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Mother loved peony flowers.
Someone who wouldn't smile no matter what,
she would smile when she saw peonies.
And she would cry too upon seeing the peonies.
When I asked her why she cried, she answered thus.
It would've been better not to have known.
That these flowers existed in the world.
I shouldn't have known that.
No matter how beautiful they are, I should not have liked them.
My mother's words planted seeds in my young heart.
And they grew to be a lump of thorns.
Just when I am about to forget,
the thorn would come to prick my heart once.
No matter how beautiful the flower,
cherish it only to the point you can forget it.
And give only what you can take back.
So that you could turn back whenever you wanted.
So that you could abandon it.
Being clever about it.
I firmly believed that I was doing just fine like that.
Lady San.
♫ I'll stay with you. Whenever and wherever, by your side. ♫
♫ I'll stay with you, here without changing. ♫
♫ For you. For you. ♫
I was wrong.
Have you been well?
How is it that Your Majesty's royal appearance is so gaunt?
And the one who speaks those words.
You do not appear to be all that healthy either.
This is not a place for you to be. Leave.
If you do not fare to her liking, your life won't be safe.
Hence, you ought to flee at once.
Now, are you satisfied?
I am actually someone who is easily satisfied by small things.
It's just that Your Majesty wasn't aware of that.
Be respectful and be refrained.
From dawn to night, may you carry yourself without any fault.
Please carry out your bow.
Please carry out the laying of the goose.
The wild goose partners only once in life for forever, they say.
The wild geese fly together in order.
When the one in the front cries out, the one in the back would answer in response. Such is the courtesy.
Once they lose their partner, they would never seek a new partner. Such is the propriety.
That is the etiquette we learn from the wild goose.
So you remember.
You as a young queen asked me before.
Why are these wild geese here, in our newly-wed room?
And that is how you answered back then.
Back then, you would always answer anything I asked.
Not as empty words but truly out of worry, I ask.
How is it that you look so pale?
Your face is halved with such a dark coloring.
This is the occasion where our son will come greet us with his new bride.
Why are so many warriors needed here?
In my attempt to live.
My haggardly life.
So that I can prolong it for just one day longer.
I am busily engaged, hence I do not think I can accompany you to the banquet.
Where are you going?
I will come see you in your palace in a few days.
You can't do that.
Why can't I?
His Majesty the King and Her Highness the Queen are waiting.
We just had our wedding. We need to go and report to them that it went well and pay the very basic respect…
They must have words to exchange, having only met after a long period of absence.
So you needn't worry about it.
Why are you here? You didn't even come to your sister's wedding so I thought you had already left.
I have something to tell you.
Circuit Commissioner. When did you receive your order? Shouldn't you have arrived in Jeolla already by now?
Please have others around us to give us a moment of privacy.
You're daring to obstruct the crown prince's path right now.
It's something important.
Do you wish to be dragged out?
Please grant me your permission.
Lady San and I plan to get married.
The elders of the families had already agreed on it.
Eun San only just lost her father a few days ago.
I plan to be in mourning with her as a married couple.
I won't allow it.
Please grant it.
Have your crown princess on your right and have the Wang Rin husband and wife to your left.
So that the people of the world can have nothing to say.
Wang Rin husband and wife?
Are you even aware of it? What people are saying?
I know everything you already know. You should know that too by now.
Your Highness, in order to have a woman and that woman's assets,
he's even committed murder, is what they are saying.
So that's the only excuse you could come up with?
You're going to have Eun San all for my sake?
The lady… please let her go.
Eun San has been named a special officer of the prefecture to carry out her late father's work.
So she must stay by my side to carry out my orders.
She's now my subordinate so she can't go anywhere.
So in the end, it's just a bird cage!?
You lock her in the bird cage and keep her by your side, and give her water and feed when it's time.
Would that really be so joyful?
Do you even know how much I abandoned for your sake?
Because of you! Do you know what I gave up?
Who killed Minister Eun?
Yet you come now and you wield your sword to my back?
Was it Wonseong Palace?
Which side is what you want?
Did you know too?
Is it Eun San or is it my position?
What nonsense are you spewing out?
The punk who should have left already upon given the assignment of circuit commissioner,
went and met His Majesty the King in secret. My father! And spent a whole night there.
And my half-brother, Prince Kangyang was in that house too.
What would you all have schemed throughout the night gathered together like that?
Leaving only me out, behind my back.
Why didn't you just ask for it?
I could've just given you the seat of the crown prince.
If it was back during the time I trusted you.
No matter what I say now…
It's too late now.
I will go pick up Lady San.
I already told you. I disapprove.
Please allow me to take her away with your approval.
So that I do not need to defy you, Your Highness.
Guards.
This man has defied the nation's command and left his post unauthorized. Furthermore!
He is trying to spread defaming rumors about Wonseong Palace to the world.
Put him under detention to shut his mouth and await for punishment.
Yes, Sir.
Of course. Now he doesn't care about his father or the king.
Now he is fully showing his true colors.
Now it's all visible.
You be careful too, Crown Princess.
- Pardon? - You see to it yourself about taking care of your own life.
Did you third brother come to the wedding?
He couldn't come.
But I heard he had entered the palace.
I only saw his face but he had to rush away.
Clothes were delivered.
The food was also sent for you.
- By whom? - By His Highness the Crown Prince.
Why?
- And wine? - What?
There's no wine when there are food accompaniments.
I will go get it.
Right now, immediately.
Yes, my lady.
What are you waiting for? You go too.
She won't be able to carry it here alone. One jar won't do.
At least, four for five jars?
- What is this sound? - Over there!
You startled me. Wh-what… are you doing here?
What about you? Why are you hovering around here?
Well…
You weren't coming to see me? In this palace?
I was going to at first.
But somehow it seemed like it would be better to just go back.
So I went to the gate to leave but the soldiers suddenly told me to go with them.
But Young Master Rin was with me.
Young Master Rin was asking me what I was doing, but am I talking a lot right now?
I think I get the gist of what you're saying.
They dragged me here saying it was your order.
It is. I ordered them to do it.
But dragged here? Who?
I… are you going to lock me up here?
Not locking you up but protecting you.
Protecting me?
In case you suffer the plight of your father.
Let's go.
But…
Weren't you supposed to have a wedding today?
I did.
Already?
Yup. What are you doing? Let's go.
Did you cry a lot?
You've paled in these last few days.
So I wasn't able to be by your side.
It's alright. Young Master Rin was always…
Let's go.
I only came to see your face. You sent the necklace so I came just to keep that promise.
Now that I've seen your face, it's fine.
Congratulations on your wedding. It's a national auspicious event.
Then… I'll take my leave now.
What exactly do you regard the crown prince's order as?
You will get yourself in big trouble if you disregard it so easily.
Just until here. I have somewhere I need to go.
What? Will you only send me if I say thank you or something?
Are you going to go rescue Lady Eun San?
It's useless if you go alone, since the crown prince is guarding her tightly.
Where is she?
Even if you could rescue her, what will you do?
Go off again holding hands to get on some boat to some faraway nation?
Why do you always make me ask you twice?
Where is she, I said.
Lady Eun San is what you want, right?
If you really wish to have her… Marquis.
Do not mention the lady with your mouth ever again.
I shall oblige.
But His Majesty the King is waiting for you.
It seems that will need to come first.
There are so many guards.
Weren't you usually roaming about by yourself?
- Not for me. - What?
They are protecting you.
At some point in time, my father started to fear me.
We never ate together.
In case I would poison him.
We never met alone either.
He always put someone by his side.
He even put a woman by his side.
Was he thinking he would use her as the shield in case I pointed a sword at him?
You should've said so.
That you don't feel that way and he needn't do that.
It would've been useless.
My father always had by his side those who would twist my words to him.
I could never understand.
My father's excessive anxiety and delusion.
But now I'm the one who's doing that.
My nerves are like needles all day long.
In case someone would harm you.
Just a second.
It suits you well.
That's why I summoned you.
I wanted to keep you before my eyes and keep you safeguarded.
Right now I have that power. Look.
Your Highness the Crown Prince.
We lost the marquis. He had a group waiting for him.
- What group? - There were many with their faces covered so we couldn't tell.
How are you feeling?
I will summon the royal physician.
Mu Bi is here.
Mu Bi is here so it's alright.
My body is strange.
Where and how are you unwell?
Can't you tell my looking?
Now my life is near its end.
Such weak words really do not suit you.
Please rise and roar.
That's what suits Your Majesty.
Minister Eun died.
Yes.
He had a daughter.
Yes. Her name is Eun San.
That child, is she dead too?
No. She's well.
That child… save her.
I will do so.
Me too. Save me.
Are you going somewhere?
The Crown Prince is not in his right mind lately.
If you get on his bad side somehow…
Today is his wedding day. He would be with his crown princess.
That's not so. He only went through with the wedding ceremony in a rush.
He abandoned the Crown Princess right after and disregarded the greeting of the king and queen altogether.
They said he ran off without turning back.
- To that woman. - That woman?
Minister Eun's daughter, I mean!
The entire palace is in a fit.
From top to bottom.
Everyone, when you see them.
Where is she right now?
You ought not to think of going to her altogether.
Just going to see her could be cause for treason.
I must meet her. Is there no way?
Well I am not sure.
It's one thing if you would carry out an actual rebellion…
Is she staying at the Crown Prince's chambers?
Probably.
Royal Secretariat Recorder.
Yes, Marquis.
I will regard your words of wanting to serve me as sincere.
I am honored.
I shall give you a few orders.
I need you carry them out without fail.
I shall await your orders.
- Your legs don't hurt? - They hurt a little.
Have a seat and rest. You could sleep too.
Sleep?
Over there, my bed.
Over there?
- Do you think you only slept in my bed once or twice? - Twice?
So today makes thrice. Go sleep.
I will go after I grind the ink for you.
Your Highness, finish what you were writing.
And go to the Crown Princess.
She must be waiting for you alone.
I have lots to tell you.
What? You're scared of me too?
In case I would poison you?
You're really mean.
It's really a mystery.
How is it that someone with your brain could be the grand master's disciple?
So what you want to say is about my brain?
No. What I said before.
You keep forgetting what I've said to you many times.
I will tell you again.
San, you're my first. You remember that, right?
Well, I'm not sure.
I think I did hear something similar to that.
At the time, I had regarded you as my first.
But now that I see it, it's not.
I think you are my last.
Now, there's no one by my side besides you.
I chased them all out.
I lied to you.
I didn't come to keep my necklace promise.
I came with the necklace as my excuse.
Young Master Rin was dragged away and I wondered if you could rescue him.
So I came to make a request.
From what I hear, Rin didn't get dragged anywhere.
I met him.
We were going to leave together.
Before I was captured here like this.
Was it because you thought it was my mother who killed your father?
Will it do if I undo your father's grudge? Will you stay by my side then?
- Your Highness. - From time to time, someone
asks me to choose only one between two.
San, you are doing that too.
They are looking for Court Lady Jo.
- What do you mean? - The buddhist temple has begun to look into Minister Eun's death.
Your Highness! Your Highness!
- How dare you drag out my person on my palace grounds? - Your Highness! Save me!
What are you doing?!
- Your Highness! - Go on!/ - Yes!
Open the doors.
The Queen is here to see the Crown Prince, so I'm ordering you to open the doors!
- What is it? - Her Highness the Queen is here.
Did I not tell you let no one in, especially my mother?
But even so…
Do as I have ordered.
The Crown Prince's quarters is being protected by the golden thread.
No one can enter except those who have been granted entry.
Those who break the golden thread and enter the palace, irrespective of their rank or reason,
will be killed on the spot. Such were the Crown Prince's orders.
Your Highness!
♫ You need not say a word, it's fine by me ♫
♫ I already feel your heart ♫
Twice already in one day…
Those hands that brushed off mine are finally submissive.
If I keep you asleep like this
if I do that… would our relationship always be peaceful?
♫ Because I thought you would come by my side ♫
So sleep just a little longer and deeper.
♫ In my embrace ♫
♫ The love you left behind ♫
♫ I worry that it would disappear ♫
♫ All I can do today is smile ♫
It's getting very late in the night.
The palace is abuzz with noise. Is it always like this?
No. It usually feels like the bottom of a deep ocean.
- Jin Gwan. - Yes, Lady.
Yes, Your Highness the Crown Princess?
They must pity me.
Not at all.
Then are they mocking me?
I am the Crown Princess who was abandoned on the very first night of her marriage.
Your Highness…
I first saw him when I was very little.
He had climbed up a persimmon tree in the hill behind our house.
I thought he was picking persimmons.
I called up to him from under the tree,
"Pick me a persimmon too." Then he answered from above the tree,
"That may be hard. I'm crying right now."
"I can't see the persimmons clearly because of my tears."
And that was the Crown Prince?
Yes. So I waited at the bottom of the tree. To see if I can get a persimmon from him.
Then I fell asleep, but he woke me up.
He handed me a persimmon and said, "don't tell anyone."
I guess I told someone, just now.
Your secret is safe with me.
His eyes were like they were back then. His eyes today.
You know the glazed over look you get after crying a lot. It was like that.
Is something bad happening to him?
I… don't know anything.
I'm afraid and nervous.
And yet there is nothing I can do.
We found out where the teacher is.
Who are the men who are tagging along behind him?
Just pretend you didn't see anything.
Well I need to know what's going on to pretend I don't know anything!
You heard the orders. We are to turn our back towards anything that happens tonight.
Go away.
I will go on my own.
Teacher, it's Wang Rin. I came after I heard you were here.
Are you inside?
- Are you alright? - I am not alright.
I never fixed my habit of speaking my thoughts, and behold, my body suffers yet again.
Look. I'm imprisoned yet again.
I heard that you had picked out the orchestrator of the murder of Minister Eun as Her Highness the Queen.
So are you here to block his mouth?
If that is the case, would you be able to do it?
- I will escort you out. - Wait. It seems we need to talk.
I told you before,
that the person who will be on the Crown Prince's side to the very end will be the Marquis of Sujeong standing here.
There is no one with a better heart nor more intellect in all of Goryeo.
You should have come to the Marquis of Sujeong before you came seeking out my help.
- Marquis? - I'm listening.
A Court Lady of Wonseong Palace gave a confession.
She said that someone took her family members hostage and forced her to light an incense.
In the room that Minister Eun was in.
Incense?
Right after she gave that confession, she was poisoned to death.
So they could not interrogate further.
I know one person in the palace who deals a lot with incenses.
She is the demon who is beside the King.
I know of whom you speak.
That demon is blinding the King,
driving a wedge between me and my son, and ailing this nation.
She will attempt to create a rift between you and the Crown Prince too.
- She will. - I know that I have not been my best self to you thus far.
But didn't you always say that you were his friend?
You're his friend, so help him. For the Crown Prince.
It's too late now.
That demon has now become my subordinate, and the Crown Prince is…
no longer my friend.
Be careful! So that the Queen won't be frightened.
We will escort the teacher out and retreat.
I already knew that you would do this someday.
The Crown Prince has been deceived by you all along!
Allow me to escort you to somewhere more comfortable.
Wang Rin!
I failed to remove a viper when I had the chance.
Look here, Marquis. Why are you acting like this?
I must see the Lady…
But… right now there is no other way.
What is she? Isn't she acting a little odd?
- I agree. She has a scar on her face too. - We should be cautious of her.
Perhaps she's mentally ill? Why is she acting like that?
- What are you talking about? That makes no sense! - I received word from Gangan Palace.
How could a court assembly take place without my official orders?
I heard it was the King's orders.
Don't let anyone in.
Be particularly way of those from Wonseong Palace.
Loyal ministers from all factions and parties - you have worked hard in making it here today.
The reason why we are holding this emergency court assembly is-
Where is his majesty the King?
That King who opened this emergency court assembly
and assembled all these ministers and officials at this early hour. Where is my father?
His majesty the King called for the court assembly
and authorized another to preside it in his place.
Commissioned another? Whom? Can't be you, the Assistant Royal Secretary?
I, the Marquis of Sujeong, Wang Rin
have accepted his majesty the King's orders to administer the court assembly, and have arrived.
"Marquis of Sujeong, Wang Rin. Receive the wisdom and authority of the King and administer the court assembly."
"First, the Officer of Commodities, Eun Young Baek met a mysterious death at the palace. You are to uncover the schemer.
Second, with the officials you are to discuss the Crown Prince, Wang Won's progress in his imperial studies,
and evaluate him."
This way?
You're not going to take me over?
It's not good for me to be seen.
Why not?
It's just not good.
You're coming to get me later right?
You know you can't just leave me here by myself, right?
Can you do it?
I can.
Agassi! Lady San!
Lady San! Agassi!
Agassi! Lady San? Are you here?
My Lady's here right? Right?!
How did you get here?
Master Wang Rin sent me here, to look after the Lady.
Bi Yeon!
Lady! My lady!
What is this? What is this?!!
You're here then.
Why is Rin in they court assembly? Why not me, but him?
So you've been lying to me all this time? You told me I was the next King!
If you have a mouth to speak with, you better spit it out. I was very suspicious of all this to begin with.
I endured and was patient and waited. Now what are you trying to pull?
Someone might overhear.
Why? Why is my younger brother in the court assembly? Why not me?!
He is doing something that you weren't able to.
I can. I told you I can do it all!
Please wait a little longer.
And if I wait?
Your younger brother will eliminate the Crown Prince.
And then?
Then next, I'll take care of your younger brother.
How do you expect me to believe that?
The Crown Prince, whom we haven't been able to do anything about for years…your brother
has shaken up in a matter of days.
Now is the time to sit back and spectate.
I heard that the incense had been lit in the room the Minister was in.
The Minister has a chronic illness, and so the incense was a fatal factor for him
And where was the Minister waiting?
It was the Wonseong Palace.
We received an anonymous letter. That the military provisions are being stored in Minister Eun's storehouse.
And so we went, and they were there. Each of them with the seal, and full to the top of the storehouse.
One of the guards said that it was rather suspicious, so we reported the matter.
To whom did you report it to?
The Crown Prince. However…he told us to leave it, and that he would take care of it.
Your highness, I would like to ask you one thing.
I'm listening.
I'm beginning suspect that the Minister's murder and the taking of the military provisions are both false accusations.
Rin…don't take things there.
- In order to clarify all this, we should take it to where this all began. - Stop it.
We must hear the details from her majesty the Queen of Wonseong Palace.
I wish to send someone to Wonseong Palace and have her majesty join us.
Here. For her to join us here.
When I heard you were locked up, my lady, I thought you would be in some storage house.
How is a storage so luxurious?
But didn't you leave for Ganghwado? I thought you and Gu Yeong Ahjussi already left.
Not too many people actually left.
Everyone wants to wait for your return so we got a place beside the marketplace.
I don't know how he knew, but the young master came at dawn.
Young Master Rin?
Is there a different young master?
How is he?
Don't even mention it. Young Master didn't sleep all night.
He was finding a way to rescue you, and he said all the preparations are complete.
Preparations?
He said this.
"I will arrange for the person who is with her to come out, so the lady can just come out afterwards."
Go out?
Young Master said to give you this and he said he would wait for you there.
What was it that he said? The place to cut the string. Do you know where that is?
Then, if you drag down the Crown Prince, is the next Crown Prince indeed going to be the second young master?
Since the third one, Wang Rin is too much, after all.
Then, will you abandon him?
I'm in the midst of thinking of how to abandon him without consequences.
What about that child then?
Who?
Eun San.
You seem like a jealous woman.
You saw it right.
Have you been committing these wicked acts in the presence of His Majesty?
Are you even human beings?
Your Majesty. Your Majesty, open your eyes.
Open your eyes and look. Those animals.
Your Majesty? Your Majesty...
Your Majesty, how are you not waking up?
It's me!
Capture the wench and wretch at once.
I must find out what acts they've committed against His Majesty.
Is no one outside?
Men with swords have trespassed into the chamber of His Majesty.
Hence, the guards of the Longevity Palace wagered their lives to protect His Majesty.
Your Highness, you must leave.
Your Majesty.
What is this ruckus?
Did you have a nightmare again? I shall take care of you.
Your Highness.
Go first, please. I will take care of them.
Hurry and go, Your Highness.
I will escort you.
What...
My mother loved peony flowers.
Someone who would not smile no matter what, she would smile when she saw the peonies.
She would also cry upon seeing the peonies.
When I asked her why she cried, she answered thus.
It would have been better not to have known.
That these flowers existed in the world. She should not have known.
No matter how beautiful they are, she should not have liked them.
- What is that? - This is my bundle.
Lady San said to move it over there so I was on my way taking it there.
You can't.
Your Highness the Queen. Your Highness!
Your Highness the Queen.
Your Highness.
What happened?
Your Highness.
Your Highness the Crown Prince. Just now...
Her Highness the Queen. Her Highness the Queen...
She's left the world.
What...
Your Highness the Crown Prince.
My mother's words were etched in my heart for a long time but in the end, I never got to understand them.
Why is it that I never once considered that I ought to be your peony flowers?
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What happened?
Her Highness the Queen has left the world.
The seed that failed to become a flower became a lump of thorns.
Pricking those who neared me and pricking me in my hiding, as it grew and grew bigger.
♫ I'll stay with you. Here without changing. ♫
♫ For you. For you. ♫
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Pick anyone among the brothers.
And drag him to me. I need the next king.
Your Highness! Your Highness, stop! Throw away that sword!!
Tell me the procedure. You said that you want to make me king. You must have a plan?
I will feign ignorance to the fact that your heart is looking towards Rin. So you put away those feelings now.
Give me your promise first.
Are you threatening me, right now?
If you can slay me, slay me, and become king.