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[Episode 39] I believe we must use
the deadly flowers for the antidote.
However, I cannot figure out how we are supposed to use them.
You must use the root.
You are Dae Mok's son.
This is the flower that killed my daughter.
He will help you make the antidote.
This really is the antidote for the deadly flower.
Now, I understand how the antidote works.
Just keep in mind
the antidote is poison to those who are not taking the deadly flower drug.
Yes, I understand.
But, why are you giving us the antidote?
That is not for you to know.
I have made a deal with the King.
A deal?
The King is out to arrest Elder Dae Mok.
Who makes it possible for us to live and eat well?
It is all thanks to Elder Dae Mok.
Yes, it is all thanks to Dae Mok.
What has the King ever done for us?
- Yes, yes. - That is right!
Do you think that is all?
The King is closing down the Yangsucheong and cutting off our lifeline.
How can he do that?
How are we supposed to live?
How can we repay Elder Dae Mok?
What can we do to keep our jobs?
Tonight, at the eighth hour, we must gather at Gwanghwamun.
We must tell that tyrant who is starving us, that he cannot arrest Dae Mok!
Let us raise our voices!
Let's head for Gwanghwamun!
Let's go!
We have a problem, Your Majesty.
Yangsucheong's water carriers are gathering at Gwanghwamun.
For what reason?
I am sorry to tell you this.
They say it us unfair to arrest Dae Mok.
They say the King is harming them.
The water carriers are regular people.
Why would they be taking Dae Mok's side?
Dae Mok informed them that you would be shutting down Yangsucheong.
He started a rumor that they would all starve to death.
If you arrest me, then your people will turn on you.
Your Majesty, you must suppress them at once.
We cannot use force on them.
They are innocent people caught up in Dae Mok's plans.
But, Your Majesty.
You cannot just leave them be.
If more people join them and the size of the crowd grows
it will become a riot.
Once Yangsucheong is gone
it is obvious that the water carrier's livelihood will be in danger.
Even if Dae Mok instigated them
I cannot say I do not understand them.
Your Majesty.
They say the Yangsucheong water carriers are at Gwanghwamun.
I have spots all over my body.
What will we do if the King cannot make the antidote?
We will all die.
Just as you ordered, Elder...
I delivered your message to all the Pyeonsoo-hwe members with the King.
If he cannot make the antidote
they will come running to me and beg for their lives.
Then the rioting people will turn the palace into ashes.
If they kill the King...
we will seat a new and suitable King.
Then it will be the Pyeonsoo-hwe's world again.
This is it.
This is the antidote.
We have done it. We did it!
We have finally made the antidote.
We must tell the King right away.
Tell the people the truth.
Mobilize the pack carriers.
Tell the people about the Pyeonsoo-hwe's oppression and tyranny.
Hire the water carriers for the task of building castle walls across the nation.
Convince them by promising them a livelihood.
Yes, Your Majesty.
I will do my very best.
Your Majesty, it is the Prime Minister.
Let him enter.
Your Majesty!
We finally have the antidote.
Is... is that true?
Yes, Your Majesty.
Hurry and gather all those who have been drugged by the deadly flower.
Give them the antidote.
I will do as you command.
We will not take it.
You say Dae Mok's son taught you how to make it?
Dae Mok is using this as a weapon to kill all of us.
I will not take it.
I studied the formula to understand it. I made it myself.
You can trust me.
I cannot trust you.
I will not take it.
Neither will I!
Nor will I!
- We will not either. - Nor will I!
They will not take the antidote?
Half of their bodies are already covered in spots.
They will not take the antidote.
Instead, they are demanding to be sent to Dae Mok.
If one person would step forward, they could prove that the antidote works.
No one will step forward. They are all too afraid.
No matter what we do, we need to show them it is safe.
Your Majesty, it is your eunuch.
I have something urgent to tell you.
What is it?
All the ministers have come and they are causing a scene.
That is enough.
You cannot behave this way!
Move now!
I must see the King.
I need to see him now.
Your Majesty!
Your Majesty! Your Majesty!
What is going on here?
Forgive us, Your Majesty.
We just cannot trust the antidote.
To think that it was Dae Mok's son who taught you how to make it...
Dae Mok must be planning to kill us all at once.
It is a weapon.
Your Majesty.
We cannot sit and wait to die.
Please let us go to Dae Mok.
Even if we must bow down at Dae Mok's feet...
we must save our lives first.
I'm begging you, Your Majesty.
We're begging you, Your Majesty.
Listen up, all of you!
His Majesty has been trying to save all of you...
That is enough.
All right.
You may all go to Dae Mok.
Are you really allowing us to go?
I became King in order to save all of you.
However...
you do not trust me and want to find another way to live.
I will not stand in the way of that.
You useless, ignorant fools!
You do not trust an antidote that was already made for you.
You want to go to Dae Mok instead?
Even if you go to him and beg
do you think Dae Mok will save you?
You need to trust the King!
Please stop!
You said you do not trust this antidote?
I will make you trust it.
As you all know, this is a deadly flower pill.
Ga... Ga Eun.
Ga Eun!
Move, move!
Ga Eun, Ga Eun.
I took two deadly flower pills in order for it to take effect quickly.
Now, if I take this antidote and live...
it is a true antidote.
You can all trust it and take it.
Please wake up.
Ga Eun!
You see? Dae Mok's son would not give us the real antidote.
This will not do.
Everyone, let us go to Dae Mok!
- Let's go! - Let's go!
Let's go to Elder Dae Mok.
Your Majesty.
Thankfully, she still has a pulse.
Your Majesty! Your Majesty!
The Minister of Defense took everyone who was locked in the Euigeumbu prison.
They are leaving the palace.
Your Majesty.
If they all end up with Dae Mok, you will have a large rebellion.
You need to stop them now.
Your Majesty.
Are you going to let them become traitors?
If Dae Mok saves their lives...
that is good enough for me.
Your Majesty.
Elder, they are here.
Mister Jang.
Get ready to receive guests.
Yes, Elder.
Was the King unable to save you all?
But, what am I to do?
I cannot save you all either.
Why don't we do this?
The very first person to bow down and beg me...
I will give you the antidote.
Elder, they ought to have spots all over their bodies.
I do not see any signs of them.
- Elder! - His Majesty, the King, is entering!
Everyone, stop!
Look.
Look at that.
Dae Mok!
We have made the antidote to the deadly flower pill.
You will never again...
use the deadly flower to threaten the world.
Then I will find another way.
The Pyeonsoo-hwe have existed for 1,000 years.
A tree with deep roots does not sway when the wind blows.
The Pyeonsoo-hwe will not be destroyed by these gentle winds.
Gentle winds can become a typhoon.
The Pyeonsoo-hwe will be pulled out by the roots by that typhoon.
You will see that happen today.
Are you here to have a final battle with me today?
No, I will be granted a bloodless entry.
The Pyeonsoo-hwe have committed high treason.
They killed the King in the palace.
They took from the people who toiled in the streets.
They took innocent people...
and sentenced them to death.
Now we will punish the Pyeonsoo-hwe on behalf of the heavens and the people.
Everyone, put down your weapons and surrender.
Whoever acknowledges their crimes and surrenders will be given leniency.
Those who do not...
will get no mercy.
You will have one hour.
Those who surrender within that time will be spared their lives.
There is one hour left!
The King has mobilized the pack carriers to calm the citizens.
He promised the water carriers new jobs.
All the water carriers at Gwanghwamun have dispersed.
There are 45 minutes left!
Why, you little...
Let's go!
There are 30 minutes left!
Elder.
We have only our elite troop left.
They have all surrendered to the King.
You must escape.
The King will be here soon to arrest you.
Elder!
One hour is up!
We will arrest Dae Mok and the remaining Pyeonsoo-hwe members.
Follow me!
I should have killed you before.
I will regret it for 1,000 years.
This will be a meaningless death.
Put down your weapons.
Meaningless? I am Jo Tae Ho!
I lived like a human being all this time because of Elder Dae Mok.
So, I will die like a human being while protecting Elder Dae Mok.
Let's go!
Everyone, put away your swords!
Stop!
Elder Dae Mok is waiting for you.
Dae Mok.
Surrender now.
Then I will spare your life.
You... will spare my life?
It is not that I want to spare you.
I am trying to keep my word.
I will tell you how to make the antidote.
However, I have a condition.
What is it that you want?
My father...
Please allow Dae Mok to live.
Dae Mok, your son asked me to allow you to live.
You have put me through much hardship and pain.
I cannot forgive you.
But you...
made me who I am today.
You sent me to lowly place and I was able to understand the people.
I realized being Prince does not mean you will be King.
I became a King who is with the people.
Are you...
trying to thank me?
No.
I am trying to apologize.
This nation...
The ruler...
They pushed you into a desperate, bottomless pit.
In order to survive in that hellish world...
you said you had no choice, but to become a monster.
To you...
I apologize.
An apology? All right.
What will you do now?
When your people fall into a desperate, bottomless pit and are lost?
Are you going to talk about Confucius and Mencius?
Or will you tell them to give up?
I will jump into that bottomless pit and lend them my shoulders.
They can step on my shoulders and climb out.
I will never let my people...
live in a world where they need to become a monster like you.
If I had met a ruler like you...
a bit earlier in my life.
Water should flow from top to bottom in this world.
I tried to make it go up.
But, it came back down.
Trying to go upstream in the world...
I do not regret that.
Even from the afterlife...
I will be watching to see how you change Joseon.
I will be watching closely.
You do that.
Dae Mok.
His Majesty is taking longer than we thought.
Yes, he is.
You do not think he could not capture Dae Mok, do you?
His Majesty, the King, is entering!
Dae Mok and the chief of Yangsucheong are dead.
The rest have surrendered.
Your Majesty.
- Congratulations. - Congratulations.
Congratulations, Your Majesty.
I think it is time for us to leave work.
What are you looking at?
Look away.
Your Majesty.
Do you know how worried I was?
I am all right.
I do not know what to do with you.
Should I be angry or say you did well?
You saved many lives today.
Now, we must save our friend's life.
Let us go to Lee Seon together.
Yes, I will get the antidote, Your Majesty.
The King is waiting, so follow me.
Lee Seon, take this.
It is the antidote.
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[Final Episode] Take it. It is the antidote.
If you cannot trust me, trust Ga Eun.
Take it.
If Young Miss Ga Eun is giving it to me...
even if it is poison...
I do not care.
When I asked you to fill in for me
I had no idea how dangerous it would be.
I am truly sorry.
I...
tried to steal your throne.
Do not ask me for forgiveness.
I will not ask you for your forgiveness, Your Majesty.
As long as you are alive...
we will resolve our misunderstanding someday.
Fate put our friendship to the test.
You will always be...
the very first friend that I ever made.
Lee Seon.
Can we go back?
Can we be how we were before?
Like family and friends?
Can't we be together?
Lee Seon.
How can you put spilt water back in its cup?
How can you put a fallen flower petal back on its stem?
No matter how you try...
that is something we just can't get back.
You may worry about me, Young Miss.
But, I worry about you.
Please, stay safe.
I pray for that, Young Miss.
He will be back someday.
Stay with me.
We will wait for the day when Lee Seon returns.
Are you saying you released the fake King?
It is my fault that he was where he was.
I feel responsible for him.
Your Majesty.
Because of your affection, will you let him live when he ought to die?
It is not just because of my affection.
Whatever the reason was, he was a person who sat on the throne.
It has always been customary not to kill a deposed ruler carelessly.
Your Majesty.
You may punish him however you see fit.
However, I must speak up on other matters.
I have heard that the woman who was to be his Queen is still in the palace.
How can the woman chosen to be his Queen become your Queen?
The people will object to this and obviously the scholars will, as well.
Please cut off these relationships.
Become a good and wise King.
The Crown Prince gave me the real antidote.
I have heard that only the Pyeonsoo-hwe's Dae Mok knows how to make the antidote.
How could this pack carrier boss get this?
Can you truly trust him?
I started to suspect the Crown Prince
because of the antidote that Hyun Seok gave me.
Could Hyun Seok possibly be...
Hyun Seok said I saved his life.
One of the people that you saved from being killed was my father.
Thank you for saving my father's life, Your Majesty.
The only person left to get revenge for Elder Dae Mok
is you now.
Should I assassinate the King?
No, that is not what Elder Dae Mok would do.
He would have a different target.
A different target that can hit them with one strike.
For the late King, it was the Crown Prince.
For the King, it is...
I do not want to.
You have a guest.
Are you going to be so petty and not offer a mere chicken?
Your Majesty.
I fear that this letter may cause you some inner turmoil.
So, I have picked up my ink brush and put it down several times.
You are now the King of Joseon and you have taken on an important duty.
I am girl with many faults and I worry I will get in your way.
I am afraid of that.
Please allow me live a normal life in the town.
You will open up an era of peace.
Allow me to watch over that with the people.
Young Miss Ga Eun left that letter in her residence.
She has left the palace.
Who has worked harder than Ga Eun for this day to come?
Isn't that right, Your Majesty?
As a ruler, I am lacking...
in qualifications.
I may have helped save many of your lives.
However, it was due to the sacrifice of one woman.
That was what made it possible.
Your Majesty, what are you trying to say?
To a person who sacrificed like that, now that the world has changed
I must pretend not to know her?
Just days ago, you were all begging for your lives.
She put her life on the line for all of you and now you will forget her?
Is that the law of this nation?
Your Majesty.
A ruler must often close his eyes to mere affection and emotions.
Your Majesty, please try to understand our intent.
Very well.
If that is how you all feel...
there is no other choice.
Your Majesty, you are very benevolent...
It was not because I was the legitimate heir.
It was in order to save the people from the Pyeonsoo-hwe.
That is why I became King.
I have done everything I need to.
Please find someone wiser and with more virtue than me.
Seat him in this throne.
Your Majesty, do you see this?
The people are laughing.
You must exist for all the people of this nation.
I was right to leave for your sake, wasn't I?
That is nonsense.
Ga Eun.
Look at me.
Ga Eun, I said look at me.
Ever since I was Chun Soo, the bookseller...
your feelings for me did not change.
Even when I was the boss of pack carriers and an Officer in the palace...
You never changed.
But, now that I am King, why can't you be with me?
Your Majesty.
I was selected to be Queen for the former, deposed King.
If I become the Queen...
it will bring trouble to your reign.
Do you want to know what is truly troublesome to the people?
It is if I lose you.
When Dae Mok kidnapped you, everyone told me...
to think of the people and protect my own life.
However, if I had abandoned you in order to save myself
I would not have been the same person.
The person who was willing to face the Pyeonsoo-hwe and fight them.
He would have disappeared.
Ga Eun, being King...
it is a position that can create a monster like Dae Mok at any time.
You need to make sure I do not end like that.
Can you not stay by my side and watch over me?
For my sake, as well as...
for the people of this nation.
The moon has waited a long time.
Like the moon and sun that have finally found each other.
I want...
to be with you forever.
As deep and wide as my soul can reach...
I love you.
One day...
even if the heavens summon me...
and I die...
I will still love you.
This heart will not ever change.
Will you please be with me?
Become my Queen and the mother of this nation.
Join me.
And protect them with me.
I will.
I will be your Queen forever.
I will be with you, Your Majesty.
It is the King!
Your Majesty!
Long live the King!
Your Majesty! Your Majesty!
Long live the King! Long live the King!
You really do not have a son named Hyun Seok?
Is that really true?
Oh my. How many times must I tell you?
That is what I said.
Come back with me now.
Your Majesty.
You need to give me time to say my goodbyes.
Auntie, Wiggly, and the market people. I have to say goodbye to them.
All right.
Then I will send a palanquin in an hour.
Come back in that.
Yes, Your Majesty.
Professor! Professor!
Lee Seon.
Professor, my guard, Hyun Seok, is a spy for Dae Mok.
Is that true?
Hyun Seok is not with the King, is he?
The King is in danger if he is.
He is not with the King right now.
What... what is it?
Where is Hyun Seok right now?
Get into the palanquin, Young Miss.
Everything is going back to its proper place.
Lee Seon will be back soon.
Sis, you need to be happy.
She's the Queen now.
Long live the Queen! Long live the Queen!
Your Majesty! Your Majesty!
Stop!
Put the palanquin down.
Is there something wrong?
Open the palanquin door.
What is going on?
I do not want anything from you.
In order to hurt the King... You are his greatest weakness.
That is the only reason why.
Do not resent me.
Stop!
Lee Seon!
You cannot lay one finger on Young Miss Ga Eun.
You are someone I once served.
I do not want to kill you, so step aside.
Shut your mouth.
Lee Seon!
Young Miss...
Run... away.
Oh no!
Ga Eun!
Your Majesty!
Please wake up.
Lee Seon!
Do not cry, Young Miss.
Lee Seon.
I always caused you pain.
I am so sorry.
No, Young Miss.
Thanks to you...
I had a name.
I was able to have a dream.
I was happy.
Lee Seon.
Your Majesty.
I resented you.
Please forgive me for that.
No, there is no need.
Everything is all right.
Do not make us send you off like this.
Your Majesty.
You were a good friend to me.
You were my very first...
and last friend.
Please...
be happy with Young Miss Ga Eun.
Become a true ruler of this nation.
I'm begging you.
Lee Seon...
Lee Seon... Lee Seon.
Lee Seon. Lee Seon!
No! Lee Seon!
Lee Seon!
- Lee Seon! - Lee Seon!
[One Year Later] What is a true ruler?
I will spend my whole life asking myself that question.
In the end, my search for that answer
will never really stop.
That is the least I can do for the people who sacrificed for me.
It is the only thing...
I can do to repay them.
I will be with you forever...
while you try to answer that, Your Majesty.
Han Ga Eun, you are appointed Queen of Joseon.
You will become the mother of the people of this nation.
Please spend your life with me.
Your Majesty.
Your Majesty, the Queen.
Congratulations.
Long may you reign! Long may you reign!
Long may you reign!
Elder, I will make Ga Eun happy.
Please watch over us.
Your Majesty.
Become a great King who is loved by all the people of the nation.
I will always be thankful and sorry.
How can I ever repay my debt to you, Head Merchant Hwa Goon?
Be happy.
If you are happy, Your Majesty...
that is more than enough for me.
Lee Seon.
You will be my friend forever.
Your Majesty, become a true ruler of this nation.
Long may you reign! Long may you reign!
Long may you reign!
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