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Shields!

What?

Isn't this...

(Episode 11)

(A Dream or an End?)

My lady.

Do you feel better now?

My lady. Allow me to help you.

Goodness.

Are you all right?

- Yes. - Gosh.

You keep losing consciousness...

when Lord Lee is not even around, which worries me.

Should I get some herbal medicine for you?

This is the same doll that I bought near campus.

How can it be here?

Is this a coincidence?

By the way, Bang Ul.

Do you know where this doll came from?

Have you forgotten already?

This is that, no?

Your life is stifling and boring?

It feels like I am living a day planned by someone else,

and it frustrates me.

I wonder if it will change if something exciting...

happens.

I sound like a rich, whiny girl, do I not?

Of course not.

I, Sul Ki, have many solutions...

to your problem.

Choose the one that calls to you.

That will be the solution to your problem.

Could it be that...

this doll led me here?

I must visit her.

Are you all better to move now?

- What? - What?

Where is she?

I will look around and see if she is nearby.

Are you all right, my lady?

Yes.

Wait.

I have not seen that doll in a while.

Did it work?

What exactly does this doll do?

Well...

Since you came to me...

to break free from your boring life,

that will...

help you start a new life.

"Start a new life?"

But above all, your beloved is the problem.

I heard he went to war. You must be worried.

Yes, and terribly at that.

Let me see.

May Lady Sun Chaek's beloved return safely.

Well?

Instead of an answer to the question,

I got a strange reading.

What strange reading did you get?

"The end."

"When the story ends,"

"everything will come to an end."

What does that mean?

I do not know.

This is a first for me too.

"When the story ends,"

"everything will come to an end."

"Everything will come to an end."

Will this world disappear or something?

Get a grip.

For now,

I must focus on wishing that Lord Lee will return safely.

The ending is not yet decided.

I must remain...

even stronger right now.

So,

did Lee Bun leave to the border?

Yes, Your Majesty.

You made a wise decision.

Lord Lee will vanquish the barbarians...

and bring the Emperor's decree.

I owe that...

to your resourcefulness.

You flatter me.

You made the decision yourself.

But...

what if Lee Bun does not survive?

What happens then?

Do you not trust him, Your Majesty?

What if he takes too long?

Who will...

protect me then?

The Black Gang.

They will come for my head.

The Black Gang.

The Black Gang. They will come for me.

The Black Gang.

Your Majesty.

Your Majesty.

Why do you fear?

You have me.

I am by your side now.

Yes.

That is right.

You are here.

I have you.

The incense...

you gave me that is from China.

It calms me.

I slept well for once in a long time.

I am pleased to hear that.

Keep the incense burning in His Majesty's chambers.

Yes, my lord.

Darn it.

I am so cold and hungry.

This is no fun at all.

How am I to get inside?

Shoot.

I cannot hide you any longer.

If you get caught,

both you and I will be killed.

What if Lady Eun Ae were to find out?

Why did you do something so dangerous?

I hoped to turn my life around.

Oh, my gosh.

My lady.

What are you two doing here?

Lord Lee.

We may be apart right now,

but I can feel you in this house.

Cha Sun Chaek.

Here.

They are pretty.

You are managing even the small things now.

You are a true lady of the house.

I want to know everything...

that works and goes on in Ho Sun Dang.

Shall we go that way, my lady?

Why not?

How pretty.

My gosh.

- You are... - There you are.

Goodness.

It likes you, Sun Chaek...

more than its owner.

You have changed since I last saw you.

I would like you to stop referring to me by name.

I am now the lady of Ho Sun Dang.

So that is what happened.

I thought...

the Sun Chaek I knew...

would not even see Lee Bun,

let alone end up as his wife.

Why did you think so?

A man who is always sweet...

and full of warmth...

who could see into your heart without you having to speak.

That was the kind of husband you wanted.

If that is the case, then that is my reason.

I have not yet met a man as sweet and warm...

as Lord Lee who sees into my heart without my having to speak.

What brings you here?

My lady is not in.

As if she is not.

I knew it.

You were here.

Do people in your guild lie whether they are high or low?

You smiled?

Should I cry, then?

No. Save your tears.

It is no fun if you cry now.

Why wince?

You are no match for me.

Get to the point.

I will go right to the conclusion.

You are done for.

I reported you to the State Tribunal.

I even found a witness.

My gosh.

I am...

so very scared.

Do you have someone to save you?

I am sick of pretending to be flustered, afraid,

and shedding tears.

I do hope you keep this up...

when you are at the State Tribunal.

I wonder...

if you will get to see that.

What do you mean?

You drank the whole cup of tea...

not knowing what was in it.

Did...

Did the tea contain poison?

I was only joking.

Maybe you should toughen up.

At last,

the final moment has truly come.

My lord...

Oh, no.

- My lord. - My lord...

Oh, dear.

My lady.

What is going on?

Well...

Lord Lee...

was ambushed by the enemy...

and died instantly.

You are lying.

If he really was dead,

then where is his body?

His body could not be found.

See?

That means he is not dead.

The barbarians...

seize the bodies of enemy commanders...

and put them on display.

(Severed heads are displayed by mounting them high.)

- Lord Lee! - Lord Lee!

But no one has actually seen it.

Lord Lee is not someone who dies easily.

So folks,

do not be sad.

My lord...

When day breaks, we will hear that he is alive.

I am sure of it.

No...

It cannot be.

This is Lord Lee we're talking about.

The male lead doesn't die.

They don't die.

I need to see for myself.

To my love, Cha Sun Chaek.

This is my first time...

writing a letter to anyone.

This is another first that you have given me.

That is why I am confessing this for the first time.

Truth be told,

every time I wield my sword...

and head into battle,

fear consumes me.

(I will never leave your side. Be careful, Lord Lee.)

But now,

rather than fearing death,

what terrifies me is leaving my lover...

by herself.

The wins and losses on the battlefield so far...

have been due to luck.

Lord Lee,

you are finished.

You are the one Lee Kyu mentioned.

You said you would share your luck with me.

However, it was my own luck...

that I survived so many battles and acts of murder.

And it is this luck that I dedicate to my lady,

Cha Sun Chaek,

who reads these words.

(What terrifies me is leaving my lover by herself.)

I have a favor to ask.

Should something happen to me...

Why would you say that?

It is only hypothetical.

Should something happen to me,

I ask you to care for my lady.

This...

will be my first and last request...

as a friend.

Bunny...

Please give us some privacy.

Right.

Is it you, Lee Bun?

Lord Lee Bun...

has died at war, Your Majesty.

Lee Bun is dead?

How did that happen to the almighty man?

It must be his fate to die in war...

to protect Your Majesty.

Lee Bun...

Are you all right, Your Majesty?

My body...

does not feel the same as it once did.

How about stepping away from political matters...

to devote time to your recovery for a while?

I do not have a son yet.

There is no one I can leave the political affairs to.

There is always the option of abdicating.

"Abdicating?"

The future is impossible to predict.

Do you wish for the country you worked so hard to build...

to falter?

What if the remaining rebels of the Black Gang take this chance,

while you are unwell, to crown a new king...

and turn the world upside down?

No. That cannot happen.

Never.

Then...

If I were to abdicate, who should I hand the throne to?

Sun Chaek.

What brings you here at this hour?

I heard about Lord Lee.

Were you shocked?

I am sorry.

Nobody expected that to happen to him in a faraway place.

Lord Lee is not dead.

Do you truly think so?

I am going to persuade His Majesty...

to send reinforcements to the battlefield.

His Majesty...

already knows very well that no soldier has returned alive...

from that war.

I can ask His Majesty.

But a dispatch of reinforcements...

is unlikely.

- You cannot. - I must go.

I must save Lord Lee.

But he is dead, no?

If so,

I shall bring my friend's body back so that he does not feel lonely.

Are you truly going to betray your family?

From now on,

consider me as good as dead to you.

Are you still out of your mind?

Yes.

And I will never come to my senses.

Either way,

I am always a disappointment to you, am I not?

If you dare to walk out that door,

I might even kill you.

There is no possible way for me to know...

the new world you are hoping for.

However, if Mother were alive,

she would have supported my decision.

Because of the justification you will not tell me,

I do not want to live with guilt for the rest of my life.

There will be no honor in my life.

How dare you!

Do you realize what you are saying right now?

No. But...

from here on out,

I will take care of my life.

Can you request His Majesty in my stead?

Please do it for me.

I may be able to...

if you do me this favor.

And what is it?

Marry me.

What kind of nonsense is that?

Did you not promise to do anything...

to save Lord Lee?

- I am already Lord Lee's wife. - I know.

So why are you going this far?

Because you were originally mine.

To be more precise,

Lord Lee took you away from me.

I have never once loved you.

But you will from now on,

as Lord Lee will not return alive.

I have made sure that happens.

You are mad.

Why are you being so cruel to Lord Lee?

You already know, do you not?

Lord Lee took away what was precious to me.

Lord Lee had no choice.

He made those inevitable choices...

just to survive at such a young age.

Do you know how much guilt he felt after meeting you?

My rage and pain.

Can you not see them, Sun Chaek?

Let go.

I am close to achieving what I want.

I can make you happy, as long as...

you accept me.

You...

You are the Black Gang.

So you have noticed.

That was quite quick.

Were you the one who kept tormenting Lord Lee?

Again with Lord Lee!

Listen, even if you do not want to!

Lord Lee is my husband.

Never in my life will I marry you.

How dare you, Sun Chaek?

Do not say my name with that filthy mouth of yours.

Your pain is none of my concern,

now or ever.

Today, you have been ordered to gather...

because His Majesty...

has spoken of abdicating.

An abdication out of the blue?

As His Majesty's body and soul have become weak,

he cannot take care of political matters.

But the one to succeed His Majesty has yet to be decided.

This is all just too sudden.

I...

will hand over my throne...

to Lee Kyu.

Your Majesty.

An abdication is unacceptable.

It will undermine the very foundations of the royal family.

If Your Majesty is unwell,

taking some time to recuperate will do.

Please reconsider it.

- Please reconsider it. - Please reconsider it.

It is His Majesty's wish.

Do not go against his decision.

Do you know of anyone...

who is more apt than Lord Lee Kyu to take the throne?

His Majesty is insistent.

The future of our nation depends on this!

If you must abdicate, there are other royals...

you could consider, such as Lord Lee Bun.

Lee Bun is dead.

How dare you mention a man who disobeyed...

his king in His Majesty's presence?

You must be in cahoots with Lee Bun.

Why would you say that?

There is an inn up ahead.

We can rest there.

- Okay. - Stop where you are!

What is the matter?

We have orders...

to detain Cha Sun Chaek,

- the daughter of a traitor. - What?

- Let go! What are you doing? - What is going on?

- Father! - Father!

- Father! - Father!

- Bring everyone outside! - My goodness...

- How dare you? - Oh, dear.

What are you doing in the middle of the night?

The King commanded...

we bring in Cha Ho Yul,

leader of the Black Gang as well as his whole family.

The Black Gang?

That is preposterous.

I found it!

(General Lee Bun has come to take down the tyrannical king.)

(The Black Gang follows and will build a new world.)

What on earth is going on?

I do not understand.

The greedy and villainous.

What should I do with them?

Do as you wish.

Your will...

is mine.

Yes, Your Majesty.

I will uphold your command.

Let me out.

Please.

I must go to Lord Lee.

My time had passed without purpose,

but there was one person who gave it meaning.

For me, Lee Bun,

the first and last woman of my life...

is you,

Cha Sun Chaek.

- Sun Chaek. - Sun Chaek.

Father. Mother.

Brothers.

Sun Chaek. What is happening?

I am afraid.

Is this how we all die?

No! This cannot be real.

I am no traitor.

This is a conspiracy!

We were framed for nothing!

Let me speak with His Majesty!

- Spare our lives. - Please let us live.

Do not kill us.

This is a conspiracy.

Lord Lee Kyu?

Poor you, Sun Chaek.

You made the choice, did you not?

Accept the consequences.

You are the one who framed my family?

You are all suffering because of your daughter and sister.

I will be generous enough to dispatch you in one go.

No! Stop it! Put a stop to this!

Start with that noisy wench.

No!

Stop it, please!

Goodbye, Sun Chaek.

- This is not right! - Do not do this!

- No! - Please!

Spare our lives!

- Please let us live. - We did nothing wrong!

- No! - Spare us.

- Please stop it. - No!

This is wrong. Stop.

Enough!

Stop it!

Do not kill us.

- No. Do not do this to us. - Please, no!

No!

Sun Chaek!

No!

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(Unable to connect to server)

What the heck?

Did the server crash?

Darn it. What happened?

This is unbelievable.

- What's wrong? - It froze.

- What happened? - It's down.

- What's going on? - My phone's weird.

- What could it be? - I think it crashed.

- What's this? - Shoot. It's down?

What the heck?

- What do you think it is? - Why right now?

What happened?

Right at this moment,

you got sent over here?

Are you...

Yes. That's right.

I'm the real Cha Sun Chaek.

Then...

what happened?

I hope I'm in a different place when I wake tomorrow.

A place where no one knows me,

where I can start over completely.

You look at me as if you know something.

If you know how I feel, do something.

Change things around so my life becomes more fun.

It's the result of a coincidence where two people...

who wanted a new life made a wish to the same ornament.

Are you saying our souls have switched bodies?

Yes.

To think that Cha Sun Chaek became the heroine.

That was a surprise.

You know what happened?

Thanks to what you did, the novel started rewriting itself.

(Unable to connect to server)

The server's down right now.

The server's down?

Because of what happened,

too many people logged on and the server crashed.

It looks like...

my family's safe for now.

What about Lee Bun?

What happened to him?

He's alive, isn't he? He's not yet dead?

For now.

He told me...

he would give me this land if I brought him your head.

Do not resent me.

Do you not fear death?

I do not fear death.

What I fear...

is the grief my lover will feel...

when she learns of my death.

What a relief.

For the first time, I feel jealous of Lord Lee.

He is fortunate to have someone who cries for him.

Is there still a chance for us?

I believe there is,

but you are running out of time.

(We apologize for any inconvenience.)

(Under maintenance)

What'll happen when the server's back online?

The story will pick up where it left off.

Then, it will be set in stone.

- That can't happen. - Of course, it cannot.

My family must be saved,

and you have to save Lord Lee at all costs.

Then, do you know how to get back?

Would I still be here if I knew that?

What took you so long?

Who are you, kid?

Wait.

Aren't you...

That is the bracelet of fate.

It will tie you to your loved one...

and ward off the hardships and obstacles between you.

I see you remember me!

You're the architect of the fictional world?

That's right.

In your world,

I am the connector of fates.

But here,

I am the storyteller publishing his novel.

Are you responsible for this plot twist?

Actually, it was you.

You are the one...

responsible for unfolding this current story.

(Hey, writer. I could write a better story even with my left toe.)

(If you think you can do better, be my guest.)

If you think you can do better,

be my guest.

You wrote a compelling story,

so I simply sat back and watched.

Please tell me how I can fix this mess.

Please.

She is right. My innocent family does not deserve to die like this.

Well, since you have made my life entertaining,

I will help you one last time.

But first, there is something you need to decide.

Will you go back to your past lives...

or remain in this switched state?

I will give you a chance to return to the fictional world.

Write how the story will unfold.

(Ever Web Novel)

But here's the catch.

You can only write...

three sentences.

Have you made up your mind?

Only five minutes remain.

I don't even know where to begin.

You can do this.

You know this universe better than anyone.

That's right.

I'm a die-hard fan of "Lord Tyrant's Obsessive Love,"

who became the leading lady of her favorite novel.

My name is Cha Sun Chaek.

(Ever Web Novel)

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"So this is how it ends."

Just as Sun Chaek was thinking that,

a bee, one with exquisite taste that recognized...

the most beautiful flower in the land,

flew straight at the executioner's face.

Execute the sinner!

Wait, I have something to say.

Your words no longer interest me.

Fetch another executioner...

and execute the sentence!

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

My eye... My eye!

Goodness.

"Gumaengjusan."

Should I continue?

I am surprised you remembered that.

You told me about it yourself.

"Gumaengjusan."

It is the idiom...

that served as the motto for Lee Kyu's The Black Gang.

If the dog guarding the tavern is ferocious,

the liquor will turn sour.

Likewise, the more violent His Majesty's hound is,

the less likely he is to be surrounded by wise subjects.

That is how you justified the necessity of the Black Gang.

You know more than I thought.

But after getting rid of the hound,

Lee Kyu became a hound...

No, wait.

He became a mad dog.

After all, dogs do not bite their masters.

It is the throne you coveted.

Lord Lee, the eyesore, is now out of the picture,

and even the Chief State Councilor was imprisoned for treason.

That leaves you...

with a clear path to persuade His Majesty to abdicate.

But beware.

Are you certain everyone...

in the Black Gang has your back?

Are you actually saying that out of concern for me?

I see you are going to great lengths...

just to preserve your life.

They may call it an abdication,

but this constitutes treason.

What is wrong must be corrected.

During times like this,

loyalty must guide our actions.

Are you all right, Your Highness?

With Lee Bun gone,

Lee Kyun...

is stirring up trouble.

As soon as the King had become...

bedridden with an illness,

he bared his claws.

I fear there could be...

another bloodbath.

Your Highness.

Can...

Lee Kyun truly be trusted?

Are you acting like the King now?

"Acting?"

It is an expected course of events.

I shall give you another chance.

Will you marry me?

I told you I would never marry you.

Marry me,

and you will become this country's queen.

I have the power...

to make you the greatest woman in this country.

You leave me with no choice now.

If you hate the idea that much,

I will make you mine against your will.

I do not like easy games either.

Men!

Haul that woman to my bedroom.

Catch her!

Oh, no.

What?

Do you plan to jump into the water?

Are you scared to do it now?

Come to your senses.

Do so, and you will be given one last chance.

Chances are not bestowed upon me.

I create them.

There is no need to take you to the execution ground.

If you so desperately wish to die,

I will grant it.

Oh, dear.

My poor Sun Chaek.

I do not want to go this...

What are you doing?

I choose...

my own death.

I was lenient with you because we have a long history.

However, your reckless decision...

is only hastening your death.

Farewell, Sun Chaek, truly for the last time.

(The First Night with the Duke)

(Epilogue)

It's time to decide now.

Have you made up your mind?

What about you?

What do you want to do?

I'd love...

to head back to where Lord Lee is right away, but...

Great.

I like the way things are now.

Really?

This world...

is completely free.

It is a free world...

where I can become anything and go anywhere.

This is what I wanted.

What a relief.

After all, we're happy with our switched lives.

Let's...

be happy.

Bye.

Kim Mo Eum.

Bye.

My Cha Sun Chaek.

(The final episode will air tomorrow at 9:50pm.)

Our great cause...

was to make a new world, was it not?

Those who oppose His Majesty are...

to be executed at once.

Please save...

this perilous world, Lord Lee.

Will you really not regret staying in this world?

Even if the novel ends?

Even if this world ends?

- Do Hwa Sun! - We are inside a novel.

And when this story ends, - Bye.

This world disappears?

If I am with you,

nothing scares me, even if the world ends.