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This is...
Episode 7
Hurry up! If we don't cross that bridge, it's over.
What?
Goo Bok!
It hurts!
- Goo Bok! - Get up! Get up!
What the heck are you doing? Get up! You'll die!
No, I can't. I think my leg is broken.
What?
We have to go. Once that bridge is destroyed, it's over!
- What about Goo Bok? - Do you want to die with him?
Let's go!
I'm scared!
The purest of the bloodline will come to rule the land.
But Do Ha...
if the prediction refers to the princess, not Yeongchang...
then what would it really mean?
Pardon?
'The one who rules the land' would mean the throne...
so why did Nam Sa Go point at the princess?
That idiot...
Run! Hurry!
No! No!
Just who is it?
How could someone know about this...
The blister beetles were sent under Haneum's name.
Does it mean he knows about this?
Could Haneum send it to us directly...
No.
If Haneum knew about this, he wouldn't have acted this way.
This is a warning someone sent to us.
What?
Yes! The throne!
Like you said, let's just say
I had no choice on all of these in order to protect the throne.
Do you really believe that what's threatening me
is the prediction and the princess?
The one who notified me of the prediction...
Someone who can dare to threaten me and push it onto the throne...
Have you not thought about who that could be?
His Majesty was right.
There is someone.
The one who knows about everything...
and who has the power to know everything.
If that's the case...
shouldn't we get rid of Haneum as soon as possible?
Whoever sent this is an issue for later. Right now, we need to get rid of Haneum...
We cannot do that.
We can't do that.
Why not? How come? Why? Why?
His Majesty... Just now, His Majesty...
went to meet Haneum.
What?
Are you saying that he will also find out about this soon?
You didn't hear about any suspicion from the autopsy?
Are you saying that Dr. Jang wasn't let go because he raised the suspicion?
Not at all. I swear that it didn't happen.
On the other hand, Dr. Jang disappeared with the autopsy record after that.
What... did you say?
I raised a question of poisoning, so I was kicked out and lived in hiding.
Then I saw you at the mayor's house that day.
And I thought you'd listen to my story.
You are...
Sire!
What if he hears the truth of this and tries to reveal it...
Who? Gwanghae reveals the truth of this?
Then he'll also have to abandon the throne.
- Do Ha. - Yes, sir.
Although he's only a piece on my chess board
Gwanghae is still the king.
For that seat, the king can abandon everything and everyone
including his siblings and his father.
Answer me, Haneum!
What is this?
Why do you have the autopsy record of the late king?
What were you trying to do with this record?
Sire...
Today... I came to ask you to give me one more chance.
So that I can revert to the old days...
Just like you said, to rule without deceit and trickery.
Please be at my side again.
But... what are all these things?
What were you doing behind my back?
What were you doubting about me?
Yes, sire...
I was suspicious of you.
The late king's death...
Whether you also knew about the secret of the late king's death.
Yes!
Whether you also knew that the late king was poisoned to death...
Whether you knew that you stepped on the blood of your father to stand there!
Whether it was you who ordered it...
I wondered.
It was... true after all?
The late king...
My father was poisoned?
And you believe I did it?
Get up! Please!
He's alive!
Here! Someone's alive here!
- How bad is the damage? - Over 20 people are severely hurt.
Some are still at the mine.
Damn it!
What about Goo Bok?
He's fine. He was found before you, so he was taken to town for treatment.
That's good.
What about his injury? Is his leg fine?
You're really an idiot.
What?
His wound is bad.
We need to stop his bleeding and move him.
Undress him first. Now!
Sure.
- Let's stop your bleeding first... - No!
I'm fine. I don't need any treatment.
- What are you saying? Your wound... - I'm fine! Let go!
Are you... by any chance...
So how many people can move right now?
That's...
How are things here?
Actually...
What's that?
Maruno!
Let go of me! Let go!
I wondered...
but you really are a girl.
It'd be pretty good money if I hand you over to a brothel.
Keep her locked up.
Sell her off tomorrow!
- Get a good price. - Yes, sir!
Maruno!
Let go!
Maruno! She's hurt... please...
It's not for you to butt in.
Let go of me before I cut that hand off!
You'd dare to send me off to a brothel?
Even if you could kill me, you wouldn't be able to!
You wouldn't dare to do that to the princess of Joseon!
What?
Boss, what did she...
Princess?
- You're the princess of Joseon? - Yes.
So you have to let me go.
You're a man of Joseon who speaks the language of Joseon...
You have to help me go back to my country, back to my place.
Princess of Joseon?
This young girl?
My my...
Yes, your eyes and the way you speak...
Kid, I almost fell for it.
I almost thought, 'a princess of my motherland,'
and bowed to you.
- How dare you! - But...
it's too bad.
I heard something else today that prevents me from believing you.
Answer me, Prime Minister!
What more do you know?
Yes, sire! The late king was poisoned!
In the hands of the ones who follow you.
Listen carefully, kid.
The princess of Joseon is dead.
Along with her younger brother.
From what I heard, the king of Joseon harmed them.
Both the princess and the grand prince.
Because they'd be in his way.
So you'd better keep quiet and go to the brothel.
Stop the nonsense.
Wait for a second! Wait!
What... did you just say?
Who died?
The grand prince... Did you say the grand prince died?
No, that's not possible.
No, he's in exile. He can't be dead!
- You... - Tell me!
Who said such horrible things to you?
The grand prince died... No! That's not possible!
Do you understand?
You're standing there after stepping on the blood of the late king.
Sir!
His Majesty is back.
The ones who killed your father...
in their own hands...
The trace of poison cannot be erased!
Sire...
It must also remain on those who used the poison.
The princess of Joseon is dead.
Along with her younger brother.
I heard the grand prince died in exile.
In a hot room heated up with firewood.
In other words, that young kid was slowly, painfully, strangled.
The king of Joseon did that.
Sir, may I come in for a minute?
Come in.
A soldier from the police bureau stopped by.
He said that investigation of the port explosion has wrapped up.
He said you'd know what that means.
Got it.
How is Joo Won doing?
I'll definitely find you!
I'll protect the grand prince, and protect you as well.
You...
It was you after all.
You and Lee Yi Cheom... to Father...
And you were still able to look at me every day.
In front of me... with those hands that killed my father...
you adjusted my robe for me.
How can you possibly do that?
Even if it was for me...
How...
How can you possibly...
Then... what should I have done?
What?
There is only one master for the throne of this country.
Your Majesty would have lost your life if you couldn't gain the throne.
So what should I have done?
Shut up.
Please just shut up!
I am not afraid of death.
Yes, since the day I decided to serve you...
what I feared more than death was...
was losing you, sire.
While you were waiting for those long years...
I know what you dreamed of and what you wished for.
Yes, that's why I had to protect that earnest wish.
For you to climb to the throne and realize your grand dreams!
Therefore, sire...
please listen to my last words.
Please don't be shaken up...
You must do what you need to do.
What... are you saying?
What on earth...
I'm going to kill myself when I leave here.
What?
Also, I will make Lee Yi Cheom do the same.
I will erase all the traces related to that event.
So, sire...
Sire...
By any chance...
By any chance, are you...
Are you telling me to kill Haneum?
With my hands? Haneum?
That's the only way.
The only way to protect the throne right now...
Please kill Haneum.
Even if I erase all the traces
as long as he's alive, he will never give up.
Sire...
Please, sire! You have to bury today and plan for the future.
Please don't fall apart like this today...
You have to protect the throne.
Please kill everyone who knows about this...
and protect your throne, sire!
Just one thing...
Let me ask you about just one thing.
Tell me...
Was it the same method?
The one who notified me of the prediction...
Was it him again this time?
Sire...
Listen.
Once the morning comes, you'll be sold to a brothel.
So run away and hide yourself somewhere.
Do you understand?
- Then I'll convince Maruno... - Please...
Please kill me.
Please.
Did you say, 'kill me'?
Just now?
Why? Because you're the princess?
A precious princess can't live like this?
Fine, let's say that you're a princess of Joseon.
And? So what?
Wake up!
Whatever you were in Joseon, you're a slave here, just like us.
We're just animals.
So what's the big deal now...
No, you don't know...
what I lost...
how I had my loved ones stolen...
You don't know anything.
Because of my younger brother...
But I lost him.
I wasn't able to do anything in the end.
So I have no more reason to live on.
I have no reason to live and endure this humiliation!
Really?
Then die.
As a princess.
But if I were you...
I'd just live on.
As an animal.
Do you understand?
If that's the only way to live...
even if I had to become an animal, not a human being
I would survive.
Yes, die now.
But do it with your own hands.
What does this mean?
You're a criminal who killed the late king.
This is His Majesty's grace.
You won't be lonely.
I'm not interesting... but I'll accompany you.
No, I can't do that.
Why would I?
You and I bet our lives for His Majesty!
Why do we have to die?
'Gain everything or lose everything.'
Did you not know this when you started?
That's power.
Yes, I know.
That's power.
That's why I'm going to gain everything.
I would never give up like this.
Lord Lee...
Court Lady Kim! Court Lady Kim!
What did you say? Haneum is at the Main Hall?
- And? - And you and Lord Lee...
There is power standing above the throne.
The ones who caused the deaths of the grand prince and the princess
and the ones who told you the scheme about the late king's death, are the same.
That's the truth.
Even then, you wouldn't bury those and stand by my side.
Yes. Even if that's the case...
it doesn't hide another truth.
You know how I am.
I am stubborn...
I can't be talked into things...
I am a foolish man who doesn't know how to compromise.
Regardless of era, there are words that politicians say.
'In order to protect power, certain things can't be helped.'
They commit acts that common people cannot even imagine and call it politics
and it's attributed to their positions, as something that cannot change.
But I believe all of these are cowardly excuses.
If that's the only way to protect it, it's not power, it's barbarism!
It's oppression, sire.
What you're saying is ideology and dream.
Power maintained only by your ideology is not possible.
Even at this moment
the ones who shake me up are moving with unimaginable power.
Are you saying that I should play fair with those people?
How is it different from losing out to a bigger injustice?
No, I'm going to win, Haneum.
No matter what kind of price I have to pay
even if I have to become a bigger injustice...
I'm going to protect my land and my people.
Then, sire...
I don't think I can be on the same side with you and look in the same direction.
No matter what kind of price I have to pay.
But... please become a benevolent ruler, sire.
Please... don't let go of the big goal you have.
Kill Haneum Lee Deok Hyung.
Those who killed my father...
Yes, I decided to gladly hold your hands.
And the one who tries to control me while he stands above me...
I will move as he wants me to.
And your experience of killing my father...
I will buy your lives and loyalty towards me with that
and protect this seat.
Sire!
You can't reach the soldiers who were sent to Lord Haneum?
I've been in secret contact with them as you ordered...
but I lost contact since last night.
What?
Yes, I've decided to become a king.
I'll gladly erase the remaining human in me and become a king.
So now...
there won't be anything I can't do.
Come here! Is there anyone there?
In Woo! In Woo!
Hong Joo Won...
Did you say your name was Joo Won?
I'm sorry.
All of us are too embarrassed to look at you.
The princess was not found.
What?
So she might be alive.
She could be, somewhere.
But even then...
don't let yourself go.
You shouldn't say, 'I can't do anything' and give up.
I wasn't able to show you a better world.
Even if you gather up courage and go forward again
you may be back to where you started.
But sometimes, some winter may be scarily long and severe
but bright buds are growing underneath the ground.
Just like that, you shouldn't be defeated in that world.
Don't be broken by injustice of today.
You have to believe in a different world of tomorrow.
What's going on?
Lord Haneum Lee Deok Hyung passed away from an illness.
What?
What are you saying? Haneum died?
No... that's not possible. That's not possible!
Lord Lee! Lord Haneum!
Lord Lee!
But I also remember Teacher Tojung's words
that what's stronger than Heaven's will is the human being's will.
I will believe in that.
I will believe in people.
Yes, I will gladly endure all of the humiliation and disgrace today.
And I will pay you back.
Someday, I will take away Gwanghae's children just the same
and take away his seat just the same.
I will make him cry blood tears on my feet just like I did.
It turned out this way after all.
After Haneum left, the queen dowager was kicked out to Gyeongun Palace.
I don't believe that Lord Haneum died from an illness.
Haneum was definitely killed by His Majesty.
But we have to endure through this, Ohsung.
That's the homework that Haneum left for us.
Let's go.
Sir!
But didn't you say you were going to remove the king?
It doesn't seem to be the right time yet.
I'll wait and see.
The Ming government doesn't like him.
Don't worry.
Gwanghae won't be a roadblock to the empire or to our deal.
You're not a king.
Someone like you doesn't have a right to be sitting there!
What are you doing? Drag him out right now!
Let go! Let go of me!
Listen to me!
Don't believe that people here lowered their heads
because they believe you're their king!
They're holding their breath now because they're afraid.
Someday the world will ask you about all of the crimes you committed!
Did the young kid lose his mind?
Isn't he the eldest son of the police chief?
Let go!
Stop!
- Let him go. - Pardon, sir?
Can't you hear me? Let him go!
Yes, sire.
You're full of anger... in your eyes.
But keep in mind...
You can't do anything with that alone.
That's the reason I'm letting you go today.
Because you're a child who can't do anything yet.
So first, learn to quiet that anger that has no power and no value at this point.
And someday, when you stab a dagger in my back with that quiet anger
I will be happy to hear your words again.
Then, are you saying
that the prediction was about the princess, not the grand prince?
Once I tried to get rid of the grand prince
that turned out to be the truth.
Then we troubled ourselves for nothing.
A girl becomes the master of the land? Does it make any sense?
It's Gyeokam's words, so we can't ignore it.
I also wondered about what those words meant.
But she's dead anyway...
So it's meaningless at this point.
- What did you just say to me? - Just what you heard.
I can cut you right here, right now.
As you know, I have quick hands.
Faster than you can reach your sword... faster than calling those idiots outside.
Bastard, are you crazy?
You can't wait to die?
Yes, I'm crazy.
So what are you going to do?
Do you want to die with me here...
or... will you let her stay here?
You'll be able to stay here for a while...
but if you can't do your part because you're a girl
you'll end up being sold to a brothel.
So if you decided to live again for whatever reason
forget the past, whether you were a princess or whatever.
Princess? Me?
I said that I was a princess.
What?
No, I'm not.
Did you really believe it?
Like Maruno said, I just blurted it out.
I thought maybe he'd let me go.
By the way, what's your name?
What?
I have to know your name to call you.
Why? You don't want to tell me?
Then... Hwa Yi. I'll call you Hwa Yi.
Hwa Yi?
Yes. Well, if I can call you whatever I want.
It's my dead sister's name.
Using 'Hwa' for 'flower.'
But since you survived from the hot sulfur mine
Hwa of fire would be better.
Hwa Yi. It means the child of fire.
Your Majesty!
[Hwagidogam: Weaponry Bureau]
[Tenth Year of Gwanghae's Reign]
Hwa Yi!
- Where is Hwa Yi? - I don't know!
You idiot! What did I tell you?
I told you to be on alert!
I told you that the mine would explode!
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[Hwajung]
Envoys from Joseon are coming soon!
Envoys?
The fate of this country and His Majesty depends on this.
Sulfur is not coming in? I have to go and get it myself.
The merchant today... was from Joseon, right?
He's the one with the monopoly in Edo.
Did you find anyone who can connect me with Idachi?
Then should I do what I'm good at now?
What are you trying to do, King?
Those people are from Joseon.
What are you doing there? Run!
There is nothing that can't be done gladly.