Who is it!?
But isn't the Crown Prince under house arrest?
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Crown Prince…
It's unfamiliar, indeed. You calling me that.
That looks like Rin's clothing.
Well… he gave it to me earlier to escape.
I heard Rin found out early on…about who you were.
Yes.
When did you know?
About who I am.
Before, on the day you came to our home for wedding gifts.
I am going to have to stop this marriage promise.
So the woman with a veil on that day was…
It was me.
And the woman my royal father summoned, together with Wang Jeon, as well?
Yes.
So you've seen it all.
Including my kneeling and getting humiliated. All of it.
Yes.
Then you came to me again.
You came and gave me a necklace in lieu of the broken bracelet.
And you put ice on my injury.
Was I that pitiful to you?
Then you came again to make a plea.
To not make you the Crown Princess.
I apologize.
You apologize?
It's weird to hear you speak like that after all.
I came here before, when Rin was locked up.
We sat here side by side and talked about you.
Come here, next to me.
What?
It doesn't seem like I should.
Because I'm the Crown Prince?
Or because I am to be another woman's man?
Why is it?
Why did you ask me not to choose you?
Because there's someone else in your heart?
Because I came to know
that Lady Dan has to become the crown prince's royal consort if Young Master Rin were allowed to stay.
While you get dragged away as a tribute woman?
That's well... once I get there...
Do you know what happens if you go!?
At best, you'd be the 5th or 6th concubine of some elderly Yuan official.
Are you really going to do that? Can you really do that?
- That… - I can't let that happen.
I am worried about my father.
If you come to hear any news of him...
I am looking into it now.
May I ask you to look after my father?
I'll take care of it.
Young Master Rin fought with His Majesty's troops because of me, and so-
I'll take care of it.
And?
Was there any request for Han Cheon?
If you happen to meet him...
please tell him that So Ah is very grateful to him.
Unknown to me,
for always fighting hard for my sake,
that I found out belatedly.
For always protecting me from behind.
That I understand that now.
And also...
may he be devoted to his parents and be cherished by them.
May he live in peace and health for a long long time. Tell him that, please.
I won't relay it.
Your Highness!
You should just think of one thing.
Ways you can go back to the girl you were before.
Come back to the child I knew and tell him yourself.
I'll take care of the rest.
- Where's the Crown Prince? - He left just now.
- Where to? - Over there.
- What about Minister Eun? - He was not taken by palace troops or prison guards.
Someone saw him getting dragged into a private mansion.
He's a merchant so he recognized Minister Eun.
- And the location? - That's what's interesting.
It was the house right behind Chuwol House.
Although the door of the two houses are located apart,
in reality it's one house made up for two attached back to back.
- Find out who owns the house. - Yes.
- Though I can guess who. - I will verify it.
So he was not arrested officially by the government.
But he was dragged to a private house.
So you were too confident there.
Your Highness!
Did Wonseong Palace make a move?
Just now, the Queen headed towards His Majesty's chamber.
She was very determined and no one could stop her.
Her Majesty the Queen arrives.
You are getting more severe as you age.
That unreasonableness. What exactly is the crime?
Since you are busy in this night time, I will get to the point.
What are you all doing outside?
The one inside has no thought of showing respect when the Queen is here?
I-if you had notified ahead of time, I would have waited.
With some wine and snacks or something.
It's not something worth giving advance notice.
So it's not important, and yet you barge in at this time of night?
I'm going to host a farewell banquet for the retuning Yuan envoy party.
You do whatever you want.
I need a few people to help me with preparations.
When did you ever ask for my permission on these things?
Then I'll just go ahead with my plans.
Do whatever you want, I told you already!
His Majesty the King is always concerned for your health and well being, Your Highness.
Although it's not something to boast about, I am skilled in the medicinal arts.
If you would allow me to take your pulse-
And if you find that I'm not well,
will you prepare some medicine for me?
I will put together all my knowledge and care and-
My child.
Yes, your Highness.
You're not being patient.
If you plan on playing with the medicine here and there…
How could I dare!
Become his majesty's royal concubine or something first.
Only then can I let you come near my wrist, you understand?
I know that feeling well.
Yes?
Even if you want to give them your heart, staying beside someone who does not wish to take it,
day after day,
until your heart begins to dry out bit by bit.
I've been watching it my whole life.
Which side suffers more?
To have her beside me,
and kill my heart bit by bit,
or is it better not to see her at all?
Hoping she will be forgotten some day.
And hoping.
Are you certain that So Ah is on the list of tribute women?
I confirmed it. And the list is already with the envoy party.
How many days until the party returns?
A day and a half. They return at dawn, the day after tomorrow.
We have no time to lose. We need Teacher Lee.
Have you not found him yet?
I told you! I told you I saw them at that place!
How could you not believe me, Jeez!
I know.
I can pour you a cup.
I don't want that.
I'll do it.
Then what should I do?
- Tut tut. - Does it not taste good?
He came too early. Needlessly intelligent that one.
Yes?
I have a couple of wines I have yet to taste in this tavern.
If I could just taste one sip each?
We only have one day until the envoy party returns.
We need to find the papers for Miniter Eun's assets before then.
We are combing through from border to border.
If Eun San is taken away as a tribute women before we turn back all the assets in Minister Eun's name, things will get complicated.
He dared to fight against the King's own personal guards?
I can assure you
that this child will someday bring our house to the dust.
Just let him go! Let him go as the royal hostage.
He said he wanted to go, so send him far aw-
There are things you should say and shouldn't say!
The Queen herself said that?
Yes.
Wang Rin, under the Queen's commands must guard lady Eun San.
And if anyone were to lay charges against Wang Rin for anything he did while obeying that command,
it is to challenge the Queen's command itself.
So, Master Wang Rin's incident here
is not something you should concern yourself with.
Please tell her that we are eternally grateful for her grace.
I will indeed relay that message to her.
Please see yourself out then.
Rin.
Eunuch Choi worked hard at such a late time of night.
We should show our appreciation.
Lady San is my fiancee, Father.
I will ask for permission from his majesty the King.
To be accurate, you weren't quite engaged yet.
If the Crown Prince hadn't interfered like that, she would have already became my woman!
I'm going to request for her to be my woman by his royal decree.
That I will discipline her well so that she doesn't make mistakes like this again.
Oh and of course, that I will take control of her household's fortune and take care of it as if it were his majesty's.
Wouldn't he like that too?
The King favors me a lot you see.
Do you remember how he called for both me and Lady San?
I said he called for both of us together!
Father!
As I have lived a long life, I lived to see the day lord Susagong is showing his appreciation for me.
I'm so very grateful.
You. Whom are you working for?
Wh-what to you-
You led both me and Lady San to the place where they were all waiting for us.
I thought I was leading you to a safe back door but-
You then locked the door behind us.
I'm being wrongly accused, Master.
I had no choice, Master. I thought that if I showed my face, it may implicate the Queen, so I-
Brother?
You just exited from this house, right?
What kind of clothing is that?
Take one look at him, of course he's a eunuch.
Do you perhaps know if the master's in right now?
Are officers (huan guan) and eunuchs (nae si) two different things?
Yes, they're totally different, you idiot.
About the third master,
we're in a rush to see him and it's already late.
So it's a little awkward to knock on the gates at this hour.
How ate they different?
Well the officers have the…you-know-what and eunuchs…well, don't.
Isn't that right? You don't have it right?
It's too late tonight. Let's come back tomorrow.
I'm sorry to have rubbed salt into your wound there.
- But what was that? - What's what?
Minister Eun's head servant.
What about the head servant.
Oh you know that large chest he was carrying around. What's in it?
I saw.
How did you see inside it?
If they had any gold in it I was going to take some for my hard work, you know?
But all that's in it are pieces of paper.
Did you take a good look though? Are they really all pieces of paper?
They're not gold coated or anything? But he said it was more important to him than his own life!
Ah!
Are you crazy!?
You saw right! Here! Thwack!
You saw someone there right? There was a person there right?
No.
I'm sorry. I eavesdropped outside the room.
What? How much?
That So Ah-
no, that Lady San has been imprisoned now.
That you rescued her and escaped, but were captured again.
Don't you worry about that. His majesty the Prince will figure out a way through all this.
Will the lady be sent as a tribute woman?
I won't let her go.
If… she's being sent instead of me…
Don't have useless thoughts.
When did you find out that So Ah is Lady San?
It's been a while.
You love her don't you? Lady San.
I can tell just by looking at you two.
Emotions aren't something you can't see. How could you have known just by seeing?
What?
Does the Crown Prince love her too? Lady San?
I've seen how he looks at her.
I keep telling myself, "it's okay, it's fine."
"So Ah is of lowly status,
so it's okay for them to stay close."
"It's just like looking at a pretty flower or a cute dog."
Dan.
And if nothing else works, you also love So Ah,
so she'll leave the Prince someday.
If not, then I'll make it so.
I…am this type of person.
You were like this ever since you were young.
Like what?
You would talk on your own, then cry on your own.
Once you cry, you cry all day.
And it exhausts you, that you fall asleep, but cry again when you wake up.
Lady San is the Crown Prince's first, isn't she?
I don't know.
I thought the Crown Prince's first was you.
Me?
- Dan. - Yes?
You will become the Crown Prince's royal consort now.
Nobody else, but you, - whom the Crown Prince chose himself.
If someone like that cries so easily like this,
the Crown Prince may be in a tough spot.
Yes.
Queen's orders.
Wang Rin, here to obey the Queen's orders.
We are in need of extra hands to assist with the farewell banquet for the envoy party.
The Crown Prince must therefore come to the Wonseong Palace immediately.
Master Wang Rin must head to the Wonseong Palace.
From this moment on, the King's order of confinement will extend outside of the Crown Prince's quarters, to Wonseong Palace,
and to the two pathways that connect the two palaces.
I saw So Ah last night.
Didn't you have the order of confinement?
We talked under the moonlight. Something I'm very good at.
Your subordinates will get into trouble because of you.
So they probably didn't report it.
Some of them may follow orders very closely and-
Stop talking about everything else, and ask me what you really want to ask.
Did she look alright?
She wasn't crying, at least.
Then again, she's not someone who would cry in front of someone else.
Although she cries in her sleep, unknown even to herself.
I requested mother that
to follow through with this mission we need three people.
Of course, you're one of the three.
The other, I thought wouldn't come here even if I asked.
So we had to escort him with a lot of effort.
That is called kidnapping, Your Majesty.
You came, Teacher.
Have you been well, Your Highness?
I wish for this man to leave.
I feel we will be discussing some important matters, and he is getting on my nerves.
Sounds good. You have something that strong and steadfast men like you often lack - sensitivity.
While we're at it, why don't we have everyone…?
On their way out, they could make a stop at the royal brewery and-
I heard that they recently acquired the Manyang Wine.
I've only heard of that alcohol by name, you see.
- They say that the moment you uncap the bottle, the fragrance fills the air imme-/ - Teacher.
Oh.
- Your Highness. - Yes.
- What is the extent to what you want? - What?
Do you simply want power, or are we going all in to rebellion here?
Teacher, I, I haven't said anything…
I may not look like I do, but I happen to have students and scholars spread across every province and village of Goryeo.
So in the end, Minister Eun's assets are at the core of this power struggle.
The Crown Prince and Susagong's third son Wang Rin are on one side,
and the other, all of the King's followers.
The followers must have a leader I presume?
There is one potential candidate.
Assistant Royal Secretary Song Bang Yeon's nephew,
- Song In? - You know him?
He had begun to get on my nerves, with every piece of news I heard from the capital.
There is a place you could assume to be his headquarters.
It's a tavern called Chuwol House.
They've begun to make a move.
You were hit by the King I hear?
With his fist? Or a simple, cheek slap?
You indeed have speedy access to information.
It seems so!
How could the happenings of the depth of the palace have spread so quickly?
You don't believe me?
I told you I saw it! With mine own eyes!
Now only me,
but officers, eunuchs, soldiers, whilst all the subordinates were watching
the King struck the Crown Prince
like so.
That cannot be! Things like that should not happen!
The Crown Prince is our Great Emperor's grandson!
He is also the heir to the throne!
How dare a mere Goryeo King lay a hand of him?
- Are you telling the truth? - I'm telling you it's true!
And one of them said that they saw it with his own eyes.
We didn't know that you would try to escape in that direction.
Our original plan was to keep father held up there while you two escaped.
This way.
How dare you lay your hands on her!
Why you little, you-
Do you all wish to die?
Take your hands off her this instant!
- They're acting on my orders. - They're actimg on what I say!
Do you now hear me? I told you to take your hands off!
Why you!
So you were hit on purpose? So that the chief envoy would see you?
There was no time! So Ah would be taken away tomorrow morning.
The pieces are all in place, Teacher. Please help us with the next step.
- We need your knowledge, wisdom, connections, all those things to-/ - I don't want to.
You speak without a moment's hesitation!
I don't want to get in between Your Highness and His Majesty the King.
I don't know which is better.
After all, you don't know me very well.
Power struggles or rebellions,
there will always be pitiful individuals who will be sacrificed for the cause.
And that is why I have brought you here.
How can we reduce the sacrifice of innocent people?
Don't do anything. Nothing.
Then there will be no sacrifices.
I understand.
Then I guess I'll need to walk through this alone.
It seems I have made you come all this way to no avail.
However.
Minister Eun is someone that single handedly supported the Eye of the Dragon School,
and his daughter is my student.
Are you going to help me?
I don't want to help.
I'll give you one of my disciples. I know she will be of good use.
- Rin. - Yes, Your Highness?
They're waiting. Could you escort them in.
Yes.
♬ My heart is pounding ♬
♬ When I am looking at you. ♬
♬ I don't say anything ♬
♬< But gaze at you for a while. ♬<
♫ Beautiful starlight my starlight in starlight ♫
♫ Shining starlight in your heart in your dream ♫
♪ I need you. Come beside me, ♫
I have come to obey your order to help you prepare for the farewell banquet,
Your Highness.
♪ Come closer, I will greet you, my love. ♫
Teacher!
Why do you look like that?
It was my doing. It looks good on you.
I'm grateful, Your Highness.
I hear you have a unique skill.
Oh…not at all!
No way.
I told her everything.
- Why would you? - What!
We only have half a day until the farewell banquet.
We need to find fault in something before then.
If not, So Ah here will be dragged away tomorrow morning.
Is that all?
What?
And here I was thinking you already had a plan and everything.
I thought that great teacher of yours will provide me with that plan.
I think we should first-
Oh, so your plan is to wait for another person to come up with a plan?
And you? You have some unique skill? Why didn't you do something with that skill instead of being captured?
Excuse me, you two.
The person that held me captive happens to be the parent of someone that's talking to me in this manner!
What? You have a grudge against me, don't you?
You do. Wow.
- Wow, being nice to you really is useless. Do you realize what I-/ - What!
We should start by freeing Minister Eun first, agreed?
You, Your Highness are the daughter of the great Emperor of Yuan
Taking one girl's name off a list of tribute woman
is easier than lifting your hand for you.
So you're asking why I'm going out of my way to complicate things?
Perhaps you're bored and needing some entertainment?
When the Crown Prince first learned how to walk,
how to talk, and how to understand speech,
I've always told him. To hurry and become the King.
If you hesitate for even a moment,
someone else will trod on you and use you as their fertilizer to grow into the King.
I don't think he's the obedient type.
He never paid much heed to what I said.
But this time, he came to me first,
saying he wanted power.
It was because of that child.
Just because of one woman.
What a weak and fragile cause.
I thought that you were the best teacher in Goryeo. Were those acclamations all smoke and mirrors?
If a man can't even cherish one woman and is given a country,
could he properly cherish that country?
You will need to attack them out of the blue and rescue him before they even notice you'r there.
He has both of the King's personal guards under his belt,
so if they were to get involved, things could get very ugly.
I'll keep that in mind. I'll be off then.
Now it feels like I'm seeing the old So Ah.
Me?
Is there anyone else here but you?
Are you alright?
Yes. You did well.
But can you do this on your own?
If it weren't for the order of confinement, I would have gone with you.
Oh, wait a moment!
Wait up!
♪ You live and breathe within me. ♫
♪ Your reflection moved in my eyes. ♫
♪ Oh wind, to me, ♫
Your dress is pretty, but…
But it's quite impractical right?
What is it you needed to tell me?
Oh. My father has a chronic illness.
It is to do with his heart, so if he were to be angered abruptly, things can get dangerous.
Does he need medicine?
There is one called the Thousand Heat herb ball. Our household physician knows what it is.
I'll bring some with me on my way there.
Okay.
I'll get going then.
Yes.
♪ Those hidden times ♫
♪ your fragrance is filled within. ♫
Do you perhaps know if the third master is in right now?
Wouldn't it be great if you would actually answer if someone talks to you and asks you something?
What is there to sweep here anyway? Geez.
As you had suspected, there was someone lurking around the house, and he caught onto the bait.
Gosh, he really is trailing me.
These rotten bastards. They tell me to do all sorts of things. What do they think I am? Some sort of bait worm?
I knew this kind of thing would happen, so I kept my mouth shut.
Yeon Bong that idiot blabbered about meeting a eunuch then
having a throwing dagger thrown at us and all those thing. I will sew his mouth up one day.
With all my care and effort, one thread after thread.
He followed me here.
You better not be lying.
Have you had something to eat? I told them to serve you well.
I ate well.
And you have no intentions to tell us yet?
If it's about the papers for my daughter's assets, I told you to ask her yourself.
It's not as easy as it seems.
The King was enraged,
and we weren't able to sneak out the lady.
Do you know who the Crown Price called in last night?
- Should I know? - Teacher Lee Seung Hyu.
Which means…
rebellion.
Even if it weren't for rebellion, it provides reasonable grounds to be suspected as such.
So?
If you don't want to be caught in the middle of it all, hand over your assets and live a long happy life.
And if I refuse?
One, your daughter will be dragged away as a tribute woman and the father?
Will be discovered as a corpse at the bottom of some river.
Two, the Crown Prince's plans for a rebellion will be revealed
and Minister Eun, one of his supporters, will have his family, relatives, and servants slaughtered for the crime.
In the end, the assets that you clung onto with your life, will all be confiscated.
Are you getting the picture now?
So if gets confiscated by the country, at least you won't be able to have it, it seems.
Isn't that right?
They found him. Minister Eun's butler.
- It's certain. - And the people with him?
They appear to be skilled in martial arts.
They may be the Crown Prince's bodyguards. Perhaps they've fled Geumguajang and gathered there.
- The number? - They appear to be many, though I couldn't count.
Mobilize all our men. Before they take off elsewhere, hurry!!
Who are you!
There's a locked room here.
Elder! Elder!
Elder, it's me, Wang Rin.
Young Master Rin.
It's the medicine that Lady San informed me about.
Chulwol House seems to have caught on.
Please excuse me.
- What about my child? - She's fine and she's worried about you.
Furatai, how come it's so hard to see you.
So, is our Princess well?
Her Highness the Queen's Royal Chess Attendant, Lady Eun San is here.
I've seen her somewhere.
Where do you dare to lay a hand?
I remember!
Her highness the Queen sent these.
Not just ordinary ginseng, but Goryeo ginseng, they are.
They were grown under the sun so the quality is...
Look at the figure.
The fragrance is different after all.
She said I was to send this to you, you only, Officer.
Our Princess is so attentive.
Her highness is pouring so much effort into the farewell banquet for this evening.
I think it will likely be the most splendid banquet ever to be held here.
I'm not sure if I can say this to you,
but I really don't have a place to say this, or a person to tell.
Miss.
How are you like this?
Our Queen is really...
so lonely.
I do hear rumors of it.
Our Princess is always alone in Wonseong Palace.
She barely, when the Crown Prince comes to make his daily well-wishing call...
she used to hang on to that as her one source of joy.
But he's under a confinement order, so she's not able to see him.
Over there! There!
I also... will be going afar over there.
Our Queen... how will she bear through this all alone?
I should get going. Her Highness is alone.
It's his home. Eun Yeong Baek's home.
That's what a person is.
When you treat them with respect, they slight you. When you follow the law, you get trampled by evil men.
That's how people are.
Hence, my respect and adherence to law stops here.
There, there.
I guess she's going to use that for our farewell banquet?
Our Princess is making it a very splendorous, very grand event.
I think so.
Splendorous.
How is the Crown Prince?
He's not been well.
What is happening?!
Welcome.
Where is he ill, our Crown Prince?
He's ill.
The fire in his heart is rising and his heart ailment is severe.
I can fully understand why.
How much heartache and mistreatment you must have suffered to contract such ailment.
I'm embarrassed to show you myself in such a weak state.
Come, sit.
I wanted to see you because I have a request.
Whatever it is, just grant me your order.
I will return to the nation and report it to His Majesty the Emperor.
And whatever that is, even if requires an army, I will do whatever it is for you Crown Prince.
Just get rid of one roster for me.
The tribute women roster.
By chance... if this is about the miss who came by earlier?
Indeed you are showing your expertise as a great Yuan officer.
Crown Prince, the women listed on the roster already belong to the Emperor.
If I get rid of it carelessly... I will have to give up my life.
Your highness!
I'm alright.
Officer.
Yes your highness.
That child is my royal mother's one and only conversation friend.
A powerless Crown Prince such as I... who can't even grant my royal mother's one request.
I cannot raise my head out of embarrassment.
The roster has already been sealed. Hence...
This is what you are referring to, right?
Over there, just burn it there.
Minister of Commodities, Eun Yeong Baek: Daughter, San.
The ginseng fields in Ganghwado.
It's three hundred plots.
I've transferred them under your name, Officer.
That much should reap quite an enormous amount of ginseng each year...
Goryeo ginseng.
Just take this, and this, burn it there.
You heard it all right?
Bear it just a bit more. The officer will tell my royal father after the farewell banquet.
That there's no tribute women on this journey back to his country?
That' right. Then someone will take the royal command to jail, to release you.
I'll be waiting outside.
You should get going now.
Yes. I'll be going now.
One moment,
wear this and go.
The jail is unbearably cold and wet.
How could I dare wear the Crown Prince's clothing.
That's why you should wear this out, to scare others.
I will not forget this grace. On my matter and my father's matter as well.
Now you're just being too chatty, so hurry and go.
Be good and wait.
Jang Soo, escort the lady.
I have something to talk about with Rin.
Yes, your highness.
I'll see you later.
Should we drink some wine? Let's open up some of the good alcohol we have while So Ah isn't here.
What is so funny?
That lofty person back there is the Crown Prince, but I had really treated him very recklessly.
"Hey come here!" "Sit." "Drink." "Han Cheon!" "Drink some more."
What?
I said I didn't know.
How could you not know? He looks exactly like the Crown Prince.
Look in front…
No matter if it's from the front or anywhere else…
Do you know how to fight?
Go. Go and ask for help.
- What about you? - Hurry!
Drink.
Just for a moment, I thought about letting So Ah go.
A brief meeting of momentary bliss and togetherness is good to end just there.
When flowers are in full bloom, and their beauty lasts just til then.
Flowers that begin to wither...
it's better not to look at them.
To see their plight of withering, falling, and rotting would ruin even the beautiful memory of being in full bloom.
That is what I had forced myself to think.
But then... why did you hold onto her?
I couldn't do it.
I can't go a day without her by my side.
Did you ask her? If she would stay by your side?
No. Not yet.
What will you do if you ask and she says no.
There's nothing that can be done.
I told you, I can't go on if she's not here.
Even if it means you'll be keeping her in a large bird cage?
That's right.
And if she is miserable? If she says that it's miserable inside that cage?
It won't become like that.
How can you be so sure of that?
Why do you ask me that? That she could be miserable?
Next to me?
Who are you people?
Lady San has! Lady San has!
She's been kidnapped.
What do you mean, kidnapped?!
Close the all the gates so that no one can leave!
Seek help from Wonseong Palace!
No one exited through the southern gates either.
Bring me a horse.
Yes.
That person…
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♫ I'll stay with you. Whenever and wherever by your side. ♫
♫ I'll stay with you. Here without change. ♫
Preview
I order for the dethronement of the Crown Prince.
Should I just forget it?
And you and me, should we just live life playing like this?
Your highness…
Be still.
Without moving.
I was scared that I wouldn't be able to find you.
You should not have messed with me like this.
So you're showing your true colors at last?!
You should've been satisfied with your life, if you were so scared.
While I put on the act of a cowering and idiotic son.