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~ Conspiracy in the Court ~ DIRECTOR'S CUT
Do the grieving throes of unfulfilled aspirations hurt more...
than the bloody tears shed by losing one's aspirations?!
~ Episode 7 ~
His Majesty is being treated at the fuming chamber.
He might lose his senses just like yesterday,
so Physician Choi said to prepare the infusion in advance.
What are you waiting for?
Unless you wish to part ways with that pate of yours,
you must answer your call with nary a blemish!
Are you awake?
I know you are headed to a faraway place, Naeuri.
Allow this wench to accompany you on this journey.
Listen...
The butler will take care of this place for me.
I...
have no confidence I will be able to forget that woman.
I myself...
have no confidence I will be able to forget a certain man.
It is dazzling me...
Should you lose your senses just like yesterday,
I clamored the dispensary to prepare an infusion.
It is even more dazzling than yesterday.
May you abate your concerns, Sire!
Abate your concerns, Sire.
Ahh... How are we supposed to act now?!
How did His Excellency learn of that?
Someone who spotted us must have informed him.
He's a state councilor, after all!
We must make a decision in haste.
If we are to deploy our troops in time,
we must hasten!
Announce me.
Sire.
Your infusion is ready.
You slattern! What are you doing?
May you rest assured, Sire.
It is Na Young.
In...fusion...
Sire!
May you repeat.
The... infusion...
Serve His Majesty the infusion at once.
Milady...
How can a man squander tears in vain?!
Milady...
Are you really going to leave?
I entrust the giru to your care.
You must soon return, Milady!
Naeuri!
May you protect our Milady.
Naeuri...
Let us depart.
The troops are deploying?!
The Royal Guard is already past Mount Bukhan,
*Namdaemun
and the Capital Guard will soon reach Sungnye Gate*.
What on earth is happening?
I never expected things would progress this quickly.
We must proceed as planned.
Now!
Listen, Master Yang.
The heavens are in upheaval...
The heavens...
Did Inspector Park drink that as well?
He did not.
Inspector Park did not perish.
I hear he left the capital.
How laudable...
Even through the darkness of peril and disorder,
shall the courageous choice kindle our path.
As His Majesty was afflicted by stupor,
we prepared an infusion.
What is that infusion made of?
Licorice, black pepper,
and...
finally, palgak.
Is that so?!
Sire.
I...
could never forsake my father.
Myself, I could never forsake mine.
What should I do?
I wanted to show you the splendor of the new Joseon...
your father so fervently aspired for.
Before the claws of demise engulfed him, one last request he entrusted me with.
To bury all his family next to him.
But I now leave before you,
so I shall not be able to fulfill his wishes.
Then...
It was the grave of my mentor and dearest compeer,
his beloved wife next to him,
your parents' resting grounds...
Why did you not behead me...
and fulfill my father's wishes?!
Despite knowing of what direful intents this infusion was made of,
why did you not punish those fomenting them?!
Too guileful and wily...
are those protesting the advent of our new Joseon.
In the very moment I fomented suspicion about your infusion,
already clear and irreversible in my mind...
was the realization that demise was already before my gates.
It is now too late!
Will you fulfill my last request?
Sire!
Just as your father entered the pearly gates of demise for his unyielding beliefs,
I shall relish in the Grim Reaper's company to protect mine.
Will you fulfill my wishes?
May you speak to me.
Mount on the donkey.
Our path will be long and arduous.
I wish to walk right next to you...
*Archaic form for "partner"
Seobangnim*.
Did you just call me "Seobangnim"?
Just like yesteryear, now and forever...
I do not know where this path I walk along will lead me.
Will you be able to accept that?
The fumes could be injurious. I beseech you to leave, Your Highness.
Are you going to let His Majesty lose his senses again?!
You must...
You must survive at all cost.
The dreams of our new Joseon...
Sire!
Why were the Five Army Garrisons allowed access to the capital?
They were ordered to deploy.
Deploy?!
- By whom? - The Ministry of War issued the orders.
Alert the capital guard,
and summon all off-duty troops at once.
Yes.
Sire!
What on earth is happening?
His Majesty...
Sire!
- Sire... - Sire!
Return to your quarters, and do not move from there.
How lamentable and most mortifying...
Grieving tears afflict the earth and heavens.
Your Highness!
Burning with apprehension for our setting sun,
I bit my fingers until blood soiled my hands,
hoping darkness would not becloud us,
but too feeble must those fervent intents have been!
Your Highness!
As the royal family's elder,
I shan't abandon myself in the perpetual languor of grieving throes.
*Wonsang: Elder courtier replacing the king for 26 days right after the king's death
You must hasten and proclaim the Royal Substitute*,
and envisage the best course of action to foster our crown prince.
Your Highness!
We shall stake our lives to protect His Highness the Crown Prince!
Whatever may befall you,
not a single man shall leave his post without my consent!
Is that clear?
Yes! We shall obey!
Your Excellency!
The five garrisons are marching towards the capital!
This is nothing but treason.
We must alert the Royal Guard Garrison in Hwaseong,
repel all those invaders and restore proper course in the court!
Under His Majesty's orders, only the King and His Excellency Chae Seung Hwan...
have the authority to mobilize the Royal Guard Garrison.
Your Excellency!
Entering the palace is not advisable, Your Excellency.
The palace's premises are brimming with tumult.
I cannot believe it.
So hale and hearty was his countenance but a mere few days past.
We cannot be sure what could befall you upon entering the palace.
The Five Army Garrisons are already surrounding the premises.
Does that not make it all the more imperative...
that I should enter the palace and tend to His Majesty's lonesome deathbed?!
Your Excellency!
Your Excellency!!
What is all this vexatious parade?!
Did the wraith of a dead man return to life?!
His Excellency Kang Geuk Soo is nowhere to be seen!
Without any order from the Ministry,
the troops are already surrounding the palace!
He could not possibly...
Physician Shim...
Physician Shim!
There is no pulse.
Who could be responsible for this?
Our ringleader graces you all.
May you raise your pates.
From here on in, our Joseon...
shall return to the original intents of our founder, King Taejo the Great.
With a steadfast royal family at the core,
we shall restore the faltering public order which has long been afflicting us,
and accord new vigor to the deliberation of state matters.
As public consensus drenches their vile political pretexts,
all factions responsible for seminating the seed of discord shall be abolished,
legitimacy of one's lineage made crystal clear,
and any disorder created by vacillating social strata smothered at the core.
Also, all abusive trading will be prohibited,
according our people a most abundant prosperity.
I expect you to support the royal family with every might and main.
Bear in mind that you represent...
the very cornerstone of our thousand-year legacy to come.
Will you fulfill my last request?
If he is the one,
you might even find...
everything that time so heartlessly stole from you.
Even if the entire creation is bestowed upon me,
but it will be providence devoid of your embrace,
I shall forever maunder the Hades cursing this cruel destiny of mine...
You slattern!
What are you doing there?
We never received orders to allow you entrance into the palace.
I summoned the Royal Guard Garrison, Your Excellency.
Without His Majesty's consent,
how are you going to justify the deployment of those troops?!
Should a skirmish ensue between the two garrisons,
the blood of our men shall soil our palace walls with calamity!
Inevitably, countless innocent people will suffer injuries and demise.
Were it an issue requiring military deployment,
would not His Majesty have purged such personages while he still could?!
Fomenting violence borne out of untenable suspicions...
is exactly what His Majesty attempted to warn us against.
I shall reinstate the interim tribunal, and begin investigating.
Did not His Majesty voice his disapproval over the inconclusive...
investigation regarding the former Minister of Personnel's demise?!
Then...
are you suggesting that His Majesty was indeed murdered?!
I am sure...
a glimmer of dubiety will becloud this all.
Even Physician Shim, entrusted with his treatment, was murdered.
A physician was murdered?!
What viperous insinuations!
Is this all that the Commissioner of the Royal Dispensary can muster?!
Eunuch Seo himself, who always closely served His Majesty,
recently disappeared without trace.
Consecutive dubious occurrences befell us,
in connection with His Majesty's sudden departure.
You will pardon the indulgence, but the former Minister himself...
left us through nefarious occurrences.
How can such mortifying quandaries afflict us in such rapid succession?!
But who would ever benefit the most from the former Minister's demise,
if not our newly appointed Minister of Personnel?!
How dare you sputter such calumnious vitriol in our presence?
Is this the time to engage in such vilipending uproar?!
It is obvious the Queen Dowager will hold us responsible for His Majesty's passing!
What is the matter with them?
Her Highness the Queen Dowager deigns you with her presence.
I entrusted you the task of proclaiming a Royal Substitute...
who will offer counsel to our crown prince.
How is the deliberation proceeding?
Before we begin His Highness's enthronement ceremony,
we must first reinstate the interim tribunal,
and investigate His Majesty's sudden departure.
Reinstate the interim tribunal, you said?!
Accord us your consent, Your Highness.
Blasphemy!
Cast clouds of suspicion over His Majesty's demise?!
It is to avoid any suspicion that we must reinstate the tribunal, Your Highness.
I demand circumspection!
Is that not groundless talebearing?!
Casting suspicion over the former king's demise...
is akin to controverting against the rightful succession of the crown prince!
Clamor the Office of Astronomy to find a suitable date,
and spare no effort in preparing our crowning ceremony.
Your Highness!
What is the matter?
Your Highness.
One of the court physicians seeks your audience.
Your Highness!
You wench!
How dare you...
Your Highness.
His Majesty...
was forced into an untimely demise!
I was the one...
who served him poisonous infusions.
The ringleader who instigated me...
is inside this council hall right as we speak, Your Highness.
Derangement must afflict this delirious slattern!
Is she not the physician who saved His Majesty on more than one occasion?!
Meseems the grieving throes of this most afflicting loss befuddled your mind.
Leave us.
What are you waiting for?
Get that slattern out of my sight, and stick her lifeless pate on a gibbet!
Are you attempting to squelch any perilous truth she might confess?!
Are you planning to leisurely witness as she fearlessly besmirches...
and vilifies the legacy of the royal family and this very court?!
Did you not heed what she just uttered?
His Majesty's demise was drenched in poisonous nectars,
and those who instigated this infamy are amongst us!
Does that imply you believe the balderdash of a delirious slattern?!
Is that not why we are clamoring for a proper investigation?!
Is that not the case, Your Excellency?!
I concur, Your Highness.
May you assent to our investigation.
The instigator is amongst us?!
Then, speak to me.
Who in this council hall instigated you to murder His Majesty?
If such daring, treasonous reprobate is in our presence,
why would I spare any torturous means...
to let that treacherous varmint pay the price for this ignominy?!
Speak at once!
Be it just one ruffian...
or every single man bedecked in official robes inside this hall,
I shall behead them with no hesitation, and avenge His Majesty's grief!
Now...
I cannot confess the culprit, Your Highness.
You cannot?!
Confess at once!
Or it will be your pate gracing those gibbets!
Your Highness.
Not addressing such suspicions...
would be gravely impious towards His Deceased Majesty.
Not to mention the obloquy which would besmirch the crown prince's enthronement.
I suggest that proceeding with the investigation would be wise.
I thought I demanded for an answer right here and now?!
It cannot be, Your Highness!
You cannot bestow a courtier's survival upon the whims of such delirious balderdash.
I concur, Your Highness!
We must proceed with a proper investigation.
May you assent to our investigation.
She confessed that the perpetrator is amongst us.
How could I ever trust that any investigation on your part will be fair?!
I shall deliberate with His Excellency the Right State Councilor,
and proclaim a courtier you will approve of in charge of the investigation.
So you will choose someone both you, His Excellency...
and even I will approve of?!
We indeed shall, Your Highness.
Fine.
But...
We shan't postpone the ceremony,
*5~7pm
so you have until the hour of the fowl*...
to decide upon a candidate.
- But, Your Highness... - If you do not,
I shall behead that slattern for besmirching our royal family,
and you shall be held responsible as well.
Why did you give your consent to open the investigation, Your Excellency?
If that slattern had confessed,
the council hall would have been sweltered by a crimson tide.
A crimson tide?!
If His Majesty was victim of a conspiracy,
the culprit could only be...
none other than Her Highness herself.
He...Her Highness?!
Think the troops would not have dealt with those cognizant...
of providence's fateful disposition?!
That young lady is a canny specimen.
She saved us all from the claws of demise.
Is it not refreshing, gorging upon the air of survival?
Then, the reason Kang Geuk Soo and Park In Bin...
suddenly supported Her Highness is also...
Migratory birds follow the tide every and all seasons.
Find a suitable candidate for the investigation.
I cannot figure out what that old dullard is scheming.
The royal family's authority is what dominates Her Highness's thoughts.
So it is only natural His Excellency will do his best...
to make sure she will not wedge away all courtiers in doing so.
But should the investigation prove that it was a conspiracy what caused this tragedy,
although His Majesty is no longer with us,
all hegemony in matters of state will belong to our Shipa members, I trust?!
Considering what critical juncture we are facing,
the selection of the inspector entrusted with the investigation...
shall not be such a trifling formality.
I merely request a word with her, nothing more.
Until the man in charge of the investigation is proclaimed,
we have orders to confine her and prohibit any audience.
Her Highness personally entrusted me with this task!
Are you still going to refuse your consent?!
Her Highness did?
Follow me.
No matter if Her Highness asked for it,
I cannot allow something against royal orders.
Let's go.
What are you maundering the palace for?
Is that the slattern who poisoned His Majesty with those berries?
It is nothing you should be concerned with.
Before you are exposed, leave the palace at once!
Should the questioning she faces be particularly harrowing,
then it is inevitable she will mention your name.
I was the one who brought those berries to you,
how could it not concern me?!
- Ohh Ohh! - If this keeps up,
both our lives will be in peril.
Are you so eager to perish?
The wrath for not personally dealing with her still engulfs me,
but that slattern's time will end along with the setting sun!
It is inadmissible!
Is he not a pupil of His Excellency Chae Seung Hwan?!
How many people has it been already?!
If all you do is repeat the same words, what is your alternative?!
Assistant Deputy of the State Tribunal Kim Chi Gon is the most suitable candidate.
It is only natural that the State Tribunal shall be entrusted this task!
Everyone knows that fellow would walk through the flames of demise for you.
How can you so unblushingly commend such a fawning ruffian?!
Say what?!
Unblushingly?!
You little varmint, is that all you can say?!
If things don't go your way, is screaming and making a commotion your call?!
*Yeongjo 21st, 1745
You... You entered the national examination in the Eulchuk year*, didn't you?!
I was already a senior at Juhamnu* by then,
*Ancient "slang" for being a senior Palace Library researcher
how dare you prattle such drivel with that insolent gob of yours?!
Is old age befuddling your mind?!
If you can flaunt such seniority, let us see behavior befitting such age!
- Fine! - You little knave...
All right!
I shall take the both of you at once!
They look like rats trying to frantically budge inside Her Highness's trap.
Are you perturbed by all this?
You even poisoned His Majesty, so I trust you must be.
I did?!
If an untimely demise visited His Majesty's gates,
then it is not me,
but Her Highness which should concern you.
It is a propitious chance the heavens granted us.
If that lady had not spread the seeds of suspicion at the council hall,
would there have been any way to stop Her Highness's regency?
Unless we soon decide upon a suitable candidate,
that lady will surely be slain at the hands of Her Highness,
and only the heavens know our impending fate.
Under the pretext of strengthening royal authority,
Her Highness will quench any deliberation, and repress all courtiers.
And what could that possibly imply?!
This country's future will be sweltered by nefarious clouds.
If you truly wish to fulfill the former king's wishes,
then should you not stop Her Highness's regency at all cost?!
There is one suitable specimen for the job.
How about Inspector of the State Tribunal Park Sang Gyu?
He rescued His Majesty once,
and was he not enjoying his confidence as well?
I did hear he resigned from his post,
but I fear there is no better candidate at the moment.
You, recalling that fellow?!
A most astounding occurrence.
Could you ever reach the vestibule,
without first ascending the terracing stones?!
Let us first decide upon the man in charge of investigating,
and then we can deliberate our next move afterwards.
As you suggest.
I come from the State Tribunal.
I was ordered to chain the prisoner.
I do not think I have ever seen you before...
It must be because I usually deal with prison matters.
Milady...
Forgive me.
Do not say that, Milady!
Why would you ask for forgiveness?!
Seeing you taken away...
I still could not do a thing to stop it.
I deserve to perish, Milady.
I would have done the same myself.
Do not blame yourself.
Why did you not mount the carriage?
Why did you run to this perilous place?
It is because there is something I must do.
Running to the council hall, and confessing that you poisoned the king?
What on earth could that reason be,
enough to push you into this abyss of danger?!
I will find a way.
I will...
rescue you at all cost.
Even if what it takes is sacrificing my life,
I will.
What are you hesitating for?
I shall soon return.
I will return whatever it takes.
The last few years, not a single day passed by without your memories capturing my mind.
I yearned for you day and night!
Why do you keep ignoring my devotion?
Survive!
You must survive at all cost.
Whatever it takes, I...
You cannot deal with a single slattern?!
You should have bit your tongue in repentance,
so how dare you face Her Highness again?
A hundred deaths shall not cleanse my misdeed,
but I hastened here to convey to Her Highness that...
Their Excellencies will commend Park Sang Gyu for the investigation.
What?!
So they came to a mutual agreement?!
There is no reason to fret, Your Excellency.
They decided upon a candidate, don't fret?!
Their candidate...
already maunders the Hades.
What?
So that is what happened?!
I heard he merely resigned from his post.
Someone whose demise was covered in impiety,
is that the kind of specimen you can boast about?!
If it was for Her Highness's sake, not only my son,
I could abandon even more.
All we have to wait for is the eventide to grace us, Your Highness.
The Minister of Personnel knows that as well,
so what is going on, Your Highness?
That is what happened?
You still have not left the palace?
I hear that the candidate has been decided upon.
Then...
would that not pose a problem for Her Highness?!
There is no reason to fret.
Those two did work together for once, but it was in vain.
Commending a dead man to investigate this matter, what would the purpose be?!
- Then... - Indeed.
Seems like they will endorse Sang Gyu as their candidate.
Should Inspector Park return, will the investigation proceed as planned?
How can a wraith walk back through the pearly gates?!
It must have brought solace to Her Highness.
Why are you not asking me where we are headed?
Did I not tell you that, wherever that path will lead us,
I will still be by your side?!
Naeuri!
So it was Her Highness who instigated her?
If you do not accept your post before the eventide,
Milady's life will be in peril.
Even if I do take the post, on what and how shall I investigate?!
Why did you not seek the help of your fellow varmints,
free Milady from her prison and help her flee?
Where did all the resolve which pierced Ju Pil Hyungnim's flesh go?!
Naeuri...
The eventide shall soon be upon us.
We must hasten!
I shall not return.
The man who brimmed with devotion for that woman...
was already slain by her nectars of betrayal.
Naeuri.
You know better than anyone that it was not what she wished for!
Seobangnim...
Naeuri.
Are you really planning to abandon her?
I shall not ask you whether that devotion withered away.
But how...
How can you so guilefully forsake your conscience and abandon her?
For every obstacle hampering your path,
why do you so callously blame this cruel and corrupt world alone?!
Filled with disdainful contempt are the fingers you point at those...
licentiously wallowing in all this decadence,
but how much longer will you continue running away from every and all quandaries?!
Prattle all you want.
I shall not return.
- Let us go. - Naeuri...
Naeuri!
I shall not return.
I lost too many things there already.
Only despair now fills those places.
Despair I shall never return to.
You must return.
I decided to bury...
the angst and affliction of a lifetime deep down my soul.
Listen...
You must rescue her.
She might have used poison against you,
but she was also the one...
who rescued you from the claws of demise.
Despite the oppression of those wishing for your life,
she struggled and gave her all to save you.
You must never blame her for being cruel,
must never becloud her sincere devotion with your doubts.
She never asked you to acknowledge her affection.
On the contrary, she concealed those ardent feelings.
For your own sake, all those throes afflicting her heart...
have become the unsought companion kindling her lonesome path.
Is that not what you are feeling?!
How can I abandon you and leave?
Inspector Park perished?!
Seems like he suddenly perished at a giru, a few days past.
They already cremated his body...
Did we not already convey the edict to Her Highness?!
How can we proceed?
How do you think?!
I shall rather resign from my post,
and spend the rest of my days enduring my grandsons' jests.
As she shall soon depart for the netherworld,
I wish to at least accord her final wishes.
The hour of the fowl is almost upon us.
Is that not enough to heed her final words?!
I beseech your understanding.
From the moment I chose you amongst countless servants and physicians,
you could say that...
your life and mine became one.
I thought that bestowing your life for the sake of our country's endless legacy...
was a most prideful and remarkable sacrifice on your end,
and so I trusted you.
How could you engage in such heedless tomfoolery?!
It is the hour of the fowl.
I wish you a safe journey.
The man who dominated your every thought...
is waiting for you on the other side, so you shan't be lonesome.
I shall pay the price for defying your command...
in the netherworld.
Stop at once!
Here is the edict proclaiming me in charge of the investigation.
*Old Gwanghwamun
Did you not cremate his body at Sigu Gate*?!
Your Highness!
I only wished to grant my son survival, and...
You may leave us.
Your Highness.
I am nothing but the head of a family,
and my offspring's father...
Did she not tell you to leave?!
We should have slain that slattern.
Now the investigation will proceed as they wished.
I took it myself from the well.
I was not suspecting you, Naeuri.
You told me that it was but a short rope what hampered my path.
How long was the rope holding you back,
forcing you to never abandon this place?!
I...
received orders from His Majesty.
Once wintry gales swelter us, the brushes will be swayed by the wind.
Once I leave this world,
all the courtiers who unyieldingly refused to forsake my wishes...
shall also be revealed.
The missing half of what I gave you shall reveal a secret order of mine.
Inside my beloved Joseon I hid my last ardent wishes.
Even in distress,
convey those words to anyone who will heed them.
The missing half of what I was given...
You must survive!
Whatever it takes, survive...
and show all our people...
the dream your father and I harbored so long...
for a new Joseon.
I shall now drink this infusion.
Become the one who heralds my demise.
Sire!
So is that why you entered the council hall?!
Because you wanted to learn who would follow the deceased king's wishes?
Go and ask them.
The court will be filled with ruffians wailing in mendacious despair.
Those are not the ones who will fulfill His Majesty's wishes.
Then, who will?!
Should they follow him and take their own lives?
Naeuri...
Milady.
No matter how long your fervent aspirations last,
those dreams will likely not come true.
Not His Majesty's, nor mine...
But, should there be any reason to never give up,
what could it be?
I know nothing of that sort.
Milord.
Milady...
Do the grieving throes of unfulfilled aspirations hurt more...
than the bloody tears shed by losing one's aspirations?!
Again...
with that preaching of yours?!
You must aid me.
I will.
I shall help you find a way to survive.
We must find the missing half of His Majesty's secret will.
To me...
your survival is much more important than any secret will.
Milord...
I will accept any deal with those attempting on your life.
You cannot.
I am even prepared to lie, and say His Majesty perished of natural causes.
The reason I accepted my post in charge of this investigation...
was not to uncover the truth about this matter,
but only to rescue you from the claws of demise.
Milord!
Sire.
Where...
Where on earth did you conceal it?
There is no doubt, Your Highness.
I am to be blamed for his survival,
but I have no doubt that he volunteered for that post...
only to save that slattern.
How dare you prate such drivel in my presence, after all you did?
Should even only a shred of evidence emerge,
he will not even attempt to investigate it.
And should that slattern confess anything,
he will stop her every attempt to alert anyone.
- Leave us. - Your Highness.
I still can aid your cause.
May you spare my life.
Whether you are of any use to us is not for you to decide.
Your Highness...
That slattern must be dealt with, Your Highness.
Lady Jo has been in the palace for much too long.
If Inspector Park plans to rescue that slattern at all cost,
revealing the culprits' conspiracy is already out of the question.
We must take up arms.
In only three days, the capital will be in our hands.
Your Excellency!
We must deploy the troops!
First...
let us observe how the investigation proceeds.
But, tell me, did you find His Majesty's secret will?
It is nowhere.
I rummaged every and all places His Majesty lodged in,
but there was no trace of it.
There is a possibility he never had the chance to leave one.
Did he not perish in a most untimely manner?!
That is possible...
We must subjugate those treacherous varmints.
May you make a decision, Your Excellency!
Did he not repeatedly warn us against deploying troops without his consent?!
It must be somewhere, it must!
You will rescue her?!
And me?!
Park In Bin does not concern me,
is that it?!
Milady's life is on the line.
Whereas all that you will lose...
is but your power.
And should that be more important than my own life, then what?!
Just as you walked into the flames of dissolution to save that slattern,
why should my depending on the power I enjoy be any different?!
How could they not?!
Be it a lowly merchant only devoted to his money,
or a gisaeng whose existence depends on her visage,
are they any different?!
Different from any of us?!
Everyone fights and stakes his own life for many a different thing.
Why would only your choice be righteous, and any other to be scorned at?!
It all depends on whether that choice is for my sake, or that of other people.
Is all this power for my sake alone?!
The warm soup and rice you,
your mother and all this family eat every single day,
was it bestowed upon us by the heavens?
Sang Gyu!
Sang Gyu!!
Sang Gyu!
You are my son, right?!
Your Excellency...
My son has come back alive, Your Excellency.
Sang Gyu...
You wretched fool.
May you be damned!
You knew what desperation your mother would struggle with,
but not a single word...
Try to inveigle your mother again...
and I will slay you with my own hands.
Sang Gyu.
Never leave me again.
Sang Gyu...
Aigoo... my son...
Sang Gyu...
So that is what happened between the two?!
I hear that all the courtiers who used to fawn upon Her Highness...
have already turned their back on her.
I am sure it will benefit Your Excellency as well.
Also, as the investigation shall not proceed as the Minister wished,
that can only be beneficial to you.
If he made his return to rescue a criminal,
then I can certainly envisage that.
However...
There is something you must know.
I cannot allow the investigation to end inconclusively as he wishes.
What is that supposed to mean?
We even established an interim State Tribunal,
but if that only ends up proving Her Highness's innocence,
all our efforts will end in vain.
Before the investigation is complete,
the criminal must perish under clouds of suspicion,
only then we shall be able to stop Her Highness's tyranny.
People should display at least a shred of conscience!
Did you not refuse any meeting with us up until yesterday?!
Principle and integrity are the vainglorious fruits of callous specimen.
If she embraced another man a mere few days past, so what?!
All she needs to do is to pull up that skirt in my presence today.
The righteous man always leaves his door open for slatterns to enter.
Is that not the case?!
I knew I could count on you, Your Excellency.
However...
If what boils under her vestments does not concern you in the slightest,
would you not attempt to stop her every alluring parade, Your Excellency?!
My apologies.
It seems like there will be no place for you here.
So...
How is Her Highness faring?
I hear that they will question the slattern.
So she is faring quite well.
May she forever silence that slattern's pernicious fibs.
Confess at once!
Who instigated you to serve those poisonous nectars?
I shall speak directly to Her Highness.
Meseems we have been far too gentle.
How are we going to proceed now?! They are questioning the slattern.
Is she not trying to silence her?
We must stop it at all cost.
If the slattern perishes, then it is all over!
This all could turn against us.
What if Her Highness decides to question her firsthand?
Your Excellency!
What you said is right.
The slattern must survive, if the conspiracy is to be exposed.
Armed troops are surrounding the place,
how are we going to stop it?
We will mobilize the capital guard.
Your Highness.
Speak to me.
Who instigated you to poison His Majesty?
You wench!
Spare my life, Your Highness.
Spare your life?!
Should you let me go,
I shall leave for a faraway place,
and forever honor your endless benevolence.
Is there any reason I should do that?
News of your questioning me must have spread all over the palace.
Should I escape unscathed,
your repute will not be stained for trying to silence me,
and you will also abate any suspicion the courtiers might foment,
so why would you not gain from my survival?
Think that the vociferous drivel of those courtiers...
would concern me in the slightest?!
Or did you believe even just a hint of dread would afflict me,
should you inculpate me of poisoning the king?!
Your Highness!
I am the heavens staring upon all creation.
Would a dragon maundering up high above the clouds...
concern itself over the trivial matters of you mortals?!
Your Highness!
What are you waiting for?
His Excellency the Right State Councilor...
instigated me to poison His Majesty!
Stop.
The Minister of Personnel...
and His Excellency Chae Seung Hwan from Hwaseong...
were aware of this all.
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~ On The FINAL Episode of ~ CONSPIRACY in the COURT
I must meet with Chae Seung Hwan,
and convey His Majesty's wishes.
Do not expect anything from them.
They are nothing but yangban, driven by power.
Milady!
Milady!!
The slattern has perished!
Move the cadaver to the Board of Punishment!
All the criminals they wished to disappear will vanish.
She is the slattern who poisoned His Majesty.
You cannot see the light in the shadows of demise.
The light you gave me already kindled my path.
Are you not afraid?
I am.
You are not forced to do it.
If I was not forced to do so,
I would have never done it.
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