Subtitle: DramaFever
[Episode 19]
Please help me protect the people I love.
The princess will end up going to the Qing Dynasty.
The Crown Prince's official appointment depends on this marriage.
Princess.
What did you wish for?
What did you wish for, Your Highness?
It is a secret.
I could make it come true, couldn't I?
I could make it come true.
Please tell me.
Then may I tell you my wish first?
My wish is to spend my lifetime with you, Princess.
Please interpret my words.
What is it?
- Young Master Gyeon? - Gyeon Woo?
I cannot interpret that.
Those words...
I cannot interpret them for you.
You are right.
I should say these words to the princess myself.
Princess.
I will keep my wish a secret for the time being.
Please go on and rest.
Please rest, Your Highness.
Shall we have a drink?
I would like to hold a banquet.
I will instruct the others to prepare.
I plan on proposing to Princess Hyemyeong at the banquet.
I will need your help.
I want to say it to her in the Joseon language.
I cannot interpret that.
Jung Da Yeon.
Are you that great?
You shouldn't play with someone's feelings like that.
Going back and forth like that...
Gyeon Woo?
You annoying rascal.
Don't start anything with me.
Go home if you are drunk.
Where are you going?
Where do you think you are going?
Ouch! Oh, that hurts.
I told you not to start anything.
Do you think I am going to give up?
I cannot give up!
I'll do whatever it takes.
I won't ever let her go to you.
Young Master Gyeon.
What am I to do?
"The last day of the month at 11:00 p.m. in the evening."
"If you go to the Bonggukam"
"you will find Min Yoo Hwan's killer there."
Look into it quietly.
If this tip is true...
something will happen before the last day of the month.
Yes, I understand.
He would like to have a banquet?
He has an important announcement to make that day.
He would like to invite all the people here.
Make sure the Imperial Prince is not lacking anything for the banquet.
Help him with everything.
Yes, Your Majesty.
A sudden banquet?
I have a strange feeling.
Oh right! He's going to propose to you, Your Highness.
That... that...
couldn't be it... not at all.
Please let me know if you need anything at all.
It will be a special day for you and the princess.
It should be a great day.
He says to let him know if you need anything.
It is to be a special day for you and the princess.
It should be a great day for you.
This is a day for the princess. I want everything to satisfy her.
Since this is a day for the princess, he'd like everything done to satisfy her.
We should do everything to suit her tastes.
We will discuss things with the envoy.
He will do as you wish.
Then please do a good job.
He asks you all to do a good job.
Come, let us go together, my lord.
Yes.
Your envoy looks to be very close to the ministers.
He has been an envoy to Joseon for many years now.
It is ready.
I see.
What is this?
Open it, Prince Wonja.
Do you like it?
Things that are far away can be seen like they are near.
You already showed this to me, Master.
I am not interested.
Are you very disappointed your sister is going to the Qing Dynasty?
My mother who passed away was also from Joseon.
The Imperial Prince's mother was also from Joseon.
My mother missed Joseon very much.
I suppose that was why she spoke of it very often to me.
That does mean she was unhappy in the Qing Dynasty.
My father loved her very much, so she was glad she had come.
I will be a husband like that to Princess Hyemyeong.
I will love her, care for her
and I will always make her happy.
Even if we get married, we will visit Joseon often.
I would not keep you from seeing your sister.
So, please stop being angry.
They will leave right after the banquet.
I do not know what I should send as a dowry.
Now that it is time to send her off, there is so much to prepare.
It seems there is so much for you to worry about, Queen.
It is my job as her mother.
- However, Queen... - Yes, Your Majesty.
Why is it that you look happy?
Others would think you were dying to send the princess away.
Why would I be?
My heart feels as if it is being torn apart with sadness.
I don't want my daughter to lack anything in her marriage--
That is quite enough, Queen.
- Pardon me? - If you are so sad
you shouldn't create useless misunderstandings.
My apologies.
That old raccoon.
You should have been more careful until the princess left.
Nothing good will come of looking bad in front of the Dowager Queen.
For how long...
For how long must I be looking over my shoulder at that old lady?
Hold it in for just a little longer, Your Majesty.
All right, the princess...
Get rid of her first.
We will take this step by step.
That is so pretty.
Have you heard the news?
The Imperial Prince is throwing a banquet.
The princess will be going to the Qing Dynasty soon.
I heard that Young Master Gyeon Woo is in charge of the Imperial Prince's stay.
What about it?
It must be tearing his heart apart.
He has to send his girlfriend off to get married.
Girlfriend?
How many times must I tell you my brother and the princess aren't like that?
If you continue to say such baseless things--
It is not baseless.
We all saw it.
Saw what?
The two of them were very cozy going into the bookstore before.
You saw wrong!
No, I saw it too.
Yes, we saw it too.
Me too.
Hyo Jin.
Your father is at the Hansungbu lately, is he not?
Why do you ask?
Just because.
I head there is a position available in Tamra.
Sun Kyung and Bo Young.
Where are your fathers?
I...
have found someone I want to marry.
Since this is a day for the princess...
What's wrong with him?
Is it because of the Imperial Prince?
- It's because of the princess. - That's the same thing.
Hey, let's go have a drink or go to a gisaeng bar.
Oh, come on!
Do you think I'm doing this for me?
I'm doing it to make him feel better.
Forget everything.
Half this world is made up of women.
It's a state marriage.
It is not something you can do anything about.
You startled me.
Brother, what took you so long to come home?
Why? Is something going on?
The Minister of the Left invited you to his house.
Minister of the Left?
Do not get your hopes up.
I am only agreeing to meet him.
Have you arrived?
Please come in. He is waiting.
Young Master Gyeon?
How is the work going?
Is it not difficult?
No.
I got a good opportunity, thanks to you.
I am grateful to you for that.
The fate of our nation rests on this marriage, so please work hard.
However, I am curious about something and would like to ask you.
Who was it from the Qing Dynasty that requested marriage to the princess?
Why would you ask that?
It is mere curiosity.
Curiosity, you say?
I apologize if I was rude.
I wish I could give an answer, but I do not know.
Ah, we've gotten off topic.
The reason I've invited you today is
I want to assign you a larger government post once you are done with this job.
What do you mean by that?
Your future path will be laid out for you by me.
I learned one should "live right and walk right."
Thank you for your offer, but I will decline.
You truly are the son of the Minister of Education.
If you are done, I will get going.
Is this setting uncomfortable for you?
People say among themselves...
above the King sits the Minister of the Left.
I dismissed it as a disrespectful lie.
Now, you offer to lay out my future.
It seems you believe those words are true more than anyone else, Minister.
It is a bit uncomfortable.
Young Master.
I was on my way to serve you lotus leaf tea.
Why are you leaving already?
I will see you next time.
Father.
Yes.
I can see why you want him.
However, a fish from fresh waters has more bones.
I will have to watch over him some more to see if he can be by your side.
Gyeon Woo, what did the minister say?
Did he support your relationship with Da Yeon?
I won't tell your father a thing, so just tell me, all right?
Yes, Brother. I am dying of curiosity.
It was nothing.
Yes, so just tell us.
Why would the Minister of the Left invite you for no reason this late?
Please tell us.
Did he bring up marriage?
Mother.
Oh my.
What are you asking him to tell?
Oh no. It's nothing.
Yes, Father. It's absolutely nothing.
Isn't that right, Brother?
I will head in now.
Oh... nothing.
Young Master Gyeon and Minister of the Left?
Yes, Your Highness.
He recommended him to be in charge of the Imperial Prince's stay.
Young Master Gyeon is being very strange.
He couldn't be on their side now, could he?
Honestly, that is how it seems.
It's not the first time a scholar would betray one for power.
They go back and forth.
You'll put a hole in my arm. Why don't you hit me harder?
Look into the minister's house some more.
Yes, Your Highness.
Sister.
Wonja.
What are you doing here so late?
I came because I missed you.
The Imperial Prince's mother was from Joseon.
Did you know that?
From Joseon?
He wants a spouse who is like his mother who passed away.
That is why he wanted to marry a woman from Joseon.
How did you find that out?
He told me himself.
Now that I've seen him more, he does not seem like a bad person.
Yes, he is a good person.
So... do not worry about your sister any longer.
Still, I like Master Gyeon better.
Sister, can't you marry Master Gyeon?
I want you to marry him.
Then you won't need to go far away to the Qing Dynasty and...
Wonja.
All right.
I think I would have regretted it if I had turned down the invitation.
I had heard the marriage offer came from the Qing Dynasty.
He has been an envoy to Joseon for many years now.
Don't go.
Are you awake, Brother?
Son.
Gyeon Woo!
Gyeon Woo.
Son, are you all right?
Yes, I'm fine.
He looks like he has no spirit.
Maybe we need to perform an exorcism.
I do not think your herbal medicines have any effect.
Brother, you have been having strange dreams, haven't you?
What do you mean?
Stop saying that nonsense.
Oh, look at this sweat.
Do not worry.
What are we to do?
Something is wrong with Gyeon Woo.
He is having nightmares.
Just like back then.
Subtitle: DramaFever