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Episode 18
Sir.
- What about Her Highness? - Let's hurry inside.
Your Highness! I'm coming in!
Are you okay?
Father!
Yes, Your Highness.
Your Highness!
This is evidence the Princess and Queen have been writing to each other for a long time!
This letter right here!
Do you know what the Princess wrote in this letter?
Had it not been for the Queen
she said she would not have been able to forgive me!
She wrote about building a new nation with the Prince!
A new nation?
What does she mean a new nation?
I'm asking what she means by building a new nation with the Prince!
Yes. I'm sure that's what it means.
Kill me...
and make the Prince the new King!
Your Highness!
That's why she said she'll never forgive me!
Isn't that what she means?
She said she cannot forgive the King.
If that's not a rebellion then what is?
Those backstabbing imbeciles!
How could they!
Take your time! You'll get sick!
I was so hungry, this food makes me want to cry.
What would you have done if His Highness failed to come?
Who would have thought going on strike was like that?
I thought I could just stop whenever I wanted.
Much better!
There are people who supposedly died in the past doing that.
Really?
They sat outside for five days in the middle of summer
and no one told them they can stop so...
Oh yeah!
What happened to the Queen?
Did you not hear His Highness screaming at her?
I didn't hear him I tell you!
Then were you really unconscious the whole time?
Yes mother!
The thought that His Highness had come to save me
was a relief and my eyes just closed shut.
Are you sure you don't need a doctor to come, Your Highness?
I told you not to make a fuss about it.
What about my father?
He is outside.
Ask him to come inside.
And you step outside.
Yes, Your Highness.
Is she awake?
Come on in.
Come closer father.
I should not have let you come to the palace!
How can His Highness treat you like that?
Court Lady Jung must have exaggerated the incident.
He was merely a bit upset.
What did the Princess write to you in that letter
for His Highness to be so angry?
Please come closer father.
You should not have married into the royal family at such a young age!
Father...
Please come closer father.
Your Highness!
Please don't try to save me.
If you do, His Highness will only become more upset.
It was a single letter from the Princess.
How can he use that to say you are part of a revolt?
The Princess is your daughter-in-law.
He wouldn't use that against me to kill me.
If anything he will push me back out to Kyungduk Palace.
How will you live locked up there at such a young age?
I will live each day waiting.
Your Highness...
I realized after I came to the palace.
I will have to spend my entire life waiting.
Even if it was against orders and we hid you somewhere
we should not have let you marry into the royal family.
The Prince and Princess will return not too far from now.
At that time, no one will want to stand by the King.
Where will he be able to find a spot in a place that is meant for a new ruler?
Have you already thought that far ahead?
When that time comes I will protect His Highness.
Yes... I... should take His Highness's hand...
I barely stopped His Highness from calling in the entire council
and asked for you instead.
He should have called on Kim Ja Jeom.
You must take charge this time.
Do you understand what I am saying?
Let's go in.
The Prime Minister went to the palace?
Yes, Lord Kim.
Kim In, that man...
This is a letter from your daughter-in-law.
Read all of it.
My sight has been terrible lately...
The Princess asked the Queen to build a new nation with her!
In the middle there!
Where...
When she says she wants to build a new nation...
Your Highness...
Do you mean to use this as an excuse to get rid of the Queen?
If you use this to call the council together
and discuss dethroning the Queen, you will be the topic of laughter.
Topic of laughter?
Your Highness...
The men who pushed Gwang Hae out of the throne
and made sure you rose to where you are today
are still alive and well to this day.
Who would dare try to take your place on the throne?
Are you talking about the Crown Prince?
What would make the Prince so desperate
that he would try to run you out and take over?
Have you not heard that the barbarians have been trying to convince him?
I truly feel bad for you.
You woke up this old man and made me run here in the middle of the night over this.
Your Highness...
To avoid a rebellion, you should doubt me, Kim Ja Jeom, or Kim Sang Hun.
How can you suspect the Crown Prince and Princess?
And to suspect Her Highness and yell at her--
I am upset with the Queen for many different reasons.
So is that what upset you?
What are you talking about?
I'm sure you were caught off guard.
Since the young Queen was so forceful.
Your Highness.
How will you bring in new council members like this?
What did I say you fool?
You should have told Kim Ja Jeom to come!
It's bright out now.
Looks as though you've helped Her Highness avoid punishment.
Is he going to lose his mind before me?
She wants to build a new nation?
Where are you rushing off to?
Must you always get in the way like this?
I made him King with my own hands.
I am the one that pushed Gwang Hae out of the palace.
I will follow His Highness to his grave.
Just remember that.
His Highness is sleeping.
You should leave now.
Call to him.
How dare you!
How did this happen to me overnight?
Do you not know that life is like day and night?
But still!
I gave the King acupuncture one day and the next I'm back at digging through his feces!
This! Does this make any sense?
Just consider yourself lucky for not getting kicked out of here.
Is there any way to get on the good side of the new person?
I have a sensitive sense of smell.
What are you men thinking?
How can you put the King's life in the hands of an acupuncturist?
How foolish!
Lord Kim ordered it himself...
From now on, even the smallest bit of medicine will need my approval.
Yes sir!
Kim Ja Jeom stepped down from his position?
It seems it will be difficult for him to enter the palace for a while as well.
Then what happens to the Queen?
She will live long and prosper!
I just wanted to let you know.
Court Lady Kim.
Let me spend just one night with His Highness.
Please do me a favor.
I will not forget what you've done for me.
I will mention it to him--
What is there you cannot do if you just put your mind to it?
Just once... help me just one more time.
Court Lady Kim?
Want to make a bet?
Whether or not I become Queen?
Watch what you say, Lady So Yong.
Please prepare what I've asked.
It's not too late to prepare when His Highness announces that he'll be coming.
Just do as I say!
There are rumors His Highness will give him back the Prime Minister position.
That old man is so greedy...
Did you hear the rumors about Shim Ki Won planning a revolt?
How can he?
What do you think about us doing it first?
Wiping them all out while you have the upper hand.
Shim Ki Won is planning a revolt...
I hear Kim Ryu is supporting him.
Shim Ki Won is planning a revolt?
I'm not just saying it.
A few men have already promised me.
Are you really going to go through with it?
We have quite a bit of men from the village too.
Villagers will not be enough.
Kim Ja Jeom has the upper hand.
That is why you have to take that hand away from Kim Ja Jeom!
So who are involved?
Kwon Uhk from Gwang Ju, Ha Uhn, Lee Uhn Rok
and select members of the council.
I got his permission.
Let's go!
Did you bring it?
What are you going to do with these morbid things?
Kim So Yong's mother has been visiting frequently?
Yes, My Lady.
You must watch closely and find out what they're doing.
She will be scheming something.
Yes, My Lady.
- What are you doing? Hurry and bury it! - Yes, My Lady.
Are you done burying it?
Where did you bury each one?
I buried one under each column.
That's fine. Let's go inside.
You have to put one on each wall.
One behind the screen and one even on the ceiling.
There has to be one in any place that is hidden from plain sight.
What are you planning to do with it?
Just do as I say, mother!
What are you doing? Hurry!
My hand doesn't reach!
Hold on.
I'll hold you from below
so let's try again.
One two three. Here we go!
- Just a bit more! - More?
- Just a bit more! - How about now?
Ouch! I'm dying!
Did you get hurt?
How can you kick me?
I'm sorry, My Lady!
Who is that over there?
Get her!
- Stop right there! - Get her!
- Stop!
I said stop right there!
Were you seriously injured?
She kicked my chest so she's fine but I thought I was going to die!
What about the talisman?
Did you stick them on everywhere?
Everywhere but the ceiling.
If you're going to curse anyone you should put them in the Queen's quarters or something.
Will it be effective if you stick them in your quarters?
We caught a suspicious court lady that was wandering the palace last night.
- Is that so? - What should we do?
Maybe she was sleep walking.
Give her a good scare and release her.
Yes, sir.
You're all set.
Where have you been this whole time?
I was talking to the other girls and fell asleep...
I told you to watch her quarters closely!
I did!
And?
The lights went out early...
Kim So Yong is not one to sit back and watch.
We must be prepared for whatever she's planning!
Yes, Lady Sook Won.
Your Highness! Kim So Yong is here to see you.
Tell her to come back another time.
Come on in.
Have a seat.
I wanted to come sooner and ask for your forgiveness...
You should have done so sooner.
I was hoping you would ask for me.
Are you here because you want to see your son?
Please bring the children.
I'm sorry.
I tried to cut the family ties...
Your Highness... My Queen!
What are you doing?
Hurry and get them.
What is this?
It is a letter of resignation.
Letter of resignation?
I tried to help, but instead I made you uncomfortable.
How could I...
No, but did someone tell you to quit?
You must leave home to understand its value
and you don't realize how important your parents are until you lose them.
Please call me whenever you need me again, Your Highness.
Good luck without me!
This is quite bittersweet!
You think I'd budge just because you do this?
He wouldn't even have come this far if not for Kim So Yong!
How is Kim So Yong doing?
She probably resents me a lot.
She wouldn't...
The Queen probably doesn't like her now because of me.
The two have been getting along just fine.
Really?
Your Highness.
You should visit the Queen
as well as Kim So Yong.
I just cut off Kim Ja Jeom.
Would she even want to see me?
Kim So Yong will probably be that much more lonely and sad because of it.
Okay.
She probably would be.
I'm so itchy.
They're your children and need your love.
Please come see them often from now on.
What's the point in often seeing an uneducated mother?
Do you still keep those words in your heart?
It's not something to say in front of the children.
You said so yourself, that I was uneducated. And I am.
I shall take my leave now.
You're going already?
I feel much relieved after meeting you, Your Highness.
I just bowed deeply in front of you because I felt sorry.
Forget about it.
Thank you, Your Highness.
- Mother. - Come here, dear.
Have you memorized what you learned today?
Yes, mother.
- How admirable you are, my child.
Yam Jun...
Please be my wife.
If you were an aristocrat, I would marry you and live well.
Let's either die or just run away together.
I beg you.
I don't think I could live without you.
Okay.
Let me see, my child.
Let me see.
I'm your mother. Did you miss me?
That's right. I am your mother.
Yes, I'm... your mother...
My Queen! His Majesty is coming!
He just left Daejeon and is on his way here.
My Queen, you've heard, right?
His Highness is coming!
Have another drink.
No, I'm fine.
I'm so drunk I can't even move my body.
What's wrong with getting drunk? There's no man looking out for you....
You're right about that one.
Let me have a drink.
You don't even know when Your Highness will come looking for you
would it be wise to stay drunk?
I can't even recall when I was last with His Highness.
How can you resent your back room already?
My Lady, My Lady.
Lady Lee Sook Won.
His Highness left for Kim So Yong's residence.
What?
Kim So Yong has a lot of luck.
His Highness goes to meet a woman who has two children.
How lucky is she....
What is Kim So Yong doing?
Not coming out to greet His Highness?
Your Highness.
What are you...
Please come inside, Your Highness.
Did someone die?
I'm asking you why mourning garments?
How stifling this is.
I'm asking for the reason why you greeted me in mourning garments?
Who died?
If you had not come again today, I would have left this world.
What?
You tried to kill yourself?
How can a young, lively woman
live after being abandoned by her husband?
How can you try killing yourself while leaving your children behind?
What use is it to have children?
I cannot live a day without you, Your Highness.
I feel lonely and empty.
I miss you so much I feel like I'm going to suffocate.
Yam Jun. Yam Jun.
Your Highness.
Please kill me tonight.
If you're going to abandon me, strangle my neck while I'm asleep.
If I am able to die in your arms, I will happily rest my eyes, Your Highness.
No, Yam Jun.
Why are you doing this?
Yam Jun. There, there.
Okay, okay.
Your Highness.
We can go back now.
It seems they are fast asleep.
Okay.
Yam Jun. Why are you doing this?
Yam Jun!
Why are you doing this, Yam Jun!
Get away! Won't you go away!
Get a hold of yourself.
Your Highness, please save me!
The Grim Reaper has come to get me!
Grim Reaper?
Can't you go away? It's not my time yet!
This can't be it!
- Go! - Is anyone out there?
Bring the doctors at once!
Somebody! What are you all doing?
Yam Jun.
- Somebody! - My Queen.
What's wrong, My Queen?
Please get a hold of yourself, My Queen.
My Queen! My Queen!
It's all my fault, I should've brought her out of the palace.
I did wrong!
No. What are you talking about?
'I should've brought her out of the palace?'
There may be many people cursing at her, do you think she would be safe?
- What? - There's probably curses on the walls and ceiling
even buried underground, there's no way My Queen would be safe.
- What did your mother say? - How can this be?
She told you to receive exorcism from a shaman before returning to the palace!
My Queen, get a hold of yourself. I'm sorry.
Get away! Shoo, shoo! Can't you go away?
Do you even know who My Queen is? Ghosts can't even take her away!
My Queen, no! Get away you jerks!
You jerks! No, you can't!
Yam Jun!
- Yam Jun! - My Queen!
How can this...
Wait for me!
Why the fuss?
Kim So Yong has gone mad...
The King has taken her to her residence.
How can you be looking at books when a person is dying?
I'm sorry, Your Majesty, but...
there are a number of diseases that could've stopped her from breathing.
She's possessed by a demon, don't you see?
The demon is choking her so that she can't breathe!
Your Highness, please breathe.
You must not lose your head.
What are you doing?
Well, do something!
Your Majesty, there is no medicine that will get rid of a demon.
How can you say that, you moron!
Please, Your Majesty!
Your Majesty.
I will try to heal her.
Wait... Aren't you...
the acupuncturist who followed Kim Ja Jeom here?
Yes, Your Majesty!
Fine. Whether it be needles or medicine, give it a try.
Hurry!
Yes, Your Majesty!
I think it will be hard this time for the Queen to escape the King's wrath.
Are you implying that the Queen is capable of summoning a demon?
I guess that guy wants to die.
How on earth does he expect to chase away a demon with acupuncture?
Shh!
Idiot...
Please let me sleep.
Your Highness, you will feel a prick.
Are you okay?
Thank heavens. Thank heavens!
My goodness.
Ugh, with all this fuss going on...
You can't seem to chase away the Queen, and the concubines are vying for the King's love.
At this rate, how will we ever repay our foreign debt?
Ugh, I can't believe this!
Welcome, sir.
I think you'll have to go inside the palace.
What's the matter this time?
The King is threatening to depose the Queen.
He probably doesn't mean it.
We can't leave things like this.
The King has lost his mind!
What do you mean he's lost his mind?
- He's obviously mad! - Watch what you say!
A king must act like a king in order to be treated like one!
How can you say something like that?
How can you be defending a king who's made us be at the mercy of foreigners?
That's enough.
I will go see the King and have a talk with him.
Tell him to do his job properly!
You think I'll depose her without any evidence?
No matter how much you hate her, she's still the Queen.
She's the mother of this land.
You can't just get rid of her like you would a dissenter.
Says who?
We should investigate her.
Your Majesty, if you let this slide, people will be talking.
You will need to investigate thoroughly starting now...
and reveal the results of your investigation in order to quiet any rumors.
Shouldn't you be at home writing or something since you've resigned from your post?
I came here because I couldn't stand the way things were being handled.
I grew impatient seeing the lack of competence!
Then... are you suggesting that you'll investigate the Queen?
Of course, we must investigate her!
We must investigate the Queen as well as the other concubines
and find out who brought in the evil talisman!
In that case... fine, go ahead.
Kim In, why are you just standing there?
The King hasn't said anything against it.
That means he wants you to investigate!
Why are you doing this?
It's wrong enough that guys like you think you can get rid of someone
but how dare you enter here without my permission?!
Let go! Let go, you bastard!
I haven't done anything!
Let go!
Your Highness! Your Highness!
I said let go of me!
Go ahead and search all you want. I have nothing to hide!
If you bastards are going to search, you should start by searching Kim So Yong's room!
Who else could've brought in that talisman but her?
Ma'am!
The King's eunuchs are searching Lady Jang's and Lady Park's rooms!
They should search the Queen's residence first! Why are they searching the concubines' rooms?
The Queen's the one who made her kneel in front of her until she got sick.
What wouldn't she be capable of?
I want to see her banished! Not only from the central palace but from the palace grounds!
Keep searching! If you can't find what you're looking for
tell Kim So Yong to come and search herself!
Your Highness, it's me, Court Lady Kim.
Should I leave while you search?
I am so sorry, Your Majesty.
Please stay seated, Your Highness.
Thank you. I don't really have anywhere else to go.
If we may...
Where do you think you're entering?!
Please leave us.
But Your Highness!
Your Highness.
Start searching.
You mean all these were found in the Queen's room?
Yes, Your Majesty.
See?
They're saying the Queen was responsible for bringing in the talismans!
I didn't want the Queen to lose face.
But she pretended like she didn't know all along.
Get rid of these!
Did you sleep well?
Doctor Lee's acupuncture skills are pretty amazing.
Where am I?
It's called Seo Woon Dol.
The Queen sleeps in this room when she's staying in Daejeon.
She's slept here only a few times. Other than that, it hasn't been used.
Isn't this room simply splendid?
The world is yours now, Your Highness.
I hear they found voodoo talismans in the Queen's room!
Now we just have one more step to go.
You mean there's still more to do?
If the Queen is deposed, you will become queen!
I need to make my son become king.
Then the world will truly be mine, Mother.
Since China...
has finally conquered the Forbidden City...
I will...
give you a present.
Go back to Joseon.
Instead of your father...
you become King of Joseon.
Let's go!
Did you hear that, Your Highness?
He said he'd support you being king.
Emperor Shunzhi of the Qing dynasty crossed the Great Wall
and conquered the Forbidden City.
The Ming dynasty fell, and the Qing dynasty came to rule China.
Your Highness! Your Highness!
Princess Min Hwe!
Your Highness! Your Highness!
I bring great news.
Shunzhi has... conquered the Forbidden City!
The Crown Prince...
will be returning to the palace!
Did you hear that?
The Ming dynasty has fallen!
- Hooray! - Hooray!
You, the Crown Prince...
must return to the palace...
and you must...
you absolutely must...
usher in a new era for our kingdom.
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So the Crown Prince has returned, eh?
The Queen and the Crown Princess are co-conspirators.
I'm thinking of sending the Crown Prince on a boating excursion.
That is a good idea.
I will do as you say.
This is why I need Kim Ja Jeom!
Suspicion plants more suspicion, which plants yet more suspicion.
Do you remember this?
If the Crown Prince is plotting something against you...
you must show no mercy, Your Majesty.