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This drama is set during the Joseon Era under the rule of a fictitious king.
All characters and events are fictitious and have no historic basis.
Episode 6
In the Chief Scholar's arms, as though she were falling asleep...
Your Highness.
You cannot, Your Highness.
The Queen Mother has ordered that you are to stay in the East Palace all day.
Let go. Let go.
Let go, I say.
Let go!
They say the King is the sun and the Queen is the moon.
This Phoenix hairpin holds a pearl white moon embracing a crimson sun.
So I've named it, "The Moon that Embraces the Sun".
Yeon Woo!
Let go.
I still have things to tell her.
Yeon Woo!
- Yeon Woo! - Mother.
- My child! - Mother.
My child!
Mother. Please get up.
Yeon Woo! My child.
You've come home.
You've come.
You'll be moving in the Crown Princess's quarters shortly. Be prepared.
Crown Princess's quarters?
Then, is our Bo Kyung going to be the Crown Princess?
Has she died?
Did you kill her?
She departed this world today.
Did you say you wanted to win the Crown Prince's heart?
Then, from this moment on,
forget messy emotions like compassion and guilt.
Remember the humiliation and anger you felt when what was yours was taken away.
Without that sort of determination, don't ever covet that position again.
The Crown Princess.
Everything is my fault.
It is not your fault, Your Highness.
Whatever may happen,
do not blame yourself.
Hyungnim.
How is my teacher doing?
That child...
the Crown Princess, as she departed,
were you there to see her off, as well?
Why do you want to know that?
What did you do for her that gives you the right to ask about her final moments?
Hyungnim.
When she was chased out of the palace like a criminal,
what did you do, Your Highness?
When she was wavering between life and death, what did you do?
Please stop.
When she was buried in the cold earth, what did you do?
When her father and brother are on the brink of banishment,
- what are you doing?! - Hyungnim!
You have everything, have you not?!
His Majesty's devotion, the loyalty of Chief Scholar Heo whom I revere,
the friendship of Scholar Heo, who's like a blood brother to me. Have you not?
Just one... solely just one...
couldn't one be mine?
Hyungnim.
To me, she was the one.
The one and only I earnestly wanted.
Couldn't you have allowed me just one?
If it were me, I would have protected her.
I would have staked my everything, my life, to protect her.
Your Highness failed to protect her.
In the next life, she will become mine.
In the next life, I will absolutely...
protect her.
You have put forth much effort.
It made me uneasy that she continued to live for some time,
but I see your skills were not falsely glorified.
I will use my power to safeguard Seongsucheong,
so do not worry.
Forgive me, Your Highness, but I have an entreaty to make.
Do you? Go ahead and speak.
I would like to leave Seongsucheong for a while.
Leave Seongsucheong?
By nature, using the black arts with someone's life is taboo.
This recent ritual has weakened my body and divine power.
So I'd like to wander about the mountains and streams,
and cleanse my body and mind.
However, there is no one who has your level of divine power,
so it would be difficult for us.
But in the event something goes wrong, my existence could spoil your plan.
Then, will you be returning?
Could there be any question?
You must hurry. The drug will wear off soon.
Who's there?!
Father!
Mother!
Brother!
Your Highness.
Your Highness!
Yeon Woo. Yeon Woo!
Yeon Woo, sit up. The medicine is very hot.
Run away. Run away.
Yeon Woo!
Who are you?
Me? Jan Shil.
Jan Shil?
Oh, right. Mistress! Mistress!
Miss!
Are you feeling clearheaded now? Yes?
Who are you?
And who are you?
Where am I?
And,
who am I?
Your lot in life is quite pitiable.
I suppose you'll be living as that lady's shadow for your entire life.
When snowflakes get too close to flames, they melt and disappear.
So don't ever get too close.
Young lady,
you are a shaman.
You were receiving an invocation rite when you fainted,
and you've finally woken up today.
Because you hosted such a powerful spirit inside you,
it appears, the shock has made you lose your memory.
From this moment on, think of me as your spiritual mother...
What about my family?
My family...
where are they?
I do not know.
You were wandering the streets, and in your eyes,
I found an uncommon mystical spirit.
So I merely performed an invocation rite.
Was I...
abandoned?
Did my family realize I had a mystical spirit and abandoned me?
You are now already a shaman.
It's best you forget the connections in your past.
It could also be that the gods have taken your memory
to cut your ties with the past and lead you to live as a shaman.
It must be their will.
Your Highness.
You must have suffered such an ordeal in these recent days.
An ordeal?
It is our fault, not being cautious enough in the selection of the Crown Princess.
Ahh.
Life, age, illness, and death are up to the Heavens. What can men do?
Since you put it so kindly, I do not know what to do with myself or where to go.
In all of Heaven and Earth, how could there not exist a place for you?
And well, if you're looking for a place...
I suppose you'll secure one, even if it's by yanking out whoever is already there.
Yeon Woo!
They have decided on an exile location.
Though we have become criminals,
this is the appropriate price we must pay.
You must not resent His Majesty, the King.
How could I harbor such thoughts?
However, I worry about the Crown Prince left alone.
Though your body is a great distance away,
never forget that you are the Crown Prince's loyal subject.
Until the day you return to his side,
you must not become lackadaisical in your scholarly pursuits.
I will take your words to heart.
Lord, you may need to come out for a moment.
What is it?
Well, it's that... Madam is again...
Eat this, too. It is the zucchini you like.
Wife.
Where have you been wandering, leaving home like that?
Wife!
Are you okay?
I will pack food and clothes for you to take, so let's go out.
- Wife. - Yeon Woo.
- How long are you going to... - Where are you going in the middle of eating?
Stop. That's enough, please!
Our Yeon Woo is dead.
She is dead!
Our Yeon Woo...
Aigoo, my baby.
Yeon Woo!
You've come. I was worried.
What about the children?
Come out.
Mistress! Mistress!
Hurry. Hurry, hurry.
Hurry.
Hurry, hurry.
We must hurry.
Please, get in the boat.
What is it? Are you still not felling well?
It's not that.
My family who abandoned me may be nearby.
If I depart...
I fear I may never see them again.
We must hurry.
Please, get in the boat.
I'm sorry to trouble you.
Please come and see me whenever you need help.
Are you going back to the Sogyeokseo*? (*Government Office of Taoist Rites)
The leave of absence His Majesty granted me has ended,
so I suppose I will need to return.
When are you intending to return to Seongsucheong?
How could I dare to return as High Shaman?
Don't speak such nonsense.
You still have obligations to the royal family and the people.
Are you not coming?
I must be going now.
Please, be well.
Be careful.
As long as you are with the lady, one cannot say you are safe.
Farewell!
Please be well, Miss!
Next time we meet, please show me your smiling face!
With the moon hidden, I suppose this country's darkness will deepen.
However, it is the routine of the moon to veil itself and set, then rise yet again.
There will come a day, when she will find her true face.
I pray you stay safe until that day.
Why are you looking at me like that?
Why do you keep calling me "Miss"?
Excuse me?
That...
Because you're the Moon.
Moon?
Because you hosted such a powerful spirit, everyone addresses you with respect.
Right. You said I was a shaman.
Was this it, Ari?
"Yi In Gong" (Chinese characters = craft two people)
[Shaman]
What's the matter?
Why are you crying?
It's nothing. Nothing.
Don't cry.
Whether she recovers her place as Queen or continues her life as a shaman,
it is now in her hands.
Oh, my goodness!
It's like an angel has descended from the heavens!
There have been many turns and complications leading up to this wedding,
but you are now becoming this country's Crown Princess.
Mother.
When you enter the palace, you must remember this.
The Crown Princess was originally rightfully your title.
You are not a substitute. You've merely regained your rightful place.
So, no matter what happens, be firm in your mindset.
I will take that to heart.
You must not show any weakness.
I shall not show any weakness.
Now, no one will be able to set their sights on your position.
Now, no one...
will be able to take it away from me.
Your Highness shall place the wild goose and bow twice.
Do not worry.
Now, you will be able to obtain what you want.
~ As the light dims by the clouds ~
~ The memories that are as cold as the raindrops ~
~ That are pounding down the window ~
~ Are grabbing onto my heart ~
~ Sunk in the longing that gets heavier as time passes ~
~ Can I travel back in time ~
~ If you would only hold me as you did before ~
~ Then I would be all right. ~
Draw the bead screen aside.
Your Highness, for the Crown Princess to get into the palanquin...
Your name, Yeon Woo... does it mean a gentle rain?
Yes. It is in Chinese characters.
Then, I suppose it could also mean a misty rain.
That's a pretty name.
Your Majesty. You will get sick.
Please return inside to your quarters.
Shall I call for hot tea to be prepared?
- Or perhaps, warm spirits? - Hyung Sun.
Yes, Your Majesty.
You always...
talk too much.
- However, it will soon be time for lessons. - Have them all gather outside.
Why... outside?
The day is lovely, is it not?
This calls for a game of Gyeokgu*. (*game like polo, on or off horse).
- Big hit! - It's a big hit.
Your Majesty's swing sense sends the ball so high, it's like it pierces the sky!
It seems your flattery and adulation could pierce the sky.
I believe it's your turn, Tax Minister.
Truly excellent skills.
You must have been busy with your duties.
- When did you develop such prowess? - Ay, I wouldn't go so far as to call it prowess.
It's just this hole happens to be a wee bit bigger than the others.
Ahh.
Then, I suppose you would know where the biggest hole in the palace lies.
How could I know that?
Then, let me lead the way.
Your Majesty, you must not.
People forced into slave labor, with no proper food or clothing,
are enduring the harshest depths of winter under a single dog hide.
It appears, one by one, people are freezing to death.
Local magistrate loan landowners money to pay land taxes at usurious interest rates,
and when they can't pay, they take the land and the daughters for concubines?
Oh! And it says he's taken twenty concubines!
He enjoys more benefits than me.
I can see why he was reported.
And this is a call for the impeachment of Yoon Su Il of the Personnel Ministry
for accepting bribes for government office appointments.
Yoon Su Il...
isn't he your cousin?
It's false incrimination, Your Majesty!
Embezzled relief rations from the poor.
Privately requisitioned the people to put up a monument to himself.
Stole and occupied the people's land.
Enslavement, double and triple tortures, gross abuse of power...
How can one read these without tears?
And yet...
why were these petitions not delivered to the King?!
After reviewing them, we were eventually going to...
Do you not see the dates the petitions were recorded?
These petitions are over a month old.
It's just that they were such trivial matters that we...
Who says that the content of these documents were trivial?
And have I ever issued an order for you to judge the suffering of our people?!
Do you understand now?
This is the biggest hole inside the palace.
The Royal Secretariat!
The biggest hole that obstructs the communication
between the people and their king!
He's grown a lot. A lot.
It seems as if it was yesterday when the Grand Queen Dowager was regent.
But he already appears to be baring his claws over every little matter.
We were worried hearing he was unwell, but those claims seem to be unfounded.
Today, he wasn't just well, he was brimming with youthful vigor.
Vigor ought to be conserved and used in the marital bed.
Why waste it on matters that don't concern him?
I don't know this for a fact, but his reason for rejecting the queen's marital bed
was most likely a false illness all this time...
It is not a false illness.
Though he desperately tried to hide it,
he couldn't hide the sickly look on his face.
Then, why don't we send him far away to recuperate.
And we can kindly offer to take over the stressful affairs of the state.
Do you not know His Majesty?
Just a moment ago, he took the petitions with him so he can read them all night.
Even if it were me, I'd leave a cat with a fish before I'd leave you with the palace.
Are you through?!
It's not a bad idea.
You see?!
Everybody disregards me because I was appointed without completing the civil exam,
but as you can see, I'm not so thickheaded.
Moreover, it's a good opportunity to handle the Boyeongru repair case in secret.
Even a dog you raised can become vicious if he is leashed too tightly.
He must be unleashed occasionally to ensure he remains obedient.
What did you just say?
A flood of appeals demanding a royal concubine?
I've put in a word at the Royal Secretariat, so it is not widely known.
But it won't be long before His Majesty finds out.
If by some chance he were receptive,
and if that royal concubine were to bear the first Prince...
That cannot be!
The first Prince must absolutely be borne by the Queen.
However, he has refused the marital bed with the Queen with one excuse or another
for a very long time already.
At this rate,
- the birth of a Prince becomes a remote possibility. - Why is it his illness strikes without fail
when he is to share the marital bed?
Forgive me for saying this,
but Prince Yang Myung has a crowd of supporters aligned with him.
What did you just say?
If by chance, the king were to pass away without leaving an heir...
Watch what you say, Chief Councilor! His Majesty is in good health!
Then, we must show the whole country that he is in good health.
Even after he's shown signs of good health, why do you think he keeps falling ill?
Don't you think it's overexertion due to the affairs of state?
So then, do you have a solution?
We must allow him to shed the affairs of state temporarily.
Though I am but a lowly subject,
I should take care of the affairs of state in his absence.
However, do you think His Majesty will agree so easily?
You must step in, of course.
You are the only one in this palace who can bend his stubborn will, are you not?
Travel to the outlying palaces?
Yes, Your Majesty.
Your ill health...
it's always keeping you from your marital bed.
Why not put aside the stressful affairs of state and take care of your health?
If I flinch over the most minor pain,
you immediately discuss the subject of an heir.
Are you worried about the my health or about what may happen after I die?
I just cannot know.
How could you say such a thing?
Then, would you come with me?
Ah, that's right. I completely forgot.
When the King is away, the Queen's father becomes the pro tem guardian of the palace
and takes over the palace responsibilities, is that right?
As it is such a good opportunity to handle matters as you see fit without the king,
I suppose you'd choose to stay rather than join me at the hot springs.
Isn't that so, Chief Councilor?
Your Majesty, the Grand Queen Dowager requests an audience.
Oh my. There are so many who seek me today.
For some reason, I believe she'll be saying something very similar to what you said.
What are your thoughts?
You've come, Your Majesty.
Your Majesty, this is an earnest entreaty from your grandmother.
Please take temporary respite in the rural palaces and recover your health.
Forgive me. The affairs of the state have stacked up, making it impossible.
You can delay the affairs of the state for the moment,
but you cannot delay bearing a Prince any longer.
Royal processions require too many resources and are a waste of state funds.
This is for your health, Your Majesty.
The rise and fall of the country and the fortune of the people ride on your health.
And that is why I do not skip visits with the physician.
I am not seriously ill, so please don't worry.
Then, why is a Prince so late in coming?
Forgive me.
Because of my inadequate virtue and lack of devotion,
I have caused much worry.
How could that be solely your fault?
You spend more days alone due to His Majesty's poor health, isn't that so?
That is not so.
It is my fault for being unable to provide proper support
- for His Majesty. - Oh dear. My heart aches for you, Queen.
Your Majesty, I'm certain you must know that to neglect your health
and fail to produce an heir is a dereliction of a monarch's duty, no?
However, isn't that the providence of the heavens?
You must make an effort.
With regards to the state, you have the Chief Councilor,
and you have me, who recently served as regent.
Entrusting the state affairs to relatives is also a dereliction of duty, is it not?
Your Majesty.
What you just said, to whom was that directed?
It wasn't directed at anyone. It was merely a general statement.
If Your Majesty gives this grandmother's earnest request such a cold reception,
I have no choice.
Court Lady Park!
Do not bring me any food from today on!
Your Highness!
When His Majesty completely disregards my sincere intentions,
what is the point of living on as a useless old woman?
Beginning today, I shall quit eating and just count the days until I die.
Your Highness, why are you doing this?
Please shed your anger.
Your Highness, you mustn�t do this. Please retract your order.
Please consider the Grand Queen Dowager's sincerity, Your Majesty.
The late King always showed great filial piety for her.
A royal visit to the rural palaces is not a simple matter.
You could reduce the scale, could you not?
- However, Your Highness... - By falling ill,
you have already caused her much anxiety.
How can you show even more lack of filial duty?
Your Majesty, may I enter?
You may enter.
Your Majesty, you are needed outside momentarily.
- What is it? - It's... the qu... queen...
The queen...
I pray you shed your anger, Your Highness.
All of this is my fault for not being able to provide proper support for His Majesty.
Please punish me instead,
and withdraw your intention to starve!
Please get up, Queen.
Your Majesty.
The day is cold. Please get up.
Until...
Her Highness retracts her orders and agrees to eat,
I shall not get up.
I shall ask for the Grand Queen Dowager's forgiveness and travel to the rural palaces.
So please get up now.
Your Majesty.
The Grand Queen Dowager makes her moves inside.
And the Chief Councilor makes his moves on the outside.
You must be happy to have such strong backing.
Do you remember what I told you when I visited your family.
If you've forgotten, let me tell you again.
Since you and your clan will obtain everything you wanted,
don't go so far as to hope for my heart, as well.
As it will never be yours.
Could it be possible that you still cannot forget her?
She is dead. Do you understand?
She is not the master of these chambers. I am your Queen.
Your Highness. The Princess has come.
Send her in.
Have you been well, Your Highness?
Welcome, Princess. What brings you here?
When I saw the Queen Mother, she suggested I come to comfort you.
But, I understand you performed Seokgo Daejoe*. (*Kneeling until forgiven.)
Well, because of my lack of virtue, I have not conceived a prince.
So it was appropriate to plead for forgiveness.
Ahh.
But it's probably not a lack of virtue.
It's more likely a lack of affection.
Excuse me?
Virtue has no effect between a man and a woman.
It would have to be affection over virtue.
The reason Brother doesn't come to the Queen's quarters
is probably because he holds no affection for you...
But, what is it that brought you to the palace today?
Excuse me?
Ahh.
Actually, the Meteorological Office has come up with prime dates
for me and my husband to share the marital bed.
Ah, I must be going now.
If my husband does not have me in his sight, he gets very restless.
Be well, Your Highness.
Please close the door.
What's the matter? Did you leave something behind?
Do you think I'm someone who's always leaving things behind?
Yes, I do.
Husband! It is your wife.
Why do you not answer?
Then, I shall enter!
Husband.
How is it you have stopped studying to lie down?
You laid out the blankets as if you knew the reason I would come.
Actually, I went to visit the Queen Mother today.
And she had specially obtained dates for our marital bed from the Meteorology Office.
It's more likely that you begged and pleaded her to obtain them.
Why are you so startled?
What are you doing here, Lord?
I dropped by the bookstore and brought back some books.
Then, with whom is the Princess talking right now?
As you can see, today happens to be an auspicious day.
And since the blankets have already been laid,
and also since they say strike the iron in one blow...
It's not in one blow, it's strike the iron while it's hot.
Who are you?
Your brother.
Prince Yang Myung!
Give that to me!
Give that back to me now!
Min Hwa, you must had added these three dates.
How did you...
If someone couldn't notice such clumsy forgery,
- wouldn't he be a fool? - Brother!
You're not fighting are you?
Fight, nonsense.
How could I fight with a woman that would strike iron in one blow?
Brother, you're hateful.
Aigoo.
That is your penalty for betraying my love for you.
How did I end up with my sister as a rival.
Why do you always do this?
Huh? What did I do?
Whenever you come, you provoke her.
Haven't I already told you, it's a rival's jealousy.
She irks me.
How does the Princess irk you so?
She made you into a Prince Consort, did she not?
Lord.
The late King never hid his desire for you to be one of the present King's officials.
Why, then, would he clip the wings of a rare man of such talent?
I resent both the late King and Princess Min Hwa.
Please don't speak like that.
And if I don't speak like that,
shall I speak more vaguely, indirectly?
The Princess is a savior to my family.
The reason our family was not destroyed, that I sit here safe, isn't it all...
due to the graciousness of the Princess in accepting me?
Graciousness, what nonsense.
Your ambitious dreams, your aspirations, they've all been clipped.
What is it?
A cute thieving cat has gone off with my shoes.
Excuse me?
What trouble.
Then, what about wearing my shoes temporarily?
It's all right.
For a wanderer, an extra pair of shoes is essential.
Then, were you traveling yet again?
A tiresome horde of flies keep gathering outside my home.
I understand His Majesty's health has not improved.
Please, look away.
Are you not curious?
About what?
If she were alive,
what would she look like?
Lord.
You and I age continuously.
But in my memories,
your sister remains thirteen.
What are you thinking about so deeply?
I was thinking about you.
Are you not going to go to the Palace?
Did Yeom instigate this questioning?
No.
I just... feel that he's waiting for you.
Who are you saying is waiting for me?
His Majesty.
After I hurt him so, do you think he would be waiting for me?
He is waiting.
You are always speaking only of His Majesty.
Inside the Palace, with no one to confide in,
how lonely he must be.
He has Woon by his side.
Prince Yang Myung,
please protect him.
Please, Prince Yang Myung,
protect His Majesty.
The owner has been...
Prince Yang Myung.
Prince Yang Myung!
Why are you running?
- Prince Yang Myung! - Prince Yang Myung!
Prince Yang Myung!
- Prince Yang Myung! - Prince Yang Myung!
Prince Yang Myung!
- Prince Yang Myung! - Prince Yang Myung!
Are you satisfied now?
This is the way...
I protect His Majesty.
Your Highness, everything is my fault.
It is not your fault, Your Highness.
Whatever may happen,
do not blame yourself.
If that child becomes miserable, it's because of you.
When she was buried in the cold earth, what did you do?
That is, indeed... that is also... all of it is because of you.
If it were me, I would have protected her.
I would have staked my everything, my life, to protect her.
Your Highness failed to protect her.
Failed to protect her. Failed to protect her!
Did you have the same dream?
Is that you, Woon?
Yes, Your Majesty.
Let's go outside. I think I need to get some air.
[Closed]
Woon.
Please speak.
Do you know why this is called the Eunweol Pavilion?
Because it uses the characters "hidden" and "moon",
doesn't it mean hidden moon?
It's a bit like that.
But that's not completely correct.
Is there a hidden meaning?
When the late King first constructed this building,
he felt that the moon reflected in the pond was so beautiful
that he wanted to save it forever.
Even on nights the moon didn't appear, he hope to pull it out.
Therefore, he named this building Eunweol Pavilion.
So that it may hide the moon reflected in the pond.
And on nights with no moon, it may quietly pull the moon out onto the pond's surface.
That is the precise meaning behind the Eunweol Pavilion.
I will remember it.
I also hid a moon here once a long time ago.
So that I can pull it out whenever I longed for it.
Look there.
Though the Sun and the Moon cannot be together in one sky,
but in this pond, they are together.
Mistress! Mistress!
What are you doing all the way here?
The Chief Taoist Priest sent a letter.
Light some candles, Jan Shil.
You haven't lit any of the candles, yet?
The flow of heaven and earth is changing. It feels like it is time.
I will be there in 4 days. Let's meet briefly.
Child, go on back now.
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