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I first met His Majesty at the age of 10.
Someone told me there was a place called Goryeo,
and its Crown Prince had just arrived
and that the Crown Prince wanted me as his bride.
- I see. - I was curious, so I hid and saw him from afar.
He was tall and scary-looking.
I had nightmares that night.
I see.
Year after year, the Crown Prince came looking for my hand in marriage.
My father, His Majesty the Emperor, kept telling him, "My daughter is too young.
I cannot send my daughter to a faraway land." And he rejected him over and over again.
Of course he would have.
Was I 15?
I hid and saw him from afar again, and then turned to leave,
but someone abruptly handed me flowers.
They were peonies.
Was it His Majesty?
Lady San!
I first stepped into Goryeo at the age of 16.
I had trouble communicating and the unfamiliar place and people all scared me.
The most unfamiliar and fearful person was His Majesty.
The Crown Prince who became the King after marrying me.
Do you know why I'm telling you all of this?
I'm not quite sure.
I've lived looking at one person all my life.
My son, the Crown Prince.
What the Crown Prince needs, what the Crown Prince wants, what will save the Crown Prince,
that's the only reason I live.
My father said something similar.
Even now, those around his Majesty are ridiculing the Crown Prince,
and are eyeing for the perfect time to strip the Crown Prince of his title.
They will even kill him if they could.
Kill.. him?
The Crown Prince needs power,
and we need your father's assets in order to gain that power.
Will you give this to him?
There has been an incident.
Father!
Father! Why are you like this? Father!
Please open your eyes, father.
Why are you here like this, father?
Medicine. Have you taken your medicine, father?
Your medicine should be here.
He always carries one with him. Have you seen it?
Where is it?
Why isn't it here?
Father, your hands are so cold..
Father… Please answer me.
Since you've taken your medicine, you must be waking up soon.
Father…
Why is your face so cold?
He had an abrupt heart attack.
He must have had a chronic condition.
I'm sure he didn't feel much pain when-
Have you seen his medicine? It's inside a white paper pouch.
If he took his medicine, that wrapping should be here somewhere.
I can recognize it as soon as I see it!
It even has characters written on it, "cheon-hyeol"
San…
The medicine…
The medicine is there.
Father, I'll be right back. I'll bring your medicine.
San… San!
San, calm down!
"Cheon Hyul: 天血"
I found it.
- Stop it. - I found my father's medicine.
- Stop it! - He just needs to take this medicine.
San, please come to your senses.
But,
why is this medicine here?
What is she saying?
We've waited.
Master Wang Rin.
You should be at the hunting grounds with the King,
why are you here calling out my name?
I'll say this again, but I am not your enemy.
I heard something's happened to Minister Eun. Was this a trap?
How much do you know of the Queen, Princess Wonseong?
I'm sure you're aware of how dangerous she is.
Lord Gang Yang is here.
The King's first son, your aunt Princess Jung Hwa's son.
The one who should have been Goryeo's Crown Prince.
Why is my cousin here?
Young Princess Wonseong arrived here at a young age of 16.
This is where I live.
You may come whenever you please.
The first thing Princess Wonseong did
was demote your aunt, the Queen, into a royal concubine.
Oh, my little prince. Are you in a good mood?
After the current Crown Prince was born,
the young princess became even more spiteful.
She dare make the Great Emperor Kublai Khan"s only grandson cry!
She dared to make the King's bloodline cry!
My Queen, please don't be angry.
You made my child cry!
Prince Gang Yang is in there.
We are secretly taking care of him.
- I heard he was at a temple. - It was dangerous there.
What are you saying is dangerous?
I guess living like this is still considered living,
so we were worried they might kill him in the end.
The person who should have been the Crown Prince for Goryeo.
Why don't you go in and meet him?
Cousin.
It's me, Rin.
Cousin?
He's not mentally stable.
Give it to me.
This isn't something you eat.
One day, while he was at the temple,
the Queen sent him some honey cookies.
After eating those cookies, he fell very ill.
He became like this afterwards.
Now you're just spouting horrific lies.
The physician who revealed that there were poison in those cookies
turned up dead the next day.
Minister Eun has been called to Wonseong Palace.
- I guess it's in regards to her marriage. - What are you talking about?
You and Lady San's marriage.
I heard it's been agreed by Susagong as well.
Were you not aware of this?
Minister Eun is dead.
I think the Queen
played a part in this.
Minister Eun is?
- Yes, your Majesty./ - Yes. - Because she wanted his assets?
- So the Queen… - I believe that's what happened.
- What about the Crown Prince? - Since the mother and son are close,
don't you think they plotted this together?
I have brought a poisonous viper into our country.
And that viper
has reared a poisonous serpent of a son.
This all happened because of me.
- What are you doing? - That girl just slandered my name, the Queen.
- I asked if that was my father's medicine. - Be quiet.
Please answer me honestly!
So what are you trying to say?!
Move.
San!
Stop!
Please don't do this.
This child just lost her father. What are you doing to someone who just lost her father?
- No! - San…
My father is okay. He just needs to take this medicine-
By the time I arrived, he was already…
I called for the royal physician, but it was too late.
Your father is gone.
San…
The Queen needs Minister Eun's assets.
She will get what she needs, whatever it takes.
Don't you already know?
You cannot go in, Master Rin. You will face severe consequences.
We may have to arrest you and take you away if you do…
- Did Minister Eun go into the palace today? - He went in earlier.
- Is he still there? - I haven't seen him leave yet.
What about Lady San?
- Did you see her? - She went in early in the morning.
She went to Wonseong Palace.
Is something going on there?
It seemed like she was running there.
She's even pretty when she runs.
She's pretty when she's just standing there too. She'll be even more beautiful when she leaves.
- I'm sorry. - Yes?
Master Rin, this way.
- Why are you here? - Where is Lady San?
Do you even know the situation you're in?
Where is Minister Eun?
Where is he?
He has passed away.
I heard he came into the palace on his own two feet,
- not too long ago! - I heard he had a chronic sickness.
That's why…
- Where? Inside Wonseong Palace? - Yes.
- What about Lady San? - I'm looking after her.
Escort him outside of the palace, avoid other people's eyes.
- Move. - Don't you know I made that decision in order to save you?
But you defy my order?
If you, who is closest to me, defy my order,
then with what authority can I order others around me?
So, go back for now.
How did Minister Eun pass away?
I told you he had a chronic condition.
Was he alone?
- What are you trying to ask? - I'm asking if there was someone or something in that room
that was sent in by the Queen.
- Why are you all being like this? - Poisoned tea or even honey cookies?!
What exactly are you trying to ask?
What are you saying my mother did?!
I will escort Minister Eun out. Lady San? I will escort her out too.
- I told you I will take care of them. - I cannot trust you.
Who and what can't you trust?!
Within this palace!
I cannot leave them here any longer.
Rin. I will take her.
My father can't take his medicine…
He isn't breathing.
His body is so cold.
Let's escort him home. Go with me.
I want to go home.
I want to go home with my father.
- Jin Guan. Jang Eui. - Yes, your majesty.
- Prepare a carriage. - Yes, Your Highness.
And you Wang Rin,
let it be known that I called you into the palace.
And now you have another order.
To escort the Minister carefully home.
I swear that it was the first time seeing it!
Until Lady Eun San picked it up, I didn't even notice that such a medicine was on the tray.
I just brought the Lady here at your orders, so I know absolutely nothing!
What do you want?
I…I…know nothing!
Tell me what you want!
Your Highness!
What is it that you-!
Your Highness.
Has Minister Eun for sure passed on?
I heard they carried out his body a moment ago.
Was he murdered?
The physicians tried to do an autopsy, but the daughter adamently refused.
Someone died in my palace.
What should we announce? The officials will begin to talk.
Before they can talk about anything, I need the Minister's assets.
If it is his assets they want, I must have it for myself first!
What I want to achieve first is to isolate the Crown Prince.
Driving a wedge between the Queen and the Crown Prince won't be an easy task.
You know how close their mother-son relationship is.
Well it looks like I need to accomplish that difficult task.
Even if the Crown Prince becomes alone, what then?
After the Crown Prince started his imperial studies, people have been full of compliments for him.
Ignorant soldiers and spineless officials alike…
they are busy fawning over the Crown Prince and spitting out praises.
If they are fawning over him, that means they have high expectations for him. And high expectations comes with bigger disappointments.
It will be easy. Making them turn their backs on the Crown Prince.
If we do that, will the Crown Prince crumble?
Lastly, his lifelong friend and the woman he loves needs to turn their backs on him.
Only then will we see the bottom of the Crown Prince.
He will either crumble, or go berserk.
How is the King doing?
I have never seen him so gentle and mild in my years and years of serving him.
Ok Bo Yeong's ways are indeed effective and fascinating. Oh, or should I say, Mu Bi now?
Mu Bi, "comparable to none."
This bothered me from the very beginning.
This incense diffuser that was left here in this room.
This doesn't belong here in the Wonseong Palace.
You see, Mother is very sensitive to aromas.
I know nothing. I just received the orders to remove this.
In the middle of the night, away from everyone's eyes.
What for?
I don't know.
- Find out. - Yes, Your Highness.
The royal physician should be waiting.
I'll hand it over to him at once.
I cannot trust you.
I cannot leave her here in the palace any longer.
I will escort her away.
I want to go home.
I want to go home with my father.
Your Highness. Your Highness?
It's a sensory aroma incense made from musk and jingyung roots.
Jingyung roots don't grow on Goryeo soil and-
What effect would it have on someone who has problems the heart and blood pressure?
Critically dangerous, your highness.
His blood will flow many times faster, causing difficulty with breathing
and trigger a heart arrest.
The court maid was from the Wonseong Palace.
She confessed that she was acting on the Queen's orders.
The order was for her to secretly remove the incense from the guest room. I haven't been able to verify this yet.
Condolences for the deceased: 謹弔
♬ Even without your saying anything I am fine. ♬
♬ I already feel you ♬
♬? ♬
♬ Do you hear? The sound of my breathing? ♬
♬ If I draw you in the sky, I think you might come. ♬
♬ I am waiting like this for you to come to me. ♬
♬ the love you left in my embrace ♬
♬ I worry that it may disappear ♬
Slowly.
Take a breath.
Let's slowly bid him farewell.
We can do that.
Mother?
Mother!
Is this your mother and your son from before you were castrated?
Your Highness! Please at least spare our lives!
You think I didn't know that you were acting as a spy all along?
I will tell you anything and everything!
What should I reveal for you?
I can't even be bothered asking you questions.
Castrate the son like his father.
Minister Eun's assets aren't the only thing they are after!
Let's show mercy and poke out the mother's eyes first so that she need not witness the castration of her grandson.
They want Wang Rin!
Wang Rin wants Minister Eun's daughter,
and so they want them to become together.
Who exactly do you mean by this "they"?
They are the followers of Prince Gang Yang!
So it wasn't Wang Jeon, it was Wang Rin?
Please spare me. Please spare my mother at least!
So it was Wang Rin?!
All they were doing was waiting for the right time.
They deemed that the safest place for him was right next to the Crown Prince, so they left him there.
The have waited
until the young master grew up to be a fine young man,
Come now.
Let me go, let me go. This is my precious wine, so I need to do this myself.
Come here.
This here is the Snow Dew wine.
I knew that this would be in the royal winery, this here.
I see.
How many did you say was here?
13 containers of it.
Thir…teen.
That many huh.
I…
Had gone up that mountain for wine.
It was raining hard,
with that punk Rin
and with So Hwa.
At least back then we were all together.
Together.
However,
I thought I would think less once I was drunk.
But how come I'm thinking of that more and more?
The Queen interrogated Choi Sae Hyeon.
Wang Rin is staying at the Minister's house. With Lady San-
Wait.
Are you leaving? What about our lady…
I'll be back. I have a few things to take care of.
So you're returning right? Will you be returning before the end of the night?
I'll be back before sunrise.
Please return safely.
You there.
Could you pack a bag for the lady?
A luggage bag?
So that she could leave at any moment.
Also making sure that it's not too heavy. I'm asking this favor from you.
I cannot believe this!
The minister…left just like that.
Is it true that he came to meet with you?
It is
Also that you discussed our marriage?
We did. You and his daughter.
He spoke of me…
is that true? Not my brother?
Is is. He said that his health isn't faring too well,
and he was concerned for his daughter who will be left behind all alone.
He had been eyeing you for quiet some time now.
He said that he could trust you, and that he wishes to leave her daughter in your care.
If it really was the Queen that did that to Minster Eun,
the daughter doesn't have a stable future ahead of her eithr
I plan on leaving with the lady.
You will abandon the royal assignment to the post of Circuit Commissioner?
Yes, father.
Even if it means you will become a fugitive?
Yes.
You're telling me you're willing to throw the rest of your life away,
for that one lady?
All I'm worried about in leaving would be our family.
- Harm may befall on your because of my choice to leave. - Rin!
Please forgive me father.
I can't think of an alternative.
Does the Crown Prince know of this too?
The list. The one we confiscated from the girl Eun San.
Here. Minister Eun's storehouse.
This place will serve us well.
Your highness, perhaps you should rest for today and think more on this tomorrow-
I don't have many tomorrows. My son is standing on the edge of a precipice,
and yet, I just don't have many tomorrows left.
They have waited for the right time? Leaving him next to me, the safest place for him.
They waited until he had fully grown into a man.
That is what he said.
It's a plot.
Because he is the next in line to the Goryeo throne after Prince Gang Yang.
This is preposterous.
It is.
He is my Wang Rin.
Did you tell the palace gatekeepers?
I have told every guard on every shift.
To have them come directly to the Crown Prince quarters is master Wang Rin arrives.
Will he come? It's so late in the night.
He will come.
He has a lot of things to say to me, so he will come.
He won't be able to wait through the night and end up coming.
It doesn't live up to its name.
Pardon?
It's named the Snow Dew wine.
Despite having had so much of it, I'm not drunk.
My mind is too clear.
It must be fake wine.
If he's coming, he should come earlier.
Punk.
I came here to put an end to our discussion from earlier today.
I trusted that you would return and have been waiting for you.
I came to confirm a couple of things.
Confirm away.
What is the reason you showed me my cousin, Prince Gang Yang?
It was to show you the truth.
What was your intention in that?
I was hoping you would accept my plea for a true Goryeo royal bloodline to be responsible for this country.
So it is indeed rebellion.
This is absolutely wearisome.
Please become our Crown Prince.
The reason why I returned
was because I thought killing you would be at least some benefit to my Crown Prince.
I sense that there are a couple more here with you.
Two is better than one, and three is better than two.
Killing you would be advantageous.
- Master. - Take out your sword.
We are on the same side.
Then just…die.
Greeting Master Wang Rin.
That our country, great Goryeo
will become free from the grasp of a foreign country.
That we will be able to serve a pure royal blooded Crown Prince.
These are Goryeo's most loyal servants who waited endlessly for that day to come.
Great Goryeo? Pure blood?
Nonsense. You hid behind that excuse and dared to drive a wedge between the Crown Prince and the King,
and you probably blinded others and satiated your greed.
I will give my life tonight
to eliminate you one by one
and cut down the number
of leeches on this land.
Your majesty the King.
Yes.
It is I.
"Storehouse: 倉積滿"
Where is it from? Who is it?
- I don't know how to read it. - Don't know what it says.
I know some of the characters, but-
Your highness. Your highness!
Your highness! The chief generals are here to see you with an urgent matter.
Your highness.
Your majesty! It's Go Sung from the Eung Yang troops.
It's Im Chi Hong from the Yong Ho troops!
Long time no see generals.
Didn't we see each other yesterday?
We have received an anonymous, anonymous letter.
Alright, an anonymous letter.
Anonymous letters do tend to be anonymous.
The military provisions and grains that disappeared from the Yong Mun granary.
We've found them.
Where at?
It was in the storehouse of Minister Eun, the Officer of Commodities.
We have confirmed that the goods had the seal used by the Yong Mun granary.
Every single sack of grains piled in the storehouse
had this seal on it.
However, there is another place
where we found sacks with this same seal.
Where else?
Susagong Wang Young's house.
Also, an anonymous letter?
"Ransack the Susagong's storehouse.
There you will find the missing militray provisions." Something along those lines?
We discovered some records at Minister Eun's storehouse.
According to that, we can assume that a significant amount of grains
were delivered to the Minister's house multiple times before.
We know that you are close to the Susgaong's son Master Wang Rin.
- However, - - Don't bring personal affairs into this? Be fair in my judgment?
That's right.
Men are closely monitoring the Susagon's house as we speak.
That no one leaves before we even have a chance to question them.
It appears that master Wang Rin has already ran away.
After he was trained as the Circuit Commissioner, we have yet to hear from him.
Should we arrest him and bring him in?
The Minister's case is a little trickier.
They say he died abruptly.
He has no sons, but he has one daughter…
Should we arrest her?
Or should we let her finish the funeral proceedings?
Condolences for the deceased: 謹弔
The funeral bier is all ready outside.
We should escort him out now.
Yes.
Remember this. There is only one thing in the world that the Minister wanted.
Your well-being.
I know.
That's good then.
Rin?
Not here yet.
Let's wait a little longer.
Eun San and Wang Rin will both be among the funeral procession.
We must not miss either one.
Drag them both here before the Crown Prince catches on.
If they resist,
you may kill them.
Move!
Move aside!
What the Queen will do next is as clear as day.
Bring Rin back without harming a single hair on his head.
He will soon become the Crown Prince.
Eun San. My So Hwa.
I apologize for not being able too see off your late father with you.
A while back,
there was a time when I had to choose between you or Rin.
My father told me that he is only willing to spare one out of the two of you. You and So Hwa.
Only one of the two?
So I…I'm planning on rescuing So Hwa.
I'll leave you here.
I can't bear to see her
being beaten and dragged away by someone else.
You said i was your lifelong and only friend,
and the only servant you can trust.
That, is true.
You're leaving someone like that, and rescuing a woman?
Exactly.
I didn't even think twice and chose you.
But this time, I'm going to choose Rin, not you So Hwa.
As Rin had laughed it off, will you also be able to smile and accept my decision?
Hear and accept the royal decree.
As the direct descendant of the late King,
and the daughter of Susagong Wang Young, Wang Dan has been selected as the Crown Princess
and will need to move into the palace to quietly act her part until the day of the royal marriage.
Let the court recorders bear record of this.
In light of the upcoming marriage of the Crown Prince, we bestow the following titles.
To Susagong Wang Young, the title of Seo Won Hoo. To the first son Wang Gun, Ik Yang Hoo. And to Wang Jeon, Seo Heung Ho.
And the third son Wang Rin will be bestowed the title of Su Jeong, so ensure that these titles are assigned without any mistakes.
The royal marriage will take place in two days.
Those of the Susagong's household which produced the next Crown Princess will, aside from rebellion,
be given amnesty to all other crimes. His highness has requested that you observed that with strictness.
How dare you…
Do you remember what you told me once?
Here, take it.
What is this?
It's something I made when I made the bracelet I gave you last time.
And?
It's my late mother's keepsake.
It's a little big for me, so I had kept it on me like this. Take it.
I don't think I can take it. It's too precious!
- Then think of it as a collateral of sorts. - A collateral?
One day, if you need to request something from me, show this to me.
Then I will grant you anything.
♪ Just honestly ♫
♪ I want to show you ♫
♪ So that you can find me whenever and wherever ♫
♪ Bit by bit you are changing me ♫
♪ into your colors ♫
♪ I'm missing you ♫
♪ Writing you in my heart all day long ♫
♪ I'll go to you ♫
♪ I want to hug you and kiss you ♫
And do you also remember what I said to you?
Always, and for all time…my first, will always be you.
And to never forget it.
Please give this to lady Eun San. Once she reads the contents of the letter, she will come to me.
Then you escort her to me carefully.
(Sang Yeo Ga: funeral lament song)
♫Pass the road to the mountain.
♫ They say the north mountain of the deceased is far.
♫ But across the way is that mountain, the mountain of deceased.
♫ The mountain across.
♫ If you go now,
♫ when will you be back then?
♫ On this road to the mountain.
♫ Going and going.
Pity.
How's this...
We should grab them once they've gone past the streets. The Minister was highly favored by the people
and if we were to grab them now, there will be absolute chaos.
Wait for them then surround them once the procession arrives at the location. I will personally arrest them.
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We need to escort him away before the procession makes it past the streets.
Because my heart is restless, yet my status is pitiful,
I call upon the promise of this necklace as I make my request.
♫ Going, going, I am going.
♫ Leaving my beloved onto the mountain.
San. My So Hwa. Return to me. Stay by my side.
♪ I'll stay with you ♫
♪ Whenever and wherever by your side ♫
♪ I'll stay with you♫
♪ Unchanging, here.♫
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If I said wait, try waiting.
What do you mean? What are you talking about with them?
Stay by my side. Don't even give so much as a glance elsewhere.
Crown Prince. Forget her.
You're telling me to discard everyone who stands next to me.
Don't hurt them. I won't stay still.
Do you feel uneasy about the Crown Prince?
I will help you break free from him. Now.