Are you thirsty?
Okay, I will bring you water.
Just wait a little bit.
Someone who dies while thirsty, without even a sip of water,
is the most pitiful person.
- Let's go now. - Okay.
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It was signed "Baek Dol's Mother, Lady Yun."
Baek Dol? (WHITE STONE)
Yes, Your Majesty.
And my husband told me
that your mother, when thinking of you, the Crown Prince,
shed tears until her eyes were swollen red.
And even just once, she wanted to embrace you, Your Majesty,
and say, "My Baek Dol."
She wanted to sweetly call you like that. That was her wish.
Baek Dol is
the name my mother gave me when she was pregnant with me.
It is the only thing
that my mother was able to leave me.
Your Majesty's mother,
three years passed, after she was cast out of the palace, before she
found out that your younger brother had died.
So she wished to at least protect you
and gathered a group of supporters to whom she gave that letter.
But in the end...
In the end, she was poisoned.
Your Majesty, Great King Seongjong was very angry
and killed your mother.
But who stood up to stop him?
Yes, Your Majesty, your mother's death
was not only due to the intention of the Great King Seongjong.
It was due to the intention of the statesmen as well.
They were afraid that the fact that they colluded
with dethroning the queen would be found out,
so they colluded together to kill your mother.
Your Majesty, having contempt for those higher than themselves,
can there be a better example?
Then, His Majesty will now...
He paid back the Great King Sejo situation in the Year of Muo.
Now he must need to pay back the Deposed Queen Lady Yun situation.
But...
the person who stole that letter from Lady Jo and burned it
was Gil Dong's father, I hear.
What strange fate.
- Episode 22 -
Orabeoni.
Orabeoni...
- Untie him. - Yes, sir!
Your father dared to kill his own master
and stole the letter from my mother and threatened his owner with it?
So it turns out, in your blood and bones,
your arrogance is deeply engraved.
I will kill you first
and make an example out of your arrogance!
Your Majesty!
Your Majesty, how can you
let a thief's blood get on your hands?
Please give it to me. I will, instead of you.
I will kill this person instead of you.
All right. Chief Inspector Park, you are correct.
From this point on, anyone who pities him
and gives him even a sip of water, imprison them immediately.
- Yes, sir! - Yes, sir!
Hong Gil Dong, right here,
I will make you slowly dry up to death.
Gil Dong. Please endure.
I will definitely rescue you.
Definitely, I will rescue you.
Husband...
I'm here, Husband.
Orabeoni, I am here. I came.
Let's go home.
Let's go home together.
Let's go.
My husband.
Take her!
Let me go! Let me go!
- Come on! - Please let me go!
Let me go! Let me go!
Elder, please let me out.
Please let me out!
Oh, let me go, please.
Please let me out, please.
- What is this? - They were caught giving water to Hong Gil Dong.
His Majesty said to not give him a single sip of water.
- Make sure to release them tomorrow. - Elder.
Elder! Elder, please!
Please let me out!
Orabeoni...
Your Majesty,
the people have seen Hong Gil Dong's horribly damaged body
and understood your majestic dignity.
But if Hong Gil Dong does not die,
the people will begin talking about such nonsense
as the Mighty Child, won't they?
So I was thinking that
it would be better to just throw him in prison
and find another use for him.
- The Mighty Child has died! ♫ The spring ♫
♫ that we had been waiting for is finally coming ♫
♫ but you are leaving me? ♫
♫ The long, long winter ♫
♫ has completely passed. ♫
♫ So why are you leaving me? ♫
Where is Hong Gil Dong?
You are late. Hong Gil Dong is dead.
♫ Why is love so difficult? ♫
♫ Is this right? ♫
♫ Am I the only one who feels that way? ♫
♫ Without one last look at your beautiful face ♫
♫ I can't send you away, like this ♫
♫ Why does love hurt so much? ♫
♫ Is this right? ♫
♫ Am I the only one who feels that way? ♫
♫ Without holding your white hand one last time ♫
♫ I can't send you away, like this ♫
What is the matter?
Please protect his life, at least.
Huh?
His Majesty has a plan to use him in another way.
So if he dies,
His Majesty could become very angry.
All your words are correct. Human hunting.
I agree that was not proper conduct.
But what about you?
Have you fulfilled the duties of a vassal?
I recently poured liquor for the officials.
There was someone who spilled more than half of it.
Is this mannerly conduct?
Minister of Rites!
Yes, Your Majesty?
You spilled liquor that I poured for you onto my royal robe.
It even spilled onto my seat, and didn't dry for a long time.
Were you disrespecting me because I am a young king?
No, how could I...?
Yi Se Jwa has spilled liquor poured for him by the king and even wet the royal robe.
This is severe disloyalty!
We must subject him to royal interrogation and
discover the circumstances behind this crime!
Your Majesty!
Your Majesty, please reconsider!
Do you think His Majesty might
have another reason to punish Yi Se Jwa?
Another reason?
Yi Se Jwa is the one who directly brought the poison to Deposed Queen Lady Yun.
Your Majesty, please reconsider. Your Majesty!
All Yi Se Jwa did was to obey the royal command of Great King Seongjong.
If he does this to Yi Se Jwa for obeying the command of Great King Seongjong,
then any senior statesman who failed to stop the
Deposed Queen Lady Yun from receiving poison,
how will he deal with them?
His Majesty has summoned
Great King Seongjong's two royal concubines.
His Majesty? In the end...?
Anyone who would reveal anything that goes on in the palace,
I have punished them severely.
Yes, Your Majesty, don't worry.
I will make sure this never escapes the palace walls.
No.
What happened today, make sure you make it widely known.
How angry I am,
the senior statesmen must know.
Pick those up.
Pick them up.
If you don't beat to death what is in these sacks,
I will beat you to death.
- Your Majesty. - Your Majesty.
The things writhing in these sacks
are not your mothers.
They dared to slander my mother...
and caused her to die.
They are bitches!
So hurry and beat them to death.
Hurry and beat them to death!
Your Majesty, please let them live. Please.
Please let them live, Your Majesty.
The minister who participated in deposing the queen,
the one who showed her out of the palace,
and the ministers who participated in her poisoning, bring them all in.
The one who brought up past incidents to cause problems,
the one who accused the Deposed Queen of being improper,
and the one who participated in her receiving
poison, gather them all and bring them in!
Execute Yi Se Jwa and Yoon Pil Sang.
Yi Se Jwa, Yi Geuk Gyun, and Yoon Pil Sang, punish them for high treason.
Display their heads to all the public officials,
then display them in all Eight Provinces of Joseon.
Those who had houses, destroy them all and dig wells on their land.
And decapitate the heads of all their siblings!
Jung Chan Song and Shim Hae,
Han Myung Hwe and Jung In Ji, dig up their corpses and decapitate them!
This time, His Majesty has really pulled out by the roots,
those who would have contempt for their superiors.
Are they the ones who dared to disrespect me, and call me an outsider?
You have contributed a lot, Lady.
No, Teacher.
It's all thanks to you, Teacher.
What happens from now is the important part.
I, who have always been so loyal to our nation all my life...
Those who dared to call me an outsider have now disappeared.
Now is the time we must prove our loyalty, isn't it?
About that guy, Mori,
it seems that he has extraordinary strength as well.
Are you afraid that he will become dangerous like Gil Dong?
If you are, I will offer him to you.
You can destroy his body like Gil Dong's.
Is there a need for that?
That Mori, he's just strong.
But he doesn't think nonsense thoughts like Hong Gil Dong, does he?
No, Your Majesty.
He's someone who just eats when given food, and just barks when told to, that's all.
I will take him out of prison
and make him a slave belonging to the Royal Treasury.
I...
wish I could have a bigger hunting ground.
Lord.
I told you to kill Gil Dong, but you let him live?
You dare to disobey His Majesty and deceive me?!?
In the past he allowed me to live once, so I allowed him to live, just this once.
That will never happen again.
This will become His Majesty's hunting grounds.
So everyone, pack up your things quickly and leave.
Leave? And go where?
You!
You cannot do this! You cannot do this!
Have the heavens abandoned us?
Have we really been abandoned?
I...
am a human who does not believe in other humans.
I also believe that all humans are wicked down to their bones.
Therefore, when ruling such humans,
the only thing that works is violence.
As a politician, that is what I believe.
People might say that I lost my mother when I was young
and received no affection, and that is why I am like this.
Sure.
My mother is pitiful, I agree.
But...
that's not the only reason.
It's because I realized long ago that
violence is required when ruling over humans.
So those who blabber that the likes of Confucius
and Mencius from thousands of years ago
should guide our nation, those scholars seemed ridiculous to me.
So watch me, how I rule this nation.
Gil Dong has woken? This is really true?
I heard that very clearly.
Thank you. Thank you!
- We are saved. - Yes, it's all going to be fine now.
Hey, didn't I tell you? I said Gil Dong would wake up.
It will be fine now.
You know, I heard that Hong Gil Dong, that person, he has woken.
He has woken?
He was locked in a solitary cell without a single sip
of water, and everyone was just waiting for him to die.
But somehow, he didn't die and woke up.
Maybe he really is the surviving Mighty Child?
Please eat, Your Majesty.
He woke up?
Chief Inspector Park was right. Rather than kill him,
seeing him in that ruined state is indeed better.
Yes, Your Majesty, that is so true.
I was going to trap a tiger or a bear in this cage and hunt it.
But instead of a tiger, I can just hunt him.
Gonghwa?
There is no Gonghwa anymore.
When that man left,
Gonghwa died.
I heard that His Majesty adores a lady student
named Nok Soo and enjoys giving her gifts.
I think she will like this.
You've become the king's woman?
Thank goodness you have at least held onto your life.
The king is furious now, so it is difficult, but sometime in the future,
if you will only endure,
I will help you leave this place.
Someone is coming.
From this point on,
we do not know each other.
Oh, right.
I should show Gil Dong to his fellow Hong thieves.
Yes, Your Majesty, we will do so.
Yes, we better do that.
Why are you laughing?
When they said Gil Dong woke up, that was true, right?
Were you deceived all your life? How many times did we tell you?
But why won't he come to see us?
He will come soon. Just wait a little bit.
We will be leaving here soon, so let's all be prepared.
Yes, yes. When we leave, let's all have a refreshing drink together.
Oh, be quiet.
His Majesty ordered him to perform hard labor, as well.
Hey, someone new is coming.
- Aigoo. - Hey, why is he so hurt?
What are you doing?
Go and move the stone piles!
Hey, isn't that Gil Dong?
Hurry and move!
No, I don't think that is Gil Dong.
Oh, that's not Gil Dong. Our Gil Dong would not...
It is Gil Dong!
Gil Dong!
Gil Dong, why is he like that?
Big Boss!
Gil Dong.
Monk.
Big Boss, please get up.
Hurry. Hurry and get up!
- Gil Dong! - Don't touch him.
Don't lay a hand on our Big Boss's body!
Big Boss!
Gil Dong!
Get up please, Big Boss!
Big Boss!
Gil Dong was joking, wasn't he?
Gil Dong, more than anything else, can't stand to see his people get hurt.
But he couldn't do anything.
We were being beaten so much,
but he couldn't do anything!
Don't say such things.
Our Gil Dong, he will get up again.
Gil Dong will get up again!
Wasn't he just joking?
Gil Dong was just joking, wasn't he?
He was just joking, right?
How can a dog be loose in the morning assembly?
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Someone once appealed about a pig being let loose in the garden.
A vassal should pretend not to hear, when he heard something;
and pretend to not see, when he sees something.
But how can he step forward and complain
about this and that, in that way?
Their disloyalty is severe, so please interrogate them.
- Please interrogate them! - Please interrogate them.
Father!
Have the heavens abandoned us?
[This person bothered the king by protesting
[against the wild boar in the rear garden.]
Father!
We don't have enough lady students in the Bureau of Music,
so the king's dignity cannot be expressed. So please
summon ladies who possess both brains and beauty.
Make them the sounds of Joseon, and call them "Heung
Cheong." (THE NAME OF YEONSANGUN'S COURT LADIES)
- We accept your command. - We accept your command.
You're entering the palace?
How can one enter the palace?
The king is summoning ladies who sing and dance well.
So if you have talent, you can go, too.
I heard that the king cut the tendons of Hong Gil
Dong's arms and legs, and broke his every bone,
and wouldn't give him a sip of water until he dried up to death.
Husband...
I am going to meet the king.
If the king really killed you, my husband,
I will
avenge your death, my husband.
Is this all?
We summoned all the courtesans of all eight states of Joseon,
but there aren't enough...
That won't do.
Noblemen or courtesans, they are all slaves of His Majesty.
Why can only courtesans become "Heung Cheong?"
Yes. Nok Soo is correct.
Indeed, you are my Nok Soo.
Instead of blocking His Majesty, you will encourage him?
Maidens from noble families becoming part of "Heung
Cheong?" How will you deal with that fallout?
After serving His Majesty for so long, you still don't know him?
Of course, you wouldn't know.
You ignored his dark depths
and only saw him the way you wanted to.
His Majesty, for even someone who's been loyal to the Royal Court for decades,
cast him out in one blow, because he spilled liquor on His Majesty's clothes.
Can you be assured that that won't happen, to you or me?
We have to survive. With even a slight error,
you or I,
we could be killed by His Majesty.
I have to survive.
Only then
can I save him.
His Majesty, to celebrate our Golden Age,
he will plan a big theatrical performance.
That is where we will show all that we've been preparing,
so there must not be even a small mistake.
- Yes. - Yes.
This is it! This is
the true theater of the king!
You are the true voices of Joseon!
Your Majesty, it is the true Golden Age, the first in a hundred years!
- It is the Golden Age! - It is the Golden Age!
Who did this? Who in the world did this??!!
I don't know. I left my post for just a moment and the royal robe...
Who the heck would do this?
Who dares to put his hands on the king's royal robe?
Drag him to prison.
Your Majesty, please, anything but prison...
Come here!
Your Majesty...
The pedestal broke!
Your Majesty!
- Your Majesty! - Your Majesty!
Who did this?
Who the hell did this?!!
Your Majesty, please start praying for luck.
That you may not wear a royal robe that is poisoned.
That you won't get hurt riding a broken carriage.
That you won't be betrayed by statesmen who are the closest to you.
More than anything,
please pray that a single hair of yours will be seen
by any of Big Boss' people.
Because I killed so many vassals lately,
the heavens aren't trying to punish me, are they?
Those mere heavens,
are you afraid of them?
Your Majesty, you are the son of the heavens.
Why would you fear anything?
That is right.
I have been descended from the heavens.
The people say that the Mighty Child was descended from the heavens,
but I am the real descendant of the heavens.
I cannot be compared to people like Hong Gil Dong.
About Hong Gil Dong...
Yes, Your Majesty.
Bring him to the hunting grounds tomorrow.
It's been a while. Let's play with a beast again.
Nok Soo and the other lady students,
I want to show them when I catch him.
Nok Soo, today I will show you how I catch Hong Gil Dong.
All right, run away.
Hurry.
I'm scared.
The more I see the king, the more scared I am.
Don't cry.
Recently, in the middle of the night, he took the Heung
Cheong ladies and wandered around forbidden areas.
Is that all?
He asked to know which of the Heung Cheong had paramours
on the outside, and which of them had children.
Why would he have said that?
- He wanted to know which of the Heung Cheongs had children? - Yes.
I don't know what he is thinking.
I am scared.
I am scared of the king.
I told you not to cry.
Because you're crying, I'm tearing up, too.
I am scared of the king, too.
Eori... Eorinie.
Please run away!
Your Majesty! The hunted game is here!
Eorinie.
You were caught already?
Eorinie...
My Eorinie.
Are you crying right now?
Eorinie...
Were you so scared of me?
Goodness, can we really call this a Mighty Child?
All right. Let's not do this.
Let's take you around sight-seeing.
As a lowly thief, you dared to worry about my nation and my people, didn't you?
But do you really think that
such trivial worries can rule this nation?
How a nation must be ruled,
why don't you confirm it with your own eyes?
Come here!
Please spare me!
Father!
You must not do this!
My baby!
Please release my child!
Hyung-nim, I saw Eorinie.
Eorinie
was crying that she was scared of the king.
Hyung-nim, I did a lot of bad things.
I got revenge on Prince Choong Won.
And while selling liquor during prohibition, I defeated many thugs,
and got a lot of blood on my hands.
Using the excuse of helping victims of unfairness,
I broke the legs of many hateful people.
Yes, I lived being very angry.
But Hyung,
why don't I get angry anymore? Why am I just sad?
The tears of those who lost their homes and families
feel like our Eorinie's tears,
like Ga Ryeong's tears,
and like Mr. Soboori's tears.
I always angered very quickly.
But now,
why do I only cry, instead of getting angry?
Hyung,
why is my heart like this now?
Your Majesty, you must be in such a high place
that you cannot see what happens all the way down in the dark bottom.
If you knew, you would have taken care of it, right?
I...
am a human who does not believe in other humans.
I am a politician who believes that violence is the only way.
Since long ago, I realized that humans need to be ruled by violence,
that is all.
My Gil Dong is going to a wide-open place.
A brighter place.
You will become a royal commander and an admiral,
and receive a sword from the king.
Father,
instead of a commander who receives a sword from the king,
if I became someone who struck the sword down on the king,
how would that be?
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