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(Kang Tae Oh)

(Kim Se Jeong)

(Lee Sin Young)

(Hong Su Zu)

(Jin Goo)

(Nam Gi Ae)

(And Kim Nam Hee)

(Moon River)

(All people, incidents, and backgrounds...)

(in this drama are fictitious and unrelated to reality.)

(Also, children and animals were filmed under production guidelines.)

This is a rare tea, a gift from my father.

Royal Mother!

Royal Mother!

Is anyone out there? Summon the Royal Physician now!

Royal Mother!

The traitor, Crown Princess Gang...

who assassinated the Queen, is to be deposed...

and demoted to the status of a commoner.

So, Your Highness,

you must not be swayed by pity or curiosity.

What do you mean by that?

You have a long and an arduous road ahead.

Take care on your journey.

Why are you here?

Because I missed you.

I no longer wish to see you, Your Royal Highness.

I despise the royals that killed mine, the palace,

and you, Your Royal Highness, who will become its master.

So,

never come here again.

Do you really mean that?

I do.

Then I will give it all up.

Yes.

That is a wise decision.

This worthless title of Crown Prince...

I have no desire or ambition for it whatsoever.

If there is one thing I have ever truly desired,

it is you and you alone.

So please,

you must remain my heart's one desire.

Please...

do not abandon me.

Yeon Wol.

Please leave.

No!

I will come back, and I will follow you anywhere.

We will, no matter what,

be together!

I am told you are looking after the Crown Princess.

Yes, Your Majesty.

She is a traitor who killed the Queen.

By taking care of a criminal like her,

you could lose your life as well. Do you know that?

I do not care.

I made a promise to protect Her Highness...

to her older brother.

In two days,

the Crown Princess will be...

sentenced to death by poison in the late afternoon by my command.

Why are you telling me this?

Deliver this letter to the Crown Princess.

Yes, Your Majesty.

This is a letter from His Majesty.

A Crown Prince has but two paths in life.

To ascend the throne, or to die.

The Crown Prince plans to abandon everything to run away with you.

So, for the Prince's sake, you must let the world believe you are dead.

Go far away, and live the rest of your life as if you were dead.

His Majesty will sentence you to death by poison.

You must flee at once, Your Highness.

Why would I run away?

I am innocent.

If I run, it will be an admission that I killed the Royal Mother.

But...

I did not.

I know.

But who is going to believe you now?

If I run away,

His Royal Highness will stop at nothing to find me.

A Crown Prince looking for the wife who assassinated his own mother.

How could he possibly survive?

Your Highness.

For now, just think about yourself.

Fine.

I will think only of myself.

Can you arrange where I will go...

and how I will get there?

Yes, Your Highness.

As long as His Royal Highness is safe, I can be at peace.

Who are you?

You fell into the water,

and it seems you have lost your memory.

Your name is Park Dal,

and I am your aunt.

Park...

Dal...

That is me.

Hong Nan...

Why did you deceive me?

Why would you do that?

Wait.

Go get my brother and his wife.

Hurry! Go get them!

Okay.

Have your memories...

returned?

In bits and pieces...

Just fragments.

So does that mean...

I am really Gang Yeon Wol?

Yes.

I know you are confused,

but you must accept it, Your Highness.

It is not about whether I accept it or not.

In the memories of Park Dal that you told me about five years ago,

I do not recognize a single face,

But the faces in the memories flooding back to me are so vivid.

I know that these are my real memories,

and that I...

am Gang Yeon Wol.

My head gets that,

but those are just memories.

I have been Park Dal my whole life.

I am so confused. I cannot tell what is real anymore.

Your Highness, of course you are confused.

But we are out of time.

You have to run.

Run? What do you mean?

His Majesty plans to have you declared dead again.

Declared dead?

He is going to set fire to the royal quarters...

and prepare a similar body to be found inside.

You will be officially recorded...

as having died in the blaze.

As if drowning was not enough,

now you expect me to live my life afraid of fire too?

And I am supposed to live like that...

after shattering His Highness' heart again?

No, I cannot do that! I have to go to the palace!

You cannot! Brother, stop her!

Why are you all doing this?

Your Highness, please. Just give up.

You have to leave.

I know it is hard now, but this will all pass.

Time will keep moving, and it heals all wounds.

Brother, take Her Highness.

Stop crying.

They said you will die if you go back now.

If I just leave like this,

what about His Royal Highness?

For the last five years,

I have made him live in a nightmare.

And you want me to put him back in that nightmare again?

I cannot do that.

I just cannot.

- I just cannot do it. - Goodness.

Does it pain you that much?

Goodness.

You cannot just turn off feelings for someone.

Time heals all wounds.

But that is only if you let time pass.

How can you heal if you keep reliving that day?

Your Highness.

- What do you think you are doing? - I am sorry, Hong Nan.

Go on, Dal!

Today is the day for lovers.

We will be your bridge to him.

What are you waiting for? The bridge will be gone!

- Go on, hurry! - Go!

No!

- Your Highness! - Go on!

- Let me go! - Go.

I am a crow! Go!

- Your Highness! - Go on!

- Go! - Your Highness!

- Dal! - Go on!

Your Highness!

Your Highness!

Do you two have any idea what you have just done?

Your emotions got the better of you and sent Dal to her death!

She would rather die. We had no choice.

If she feels that way, she must go.

How can you act so detached?

I know you are not her birth parents,

- but you raised her for five years! - But, Hong Nan!

It is her life, is it not?

A parent can die for their child,

but they cannot live their child's life for them.

That is right.

You are still hung up on a promise you made to your lost love.

Imagine Dal leaving a living love.

- Brother. - We know from experience.

- Some loves are worth dying for. - Exactly.

What can we do? They are so in love.

It makes them blind to everything else.

What a fool.

Me?

Not you.

That foolish girl.

Why did she have to leave?

Why did she have to die?

She must have been so lost...

and then some.

Who are you talking about?

Gang Yeon Wol.

Right.

I am done overthinking it.

His Royal Highness is fighting a war every single day.

He must be torn apart over that secret pact.

I cannot just sit here in a daze because some memories are back.

Your Highness. I do not understand a single word you are saying.

You do not have to. It is all nonsense anyway.

First, I must go to the throne hall.

Wait. Your Highness.

You cannot just go see His Majesty whenever you please.

- You must be summoned first... - He is going to summon me anyway.

This just saves us some time. From now on, it is an emergency.

Wait...

All right.

As a matter of fact, I was about to send for you.

What were you thinking coming back here?

Did they not tell you who you are?

They told me.

- Most of my memory has returned. - Then you should have run away.

- Why would you come back? - Why would I run away?

The Left State Councilor will stop at nothing to kill you.

Yes, you are right, Your Majesty.

The Left State Councilor wants me dead regardless of my title.

He is desperate enough to bring a false witness before the King,

and his men are all over the country.

If he is already set on killing me,

would it not be easier for him to do it outside the palace?

But...

it is only a matter of time before he learns who you really are.

Exactly. Running away now...

is admitting I am the Crown Princess.

Why would I give him that kind of leverage?

After that humiliation at the interrogation ground,

he cannot use a witness to prove who I am anymore.

He needs hard evidence to prove that I am the Crown Princess,

and where would he ever find that?

The Left State Councilor...

is a terrifying man.

He will stop at nothing to kill you.

Then the Crown Prince...

will risk his life to protect you,

and I still remain incompetent and powerless as ever,

unable to protect either of you.

Nothing has changed since five years ago.

Nothing has changed at all.

No.

I have changed.

I am not the same Yeon Wol who quietly vanished five years ago.

Whether I have my memories back or not,

I am going to stay right by His Royal Highness's side...

and spend the rest of my life with him.

I am Park Dal now.

I am not leaving...

His Highness' side, ever.

As much as I care for His Royal Highness...

No, even more than that.

I know you want to protect him too, Your Majesty.

Do not let fear make you think only of His Highness' physical safety.

For once...

Just this once,

please think about how His Highness feels.

Please?

For the past five years,

His Highness has been tormented by guilt,

living every single day in his own personal nightmare.

His Highness has only just started to breathe again.

Will you send him back to despair to drown all over again,

Royal Father?

(Chapter 11: There Is No Paradise in Running Away)

Ever since he was captured at Jemulpo,

he has done nothing but drink.

Are you just going to keep this up?

I do not know...

how else to be.

Snap out of it!

Give it here.

No. You are already drunk.

What good would sobering up do me?

U Hui is confined to the Detached Palace, is she not?

By rule, a royal consort is to remain in the Detached Palace.

That is right.

The palace has always been one giant prison, after all.

I told our Royal Father to abdicate the throne.

Abdicate?

The Left State Councilor's only hold on Father...

is because of the secret pact.

If he admits the coup had no just cause...

and abdicates the throne to you,

you, as the Late King's true heir,

will have the authority to punish the Left State Councilor.

You want me...

to sit on the throne?

The bloody throne that killed my mother...

and got me exiled?

And then what?

Who would I have left by my side?

After casting you and His Majesty out,

and stand by and watch U Hui, branded a traitor's daughter,

why should I have to live on, sitting on that agonizing throne?

If that is the price,

I would rather not have revenge at all.

Un.

Look at this mess the Left State Councilor has caused.

If it were not for him, everyone would be happy.

The Left State Councilor...

Can we not just kill him?

If it were that easy, I would have done it long ago.

The Left State Councilor is surrounded by his personal guards,

and in the palace, the Royal Guard protects him, not my Royal Father.

And his own martial arts skill is formidable.

Honestly, he is a legend among the military cadets.

Exactly.

Things would be so simple if he were just gone.

Just wait.

If you despise the thought of taking the throne that much,

- I will find another way. - Is there another way?

Gang,

do not do anything. Just...

stay out of it.

Your Highness.

I am fine.

You are not fine. You have been acting odd all day.

Maybe you have heatstroke?

I guess so.

It has not rained,

and the sun is so strong.

I must have heatstroke.

This will not do.

Please sit and rest for a bit.

Your Highness, I will get you some cool water.

Please just sit here for a moment.

I have missed you, my love.

Your Highness, here is your water.

Yeon Sim.

Yes?

Today,

my mind has been a total mess,

and I could not make sense of anything.

I know. That is why you should drink this.

But...

there is one thing I know for sure now.

I have to see His Royal Highness right now.

Oh, gosh! Wait!

Dal. What are you doing here?

No!

I will come back, and I will follow you anywhere.

We will, no matter what,

be together!

I am here so we can be together.

Please do not tell His Highness that my memory has returned.

He is already going through so much as it is.

I do not want to give him more reason to worry.

And I know I have no right to ask,

but please look after my family.

Head Eunuch Park.

Disguise reliable Royal Guards as servants at Unjeong Palace...

and have them protect the Crown Princess's family.

The Left State Councilor must not get his hands on her family.

Then will you keep the Crown Princess in the palace?

If I fail to protect her again,

my son, Gang, will be broken.

The kids have changed in the past five years,

so I must change as well as the adult.

His Majesty...

sent the Royal Guards to Unjeong Palace?

Yes. The Royal Concubine's family is staying at Unjeong Palace,

and Hong Nan, a gisaeng from Eunwol Pavilion,

is said to be the Royal Concubine's aunt.

I did not report it as I was unsure,

but her neighbors said something odd before they died.

They said the Royal Concubine suddenly appeared in Boryeong...

in winter five years ago,

and that she is not, in fact, Lord Heo's wife's niece.

They claim it is all true.

Why are you only telling me this now?

At the time, I thought they lied to save their own skin.

I deserve death.

Round up the Royal Concubine's family and bring them to me.

Forgive me, sir, but Unjeong Palace...

was His Majesty's private residence.

We cannot enter without authorization.

I will find a way.

It seems His Majesty...

still lets his personal feelings get in the way.

All right, time for bed.

What are you doing?

What is it? Can I not look at my own husband?

Is there a problem with that?

No, I mean, I like it,

but you are making me shy.

It is just a little embarrassing, that is all.

It is making me blush.

Even if you are shy, bear with me. I am making up for lost time.

Making up for what?

Wait...

From now on,

I am...

going to stick to you like glue, Your Highness.

I am never letting you go.

Is this a signal for tonight?

Maybe tonight...

Stuck like glue...

You little fox.

You can just fall asleep after all that?

I am not a fox...

Then who are you?

What does it matter...

what I am?

I am just stuck on you.

Stuck on you...

Household Man.

Household Man!

Oh, my, has it gotten so late?

Household Man!

The wind is blowing.

I suppose it has been for a while.

The wind always blows.

That is nothing new.

I suppose you are right.

And yet, even the wind that always blows,

the very air I breathe...

It all feels different to me now.

I cannot remember the last time I could breathe so easily.

Your Highness, what shall I do about the former Chief Royal Secretary...

and the former Chief Court Lady's niece?

Oh, right. With everything going on, I had completely forgotten.

First, exile the former Chief Royal Secretary, and...

Your Royal Highness!

- Goodness. - Gosh.

Dal.

What are you doing here?

I was waiting for you to catch you on your way, Your Highness.

You did not have to. I would have come to you.

You startled me.

I know you are busy with your official duties.

Rather than sit in my room, I wanted to steal a moment with you.

What has gotten into you since yesterday?

Not that I am complaining, of course. Have you eaten?

- Not yet. - Should we go get a bite to eat?

Your Highness.

You were giving your orders on the former Chief Royal Secretary...

and the former Chief Court Lady's niece.

- Please continue. - Right.

Exile the former Chief Royal Secretary,

and make Jo Mi Geum, the sinner, a slave on the island.

- Have the Guards tighten security. - Yes, Your Highness.

Your Royal Highness.

If they are sent to separate places of exile,

does that mean they will never see each other again?

I would assume so, yes.

Your Royal Highness, could you do just one thing for me?

One thing?

Mi Geum.

Mi Geum.

Why did you do that?

You should have just turned me in.

I would rather die than let you die.

Then how am I supposed to live? Mi Geum.

Mi Geum...

- Goodness. Now that is true love. - Mi Geum...

Hey, are you crying?

That is not true love.

What love traps the one left behind in a living nightmare forever?

That is why...

I will never, ever die.

I will not go down without a fight.

Never.

You are right. Let us live.

Let us both live a long life.

My lord, it is your household man.

Come in.

My goodness, what is all this?

Can you not tell just by looking?

They are pinwheels.

No, I mean, why use this expensive colored paper...

to make so many useless pinwheels?

"Useless," you say?

Do you know...

what I heard more than anything when I was at the palace?

"The child who will be the death of his father."

"The child of the prophecy."

If the Royal Mother were to give birth to a son,

the Royal Father would die.

The Royal Family would fall.

Well, that was the prophecy.

In the end,

it came true, just as it was foretold.

So that means...

I was someone who should have never been born in the first place.

Just like these pinwheels,

I was useless.

Do not say such ridiculous things.

And just have this to sober up and get some sleep.

You are still drunk. That is why you are having ridiculous thoughts.

That is what I like about you.

Yes, my lord.

I like you too, my lord, so drink up.

Drink this, and live a long life.

Your Highness. Please just have one bite.

Are you really trying to starve yourself to death?

Do not worry.

I have no intention of pathetically starving myself to death.

Then why did you stop eating?

Because dying from indigestion is absurd.

How can you be joking right now?

If I were to speak seriously,

- you would probably end up crying. - Why do you say such scary things?

There has been no word from Deok Chun, has there?

No, Your Highness.

He said he was leaving the capital, remember?

But I need to see Deok Chun.

What?

What is going on outside?

Oh, my.

What? What is all that?

I mean, what kind of madman would put these pinwheels at the palace?

- Oh, my. - What is all this?

Your Highness.

I will orchestrate your father's downfall,

and all you have to do is hold this ring.

The wind will always blow, so just breathe easy...

and smile often.

You deserve to be happy,

my precious,

my dear U Hui.

U Hui!

Kim U Hui!

Is that not Grand Prince Je Un?

I love you!

I love you, Kim U Hui!

- Seize him! He is over there! - Get him!

What are we going to do?

I think he has really lost his mind.

What was that?

Grand Prince Je Un?

Yes, it was unmistakably him.

I came at once,

fearing what he might do next.

I fear he may have lost his mind.

If he has not lost his mind,

then he must have a death wish.

- Something feels off. - I know, right?

If he were sane, he would not dare say that...

in front of the Detached Palace.

Of course not.

It is not like him at all.

What on earth could he be thinking?

Are you finished, Your Royal Highness?

Yes. Take this royal edict to the Royal Investigation Office,

and have the former Chief Royal Secretary and that court lady...

Your Royal Highness!

What is it now? What?

Grand Prince Je Un made a scene in front of the Detached Palace.

A scene? What kind?

He was shouting the Crown Princess Consort's name over and over,

screamed, "I love you," and made a huge scene.

Seriously, what on earth is wrong with him?

Does he have a death wish or something?

Look at this mess the Left State Councilor has caused.

If it were not for him, everyone would be happy.

The Left State Councilor...

Can we not just kill him?

Gang, do not do anything. Just...

stay out of it.

Left State Councilor!

Who goes there?

Stand back.

If any of you interfere in this fight,

I will cut you down myself.

- Yes, my lord. - Yes, my lord.

I thought you had lost your mind,

but it seems you have simply lost your will to live.

That is because...

you took away my reason for living.

You have quite the romantic streak.

Your escape,

the scene at the Detached Palace,

and your last wish just now.

I am not finished.

The more I think about it,

the more I am convinced I must kill you.

- My lord! - Stay back.

Die.

Die!

Die!

- Je Un! - Grand Prince!

- Let go! Let me go! - Get Je Un out of here!

- Yes, Your Royal Highness! - I said, let go!

Let me go. Let go!

Left State Councilor!

Left State Councilor!

Left State Councilor!

Let go! Let go of me!

- My lord. - Left State Councilor...

Left State Councilor!

Left State Councilor!

Though it was not my intention,

I now owe you my life.

Why did you go easy on him?

I guess...

my blade hesitated.

So, shall we pretend today never happened either?

I would appreciate that.

The more secrets we share,

the closer we become, Your Royal Highness.

Just like...

His Majesty and I.

Speaking of which,

if I were to die,

someone else will release the secret pact.

I just thought you should know.

I appreciate the information.

- Let go of me! - Please calm down, my lord.

- Please! - No, you cannot.

- Just let me... - You cannot, my lord.

Did you not know killing the Left State Councilor meant execution?

Do you think I came here without knowing that?

Why did you stop me? Why?

So this is the brilliant plan you made after drinking for days?

To kill the Left State Councilor and die along with him?

Yes.

Everyone knows this fight is over when the Left State Councilor dies.

If only he dies!

The abdication stops, and U Hui will not be a traitor's daughter!

Then what about me?

And the woman you love?

How is Kim U Hui supposed to live?

I...

I want to live too.

I want to live a happy life with U Hui. But...

there is no other way, is there?

Je Un.

If a path is blocked, we will force it open.

If there is no path, we will make one.

You would rather die than ascend the throne,

and I would rather die than let you die,

So, let us...

find another way.

Let us survive this.

Let us live, Je Un.

If you give the order, we will go and capture Grand Prince Je Un.

I let him go.

Why do you always show such mercy to Grand Prince Je Un?

Bring me a drink.

Here you are.

But I thought you never touched alcohol?

You may leave now.

Yes, my lord.

Am I not...

fighting a losing battle?

What? Even if he was blinded by rage,

what was he thinking, going to the Left State Councilor's house alone?

He went there to die.

That Grand Prince Je Un really needs a good scolding.

He has no regard for his own life.

I am the one who should be scolded.

Me and my Royal Father.

You are blaming yourself again.

No, I am not. It is damage control.

It seems our path is blocked,

so I am going to force it open.

Do you have a plan?

The Left State Councilor said his death releases the secret pact.

So he gave it to someone else for safekeeping.

You have anyone in mind?

Choraengi Mask.

Kim Deok Chun.

She is the most likely suspect.

Who is Kim Deok Chun?

She was the daughter of a slave in the Left State Councilor's home.

She was a female Royal Physician.

So she was right under our noses this whole time.

So the Left State Councilor must have given Kim Deok Chun something.

But is Choraengi Mask not in hiding?

Then we will find her.

We got through a collapsed cave. We are capable of anything.

I will start by digging into the Cheonghye Merchant Guild.

The Cheonghye Merchant Guild?

Did Choraengi Mask use that guild to import the Jimjo feed?

Since it is a merchant guild,

we can just find them through the Hanyang Merchant Guild.

As Head Merchant, he knows all guilds inside and out.

Come to the Royal Office of Attire by tomorrow afternoon.

I am looking for a way to defeat the Left State Councilor.

Is that what you call a disguise?

Gosh, you!

Have you lost your mind? I know you want the tiger, but this?

If you go into the tiger's den alone on a suicide mission,

what are the rest of us going to do?

What?

When His Highness told me about it yesterday,

my heart just dropped. Did you know that?

I am sorry to have worried you, Your Highness.

Do not dare die.

No matter how cruel and twisted this world gets,

do not just give in and die.

When you are dead, you cannot remember those you love,

and those who remember you can no longer hold you.

What a terrible waste that would be.

And so unfair.

So...

do not throw it all away.

Let us stay alive.

Okay?

Hold it right there.

- Gang. - Your Royal Highness.

Are you just going to keep staring?

Do not mind me. I am just...

a sitting sticky rice cake. Just think of me that way.

I see.

Would not a sitting sticky rice cake be even more distracting?

So,

what about the thing I asked you to check?

Yes, Your Royal Highness.

According to the Head Merchant,

the Cheonghye Guild was made by the men from The Nameless...

as a front for smuggling.

The Nameless?

Yes. They are called The Nameless because they have no name...

and also because they shun the light.

Your Highness, they use loan-sharking for human trafficking,

do all kinds of smuggling, and counterfeit coins.

They will do anything for money.

- They are just vile scoundrels. - They are lower than animals.

Then how are scoundrels like that still at large?

According to the Head Merchant,

the Left State Councilor is apparently their backer.

The Left State Councilor?

In fact, they have already ruined the market economy,

so the Head Merchant wanted to teach them a lesson,

but even for a man as powerful as the Head Merchant,

the Police Bureau will not listen to him. This clearly...

means their backer must be someone equal to the Left State Councilor.

Back off. Unless you want to lose your heads.

They either have a death wish,

or they follow orders without question.

Do you suspect something?

Shin Won, do you remember what the Sinjusa assassins were wearing?

Yes.

Now that you mention it, the Left State Councilor's men at Jemulpo...

and Sinjusa assassins wore the same clothes, did they not?

My thoughts exactly.

The Choraengi Mask wore the same outfits too.

It means the Crown Princess Consort must know something.

The Detached Palace is too guarded.

We cannot reach the Crown Princess Consort, can we?

That is the problem.

I will do it.

Getting to the Crown Princess Consort,

I will do it.

Do you have a plan?

If one road is blocked, there is always another way around.

Your Majesty. Did you rest well last night?

What is it now?

It is a surprise that you came to pay your respects.

Since I...

started living in the palace,

I have found the life of a royal woman to be terribly dull.

So naturally, you came to mind, Your Majesty.

You must want something from me.

Your Majesty, that i hurtful.

How can you twist my pure intentions like that?

Search your heart.

Have you ever once...

come to me out of the goodness of your heart?

Gosh. They do not just let anyone be the Queen Dowager, right?

Your insight is incredible, as always.

Gosh, you and your flattery.

All right, then.

Since you are here, let us hear it.

How will you amuse me today?

You know I used to be a peddler, right?

From my travels all over the eight provinces,

I have collected a lot of juicy stories.

Do not dare.

How dare you bring vulgar stories into the palace?

So, the physician, her husband, and that homewrecker... I mean,

they went to the mistress's family home?

Yes. The physician, bold as brass, said,

"Your daughter has been sleeping with my husband."

And then,

the mistress slapped the physician across the face.

My goodness.

The shameless hussy! And the husband?

What did the husband do?

He grabbed the physician by the hand,

and as he was dragging her out, he yelled,

"Is it a crime to be in love?"

Can you believe the nerve?

That worthless scoundrel!

So there was this good-for-nothing freeloader,

who fell for his wife's best friend, whom she had taken in!

Her friend?

After he kicked out his devoted wife,

her sister saw them getting groceries at the market,

being all lovey-dovey.

When the wife's sister saw that, she would just see red, would she not?

She certainly would.

So she went to confront them, and the mistress dared to say,

"Have some class." So the sister totally snapped.

"Class?"

"This is my class!" Then she grabbed her hair...

and started yanking her head left and right.

- Left, right. - That is the way!

Left.

Right.

Becoming a supportive wife...

is so darn hard.

What?

Ye Na is Seon Jeong's daughter?

Yes.

Now that it is out that Ye Na is Seon Jeong's daughter,

maybe it is time you did me that favor.

My patience has run out. That is why you are here.

You are to be the Crown Princess of this nation.

And yet, you act so thoughtlessly?

Is this how your father raised you?

Crown Princess Consort, you need to reflect on your conduct.

- I need to ask you something first. - Do not worry.

Grand Prince Je Un is safe.

But how did you know I was going to ask about him?

They say only one who has been in love can recognize it.

The feeling of being madly in love but forced to be apart...

You think I would not understand that?

All right, let us get down to business.

The assassins operating at Sinjusa.

Are they part of The Nameless?

And the Choraengi Mask, Kim Deok Chun.

- Is she one of them too? - How do you know that?

We are short on time. Let us get to the point.

Where is their base?

I only know what Deok Chun told me, so I am not sure,

but I heard they have branches in all four corners of the country.

I think I might have heard something about a mountain fortress.

A mountain fortress.

Anything else unusual about them?

Like when Choraengi Mask went there, maybe it took a few days,

or maybe she often bought something. Anything like that.

She would often bring her sick mother...

chestnut honey and some liquor.

Chestnut honey?

What kind of liquor?

I think it might have been pine needle wine.

Is it songyeopju?

Could it be Yangju?

- What? - Yangju chestnuts...

are famous enough to be offered as royal tribute.

Songyeopju is the signature liquor of the Yeosan Song clan in Yangju.

I guess I should tell them to search Yangju first.

If you find Deok Chun, please tell her to come see me.

Tell her I have something urgent to discuss about her mother.

Forgive me. We still have not gotten the Royal Concubine's family...

out of Unjeong Palace.

What about the head of Eunwol Pavilion?

We have not made contact with them.

Hong Nan was in hiding.

So why would she suddenly appear at Eunwol Pavilion?

I will capture Eunwol Pavilion's head at once.

There were dozens of assassins at Sinjusa alone.

This organization must be massive.

If they have branches across all eight provinces,

this is no small-scale operation.

There must be hundreds of them, at least.

The Nameless. A group so large is basically a private army.

This is treason.

According to this letter from Dal,

the Choraengi Mask is in Yangju,

and The Nameless are in a mountain fortress.

Let us search the nearby mountains. We are bound to find something.

Should I grab a map on the way, then?

I saw a stall selling them on our way here.

- What can I help you find? - We are headed to the mountains.

- The mountains? Which ones? - Hey.

- It is right here. - Those mountains.

- Let us see. - It is marked plain as day.

- Here we go. This should do. - How much for this?

His Majesty?

If she rashly escapes, it could give...

the Left State Councilor the pretext he needs,

so for now, I intend to keep the Royal Concubine here.

From the moment you brought the royal guards to Unjeong Palace,

it shows...

that you are worried, Your Majesty.

You have only ever cared about His Highness.

You never thought of Her Highness, the Crown Princess.

And now, because you are worried His Royal Highness might get hurt,

are you going to send Her Highness to her death all over again?

Yes.

Just as you said, my son is my only concern.

However, the Crown Princess is his only concern.

Therefore, the Crown Princess...

No.

Protecting the Royal Concubine...

is how I protect...

the Crown Prince, my son.

Gang.

What...

What in the world are you talking about?

What do you mean the Royal Concubine...

is the Crown Princess?

- It is just... - Tell me what happened!

I am so sorry.

Five years ago,

afraid she might bring you harm, Your Highness,

she threw herself into the river.

She lost all her memories then.

Right now, Her Highness herself...

knows who she is.

I am going to stick to you like glue, Your Highness.

I am never letting you go.

Your Highness!

- Your Highness! - Where is the Royal Concubine?

She should be in the Royal Kitchen.

Your Highness.

She went to the Eastern Palace, saying she had something for you.

Your Highness.

- Where is the Royal Concubine? - She left...

to her quarters after waiting, Your Highness.

When I opened my eyes,

my mind was completely blank,

but my memory was just a black void.

A life where I do not have to run anymore.

A life where I can settle down...

and make a real family of my own.

Leave Hanyang this instant.

This is the price someone as lowly as you...

has to pay for having a face like yours.

That is why you are so angry, is it not?

Because someone as lowly as myself...

looks like the Crown Princess.

Because of me, that precious woman...

On those small feet,

she walked such a long and difficult road back to me.

All because of me.

All because of me.

Your Highness.

Your Highness, is something the matter?

They say if you catch a falling flower petal...

Do you know what happens if you catch a falling flower petal?

I...

must have caught two.

After all, my first love and I...

ended up married twice.

I...

I am so sorry.

I am so sorry.

For far too long,

I left you all alone.

I am so sorry.

At a time like this,

you should not be on your knees. You should be holding me.

Like you will never let go.

I am sorry.

(Moon River)

What if we just ran away?

- A letter was outside your room. - Identify yourself, Your Highness.

What can His Royal Highness possibly do?

Harboring a traitor is a grave offense.

Stop the execution!

The Royal Concubine... No, Deposed Crown Princess Gang...

is hereby sentenced to death by hanging.

(Moon River)