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(Episode 4)
I've only written it on the ground so it looks a little messy.
You studied writing on the ground without a paper or a brush?
Hold on a second.
Here.
Take it.
Are you sure you can give me this precious thing?
It's commendable that you're trying to learn despite your circumstances.
Here.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
By the way, what are you doing here so late at night?
Oh,
- Miss Dam-yi said-- - Dam-yi?
Did she give an answer to my proposal?
Is that right?
Did Saimdang give you a hint about it?
Well...
They wouldn't send that kind of message with you.
I was on my way to run an errand and heard you recite a poem so...
Lee Gyeom.
She wants to meet him under the Holy Tree
before sunrise?
That's weird.
What's taking him so long?
What are you doing here My lady?
I'm waiting for someone.
What's all this?
I'm going to Unpyeongsa.
Where is he...
Would you like me to carry it? I was on my way to dig up some deodeok too.
You were?
Let's go then.
Isn't it heavy?
- Should we carry it together? - It's not heavy.
But, I can help you carry it.
No, it's okay.
It's Goryeo paper from Unpyeongsa.
The ones from other places are nothing like this Goryeo paper.
It's the secret to making Goryeo paper.
My father can make it just fine without that.
(Min Chi-hyung)
Isn't it heavy?
I'm fine.
You see the red flower right here, right?
The color comes from this bug.
Yeonji.
That's what I'll call it since it's the same color as the yeonji bug.
Yeonji?
Wow.
Your ribbon is so pretty.
Did you draw it yourself?
I didn't draw it.
Oh.
You got it from your lover.
My lady.
Take me with you when you make yeonji color next time.
I've made yellow before from gardenia seeds.
Oh, really?
I like making dyes and painting too.
Oh, did you know that?
You can get red from herbal root.
Would you like me to make it for you next time?
Okay.
What's your name by the way?
It's Seok Soon.
My name is Seok Soon.
Seok Soon?
- Let's go Seok Soon. - Okay.
(Unpyeongsa)
Give my brother a drink!
Yes! Here.
Bring me more alcohol!
The drinks are so good!
- What is it? - What's wrong?
What the hell?!
You little!
Hey!
These little piece of...
You're ruining my appetite.
How dare you touch the food with your dirty hands?!
I'm going to chop off her hand.
Sir!
Why are you trying to get a peasant's blood on that precious sword?
I'll take her and make sure she doesn't do it again.
Please forgive her.
Yeah. You're just going to dirty up your sword.
All right.
Okay.
Even if I sold all of them, it wouldn't amount to what this sword costs.
Wait!
Hold on!
What's this?
That's...
She even has a drawing.
That's my drawing!
(Reading Chinese)
"It breaks my heart to think about those who were expelled in the Gi-myo year."
"No one knows how I feel."
Sir! Sir!
Wait!
Please don't kill her! She's too young to know right from wrong!
Gi-myo-chuk-gaek?!
How dare you?!
How dare you such a thing to this place?!
Who ordered you to do such a thing?!
She's mute!
Where did you pick up such a thing?!
I'm sorry!
Please spare us her life just this once!
We're very sorry! Please spare us her life!
No!
How dare you!
Take one step closer
and I'll kill you all!
You can't!
What should we do?
Do you want this to go away?
Is there a way?
I have the resources
and you have the support.
Yeah!
I'll go home and talk to my father, Lord Young-jung.
Please help me escape from here.
Remember this moment!
This is the moment when your lives will change!
If we let even one escape, we'll become murderers!
If we kill them all,
Lord Young-jung won't forget your good deeds.
Kill them.
Let's go!
Stop right there!
My lady!
- What's going on over there? - There's a fire!
There's someone who witnessed it!
- At Unpyeongsa?! - It was chaotic!
I could see the fire all the way from Jeojakgol.
The fire was huge!
Master Gyeom!
What are you doing here?
Didn't you go up to Unpyeongsa with My lady?!
Unpyeongsa?
Oh no... My lady...
Saimdang...
My lady went to Unpyeongsa!
What are we going to do?!
My lady!
No!
No...
Master Gyeom!
Master Gyeom...
Saimdang!
What happened to you?
Open your eyes!
What in the world happened to you?
My lady!
Sir!
My lady...
What are we going to do?
Baby!
My baby!
- My baby! - Baby!
Hurry up and bring a doctor!
Doctor Jang from our town left for Keumkangsan yesterday to get medicine!
What are we going to do?
What about Doctor Kim?
I heard he has gone senile from old age!
Are there no other way?
I'll go bring Doctor Jang back.
Baby. Baby!
Master...
Get out of my way. I'm in a hurry. Go to Saimdang and--
I'm hurt too.
I'm in pain, too.
Buy yourself some ointment with this.
Master!
Can't you see me?
You abandoned me in the woods, and
you don't care if I get eaten by wolves?!
I told you to get ointment!
I will reward you for your work when I come back. Now, move!
- Over here! - Coming!
The soup's gotten cold. Can I get some more warm soup?
- Come on, how long do I have to wait? - I'm sorry.
Let's have a drink.
Hey!
Where were you all this time?!
Quickly do the dishes first!
- Here, let me pour you a drink. - Oh, thank you.
Saimdang...
Oh, that feels good!
Why don't you come over and join us?
Come on!
No, I just want to drink. Here, catch!
Lord Min! Come on over!
It is like paradise here. Are you going to just pass this by?
Come on!
There is a survivor.
Find the owner of this ribbon.
Find her, and kill her.
Yes, sir.
What is going on?
Oh, what's taking Hunwonjang so long?
I know...
I can't just sit and wait. I'll be right back.
You watch her here, alright?
I heard a lot of people died in Unpyeongsa.
Yeah. They say it's because of a painting.
- A painting? - Yeah.
No, I heard it was because of a poem.
A poem?
How could people die because of a painting or a poem?
Hey, it's not just any poem.
It's tragic what my people are going through.
Even the heavens have forgotten about them.
It breaks my heart to think about those who were expelled in the Gi-myo year.
Gi-myo?
Is it talking about the Gi-myo Massacre where
Jo Gwang-jo and his followers were killed?
You shouldn't say such things!
Does that mean some of them are still alive?
Shh!
Walls have ears!
Help yourselves.
Your Majesty...
If my poem was leaked...
What will happen?
What if the senators...
What if they find out about this?
They'll think I was all for the Confucian scholars in the Gi-myo year,
but now I'm secretly encouraging the criminals
and even handing out poems I wrote!
They'll...
They'll do me like Yeonsangun!
Your Majesty...
Why are you speaking of the dethroned king? Please, calm down.
How can I calm down?!
Kill everybody who received the poem, and
retrieve everything.
All the poems I wrote...
Retrieve all of the poems I wrote.
There are a lot of people here. You must calm down, Your Majesty.
Like Yeonsangun...
They'll dethrone me mercilessly...
The senators...
They might even kill me...
Your Majesty, please calm down.
Maybe my relatives are coveting the throne...
What are the other princes up to now?
They must be plotting together to take my throne!
Your Majesty, that will never happen.
No one...
I can trust no one!
Your Majesty, you are on a leisure trip.
Peacefully, as if nothing happened.
I will go take care of it, Your Majesty.
Lee Gyeom is head over heels in love with Shin Myung-hwa's daughter.
Boys that age are reckless.
By chance...
If they call off the wedding, let her live.
But if not...
Do you know the owner of this?
My Lord!
Oh, people are going insane! My Lord!
Bring out every piece of painting in the house!
Everyone in the village is going crazy...
I don't know what is going on...
Come in.
Take this out. This, too. And that.
Hurry.
No!
- No! - No, Mother!
Not this. Never this.
Let go.
Not this.
Never!
Not this...
This way.
Will it be alright?
It's a painting by Lord Ahnkyun.
And we must return it to Hunwonjang.
Yes, My Lady.
Sir, there is a girl known as a genius painter in Bukpyung Village.
And her father is Shin Myung-hwa.
Shin Myung-hwa?
Shin Myung-hwa...
He was involved in the Gi-myo Massacre...
Everyone, listen.
Saimdang has never painted a picture.
- Understand? - Yes, My Lord.
The ones searching for the owner of the ribbon are in the village next to ours.
It's a matter of time before they get here.
Shouldn't we report this?
I hear they are feasting away with everyone in the village.
The Prime Minister is watching their backs.
The police in a small village doesn't have any power.
Then what should we do?
They're killing the scholars who stomped out the room on the day before the Massacre.
You must run.
Lee Gyeom is head over heels in love with Shin Myung-hwa's daughter.
Boys that age are reckless.
By chance...
If they call off the wedding, let her live.
But if not...
kill Lee Gyeom, too.
His Majesty sent you the poem secretly.
How did it end up in hands of many people?
You asked for this.
My lord.
What is it?
Saimdang's illness is getting worse.
Min Chi-hyung and he men are coming.
Please...
Please give us one more day to....
save our child.
Just one more day...
Just one day...
- No! - My lady!
My lady! My lady!
My lady! Are you all right?
My lady...
If you go forward with this marriage,
your daughter's life will be in danger as well as Lee Gyeom's.
Find an ordinary man for your daughter.
Are you saying that
we should marry Saimdang to someone else other than Lee Gyeom?
I am saying we must save our daughter’s life.
Don't you remember what happened at the Gi-myo Massacre?
He didn't hesitate to kill the scholars
he had favored until the day before.
He would kill people just to retrieve the poem he himself sent.
I don't know.
I can't hear anything.
I can only think about...
my child.
Lee Gyeom...
I must go find Lee Gyeom...
Dear...
Dear!
Mother...
My child...
Would it endanger Lee Gyeom
if we get married?
Baby...
Would his life be in danger?
I cannot let him get hurt.
I will marry someone else..
Please protect him...
My baby...
I will marry someone else.
Just not Lee Gyeom...
I don't care who...
Can I help you?
Hurry up, you guys.
Hey, what's going on?
What's the matter?
She's getting married in
Ojukheon...
She's getting married?
Who?
Lady Saimdang.
Lady Saimdang?
You must be mistaken.
Enter the bride.
Get out of my way.
We can't, Master.
- Move! - Master!
Why are you doing this?
Saimdang!
- Saimdang! - Please stop, Master!
Saimdang!
Stop there!
It's a crime to using army for personal reason.
In the country where Neo-Confucianism is the base of the laws,
how dare you interrupt a noble man's wedding?
Do you want to receive death sentence for disobeying the moral laws?
Let go of me! Let go!
Let go!
Please forgive me for not having paid you a proper visit
even when there was a talk of marriage between our children.
Today, we married our second child, Saimdang, to someone else.
I am sure the news would have confused you
since we had not mentioned anything about this before.
But please know that this was the only way
that could save both Lee Gyeom and Saimdang.
That man must have been sent by the king.
Stay low...
and please
choose life...
This can't be true.
It can't be true.
You must be lying some reason.
Right?
It's..
just as you saw.
It's all over.
For you,
for me,
and for everyone else.
Everything.
No.
This can't happen! No!
Run away with me.
Let's run away to a place where no one can find us!
I already spent the first night..
with him.
Saimdang.
Saim- Saimdang.
Saimdang.
So what you're saying is
that the Keumkangsando is hidden inside the Ojukheon's wall!
If we find that,
we can prove that Min's Keumkangsando is fake.
You just wait, Keumkangsando!
We're coming for ya!
Hold on!
Where are we going right now?
To Ojukheon!
Are you crazy?
We can't go all the way there in this car. Go to the bus terminal!
Right.
Terminal! Okay!
(Ojukheon, Gangreung)
It's not here.
It says they demolished and remodeled the building in the 90s.
Would its remaining be here at least?
They might have used the same wall.
Hey!
Come down here!
- Can we just go in for a minute? - No way.
Come on, you guys.
Get down from there!
Come down.
Okay.
It's the room that Scholar Yool Gok was born in.
This is the only original building from the 16th century.
She dreamed of dragons and gave birth to Scholar Yool Gok.
That's why it's called the Dragon Dream room.
They say the master room was demolished.
Keumkangsando was hidden inside that room.
Do you think they might have found anything in the 90s?
It would've been the discovery of the century if they did.
Seriously. Where in the world did the Keumkangsando go?
Are you really not going to tell me where you bought that book?
The bus will leave soon.
I just really want to know.
Ji-yoon.
You're really not going to tell me?
I paid for the bus ticket,
and came all the way to Gangreung with you.
You're being so unfair.
Tuscany.
I..Italy?
When you went to the Bologna conference?
So..
Saimdang's secret journal was found in Italy?
The journal tells us that Min and Gallery Sun are lying about
the Keumkangsando being real...
It even tells us what sets the real Keumkangsando apart!
This is the discovery of the century!
Art history intellectuals will flip if they find out about this!
Where in Tuscany?
An old artist?
Or an arts' collector?
Who gave it to you?
Can't you just be quiet?
Eun-soo.
Yes?
Let's not tell..
your friends or teachers at school that we live here.
So the thing is..
We're only living here for short time.
We'll move away soon.
That's exactly right.
Let's go.
A full-on suit in this weather?
Is she not feeling the heat?
What did you say?
Wanna try?
You have to chew on these things to become smarter.
Stop it.
How can you give him something you've chewed on?
Goodness!
You should know your place, lady. A suit?
And a private school?
Unbelievable.
Why does it matter to you what I wear?
I'm about to throw up.
Seeing you think you're all that makes me want to throw up.
Don't go through this street next time!
I feel like throwing up every time you pass by!
Goodness.
Not the best neighborhood.
I didn't know there was a place like this in Seoul.
Why?
This is how people live.
Why didn't Han Sang-hyun record his new address after he moved?
No one in this neighborhood knows him.
That's how all students are.
We can find him.
What a wretched woman.
Lousy people and a lousy neighborhood.
No one in this neighborhood is normal!
We'll have to hurry up and move out of here.
Mom!
Mother.
Hello, ma'am.
Who are you?
Boyfriend!
Boyfriend?
Here.
Mother.
You should go inside and rest.
I'll help him with homework.
I need to talk to you.
Mother.
I'm sorry.
I don't want to hear it.
Tell me everything you did minute by minute all day from the moment
you ran out of the house early this morning.
Well..
It's a bit complicated.
I don't know where to begin to tell you..
So what is it.
You were with that young man all day?
Is that it?
Yes, but..
Do you think that easily of me? Huh?
I'm not your mom. I'm your mother-in-law!
We don't know if even your husband is alive or dead!
Why?
Has things gotten hard without your husband?
Min-seok may be your husband,
he's been my son and also my husband to me.
You can't do this.
For me..
I feel like the sky is falling and the ground is sinking
every time I open my eyes in the morning.
I'm trying my best to endure through this with all my might!
But I have no idea where your mind is at.
Is that research or whatever that important to you?
I'm sorry, Mother.
I know it's hard for you.
I also know that you're trying hard to
keep things going.
- But.. - Drop out of it.
That co-research or whatever the hell it is.
Quit it unless it has your life dependent on it.
No,
don't do it even if it does.
You..
You know how I've never gotten in the way of our studies.
But this isn't right.
Listen to what I say.
Quit it at once.
I tried to portion it out,
but there isn't much left already.
Seo Ji-yoon.
Where are you headed to?
- Eun-soo. - Mom. I want to sleep with you.
Alright.
Mom. I love your scent.
Eun-soo. I love your scent.
It's as sweet as ice cream.
Where's grandma?
She's sleeping.
Then should we cuddle ourselves to sleep tonight?
Will you read me a book too?
Of course.
What's this?
Mom..
Do we..
have money for this?
You don't worry about that.
I can take care of it.
Okay?
Okay.
Check your front door.
Reminiscing about father
is still a deep distress and a punishment for me.
When my heart is like this,
I wonder how lonely and saddened my mother would be
when all of her children are passed away?
Goodness, my lady.
My lady.
Oh, my knees.
My lady.
What's wrong? Are you knees hurting?
I've made a good use out of them for 50 years.
It's time that they break down now.
Your knees worked hard to chase me around in my youth.
Still, those were the good days.
When will I see you again once you leave for Hanyang?
Father must be waiting.
Goodness.
- Let's go. - I'll help you.
Goodness. No.
Let's go. Come on.
Father.
I'm..
moving to Hanyang.
If I leave now,
I don't know when I'll return.
I don't know if I'll ever return..
I can't promise you that I will.
Please..
watch over mother,
who'll be left alone..
from wherever you are.
Saimdang - Light's Diary
You know very well His Majesty has been looking forward to this marriage!
Why has this returned
when it left this house 20 years ago?
This is my residence.
May I ask who you bought it from?
I think he said his name was Lee Won-su.
Oh no..
Lee Gyeom. Let's hear your favor.
Please annul the wedding.
It's just that Lee Gyeom..
Did you just say Lee Gyeom?
You know him. I know you were from the same hometown.
How can you do this?
Even 20 years of time have failed to erase you out of my heart.
I think
the boy from 20 years ago
who was full of life
and whom I dearly loved, is gone.
Have I ever been full of life like you say so?
The art piece that he loved is still here.
Look into how Min Chi-hyung and Sam Jung-seung are using their powers
to involve themselves in corruption and bribery.
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