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Episode 7
It is you. I know it's you.
Why are you lying? Why are you denying it?
It is you.
You are him.
- Oh my, maiden. - Are you alright?
That way.
Stop.
If we lose him, it's our heads that will roll. Search every inch.
Yes.
Why are we being chased? Who are those people?
It's because you meddled with other people's affairs.
Why?
It must hurt-
Why did you lie? How long were you going to keep lying?
Didn't you feel bad whenever you saw me chasing you like a fool?
You are too much.
Do you know how anxious I was for the past several days?
No, it's not several days, it's several years.
Do you know how hard it was for me?
I didn't even know you were alive and fine like this.
Do I look like I am doing fine?
Why did I pretend to not know you? How long was I going to keep up the act?
If possible, I would have kept it up forever. I would have pretended like I didn't know you.
You're dense, stubborn, nosy for no reason, and don't have any fear whatsoever.
Look at this! Whenever I am with you, I get entangled into dangerous incidents.
Did you really not miss me?
What do you think?
Right.
Once, I lived as Grand Prince Jin Seong and Lee Yeok.
Until I died when I was ambushed by assassins
on my way to exile.
Assassins?
Hit by an arrow,
stabbed with a knife,
I rolled down a cliff with no breath left.
The boy who should have been long dead...
survived like a miracle.
W-who did such a thing?
You could ask your brother, the king, for help.
Because of such naive thinking,
I should have died earlier.
If you wish for me to die again, stop anyone and ask for help.
You may use the Royal Guard, Royal Investigative Bureau, the Police Bureau,
the royal forces, or soldiers. Whatever is necessary.
I will find him and dispose of him immediately.
No. Bring him to me.
I must see him with my own two eyes.
Geum Oh Moon: Main gate of the Royal Investigative Bureau
Give me some troops to catch a thief.
Close the gate and inspect every single person entering or leaving through the gate.
He's not at the eastern valley.
But I am relieved.
The person I came to like is you, Your Highness.
I was worried,
that I might have given my heart to a weird bastard.
Let's stay together
until the sun rises.
It'll be the last time.
When the sun rises,
I will never utter your name again.
I won't miss you
nor wait for you.
The promise I have made
is now invalid.
- Search the area. - Yes.
The Chief Royal Secretary personally led the Royal Investigative Bureau troops.
We need to find Orabeoni before they do.
♫ You approached silently ♫
♫ You smiled at me while offering your hand ♫
♫ The time we spent together ♫
♫ Is going far away like a dream ♫
Hit by an arrow,stabbed with a knife, I rolled down a cliff with no breath left.
The boy who should have been long dead survived like a miracle
♫ I can't do anything else but leave even though I don't want to go ♫
♫ I know now that I can't live without you ♫
♫ Don't go away. I won't be able to see you again. ♫
♫ I love you once again ♫
Where is the man?
Drag her.
Wait. Should we gather others and follow them?
I think they are going deep into the mountain. Don't you think we would be too late?
Did anyone get hurt?
Yes. She was washing a bloody bandage.
Then he's around here somewhere. This is Asian Lizard's tail (Saururus chinensis). It only grows around streams.
Then, why are those people headed towards Stone Mountain?
Where is that bastard?
I said, where is that bastard?
You're here, Lord.
I was continuing the search around the area.
That must mean you haven't caught him yet.
Instead, I caught the girl who helped him escape.
It's the girl you told me about.
Look who's here.
You're Minister Sin Soo Geun's precious daughter.
A precious one has helped a thief escape?
Where is he?
You could ask your brother, the King, for help.
Because of such naive thinking,
I should have died earlier.
Chae Gyeong...Why has she been captured?
The man you have ordered to find,
Miss Sin was with the man all night long and misled the royal forces,
and helped him escape.
But still, how can we put her behind bars?
Your Majesty, to be honest, he is a thief that robbed the ship with royal offerings.
Robbed a ship? It wasn't the storm that sank the royal offerings?
I am deeply sorry, Your Majesty.
To report such trivial matters to you-
So, that bastard who looks like the Grand Prince Jin Seong is the culprit in the theft of royal offerings,
Chae Gyeong, unaware of this, is captured for helping him escape?
Whether she knew or were unaware of the theft,
we would only know after hearing her confession.
I have to hear it from Chae Gyeong herself.
Your Majesty.
Did you say he's a thief that stole the royal offerings?
That's not true. He is...
He is only a merchant.
That merchant has deceived you.
I wasn't deceived.
Then,
tell me everything you know about him. I will release you once he's captured.
I don't know anything.
I just happened to be with him.
You don't know?
Yes.
You don't know anything.
Yes.
Do you really intend to deceive me?
You even lie to me?
Is it because of Yeok?
Just because he looks like Yeok, you dare try to fool me?
He might have been set up.
It's possible that someone set a trap to harm him.
Who exactly is he that someone will set a trap to catch one person?
I am deeply sorry, Your Majesty.
I have nothing more to say.
Chae Gyeong wouldn't act this way just because he looks like Yeok.
She even defended him saying he might have been set up.
Your Majesty, you'll find out once you capture the thief.
For now, Miss Sin is the only way to catch that bastard.
Please spread the news around the capital that Miss Sin has been captured.
Head Eunuch.
Yes, Your Majesty.
How is Queen Dowager Her Highness doing lately?
Using the juice of mugwort, I made green color this time.
Don't you think the color is prettier than the noodles I made last year?
Indeed it is so.
However, why isn't the Queen here with us today?
An disgraceful incident happened at her private house outside of the palace. So she's lying low in her chambers.
The news about the First Vice Premier's daughter being held at the Royal Investigative Bureau
must be true.
Too bad a disgraceful incident occurred on a auspicious day.
Court Lady Joo
Yes, Your Highness Queen Dowager.
This is a gift for the Queen. Please set it aside.
Yes.
So threading flour balls like beads and wearing it on the body
or hanging it over the doorpost is known to chase away the evil spirits.
It's something that the Queen Dowager and court ladies
have been doing on June 15th of each year.
Bullseye.
Are you trying to deceive me, Queen Dowager?
I think His Majesty has figured out that the Grand Prince Jin Seong is alive.
He has personally checked on the Queen Dowager's movements.
How about the Queen Dowager?
There is no way she would be unaware of her only son's death.
Normally, if she knew Miss Sin was being held at the Royal Investigative Bureau,
she would have somehow blown this up, to bring down the First Vice Premier.
She's being too quiet about it.
Thus, His Majesty is even more sure of the truth.
Your Majesty.
Your Majesty, are you alright?
King Seong Jong, father of the two brothers: the current king Yeonsangun and Grand Prince Jin Seong
When Grand Prince Jin Seong becomes an adult, hand over the throne to him.
Your Majesty.
Chief Royal Secretary.
Yes, Your Majesty.
The sin of killing my younger brother without my order,
or the sin of letting my younger brother, whom I thought was dead, return living.
Out of the two which sin do you think is the greater and more serious?
At that time, I pretended that I didn't know.
Because, thanks to that, for the first time in many years,
I felt what freedom was.
Because the will of my late father, His Majesty, and my mother, who died as a deposed queen,
the court officials' prejudice and checks against that dirty blood and anxiety and fury from it all,
disappeared together with that child.
However, all of that is coming back.
with the blame for killing my own brother added on top of that.
I-I apologise, Your Majesty.
I give you the full authority over this matter, so keep in mind.
The day that this freedom ends,
your riches and honors, power and everything else you gained in return,
all will be lost.
I will keep that in mind.
What are you planning to do?
Do you think it can be unravelled?
If I am not to die, I must kill others.
As I have always done.
Bulletin
Around June 8th, this man stole the royal offerings from the three southern provinces
and using Miss Sin, he misled the Royal Forces and escaped
If he is not caught by 6 o' clock on the 30th,
all charges will be brought against Miss Sin who had already been arrested.
and Miss Sin will be severely punished.
Apparently, royal offering thief has escaped.
He's on the run after putting all the blame on the girl.
They're just blatantly telling Yeok to come to the palace. It's an invitation.
If Yeok finds out I expect he won't stay put.
I'm sorry. You were shocked weren't you?
It will soon be resolved.
When it is resolved,
go with your mother to Gochang.
Get married or just raise chickens or something with your mother in Gochang.
If you try to force anything, it's bound to go wrong.
After leaving you alone in Gochang for so long,
now, I forced you to follow the law and ways of Joseon.
The Royal Investigative Bureau posted bulletins
declaring that if he's not here by the Hour of Rooster (5-7pm) on the 30th, you'll be paying for all the crimes.
Do you think he will come to save you?
No! He can't come.
That person is not a thief.
He just saved me who was in danger.
If he is innocent, why did he run away? And why are you hiding him?
Don't you know that you don't have to have committed a crime to die?
Shouldn't he come here and prove his innocence?
I've seen people die even though they have committed no crime.
I've seen people chased even though they have committed no crime.
Don't you know there is no way to be safe by saying that you have no guilt?
So, you are saying that you will take the punishment instead?
Yes, it is better that I take the punishment.
Sin Chae Gyeong!
It was my fault.
Father, Mother, I will accept the punishment.
I will accept the punishment.
I will not let anyone get hurt or die again because of me.
What on earth happened to our Chae Gyeong after coming to Hanyang?
As you are aware, I followed her a step too late.
However, after meeting her again, she did seem a bit different from normal.
Looking at a bean like thing and saying she had seen a ghost.
She said that there was a ghost that resembled the Grand Prince.
Do you mean the Grand Prince Jin Seong?
To look for that man, she even went to the pawn shop in the back alley.
The next day she came back after spending a long time at Inon Mountain.
Jin Seong's tomb is at Inon Mountain.
Then...
are you saying right now the reason why our Chae Gyeong is like that is related to Grand Prince Jin Seong?
The dead Grand Prince Jin Seong?
How did it go?
Your Highness, please listen carefully to what I say right now.
This time, please act as if you don't know anything.
This itself could become harmful to Your Highness and the crown prince as well.
What do you mean by that, Orabeoni?
It is not simply a thief.
Both the person Chae Gyeong is protecting and the person the King is searching for.
and the Chief Royal Secretary's faction is so frantic over the matter -- there is a single reason.
It is the Grand Prince Jin Seong.
How?
Didn't the Grand Prince Jin Seong definitely die?
I even carried out his funeral with the Queen Dowager.
Against the law, she had him cremated.
That's because the Queen Dowager is a devout Buddhist,
she earnestly wishes for the reincarnation of the son she has lost at an early age --
she tried to hide that it was a fake, and cremated his body?
The grave keeper at Inon Mountain checked and,
the Queen Dowager, apart from paying for ancestral rites, has never once privately come to Inon Mountain.
It was the Grand Prince's death anniversary not too long ago. However, she didn't visit his grave,
Do you mean that even the First Vice-Premier might have caught on that Yeok is alive?
That is so, Your Highness.
If the First Vice-Premier's people all become aware of His Highness the Grand Prince's survival,
it seems like it will only be a matter of time.
What is Yeok doing?
For the time being, the Snail Brides are watching over him.
This is thepill I obtained after hearing about Yeok's death.
It is a poison that will take your life just by eating one pill.
Convey this clearly to Yeok:
If he sentimentalises about the past or his childhood and
on the day he appears at the Royal Investigative Bureau to save that child,
I will eat this poison of my own free will.
Queen Dowager Your Highness.
It's not just words said to scare him,
rather than seeing my son die twice, I will die first!
It is a life that you must save.
After that day if Yeok survives, it won't just be me that he loses,
you will not forget, and will make sure that comes about.
Yes, Queen Dowager Your Highness.
Where is he?
Who are you?
Nak Cheon, it's me. It's me, Seok Hee.
Where is Chae Gyeong?
What happened to her?
She's being held right now at the Royal Investigative Bureau.
For the crime of helping you escape.
Nak Cheon.
Hey, block him. Block him.
Nak Cheon.
Fine, leave. But if you want to leave,
you would have to step on each one of us.
♫ Suddenly the whole world ♫
What are you all standing still? Go after him!
Nak Cheon!
♫ Suddenly there, without a sound ♫
♫ The first moment I saw you, ♫
♫ I was so nervous I couldn't bring myself to look at your eyes ♫
♫ What do I do now when my breath is about to stop? ♫
♫ Dazzle chills my heart ♫
The Royal Investigative Bureau posted bulletins declaring that if he's not here by the Hour of Rooster (5-7pm) on the 30th
you'll be paying for all the crimes
♫ You who might fly away when the wind blows ♫
Do you think he will come to save you?
♫ Your smile and tears, ♫
♫ I fill my heart with them ♫
♫ Only loving you always ♫
You shouldn't come.
Don't come.
Please hurry.
Please open the gate.
I am passing through.
I'm in a hurry.
Pass.
Hurry.
Let's go fast.
Hurry. Hurry.
First Vice Premier. What happened?
Is it true that you've teamed up with the thief who stole royal offerings?
Is it only your daughter who teamed up with him,
or is your whole family involved?
Junior Deputy Minister!
Nothing has been proven yet.
Please be more prudent.
Since he's saying such.
His Majesty is not feeling well today,
so he won't be able to attend the Court Session.
You may all leave.
Don't worry too much.
Everything will be over once he shows up.
Is the person Chief Royal Secretary is trying to catch really a thief?
He's not just a mere thief,
he's a traitor who stole His Majesty's property.
I guess he must be your sworn enemy.
For you to recklessly go after him even putting your life on the line.
Well, my life...
If you haven't put your life on the line yet,
you would have to do so.
If you can't catch the thief after going this far,
I will hold you accountable for it.
I guess you must prepare yourself to pay with your life soon, Chief Royal Secretary.
Are you stupid to lose him like that?
Get lost right now if you can't do a proper job!
I could see that you're angry but you don't have the right to tell us to get lost.
That's right. Yeok could do it.
I am the person who saved and brought Yeok... Orabeoni Nak Cheon.
Have you forgotten about it?
Water
I will go get some
No
He was in a horrific state.
But with a resolve to somehow survive,
he was whistling.
Just in case, I had to disguise his death
To find a corpse that resembled him, for many days, I had to visit villages suffering from the plague.
Only after sending the fake corpse to the palace,
I was relieved
That's the life I helped him keep.
But, do you want me to watch him put his life in danger for that girl?
What about his dream of becoming a king?
You all have expectations for him!
For the new Joseon that he's going to make, we've given up our personal ambitions and dreams
working at the pawn shop like this.
I'll go find him immediately.
However, I am not trying to stop him.
I'm just searching for a safer method.
What happened?
I apologize, Your Majesty.
There is still no news.
Your Majesty! Prime Minister Sin Soo Geun requests your presence!
Shouldn't you still be avoiding him?
Let him in.
Your Majesty, this is the report from the Ministry of General Affairs & Personnel and the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce.
It includes the update of relief rice you sent to the three southern provinces
and the preparation for establishing the Relief Office.
Is that all? I thought you were here to request clemency for Chae Gyeong.
Just as I trust and treasure my child, Chae Gyeong, I also trust you, Your Majesty.
Both my ignorant daughter, who refuses to utter a single word in her cell
and you, Your Majesty, who is ignoring her,
I dare to presume that both of you
have a reason you cannot speak of.
Therefore, I cannot request you to just forgive her
or release her.
If you could tell me what is troubling you,
I will do my best to work through it with you.
Before being your subject, I am your family.
You may leave now.
Your Majesty!
Exactly where are you hiding?
Why do my people have to suffer because of him? Why?!
Your Majesty!
♫ You approached me silently ♫
♫ You smiled at me while offering your hand ♫
♫ The time we spent together ♫
Your meal.
♫ is going far away like a dream ♫
I think I've gone insane. ♫ I can't stand the longing now ♫
Although I know that you cannot come, ♫ which is growing so ♫
just in case, I turned around once more. ♫ Why didn't I know loving would be like that? ♫
How can I be so selfish? ♫ I can't do anything else ♫
♫ but leave even though I don't want to go ♫
♫ I know now that I can't live without you ♫
♫ Don't go far away so we can meet again ♫
♫ I love you once again ♫
♫ The promise we shared ♫
♫ Is it time when I can no longer keep it? ♫
♫ We know our destiny is inevitable ♫
♫ Please look back just once ♫
♫ Even if we're far apart, it's alright. As long as we're under the same sky, ♫
♫ I'll be able to see you again one day ♫
♫ Even if I won't be able to see you again if you turn away like this, ♫
♫ I love you once again ♫
♫ Forever and ever, us ♫
Y-Your Majesty!
Is this normal? How is it that every time I come to Hanyang, I meet you in the streets instead of the palace?
What is all of that on your face?
Before being your subject, I am your family.
Guard.
I'm here for your command.
About Chae Gyeong, that child...
she resembles the Prime Minister so much.
Therefore, that must be the reason both of them hurt me so much.
Pawn Shop
This is the poison Her Highness the Queen Dowager found after she heard the news that you died.
Although she found this medicine with plans to follow you back then, this time—
- What are you talking about? - Do you think Her Highness the Queen Dowager is the only one?
Me, all of your friends here, and all of the merchants that are helping us, all of them will die. Do you know why?
Because we're people who've decided to die before you and have sworn to protect you.
Because you are our dream and hope.
You've endured it well. Now, you want to walk into the tiger's den?
Even though you know it's a trap?
Yeah, are you going to offer yourself up on a platter to the King because of one woman?
Even if the heavens split, Sin Chae Gyeong won't die
but you will die.
Nak Cheon
You endured it well. Now, you want to walk into the tiger's den?
When you know it's a trap?
Exactly why did you do something so reckless?
You have to restrain yourself and wait for the right time.
When the sun rises, I will never utter your name again.
I won't miss you nor will I wait for you.
The promise of waiting for you I made is now invalid.
You promised, Sin Chae Gyeong.
After the Prime Minister's visit, His Majesty seems to have a lot on his mind.
What are you going to do if he plans to release that wench tomorrow?
Before it's too late, you must decide.
Decide?
Even if we have to use that Sin wench more, make Grand Prince Jin Seong come.
By any chance, are you being cautious of the Prime Minister as well?
You seem to be quite frustrated
seeing as how you're speaking such nonsense.
We could lose our lives if something goes wrong.
What about tying her up in front of the marketplace?
Are you alright?
How did you end up here?
If it's difficult for you to answer, you don't have to.
I'm quite nosy, aren't I?
I just don't know
what to tell you.
The life of a lowly girl like me with no one to depend on is all the same.
I can either live poorly or viciously.
I didn't want to live poorly so I chose to live viciously
and in doing so... I ended up here.
You have to be warm sometimes.
Thank you.
How can you smile at a time like this?
By any chance, have you heard anything about the thief who stole the royal offerings?
He hasn't been caught, right?
If you know something, you should tell them.
If you remain like this, you'll die.
Then...
that person won't have to come all the way here.
I said...I said I wouldn't wait.
I will not wait.
I won't wait.
I can't allow him to die...die because of me again.
Pawn Shop
Due to the owner's personal circumstances, we are temporarily closing down. - Owner Baek
- Brother Nak Cheon. - Shh!
Be quiet.
How to escape...
Yes, yes, yes, it's coming, woohoo!
Again, one more round.
Hey!
Are you really not going to do anything?
Were you always such a coward filled with fear?
You didn't know?
Yes, I've never once seen the cowardly side of you.
From the moment we first met in the village
when you shouted "I know the culprit" in front of all the village people
to when you survived through hell and came to Namdo to find me,
you were the bravest and coolest person in the world to me.
I swore that I would die for you. I swore that I would live like you.
Young Lady Chae Gyeong was the one who moved your heart, isn't she?
That's right.
- But— - I ended up dead because of that.
Yes, that's true, I regret everything.
I regret meddling into your affairs back then. I regret listening to Chae Gyeong's words back then.
I regret standing up to my older brother and dying as a traitor to this nation.
Are you being sincere?
I'm sorry I became honest too late.
Play!
Then, it seems there's nothing for me to do here.
Seo No! Seo No!
Hey, Seo No! Seo No, you bastard!
You're going to regret this!
The Madame has to be here to stop him.
Where did she go since earlier?
I sent Seok Hee to pass the urgent message.
For the Snail Brides to lay low and stop coming to the pawn shop for the time being.
Right. If Miss Sin were to talk,
the first thing she would mention is the pawn shop.
Of course, of course what I'm saying is, there's no way she would talk about it. Huh?
Is it more advantageous to survive as the black stone
or the white stone?
The white stone is better.
It's the King and the King can do anything.
Guard.
Yes, Your Majesty.
Would you like a drink?
I'm honored but I'm fine, Your Majesty.
If Yeok, that bastard, is still alive, why hasn't he appeared in front of me?
Why is he hiding?
Why is Chae Gyeong trying so hard to deceive me?
Couldn't it be because he died as a traitor?
It's been more than 5 years.
It's plenty of time for him to request a pardon for his crimes.
The fact that he doesn't show himself and commits these atrocious acts in secrecy
means that Yeok, that bastard, suspects me and is avoiding me.
He suspects that the person who killed him,
or at the least, the person who caused him to die is me.
Therefore, he wants to get revenge
and take the throne for himself.
I wish it was just someone who resembles him.
Or this time, I will truly have to kill him with my own hands.
His Highness the Grand Prince must appear for this fight to end.
Or...
Or?
Sin Chae Gyeong can disappear.
What if we disguise it as if she committed suicide in her cell?
Did you endure with this body?
Don't come...
You shouldn't come...
Rather, you'll be thanking me
because this medicine will end your suffering.
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♫ I want to hold you, the one whose dazzle chills my heart ♫
♫ You, the one who might fly away when wind blows ♫
Queen for Seven Days
Do you want to play hide-and-seek with me?
Don't do anything reckless.
One wrong move and Sin Chae Gyeong will die too.
Whether it's the Prime Minister or his daughter, that thief will have to take responsibility!
You probably thought she wouldn't die
Why are you trying so hard to catch him?!
I can't believe I have to use such a cowardly move to catch you.
You can't come. You'll die if you come.
Didn't you say that you would wait? Although you tell me not to come,
you must have waited for me to come.
♫ Love ♫