All language subtitles for The.East.Palace.S01E04.1080p.WEB.h264-EDITH

Your Majesty,
Prince Iksang has arrived.

Has his son come as well?

Yes, Your Majesty.

How is Prince Yeongan's health?

There has been no improvement,

so he will not be able to attend
at this time.

-You may leave.
-Yes.

It seems that Gu-cheon
has failed his part, Your Majesty.

I've heard people say

the reason I am able to sit on this throne
is due to spirits.

Now they mock me,

saying that my position
will be threatened because of spirits.

Which do you believe to be true?

We will know which one when we get there.

Kneel before the honored guest,
straighten yourself,

and perform the four ceremonial bows.

Bow.

Straighten.

Bow.

Straighten.

Bow.

Straighten.

Next, the Crown Prince
would present a ceremonial drink,

praying for your long life
without illness.

However, as the seat is vacant,
I suggest you omit it.

No. That's enough.

This tired and old body

cannot be certain any longer
of another birthday to come.

And what do you think of that,
Your Majesty?

Then you must do as you wish, Mother.

Prince Iksang's eldest son,
will you step forward right now?

Prince Iksang, congratulations.

This is the drink
presented by Prince Inha.

Your Royal Highness,
I pray for your well-being.

What is happening?

I can tell
that something has arrived here.

All right.

I knew that if I drove you far enough,

you would come to me with that resentment.

Now,

what will you do?

Gu-cheon!

Get a hold of yourself!

You'll become an ak-gwi.

If you kill,
that's what's going to happen to you.

You said that becoming
an ak-gwi after death

was what you feared more than anything.

Gu-cheon!

Your mother's death was not your fault.
You must believe that.

You were possessed by the gwi-mae.

If you still won't trust me,

then I'll get to the bottom of this.

The second we can leave the palace,

I will go find your mother's grave
so we can uncover the…

Please, Gu-cheon.

Let us make it out of the palace alive.

THE EAST PALACE

What is wrong with him?

What happened to him? Come on. Wake up!

Send for the physician!

Summon the physician now!

Your Majesty.

This child is a little flawed.

You must be disappointed
with what you're observing, Mother.

In such a frail state,

how could he ever endure
the palace's energy?

I must say you need improving
when reading others, Mother.

Resume the banquet at once.

Carry on the music!

What are you standing around for?
Attend to Prince Inha at once!

No, no.

Princess.

Princess!

Have you lost your mind?

I told you to never set foot in there.

You've never listened to me once.

I saved you, and this is the thanks I get.

Am I supposed to do nothing and just
stand by and watch you become a gwi-sin?

You are never
to do something like that again,

whether I am a spirit or not.

I never want to see someone die
because of me again.

I will never do it again

if you truly cannot bear it.

I, too,

cannot convince myself to go in again.

I was terrified.

It must have been very difficult for you,

having spent all that time in there.

Everyone who carries
the King's blood is mad.

There are no such things as spirits.

Mother.

There are no spirits.

There are no spirits.

Mother?

Your father is the palace entity.

How are you?

What are you doing out there?

How is it? Your fever?

Why would you
open the window without asking?

At least you still have your temper.

Miss Saeng-gang, you're awake!

How are you feeling now?

What in the world is going on?

I thought Gu-cheon was dead.

Now he's talking to you
and walking around.

And you, who are perfectly fine,
slept for three days and nights.

I mean, you basically slept like the dead.

It was three days?

Yes! Have this first.

I had to beg the female royal physician
to brew this medicine,

and I snuck some rice cakes
to bring to you here.

You haven't eaten one thing
for three days.

Here, please have these.

I appreciate it.

But, um, why did you bring me
so many rice cakes?

It's Gu-cheon.

I brought some for him also.

But he just left.

He must have terrible luck with food.
Is he not even hungry?

He has not eaten for three days.

Mmm.

After three days without food,
it tastes better.

Do you want some?

I don't have an appetite.

Please help yourself.

You should eat too.

You cannot work without it.

I found something at the guard's house.

I will handle all of that.

You needn't be concerned, Your Highness.

"Your Highness"?

What?

What?

You have changed somehow.

So, anyway,

tell me what you have found at the house.

I found what the Favored Court Lady
made for the child she was carrying.

Do you think
this could ease her resentment?

It might be possible,
but the preparation will be complicated.

Her spirit is not ordinary.

She killed people
for 30 years as a won-gwi.

Oh! The lightning-struck jujube wood.
Where did you get that?

Ah! The jujube tree
inside the palace was struck by lightning.

-Oh.
-Was that branch helpful at all?

It helped a great deal having that wood,
and it will continue to help.

Well,

I believe I have helped
in more ways than one.

The least you could do is say thank you.

You know, the second you brag,
it makes all of your goodwill disappear?

And how is that bragging?

It is simply the praise I am owed.

I nearly died
dealing with your family's mess,

and you want my thanks and praise?

What? You want recognition that badly?

Forget it.

Fine. I do not need your thanks.

But you should be thanking
the Ggeomeoksali.

The gwi-mae had you in the well,
and it saved you.

That saved me?

I did wonder why
I had not seen it roaming around here.

It fell into the well
while helping fight the gwi-mae.

How sad.

Good riddance.

Don't be cold about it!

I don't make stupid decisions
like getting attached to it like you do.

Let's just focus on the pond spirit
and how to get rid of it.

Is something wrong?

The truth is…

…when I crossed over to the other side,
I came face-to-face with the pond spirit.

It clawed my back
and drained my spiritual energy.

But I was able to come back
because you pulled the rope just in time.

It clawed you?

What's the matter?

Uh…

The spirit
that consumed your soul down there…

Has likely begun
to regain its strength from it.

The curse that had briefly weakened
will grow stronger again.

Your Majesty.

The royal physician
attending Prince Yeongan

says you must prepare
yourself for what is to come.

Why?

Is confronting the spirit
impulsively like this truly wise?

I believe Prince Yeongan won't make it
through the night, most likely.

He's reached his limit
after enduring the curse for so long.

We cannot waste more time.

Sh!

Can you hear it?

That sound?

Be careful, please.

I am not saving someone
who will not say thank you.

You're still on that?

My baby.

You know how to shoot a bow?

Everyone tried to stop me
because I'm a princess,

but I stubbornly insisted
my father teach me.

So you have been peculiar
since you were little.

I will spin thread from the shirt
made by the Favored Court Lady,

and stain it with my blood.

If you wrap this thread
around an arrow and hit the spirit,

it can weaken its resentment.

Here.

When the baby's crying stops,
that is when you shoot.

We must release the resentment born
of being falsely accused,

as well as the grief of losing her child.

Killing those of royal blood

will not bring you your child back to you.

So release your resentment now,
and go to the afterlife.

Free yourself
from this hell of a palace, now!

Your Royal Highness,
Prince Yeongan has awakened.

What?

Are you saying
he's shown signs of improvement?

Not merely signs of improvement.
He is said to have recovered completely.

It seems that the feng shui master
His Majesty had brought in

has eliminated the pond spirit.

Your Majesty.

Father. I am better, Father.

You are.

So he finally put an end
to the curse that lasted 30 years?

But…

That feng shui master…

How did he prove
that the pond spirit is gone?

I am not sure, Your Royal Highness.

In the process of eliminating the spirit,

he must have learned
what the spirit's true identity was,

and now that man knows the secret.

He knows the truth behind how
that lowly wench turned into a won-gwi.

That man must be silenced at once.

The pond spirit
has finally been eliminated, Father.

Yes.

It does seem that way.

I have now completed your orders.

So I am entitled to a reward.

Before that…

Father.

The palace frightens me.

Frightens you?

And who would ever dare
to frighten a princess?

I keep hearing
strange sounds everywhere I go.

Saeng-gang, come over here.

Here. Carry this with you.

And if you do, this bell will drive away

all of those strange sounds
you are currently hearing.

He lives because of you.

Thank you.

I did not do this
to be praised like a child by you.

Very well.

Then the reward you desire.

What would you like?

Allow Gu-cheon the honor
of leaving the palace immediately.

Of course I will allow it. Yes.

And do not harm him at all.

That is my humble request to you,
Your Majesty.

Why are you not packing your things?

I, uh, have nothing worth packing.

I only need the jujube wood.

For someone leaving the palace,
you do not look very cheerful.

It's just…

Something feels wrong.

What do you mean?

Has Prince Yeongan truly recovered?

Is he completely well?

That is what I was told.

How about your wound? How is that?

The pain is gone at least.

What is the matter?

It should not have been destroyed
so easily.

It was a won-gwi
that had killed the princes

of the East Palace for 30 years.

Four of the late King's sons,
and three of the present king's sons.

For a won-gwi that killed seven,

its power was far too weak.

Are you really sure

that the princes
were killed by the pond spirit alone?

If it wasn't the actions of the spirit,
what's responsible?

I don't know.

I mean, I thought
it would be a life-or-death struggle.

But seeing how easily
it was resolved is making me doubtful.

I must be out of my mind.

Completely out of my mind.

Since you are departing,
will you go to the temple?

As if I would.

I'm honestly
still thinking about where to go.

And what will you do, Your Highness?

Have you found the one responsible
for your mother's death?

There is just one person it could be.

Are you not the daughter
of the banished Third Senior Consort Han?

What brings you all the way here?

I have brought a gift
to celebrate Your Majesty,

for your 70th birthday.

It's quite modest
compared to the other offerings.

You came all this way for nothing, then.

I never once permitted you
to enter the palace.

It was Father that granted permission.

If that's true,
he did so without my consultation?

Your mother was sent away
for committing a crime.

You mean you framed my mother

and drove her out
to cover up the court maid incident

in the salt storehouse.

Because you feared
that if that incident were to be revealed,

the death of the Favored Court Lady
would come to light.

It's the matter tied to the pond spirit.

One Your Majesty
may wish to keep concealed.

So you barge in spouting nothing
but absurd nonsense in front of me.

Your mother was banished.

She was banished
for burying a cursed object

and because she refused to confess...

Is that why
you had my mother killed back then?

Was her begging my father for help
over and over before she died

what brought up the fear
of exposing your buried sins?

And that poor woman's curse
of the serpent's shed skin.

Is it because you were raised so lowly
outside the palace,

or your mother's origins perchance?

You have truly lost your mind, child,

sitting there,
daring to slander me with such delusions!

You may open the gift.

I have recreated the hangwa she received
from the palace the day before she died.

Not only the taste,
but also the ingredients are the same.

You may try it.

Who on earth told you lies
about such a story?

I had no hand in your mother's death,

nor in the death
of the Favored Court Lady.

How could you possibly know events
from long ago?

Was it that feng shui master Gu-cheon
who told you all of this?

I should have taught that bastard
the palace's lesson sooner.

That those who dare to spread lies,
here within these very walls,

will soon be dead.

Tell me about the pond ghost
and what you've learned about it.

A ghost?

In a pond?

Are you talking about your grandfather
who drowned in the bath?

Throw him into the wooden chest.

Death is the only fate for liars
in this strict palace.

Just like your mother in the end.

She was put to a stop.

I remit

those very words to you.

This is the baby shirt made
by the Most Favored Lady of the Court.

You gave it to the royal guard
and forced him to falsely claim

the child as his own.

-What is this?
-Your Royal Highness.

I know the Favored Court Lady
was smeared by your lies

and how you managed to have
the royal bloodline all but eliminated.

The late King's bloodline,
you say?

That lowly maid who decided
she wanted to dance

with a mere royal guard?

Why go that far?

Unlike the other concubines
who received the King's favor,

why did you frame and kill her?

Could it be that you were…

Jealous of a mere maid, Your Highness?

Jealous?

Did you say I was jealous?

That I harbored jealousy
toward such a lowborn girl?

She once lived as my family's servant.

I was the one
who allowed her to serve in the palace

as a menial labor maid,
and you think I was jealous?

Is that what you're saying?

Unlike you, I hail from
a noble lineage spanning generations!

For years on end,

I endured
the late King's scorn and neglect

for failing to bear a child for him.

The fact that a lowly maidservant
received His Majesty's love

and could carry his child,
I could not accept it!

I could allow daughters
of the noble households

and their children,
but I could never allow

for that lowly, feeble woman
to carry his child.

She had to be eliminated
by any means necessary at all.

Is that why you
made all those false claims then?

Yeah!

I had that slut tortured,
then I myself killed the filthy blood

that continued to grow inside her!

Your Majesty.

I heard you clearly.

Your confession
that you killed the Favored Court Lady

and eliminated the King's son.

What? What?

I will make this public
before Father and all the other ministers.

You stated to me earlier

that liars meet
their timely death in the palace.

Tell me, Your Royal Highness,

what would death mean to you?

It would be losing the palace
and everything that defines you.

The home you have lived in all your life.

The power you've enjoyed for many years.

I'll make sure it's all gone.

Your Majesty.

And what could someone like you

possibly do?

Who would ever believe the words
of a lowborn expelled from the palace?

Who?!

That much I know.

Who would listen to the mere words

of the lost princess?

Your Majesty, I believe your voice
was loud enough for everyone to hear.

Now,

the time has come

for you to kill these women
the same as you did before.

You will need a lot of jars
for their bones.

Let us go.

Your Majesty!

Your Majesty!

I cannot keep
my eyes off you for a second.

Why are you lying in there,
beaten to a pulp?

What trouble did you cause today

to make Her Majesty want you dead?

Was it not ordered by the King?

To see if I'm capable
of keeping my mouth shut or not?

Since you believe that,

it would be pointless
to mention that is not true.

Then why do you spare me?

The princess earnestly… pleaded
with His Majesty

to let you leave the palace unscathed.

She must have foreseen
something like this.

This is your pass to leave the palace.

And your compensation.

Watch your mouth out there.

All eight provinces of Joseon
lie in the hand of His Majesty.

They do not let me go easily.

Still, it's over now.

Ah…

I saw nothing.

Nothing at all. I did not see anything.

Ah no!

Whoa, whoa.

I have repaid the debt
I owed you for saving me.

So take care.

I'll give you a bit of my yang energy.

Just enough for your body to recover.

Get off!

Let go!

Don't take too much, damn it.
That's enough!

You do not look well.

Perhaps you are ill?

It's been hard on me, I think,
working alongside Gu-cheon lately.

And considering the part you played

at the Queen Dowager's quarters
last night,

it makes perfect sense.

And the Queen Dowager,
do you plan to do anything about her?

Is that why you wanted to talk
this early in the morning?

No.

I wanted to make sure
Gu-cheon made it out all right

and is free of the palace.

You fret too easily.

He will have left the palace by now
and surely will have traveled far already.

After all, he saved my son.

I have no desire to hurt Gu-cheon.

He saved my child from death.

Do not be worried.

I must say, though,

I did not expect him
to deal with the pond spirit so easily.

Indeed, Father.
Even Gu-cheon felt strange about it.

He questioned whether it was truly
the pond spirit that killed the princes.

Father…

…I want to know about the late King's
first son, the Crown Prince.

How exactly did he pass away?

Your Royal Highness!

Your Royal Highness!

Summon the physician!

The physician!

The Crown Prince…
Your Royal Highness.

A curse.

He passed away
because a spirit had cursed him.

What of the late King's second son?

A spirit killed him.

The third and fourth brothers as well.
All four of them.

Are you really sure

that the princes
were killed by the pond spirit alone?

What is the matter?

Your Majesty.
The hunting preparations are complete.

Prince Yeongan is waiting for you.

Very well.

We will continue this later.

We cannot allow him
to learn the truth of the pond spirit.

-Stop. I don't wanna hear it.
-You do not need to know either.

I do not want
to know any more.

Please, someone…

…admitted to the crime…

-Help me.
-Your father is the palace entity.

Why are you crying?

More importantly,
why haven't you left yet?

There's one thing I didn't see.

The spirit that cursed Prince Yeongan

was not the Favored Court Lady.

The one that tore
your body and soul was not her.

There's got to be another.

Then, um…

…who was the one that tried to kill.

Crown Prince Yeongan?

I will have my revenge.

The King

must pay for the sins
that he has committed.

The secrets of
the royal house will be revealed.

And I…

I will become the real one.

I will wipe out the royal bloodline!

Prince Yeongan.
We need to go find Prince Yeongan!

Wait.

It's already too late.

Is there a royal physician
back there?

Send for the royal physician!

Take formation.

Stay calm, everyone.
Don't break formation.

Secure the perimeter.

-What's happening?
-Protect His Majesty!

Then you should leave the palace
through this path.

You must run away now.

Since you were unable to save his son,

he will find you and kill you immediately.

But if I leave you behind,

you will die the same as Prince Yeongan.

-That is a matter beyond your concern.
-It does concern me.

You saved my life.

You risked everything
coming to the other realm to save me,

and now this time,
I'll be the one who is going to save you.