is it that simple to select a Prime Minister?
If you make a single mistake
you will not be able to remain where you are for much longer!
I cannot bear to see you
stepping down from that position
while I am alive.
You were out of line Prime Minister.
It's because he does not know his place.
Prime Minister!
There's no way to stop Kim Sang Hun.
How could I argue his belief that
we should have put up a fight to the end?
We have to shake up the royal court
in order for His Highness to get himself together.
Help me out here.
We need to make them beg.
Do you understand?
[Nam Hyuk]
Hyuk! Hyuk!
Hyuk!
Come out here right now.
Come out I tell you.
Hurry up!
You brat! I told you to never set foot near my house again!
You brat!
We almost missed it.
Whoever grabs it can keep it!
This is stealing!
Again! Again! Again! Again with the conscience!
Ma'am! Ma'am!
- Arrest them all! - Yes sir!
Who are you?
[Yam Jun - future Jo So Yong]
[Nam Hyuk]
You must have fought all the time instead of studying.
Looking at you
there's no way you're going to become a scholar one day.
Unless the society collapses
and the king dies there's no way I will succeed.
After my mother dies
I'm thinking of just becoming a peddler.
You're going to sell things in the marketplace?
I can't kill myself
so I'm just going to wander the world--
You can't do that!
Think of your mother!
You have to become a scholar and
restore your family's name just as your mom wishes!
Yam Jun...
Yeah...
If you were just a commoner
I would marry you and live an ordinary life...
By the way!
Go give this to your mother.
I was going to pay for it with my own money
but the cost of ginseng has gone up so much lately...
Here.
Let's go.
Yam Jun.
What?
Be my wife.
For a long time I've--
No matter how much you want to be a peddler
you have aristocratic blood in you
and even if I die 100 deaths
I am a concubine's daughter!
I don't care about things like that!
The world will not forgive us!
Unless this damned world
goes up in chaos!
They say there are beasts among us...
You couldn't wait a bit and had to in broad daylight...
What about you honey?
Get up now.
I'm afraid my daughter will come...
Besides that, when are you going to get me into the palace?
They say the king has been pretty depressed lately.
Just one shot from me and--
Oh my!
You should have at least coughed before coming in!
Tell the shot doctor to find me a husband!
An old man without kids if possible!
You think it's easy to get married?
Is she gone? Is she gone?
She really!
What did my child do?
My Hyuk only studies. What crime could he have committed--
My son wouldn't even hurt a fly!
- Look through everything! - Yes sir!
It's him! Catch him!
Oh no Hyuk! Hyuk!
Hyuk, these men must be mistaken.
What business do you have fighting guards?
That's not who you are!
Let go! Let go of me!
What could my child have done?
My Hyuk! How are you saying my Hyuk...
- Arrest him! - Yes sir!
You fool! Do you know who we are!
We come from a line of aristocrats!
How dare you lay your hand on him!
- Fools! - Let's go!
- Yes sir! - Let go! Let go of me!
Hyuk! Hyuk!
You fools!
Fools! Hyuk!
What has my son done wrong?
Hyuk!
What has my son done wrong you fools?
You should have appointed me
before you stepped down!
[Kim Ryu]
Prime Minister
Kim Ja Jeom's army of 30,000 remains just the way he left them.
With that army, there is nothing we can't do!
There is no other choice.
What do you mean choice?
There is no gold to replace the silver...
that is what I am trying to say.
We have Hae Hwan.
With just that...
Then instead...
Are you saying to make Crown Prince So Hyun
who is in Shimyang, the new king--
Have you not heard the apple does not fall far from the tree?
We're getting rid of the father to put his son in power?
Anyways...
Please nominate me!
The person that comes to mind right now is Kim Ja Jeom.
Prime Minister--
You cannot pick Kim Ja Jeom!
The only person to bring down Kim Sang Hun
is Kim Ja Jeom. That's what I'm saying!
Your Highness!
Councilman Choi is here to say hello.
Please let him in.
Look at this kid!
Isn't it time for him to stop breastfeeding?
It is too soon Your Highness.
[Crown Prince's son]
He's at an age where he needs his mother the most...
Your Highness. The Councilman--
Good job raising him.
The Crown Prince would be heartbroken if he got sick in any way.
Your Highness. Choi Myung Kil--
Please have a seat.
You can say hello later.
It looks as though someone will have to make a trip to Shimyang.
Has something happened to the Crown Prince?
It's because I had an odd dream.
What do you think about sending Kim Sang Hun?
He has a high rank
so he'll be just as forthcoming and confident with the barbarians.
What do you think In?
Even the barbarians won't be able to brush Kim Sang Hun aside. Right?
That would be best.
It will be very helpful for
the Crown Prince who is very shy.
If Kim San Hun goes to Shimyang, I mean!
Yes yes...
The home the Crown Prince and his Princess built
in China was called Shimyang.
The purpose was to oversee the trade and foreign policy
between China and Joseon, but actually it was
no different than a prison.
What have those people done wrong to be tortured like that?
If a crime was committed
they just refused to surrender
but is that not a duty of a Joseon citizen?
[Yong Gohl Dae]
What does he say?
Tell me exactly what he has said!
I too, as a man of China, follow my country's orders.
Please try meeting with Prince Yechun.
He has close ties to the royal family so he may hear your request.
[Samhaksa - three men who opposed friendly relations between Joseon and China]
I would rather bite my tongue and die
than to surrender to barbarians!
The barbaric water temperature is quite mild.
You fools need to reheat your iron!
It's already been a month that they've been tortured.
If anything you should just kill them.
This is too heartless!
[Do Reu Gohn - Prince; Hong Taiji's half-brother]
We're trying to buy more time to save them.
All they have to do is surrender
yet they are being so stubborn.
They say that over 60,000 people were
captured and brought here.
That's not all!
Joseon is suffering while trying to meet all your demands!
Is that not enough?
That's why I as well
said that I would like to save them.
The Crown Prince must convince them.
Who cares if they are empty words?
They just have to say they will serve China.
Just that one statement...
Please just close your eyes
and say one thing.
That you will serve their country
as they wish.
[Hong Ik Han]
We cannot Your Highness.
You must first find a way to live!
To live is to die Your Highness!
We are going to die and make them regret their doings!
Surrender! We will do no such thing!
Fine.
Then let's die together.
If I'm going to let my people die--
- Why are you doing this Your Highness? - Your Highness!
You must live Your Highness!
You must see this through Your Highness...
You must avenge all we've been fighting for...
Your Highness!
Your Majesty!
Please come down now!
Your Majesty!
You'll fall off. Please come down Your Majesty!
You cannot do this Your Highness!
If you fall off...
Why do you insist Your Majesty?
Did I not tell you not to worry?
Even the ladies ride horses in Manchu.
There's no one to say I cannot.
Your Majesty!
- Your Majesty! - Your Majesty!
Good boy... good boy...
It seems as though she is a born female warrior.
Good job.
What is the Lady doing at our home?
I got it. I won't set foot near your home again so do not worry.
Please save my son.
What?
I have no one else to ask...
Did something happen to Hyuk?
It's already been over 15 days since he was arrested.
You should have told me sooner!
Is there anything you can do?
Don't worry. I will look into it.
I will not forget it. If you can just save my son.
I will be sure to repay you for it.
What power do you have to make such a promise?
If you ask Father--
There's no way!
- Mother! - My child!
You think the old lady will accept you as her daughter-in-law just for this?
Mother!
There is no way.
Move!
Walk faster! Faster!
[Lee Hyung Ik]
You're exaggerating!
Medicine is bitter to the taste and acupuncture is painful.
Try getting up.
How is it?
That's amazing! Earlier I could barely stand!
Here. Go on.
Thank you very much!
Here, you come crawling in, but you walk out!
I doubt you're here to get shots...
Do you know anyone at the prison by chance?
Prison?
Why do you ask?
Do you or not?
Well I do know someone...
Who was arrested?
You don't need to know that.
Did Hyuk fight with the guards or something?
How did you know?
Your mother said you were going crazy about it so I looked into it.
I can make your delirium go away with a shot too...
Please help me, will you?
If you do I'll talk to my father
and will make sure to get you a position with the royal doctors.
With your looks
you could be a concubine to even the highest lords!
Why are you making it so hard for yourself?
A thousand eels will not change you into a dragon!
Do you not know that sleeping with a
lord's concubine is a punishable offense?
I'm so scared! So scared!
For your mom...
I'll see what I can do.
- Really? - Yes!
Cutie!
[Korean Min Sohk Chon]
You stupid!
Were you hurt? Did you get hurt at all?
Did they beat you?
I thought I'd never see you again!
[Nam Hyuk]
[Kim Ja Jeom]
If it becomes absolutely unbearable...
Use that.
You had a large army for me
yet you did not come save me!
So I had to bow before those barbarians today
and on top of that
I hit my head to the ground nine times
for a promise to save myself and my nation!
Yet you still call yourself one of my men?
Die! Die!
Die!
I will protect you Your Highness.
I will dedicate my life
to protecting you Your Highness.
Follow me!
Why should I die?
I'll just have to become king, won't I?
Foreigners stole the land from our nation.
The army has stolen the dreams of young men.
The King has stolen everything from this kingdom!
There is no specific blood fit for royalty.
I will live to become king
and kill you myself
rather than dying at the hands of the man I made king.
It is I! I am King I say!
I am the King! I rule the land I say!
I am the king!
I... am the King!
I am the King I tell you!
I am the King!
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The only person who will protect me like a crazy dog
is Kim Ja Jeom.
Could he have become king without me?
Absolutely not!
Find me a girl.
What do you need her for?
Don't you think they're after the King's new Queen?
Must I accept a concubine's daughter as my daughter-in-law?
- I'm sorry. - Is that all you can say to me?
If I could just live with you, I don't care about anything else!
- I said no. - Mother.
There are plenty of girls in the world!
Did you find her?
She was born with the look in her eyes.
The reason I chose you--
What do you mean wed again?
We have found a nice young lady.
Who knows? I could become Queen.
Have you ever had relations with a boy?
If you don't believe me then, why don't you take a closer look!