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Since I was little, I was always one step late.
Not because I was slow, but because I was one step behind to begin with.
I preferred to watch instead of stepping up.
Watching you happy, I would be happy too.
So I found that place to be comfortable.
One footstep behind.
Royal Mother.
Someone say something.
She's been ill for a long time.
There was no treatment except for medicine to relief pain.
Besides that.
Her coughing of blood got worse and her breathing…
Besides that. It wasn't because of that!
Court Lady Jo!
She was arrested to testify, by the order of Marquis of Sujeong.
Furatai!
He died, they say.
What?
He escorted Her Highness the Queen…
It was Yeongsu Palace.
My sisters who went there as guards as well…
they all died.
Furatai and the guard warriors
died at Yeongsu Palace?
That's what I hear.
His Majesty the King was there.
And I was told Mu Bi was there.
Her Majesty the Queen clearly said so on her way out of the Yeongsu Palace.
That Mu Bi was there.
I got it.
What is this outrageous talk?
His Majesty the King killed Her Highness the Queen?
It is disquieting. The Hochi Army has been penetrated.
Eunbang's private troops are mobilizing as well.
Is His Majesty going to strike the Crown Prince then?
The Crown Prince gave no instructions. What do we do?
At this rate, an internal war might happen.
General! The Crown Prince has left Wonseong Palace.
What do you mean?
He's making his move towards Yeongsu Palace.
Before the night falls, the letter must reach the imperial territory. Hurry.
What are you doing here? Flee or prepare to battle.
The Eungyang and the Yongho guards, the two palace armies are mobilizing.
If they besiege the palace, we are done for!
What were you thinking to create this madness?
I have a countermeasure.
What countermeasure? One that even I don't know of?
I came up with it right before I stabbed Furatai's back, hence I stabbed him with the sword.
I just didn't expect this would move up so quickly. I needed the queen to live a bit longer.
How is he?
How would you like him to be?
What are you asking? Hurry and wake him.
All the chief generals are leaning towards the Crown Prince because of how things are.
We need the King to reclaim the authority of the throne.
Where's Wang Rin?
He sneaked out in the middle of the court council meeting.
Wang Rin or Wang Jeon, we need you to bring one of them to receive the King's last will.
Did you just say last will?
I think the King… should not be able to wake up.
Look here. What in the world…
The Crown Prince regards the king as his mother's foe, and no one is unaware of his fiery temper.
A man like him came running here to undo his mother's grudge and who is to know what he's capable of committing.
What do you mean who is to know what he will do?
Did you understand me?
I did understand.
What the…
Just bring me one of the brothers, whoever that is.
We need the next king.
Wang Rin? Wang Jeon?
Who killed my mother?
I don't really know. I only just…
I heard. I heard it.
When the Queen came, Mu Bi was there by the side.
The Queen was angry upon seeing Mu Bi.
My mother is not someone who would be angry over a mere wench like her.
Of course. Of course.
However, His Majesty took her side and became wrathful.
He shouted towards the Queen.
In order to protect the Queen,
the guards came blocking but he said to kill them all.
Where is His Majesty?
Inside. In his chamber.
And that thing is with him?
So you're here.
You're majesty…
Why did you do it? To my mother?
It's a misunderstanding!
What is?
You have been misinformed. The Queen's death has nothing to do with me.
I didn't even ask…and you've answered my question.
It is not my fault.
You should have waited a few days before you did that.
The last time I met mother was a few days ago,
when she kept asking to speak with me…and yet I kept turning her away.
Saying that I couldn't trust her.
I told her to leave the palace if she didn't like how things were playing out.
I didn't know that would be our last.
You should have let me meet her again at least once, talk to her a little while longer.
I have something left for me to say to her. If she leaves this early,
I won't be able to.
She brought it on herself.
What?
She shouldn't have come here.
She should have turned a blind eye to it.
Then…nothing would have happened right?
If she had left, she would have at least kept her life intact!
Stop it.
She should have lived a quiet life and left.
Why did she come?! Why strut about? Why?!
Your majesty! Your majesty! Your majesty! Your majesty…
Don't do it. Stop!
Please throw away that sword! Please-
Father.
Your majesty!
Come on out.
Come out and say something!
Why did you kill her? Why?!
My mother…what did my mother do so wrong?
Come on out! Your majesty!
Your majesty!
You're a coward!
Stop hiding and come out and speak!
Tonight at the hour of the rat (11pm-1am), they will be holing the funeral services.
They could not wait any longer for his majesty the King and decided thus.
Got it. Thank you for your hard work.
Perhaps it is the scent of a poisonous mugwort?
This incense was always lit whenever I would visit the King's quarters.
And you said they had you drink some kind of red tea prior to entering his chambers each time?
Now that I think about it…perhaps they were giving me the antidote in advance.
It seems so.
He was strong and healthy. This incense has to be the reason for his ailing health.
Probably so.
Is there no way to reverse the effects of the poison?
Now that the one that made the poisonous concoction is dead, our only way would be to consult a physician.
A physician who is up for such a task…
Of course the most skilled physician in the capital would be the royal physician of the Ministry of Medicine and Ailments.
I will escort him here.
- Young Su. - Yes.
You are acquainted with royal physician Oh Ja Yong right?
I will escort him here.
Discreetly.
Yes, teacher I will remember it.
Take a seat. You're about to give this old man a crick in his neck!
If it were according to the original plan, you, the Marquis of Sujeong would have called the court assembly
and slipped out in the middle, I would enter and wrap things up in your stead.
Meanwhile, you and my student will run far away.
Such was the plan.
It indeed was.
Also the order has been muddled up, it's not too late.
I will take the lead in wrapping things up when the sun is up tomorrow,
but it seems the part where you run away should take place even before sunrise.
Don't miss this opportunities amidst the chaos.
You should never look back when you're running away from something.
Keep your eyes solely on what's ahead of you.
Segment for Hanja on the pillar
Why are you still standing there?
My ankles…
feel as though they have stones tied to them.
I don't see anything there.
Lady San is probably with his majesty the Crown Prince at this moment.
The Lady I know would do that.
During such a time, she won't be able to bring her self to leave the Crown Prince alone.
What are you afraid of?
That she won't follow you?
That if she were to follow me…
if we were to leave…
his majesty becomes all alone.
So that was the rock.
Therefore…I don't think we will be leaving tonight.
Then…when is the right time?
After we remove this rock.
After both my ankles and my heart have been lightened,
after then.
The Queen brought it on herself.
She shouldn't have come here.
She should have turned a blind eye.
Then nothing would have happened.
If she would have left, she would have at least kept her life intact!
Stop it.
She should have lived a quiet life and left.
Why did she come here? Why did she strut around like that?! Why?!
Wang Won.
I missed you.
I missed you all along.
Crown Prince, Wang Won.
You…did something you were not supposed to do.
And therefore, now you must pay the price.
Also, tell the young master this.
That I apologize for not meeting him at our promised place.
That I'm not captured here.
It's not yet…
the right time, and that's why I cannot leave yet.
Then when will you leave?
After I see the Crown Prince smile.
After then.
Who called him here? Where do you think this is?!
I don't think you all are thinking straight, but this punk here is the Crown Prince's dog to the bone!
It may not seem so and he may seem normal now, but if the Crown Prince were to throw him a bone,
he will start wagging his tail immediately and run to the Crown Prince!
We need to vacate this house immediately.
This house?
The Crown Prince knows that Prince Gangyang is staying here.
If such high officials were congregated beside Prince Gangyang-
It will indeed appear as rebellion. I relay your orders immediately.
Who are you to give orders to whom?!!
The second army has decided to follow the Crown Prince again.
We need information on what the stance is for the Jujin troops at the borders and the Juyeon troops also.
We will send someone immediately.
The people congregated here are my subordinates who have gathered for me! How dare you-
And someone…will need to keep this person here quiet.
It won't serve us well to have someone so loud run amok when we're facing a major mission.
Why you little…have you lost your mind?
What did you say? To your own older brother? Why you-
What is this? Assistant Royal Secretary! Secretariat Recorder! What is the meaning of this?!
So you've decided to choose the younger one over the older brother?
I need someone who can break the Crown Prince, Wang Won.
They say a carriage left the premise around the hour of the cow (11am-1pm).
Did you look inside?
- I did not have a chance to. - Why not?
The one driving the carriage was the Marquis of Sujeong. I didn't dare.
Wang Rin escorted the King out it seems.
Why did he? To avoid whom? Would it be because of me?
You haven't found them yet?
They were gone.
I'm certain that I followed the King's orders and delivered the royal seals to him.
It was this morning around sunrise.
Wang Rin also snuck out the King's royal seals. Why?
Send soldiers to the Crown Princess' palace.
So it's the Crown Princess' palace?
Wang Rin smuggled out the King and the royal seals. His intentions are most concerning to me.
He may exchange messages in secret to his sister, so you must lock her up and guard her.
I believe I just gave orders?
We will follow your orders.
So you've disguised yourself in different clothes.
Did you return after sneaking out, or are you planning on sneaking out soon.
I returned after I had left.
Then Wang Rin will come for you soon.
He is not someone who will defy you. You of all people know that best.
And so,
you are a hostage from now on.
A bait. A trap.
- Tell me your countermeasures. - What is it you want to know?
You said you would make me a King. You must have a plan?
So you murdered the Queen without so much as a plan up your sleeves?
It was a natural death caused by illness.
Not the case for her bodyguards though.
We had no choice. They were defying the King.
The plan!
We are planning on sending a royal ascension edict to the Great Emperor of Yuan from he King, requesting to bequeath the throne.
Because the King's mind and body is weak, he is no longer fit to govern the nation's political affairs
and wishes to bequeath the throne to a successor. However,
the Crown Prince, Wang Won, is violent in nature, and-
And what evidence is there of that?
He murdered a royal consort Mubi, someone whom he should consider another mother, rendering him an animal who defied the laws of the heavens,
and should be stripped of his position as the Crown Prince,
and wish to name the Marquis of Sujeong, Wang Rin, as his successor.
Would the King give his permission?
It doesn't matter is the King says anything.
Why not?
His royal seals…are with me.
The servants in this room won't do.
They don't even clean it just because the owner is not here.
I thought you had fled. I didn't see you when I turned back.
When we were little, you delivered my mother's last words to me.
I remembered the words I should deliver to you too.
Her Highness said this to me.
How she came to be fond of peony flowers.
Do you know?
I never heard about it.
When she was young, she hid to peek at the Crown Prince who was said to have come from Goryeo.
That day, she was once again on her way back after peeking at him.
But suddenly someone handed a flower towards her.
That was the King and that flower was a peony, she said.
Right before she passed away, Her Highness asked for a peony.
They delivered one to her and she embraced it to her chest.
I think that flower must be this.
What are you wanting to say?
Her Highness had good days too and how about only letting the good memories stay?
I wanted to tell you that.
To my mother, I was it.
Every day, every second, she fought the whole world for my sake.
And I found that mother to be tiring.
I was so disobedient in every way.
Everything she told me to do, I would do the exact opposite of them all.
This Wonseong Palace was the entirely of my mother's world, and yet I didn't even come here often either.
Because it stifled me.
Let's leave your thoughts right there.
My royal father. The things around him.
Those things cornered my mother into death.
He made me into a joke before the royal court and he summoned for my mother.
He wanted to shame my mother there.
There must be a reason.
Or rather, my father might have shamed my mother before that.
To the point of thinking death would've been better.
Let's leave this room.
I will turn a blind eye to the fact that your heart is heading towards Rin.
So hurry and put away those feelings at once.
That is the only way Rin will have a chance to live.
There is a poison I suspect.
A poison from bitter orange reduction. It seeps through for a long period of time.
In the beginning, one starts to have nightmares and have delusional images and sounds.
But after the toxins seep through the body, all the organ start to lose their functionality.
So are you saying you can detoxify it or not?
I've only heard about antidotes for this.
So you mean, there is an antidote that exists?
Usually, people who use poison would go around carrying antidotes too.
To be prepared for times when they may poison themselves.
You can't just come and seek me in the middle of the night like this.
If someone sees us, they would go around spreading rumors and such.
But... why are they so many men in a trade house, all into the night too.
So don't come to the house at night.
During the day. It'd be nice to meet over there somewhere.
It'll be brighter, I can see your face better and so it'd be nice.
Who are they protecting?
I guess someone noble is in there.
Someone noble?
Maybe he's ill somewhere. Earlier they brought in a physician too.
It was a physician from the royal medicine house.
So, he was a royal physician who treats the King, so whoever is in there must be someone very noble too.
You know, you seem a bit thinner recently.
Let me take a look.
You smiled! It's so easy to do!
What is?
To make a man smile. Why is this hard for her?
He was locked up in a cellar at the Wonseong palace.
According to the eunuchs, the late Queen interrogated him
and ordered for him to be locked up under she gave orders otherwise.
Get up.
Speak up.
On…what…
What did mother ask and what did you answer? Or rather, what do you have yet to answer?
Your majesty, I…
Why did you drag over someone who has nothing to say to me? Drag this man away at once and-
I-I!
I had only done as I was ordered to.
I had no idea what the implications were at the time.
Go on.
I had no idea the medicine Mu Bi gave me was Minister Eun's.
She told me to leave the medicine in her Queen's quarters.
To make sure you would see it.
I just did as I was told…
Who?
The Assistant Royal Secretary, Song Bang Yeong.
- And? - Pardon?
He isn't doing this alone. Who is in it beside him?
The Royal Secretariat Recorder, Song In.
And? Chief General Yoon Gil Seo and eunuch Kim In Gyeong,
General Kim Gil. This is the extent of what I know.
Why did you do it?
Pure blood…for a pure blood Crown Prince. For a pure Goryeo blood to be the next King,
I had acted in the best interest of this nation.
Please understand.
Search the premises thoroughly!
The mansion you had mentioned was empty. However,
General!
This way.
I saw Prince Gangyang in the guest wings.
It was a hard sight to behold.
Drag her away!
The second master?
I haven't seen him in a few days.
- And the third master, the Marquis of Sujeong? - Likewise.
- Over there! - Get over here!
Come here!
We found eunuch Kim In Gyeong.
We found what was hidden.
Lady San.
How are you here?
Are you alright?
I had a lot to say to you.
I can't seem to remember any of it.
My father... it wasn't the Queen's doing.
The lighting of the incense, taking away the medicine, and causing him to die…
I heard.
It was all instructed by the people around His Majesty the King.
Yes.
Now...
Are you with those people?
Yes.
Why?
It's long, so I will explain it all to you one by one later on.
Come with me to the Crown Prince. Let's go and explain everything.
You two used to be like that. You two used to know everything without even having to explain.
He will understand.
I don't hope for that.
I don't hope for the Crown Prince to understand.
San!
Mu Bi's corpse must still be inside the palace. I have no way of entering the palace.
Could you look around the corpse for me? To see if there's an antidote of some sort?
An antidote?
♫ Covered by the fog, ♫
♫ in a far away world ♫
♫ the echo calling for me ♫
♫ is becoming near ♫
♫ the final of this road ♫
♫ I do not know where that is ♫
♫ I'll stay with you ♫
♫ No matter when and where, by your side ♫
♫ I'll stay with you ♫
♫ here without changing ♫
Wang Rin!
♫ For you ♫
Wang Rin! Wang Rin!
Don't hide and come out!
Where did you go?
Sorry. Hey!
Wait.
Change into these. You won't even make it to the alley dressed like that.
By chance...
What?
Do you not know how to change by yourself?
Things like that are not my tasks.
- Just stay... - It hurts.
So if you can make your arm that way.
This wicked rascal!
It's my first time too. Taking off someone's clothes.
Come look!
You can follow me, but you are to call me by name and speak to me informally.
My name is Won.
- Until Samdae Bridge. - If I win?
I will give you the Little Dragon Sword.
- Really? - This is why you won't win.
We should have a start. Start of the competition!
From now on, you are my friend.
Treat me like a friend. It's an order.
- Look after him like a friend. - Yes.
However, do not try to be a real friend.
Crown Prince is a seat that is to become King and he cannot have friends.
So from the start, do not hold that kind of wish.
My father told me that, but I could not have known.
How a real friend and a not real friend differ.
At which point, was I supposed to halt my heart?
If you think about it,
from the start, I found no amusement in this nation, Great Goryeo, and the people. Stuff like that.
You can't grasp it by hand and you can't see them either
For stuff like that, you devote your life and commit to something. How does one do that?
Indeed, what I found amusing were people.
Treat the world like it's a chess board and the people as chess horses.
At times, they are on the red side, and at times they can be on the blue side.
Our brother is a bit lacking to be a chariot or cannon but he is excessive to be used as a soldier.
You found out where the King is.
But what are you doing here instead of escorting him back at once?
That's not really necessary.
What do you mean? We need the King in our hands to have power on our side.
He won't live too much longer anyway.
Without an antidote, he would last…a few days at best.
How? If the King dies, the Crown Prince ascends immediately.
Then that would be the end of us!
Could we even set foot in this nation... oh no!
Could we even bear through with our heads intact in this nation?
Would I leave things to come to that?
Right?
When you're playing chess, you see...
you need to predict what your opponent will do beforehand.
So you can put your suitable horse to the suitable move.
What in this ruckus you're saying?
The sequence is what matters, I mean.
Sequence?
The Crown Prince will come to find out soon.
When the person you cherish, before your very eyes,
because of you…watching you as they lay dying...
Just what kind of a hell that is. So very clearly.
Now. Shall we start then?
It's quite a distance to the palace. Shall I prepare a horse carriage?
No. If I'm in a horse carriage, I don't get to see as much.
You mean you don't get to smell as much alcohol?
What a foul rascal. To speak ill of his teacher to his face?
Next time, I will say it behind your back.
Have a safe trip.
It seems like the Crown Prince isn't too fond of drinking wine.
- Does that disappoint you? - It's the opposite, of course.
He doesn't know the greatness of wine so he doesn't know to be sparing of wine.
So he will be gracious with wine.
From now on, when I go see the Crown Prince, I will ask for a table of wine first.
So that...
What? What is it?
Just how many are you capturing?
Commanders and officers, captains and subordinates, colonels to eunuchs too.
The whole nation is in chaos with soldiers ransacking for arrests.
How are you doing this? You are in mourning and you should be in mourning attire.
Going against the rituals and going against the virtues too.
You need to know your place.
You are dragged here right now to explain your son's whereabouts. And yet?
These might sound like nagging to you, but I will continue.
His Majesty the King's close confidants you have now captured.
It's not that I am unaware that they have tyrannized the citizens for their gains, riding on His Majesty's curried favors.
However... there are laws for capturing them for punishment.
Stop. How are you alone?
She left first. She didn't come?
I will be right back.
Your Highness the Crown Prince!
- Did he come here on his own accord? - Yes, he did.
Then put him under detention with his father without being too rough. I will interrogate them later on.
I found out where His Majesty is.
He is with my younger brother, Rin.
I already guessed that much.
I wanted to feign ignorance.
However, I could not do that.
As a citizen of this nation, I couldn't just sit and watch our nation falling apart in danger.
Just report what you know, without the nonsense. Hurry.
This is a document for ascension.
His Majesty's edict declaring he will give the Crown Prince seat to Wang Rin.
I, Wang Jeon, wagered my life to snatch this out, when it was going to be sent to the Yuan Emperor.
His Majesty is not in his sound mind right now.
This must be Rin's doing, of pressing His Majesty and stealing the royal seal.
Goryeo King's edict declaring the pure-blood Wang Rin as Crown Prince after dethroning the atrocious Wang Won.
What are you doing? Where are we going?
They are here.
Your Majesty!
What in the world did you do to my father?
What will you do to His Majesty?
Search thorough all around and capture anyone you see.
Anyone who defies, you may kill them immediately.
Wang Rin. His horde has killed the Queen of this nation,
and they have kidnapped the King of this nation to scheme a rebellion.
Yes.
How are you just standing? Instead of kneeling before me at once and awaiting your disposal?
Promise me first.
You are making a request to me under such circumstances?
His Majesty the King has been unconscious for a long time.
He needs treatment.
He's my father! I will see to it!
The horde you speak of are spread all through the corners of this nation.
Even if you remove one section, the roots are too deep so it won't be easy.
Are you threatening me right now?
If you will do so, do it wholly without faltering.
Rin!
I brought something with me.
Ascension edict. Is this what you wanted?
I was always one step behind you.
The King's seat?
Nope, it was probably something else.
In order to protect you wholly.
So you needed the seat of the king.
If I were to look elsewhere, I felt you would crumble in that time.
Go. Disappear from my sight at once.
Never show up before me again.
If I come to see you ever again in my life...
Move! Move aside!
You can't go inside.
No one come forward.
Don't even make a sound. I will slay whoever.
You needn't take it easy on me this time.
If you can slay me, slay me. And become King.
You were always anxious like that.
It seems I will now need to leave you behind.
I am sorry, my friend.
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What was the reason? It seemed he wanted to be slashed by my sword.
Before I slashed, he wanted to be slashed.
I loved the woman Your Highness endeared.
I will not evade the death I deserve.
Fear not. He's not too ill.
Something is not good.
I am scared from the anxiety.
Your Highness, may you be healthy and well for a long, long time.
♫ I miss you ♫