Kill Kim Chunchu and the Silla soldiers!
Protect Chunchu!
Inmun, I'll fight him. Get father out of here.
Okay.
Beopmin. Beopmin!
I am Kim Yusin of Silla!
Anyone who tries to harm Kim Chunchu will die by my sword.
Today, I will kill Kim Chunchu and Kim Yusin, the two pillars of Silla.
Yusin!
Stop!
The two of you have to achieve harmony for the Three Kingdoms
with the respect of everyone.
I do not want to lose either one of you.
If you want to let him live, we will not be able to return to Silla alive.
No.
He will be generous and open up a way for us to return to Silla.
Quiet!
If you flee like this, me and Goguryeo will be the joke of the world.
If anyone sheds blood here, Silla and Goguryeo will have to go to battle.
That is what the Tang emperor wants.
Do you want to fight Silla instead of Tang?
If you let me return to Silla safely,
you will gain a reputation as a noble and virtuous man.
What will you do?
Do you want to go to war with Silla or be a noble and virtuous man?
It's all up to you.
You decide.
Lower your weapons!
As the court leader of Goguryeo,
I order you to let the Silla envoys leave the border.
I will not forget this.
Leave before I change my mind.
Chunchu, why didn't you let me kill Yeongae Somun?
You will have to fight him some day over the Three Kingdoms,
but this isn't the time.
What do you mean?
Goguryeo will not be able to stop Tang without him.
If Tang conquers Goguryeo, Silla will be next.
We don't have the power to defend against Tang.
Goguryeo has to be our shield until we raise that power.
Yusin, over there.
How did you know I would be returning today?
I came to arrest you for suspicion of treason.
What?
If you didn't swear loyalty to Yeongae Somun and
form a secret agreement, how did you leave Goguryeo alive?
If you continue to insult the both of us, we will have to shed blood here.
You will also have to explain
why you crossed the border without the court's approval.
What?
Don't He is instigating you.
If you fight the court soldiers, you will be accused of treason.
I will prove my innocence to Her Majesty and the court.
Lead the way.
Question Kim Chunchu for treason?
You looked on idly when he was detained in Goguryeo.
He barely returned alive and you want to question him for treason?
I cannot accept that.
If he did not agree to the return of the land north of Jungnyeong,
how could he return alive?
If he agreed to that without the approval of the royal family and court,
that is surely treason.
If I agreed to return that land, the king of Goguryeo would not have detained me.
I only returned because the mangniji of Goguryeo allowed me to.
You should be able to find out the truth if you send a letter to the Goguryeo court.
If Yeongae Somun let you return,
why did Kim Yusin take the iron soldiers to save you?
I crossed the border with Her Majesty's order to bring Chunchu back to Seorabeol.
If Goguryeo wants revenge and attacks us,
it will be because Chunchu did not fulfill his mission.
Be quiet!
Questioning the two of them is reprimanding me since I gave the order.
Do you want to question me?
Am I to kneel and apologize to you?
Who is the ruler of this country?
Your Majesty, I'm so embarrassed.
Instead of comforting a loyal servant who almost died for the country,
we were disloyal in questioning him and challenging your authority.
How could we dare to hold our heads up?
Your Majesty, dismiss me and all the officials of the court.
Punish our disloyalty and set the court straight.
Don't just talk about loyalty.
Chunchu risked his life to fulfill his mission.
Look at him and think about what loyalty and patriotism is.
A war between Goguryeo and Tang cannot be avoided.
Goguryeo will be too busy defending against Tang,
but Baekje might use that chance to attack us.
Send a letter to the Tang emperor asking him to prevent Baekje from
attacking Danghangseong.
He won't be able to refuse when he has to fight Goguryeo.
I will do that.
Do you think Goguryeo will be able to stop Tang?
The Goguryeo soldiers are trained well. One could fight a hundred.
The fortresses are impregnable, too.
As long as Goguryeo doesn't have any internal dispute,
even an army of 1 million couldn't defeat Goguryeo.
It is an enemy nation,
but I envy the fact that the royal family and court are in harmony to protect their nation.
Don't worry.
The two of use will be cornerstones for you to set the court straight.
The queen only embraces Kim Chunchu and Kim Yusin.
The court's power will not stand.
Even Alcheon sided with them. This is so embarrassing.
She forgot who put her on the throne.
I will see if she can still be so confident after I get rid of Chunchu and kill Yusin.
I am treating to celebrate the safe return of Chunchu.
Chunchu, make a toast.
I saw much and realized a lot in Goguryeo.
Goguryeo fought the Central Plain for hundreds of years.
Even children learned how to carry swords, ride horses and shoot arrows.
What made Goguryeo powerful wasn't the weapons.
It was the pride of being a Goguryeo citizen.
We also must have pride as Silla citizens to survive.
Hwarangdo must take the lead in enhancing our pride and
achieving prosperity and unification of the Three Kingdoms.
Without pride for the country, there can't be loyalty.
Munhui, your husband is finally back. Catch up tonight.
I'm old enough to have grandchildren. Don't be so vulgar.
You could have a child at fifty.
Isn't that right, Chunchu?
I will make a strenuous effort.
A strenuous effort.
Where is Beopmin?
I don't know.
Yeonhwa.
I'm glad you returned safely.
You're praying so earnestly. I had to come back safely.
I heard you attacked the ichan before you left.
I'm not done with him yet.
I'm going to settle things with him.
Please be careful.
Bidam isn't just after you. He's after Chunchu and Yusin, too.
Don't worry.
No matter how good Bidam is, he couldn't harm my father and uncle.
I will not let him.
Have a seat.
I waited to have a drink with you tonight.
Here.
Please forgive me.
I wasn't able to keep my promise to
stay away from the gibang and to avoid fighting Bidam.
Everyone makes mistakes.
Just don't repeat them.
What is your ambition?
What do you want to achieve?
I'd like to save the people of the Three Kingdoms.
I'd like to achieve a world where people aren't discriminated because of social class.
Do you mean that?
Not a word of it is a lie.
If you want to live as a commoner, living for one woman would be alright, too.
But if you want to save the people of the Three Kingdoms,
you must cut off all emotions of love.
Father...
It will feel like your heart is being ripped to pieces right now,
but if you truly want to achieve the cause,
you have to be able to embrace and forgive an enemy and
you must be cold enough to cut off the woman you love.
I believe you will remember what I said.
I can't believe I did this to you.
I'm not disappointed with you.
It's my fault for causing a misunderstanding.
If you want, go to Beopmin. I'll let you go.
Why do you say that?
A man can't hold a woman who doesn't love him.
I will let you go.
Please don't abandon me.
I am a bud that is blossoming with the water you give me.
What is your intention?
Is it to kill me for removing your mother from the throne?
Is it to get revenge against Chunchu and Yusin for killing Bihyeong?
Or is it to get me and Chunchu to fight each other?
Go ahead and try to get all the revenge you want.
If I fall because of you, I don't deserve to rule this world.
I just want to stay by your side forever.
Please believe me.
If you want to be under my shade, will you do anything I say?
I will.
Baekje palace
Your Majesty.
The Tang emperor sent a letter.
He is going to cut off trade if we attack Danghangseong?
How can he do this?
How dare he stop the Baekje army?
Ignore the request and give an order to attack Danghangseong.
We are trying to possess Danghangseong to trade with the Central Plain.
What's the use of getting the boat route if the Tang emperor won't trade?
It seems Kim Chunchu got the queen to ask Tang for help.
Hwasi should have killed him when he was in Goguryeo.
I will kill him and offer you his head.
You will have to.
I will accept the Tang emperor's request and postpone attacking Danghangseong.
Instead, strengthen attacks on the southwest border of Silla.
We will have to turn the people of Silla by causing battle.
Baekje isn't attacking Danghangseong thanks to the Tang emperor,
but I don't feel comfortable about this.
Is it because of the Tang emperor's letter?
He said Silla didn't have the power to defend against Baekje because
a woman is sitting on the throne.
He didn't hesitate to say he would send a relative to be the king of Silla.
How am I to repay him for this humiliation?
The success or failure of a reign can only be judged by the ruler's virtues.
No matter what the Tang emperor says, you are the only ruler of Silla.
Be strong and set the court straight.
Focus on caring for the people and you can enhance the authority of the throne.
He's right.
Baekje won't attack Danghangseong for a while, but they will attack more violently.
You should send Yusin to the southwest border.
The Tang emperor wants to send a relative to be the king of Silla?
I have never been so humiliated as a Silla citizen before.
This is all because the queen ignores the court and
only embraces people like Chunchu and Yusin!
We can't postpone replacement of the court.
We have to drive out people like Alcheon who only try to please the queen.
We have to create a powerful court that can overrule the queen.
Will you meet the people who are to be recommended to court?
What is your name?
My name is Yeomjong.
Nobody is better at astronomy and geology and
as for writing, I am second in Silla.
Second? Who is first?
A friend named Jadu who learned from the same teacher is better than me.
Jadu?
That is Jadu.
Are you Jadu?
Why are you wearing that on your head?
This protrusion on my head has insight to read people's faces.
What? How is my face?
You have the face of a person who will be successful in government.
That's good news.
You can go now. I will let you know.
Is there anyone you liked?
Yeomjong looks pretty useful.
Give him the position of achan.
What about Jadu?
A person with such a protrusion is inclined to be defiant.
He won't be any good in court.
I think I'll have to return home.
Why do you say that?
Bidam will value your talent.
I don't want to be recommended in secret to enter court.
Take care of yourself.
Bidam was fortunate to gain power,
but his jaw is sharp, his power will be in danger.
Thank you for coming.
Let me introduce myself.
I am Yeonhwa.
Why did you want to see me?
I might be a gisaeng, but I truly love Beopmin.
Can you approve of our relationship?
Love can't be controlled by people.
You can just have him in your heart. What's the use of my approval?
Don't you believe me?
I am prepared to jump into a fire for Beopmin.
I heard rumors about you.
If you truly loved Beopmin,
you wouldn't have refused Her Majesty's offer to give you a golpum status and
lived as a gisaeng.
That's...
He might be my son, but I can't control his feelings of love.
If you try to ruin him with impure intentions,
I will not forgive you.
Remember what I said.
A guest is here?
Hello, I am Jadu from Gaya.
I heard about your reputation.
I wanted to meet you before I returned home.
I will bring some tea. Go ahead and talk.
Have a seat.
This protrusion on my head holds strategies for innumerable changes.
If you accept me, I will give you the Three Kingdoms.
I don't want the Three Kingdoms.
I want the people of the Three Kingdoms to want unity.
If you planned to enter court with my reputation, you came to the wrong place.
It would be better to use that horn to plow fields.
I found a master I am to serve all my life.
Please accept me.
What are you doing?
Get up.
Thank you.
I will give you my full loyalty for the unification of the Three Kingdoms.
You want to fight to settle this? How will I face Chunchu if I kill you?
You really won't regret this?
A man keeps his word.
If I kill you, let Yeonhwa go.
You're risking your life for a low class woman?
You're reckless.
Fine. Come on.
We'll see who dies.
Do you admit defeat?
It's not over yet.
Your love defeated my sword.
I will let Yeonhwa go.
Are you alright?
Yeonhwa, Bidam promised to release you.
You don't have to be a gisaeng anymore.
Yeonhwa.
Who created social classes?
Some people are born as nobility and others have to live as low class forever.
I am disappointed with the heavens.
I'll just die and meet you again in my next life.
Why are you saying this? Did something happen?
Chunchu said...
He wouldn't forgive me if I ever saw you again.
My father?
The language of the Central Plain is different from Silla language.
It's hard for the court's orders to be relayed to the people and
it's hard for the people to make appeals to the court.
Are you saying the language should be changed to be easily understood?
If people could read, they would have greater pride for their country.
All people of the Three Kingdoms should be like that.
Why was a pearl like you buried in dirt until now?
That horn on your head seems to hold all the rules of nature.
Right, Gangsu?
[Gangsu: Person with a bulging head]
Gangsu?
Since you call me that, I will go by that name from now on.
Why are you standing there like that?
Come and sit down.
This is Gangsu.
Did you threaten Yeonhwa to stop seeing me?
What?
What are you saying?
Is it true that you met Yeonhwa?
Yes.
I told her to stop seeing you if she didn't truly love you.
You want to save the people of the Three Kingdoms.
How could you persecute a weak woman?
If I have to abandon her because of social class,
how can I achieve the cause of saving the people of the Three Kingdoms?
I am very disappointed with you.
How can you say such a thing?
Ask for forgiveness right now.
I didn't do anything to ask for forgiveness.
What?
Beopmin, what's wrong with you?
I'm leaving this house.
You want to cut off your ties with your father?
Please forgive me.
- Beopmin, you can't do this. - Let him go!
He is confused.
He won't listen to anyone right now.
Remember what I say.
Don't look at her smile. Look at her eyes.
If you can't read a person's mind,
you will be tricked by sweet talk and ruin great things.
What brings you here?
I came for Yeonhwa.
Where is she?
If you split up Chunchu and his son,
you will be a treacherous person who ruins this country.
If it will satisfy you, I wouldn't hesitate to jump into a fire.
Good.
Yeonhwa!
Beopmin.
Did you come for Yeonhwa?
Decide whether you've going to stay here or go with Beopmin.
What will you do?
I will respect your decision.
I...
I will stay by your side.
Hold it properly.
Good, good.
What brings you here?
Why are you doing things that common soldiers should do?
There is no rank when it comes to loyalty and patriotism.
There is no class for putting up a fence.
All soldiers under my command fight as one.
What brings you here?
I felt uneasy in Seorabeol.
I came to discipline myself by fighting the Baekje soldiers.
Many people are trying to kill your father in Seorabeol.
I'm worried.
He can defeat an army of a million by himself, so don't worry.
I will help you and achieve merit.
Let's go!
Who sent you?
Is it the king of Baekje or Bidam?
Do you think an assassin like you could kill the great cause to
save the people of the Three Kingdoms?
Go and tell your master.
Ten thousand soldiers couldn't kill my cause to unify the Three Kingdoms,
so stop wasting time.
Get out of here right now!
How dare you try to kill Chunchu?
I'd like to kill you right now,
but Chunchu said to let you go, so leave quietly.
You are forgiven this one time, but you won't be next time.
Why didn't you capture the assassin and find out who's behind it?
If I kill the assassin now, they will send another assassin.
Since the assassin will return alive, they will know I am prepared.
Another assassin won't be able to come into my house again.
Bidam could have sent the assassin.
Bidam wouldn't send an assassin.
He would have tried to accuse me of treason and have me executed.
The king of Baekje probably sent the assassin since he has a grudge.
He has the gift to be a good and wise king.
It's too bad there can't be friendly relations with Baekje as long as I'm alive.
Can you swear more loyalty to me than the queen?
I can give you fame and wealth.
If you refuse...
You will never be able to enter the palace.
You won't even be able to set foot in Seorabeol.
What will you do?
I...
I will give you my full loyalty with my life.
You don't have to give your life.
Get up.
Master!
An assassin entered Chunchu's house last night.
An assassin?
Is Chunchu alright?
He's alright, but he let the assassin go.
Father, Bidam would like to see you.
I heard a wildcat snuck in your house last night.
I'm glad you're alright.
You don't think I sent that wildcat, do you?
If you wanted to kill me,
you would use a court order and execute me with the people watching.
Right!
I would use treason to ruin your family.
Nobody would ever be able to utter your name again
including the royal family and the court.
What brings you here?
I came to discuss the future of this country with you.
Go ahead.
I intend to put you on the throne and open up a new sky.
What?
Will you hold my hand?
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