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Hey Persimmon

Is your name perhaps Yeon Hee?

Let's go, Yeon Hee! I will protect you.

The person who gets her curse

will continue to suffer and will die within a fortnight.

Why am I like this?

Go away, you monster!

Exactly. So why were you born

when nobody wants you anyway?

So only you need to die.

Everything is my fault

so I'd rather just die.

That child has to live. That is heaven's will.

This is a new beginning.

There's only 49 days left.

I couldn't even light a candle for six months now!

Just why are you going around killing people who are related to the Hundred Year Tree?

They say it is wrong to live but

I'm going to fight to the death and live.

It's you, right? Ripe Persimmon.

For you to realize and face your destiny yourself, I should lead you out.

I have to meet the princess as soon as possible.

Once we go out, you'll know, whether I'm your talismanic shield or not.

So the people who hanged wishing tags died because of me. Because of my curse.

Go down with me.

There is someone willing to lay his life down for her Highness, the princess.

No matter how I struggle!

Will I not be able to escape from the curse?

If he doesn't change his mind even after seeing Yeon Hee with a curse,

Yeon Hee!

Poong Yeon will be the last person who can lift Yeon Hee's curse.

Episode 11

Just why did you do it?

Just why?

Young Master.

What about Yeon Hee?

Where did Yeon Hee go?

What happened?

Poong Yeon, why are you...

What about Yeon Hee?

Where is Yeon Hee?

No.

It's been a long time, Child.

I see that you haven't forgotten me.

Why are you doing this to me?

Why did you kill the people who hung the wishing tags?

Didn't I tell you that you were cursed?

If you had died that day, those innocent people would have been untouched.

Do you still not know the reason why you have to die?

Do not even try. You won't be able to use any powers in this place.

Why are you being like this?

What does my curse have anything to do with you?

It was my mistake that you were born.

So I should be the one to take your life.

That... What does that mean?

Pitiful thing.

Do not be so afraid.

It will end soon.

If not for me anyway, aren't you someone of indirect lineage who can't even dare look towards the throne?

Since you were able to sit on the king's throne because of me,

please don't resent me too much.

Go away this instant!

Your Excellency.

Did you use the living-ghost method?

(Taking out the soul, having it wander then possessing a different person's body)

Leave the Hall of Tranquility immediately.

For a loyal subject who seeks to protect the king, still you cannot just enter the royal body at will.

I know what your plan is.

So? Are you thinking of keeping that up until the hour of the pig, (7-9 pm) passes?

Your Excellency is already dead physically.

It's a body that's barely holding up with my black magic.

If you excessively use your energy with that body, it will rot in its entirety.

It doesn't matter.

Then try enduring it.

I also waited so long for this day.

I cannot back down easily.

Is it hard?

Then stop it. You'll really die at this rate.

Who dares

to worry for who?

Your Excellency!

Your Excellency! Are you alright?

I will capture their attention. In the meantime you go inside and search for Yeon Hee.

I am asking you because you are Yeon Hee's talismanic shield, and not because I trust you.

Leave.

Hall of Tranquility

Your Majesty!

How did it go?

Did Hong Joo make her move? How about the King?

His Majesty followed Hong Joo into the Palace Shaman Council.

There's not much time until the hour of the pig has passed.

What is His Excellency Choi up to?

Your Highness the Crown Prince, you have waited for so long.

Now you just need to do as I tell you. Do you understand?

Your Highness the Crown Prince, with that dagger, stab this child's heart.

Then you can attain a new body.

What are you doing, hurry and slash her.

She is someone who should've died in your place anyway.

It is because of this child that Your Highness the Crown Prince has become like this.

Quickly. Quickly stab her heart.

Stab her already!

What are you doing? Pierce her.

Yeon Hee.

It's you. You are this child's talismanic shield.

It's you, isn't it. The real murderer hiding behind the Red Robes.

Then you must know that to face me, you must stake your life.

Life? There's nothing preventing me from placing that bet.

Then, even if you die, you won't feel wronged, I suppose.

Kill him.

No!

Take Yeon Hee and leave.

Yeon Hee.

Do you not feel anything?

About what?

Despite Yeon Hee's curse being activated,

how were you able to come here unharmed?

Whose heart has changed?

You should know by now that child, Yeon Hee, is a princess.

The person that is loved by the princess, and the person that loves the princess, all die.

That is the curse of the Princess.

Now that you are free from the curse, the decision must come easier.

For the nation and for his majesty, you must kill the cursed princess.

Will you help me?

If I kill you, Yeon Hee will probably come back.

If you kill me, the princess will forever be bound by the curse;

in that horrid-looking state.

Was her condition so difficult to look at? It is not your fault, Young Master.

That is an unsightly monster, not the woman you loved.

That's why I'm saying to kill her.

Shut up.

The only one able to save the King is me.

If you cannot believe me, then try killing me.

You'll see what happens to His Majesty and the Princess.

Have you come to your senses? Are you okay?

Are you hurt anywhere? You must've been very scared.

You said you were going to stay next to me.

You said you were going to stick right beside me.

I'm sorry. I am the one at fault.

I won't leave your side ever again. I will surely be right by your side.

Are you alright, Your excellency?

Thankfully the internal wounds aren't big.

My energy will soon be restored, so do not worry too much.

What happened to Poong Yeon?

Is Yeon Hee's curse no longer affecting Poong Yeon anymore?

I also thought that was weird.

But, it is a fortunate thing, since young master's life has become safe.

What did Hong Joo do to your excellency?

By chance... were you defeated by black magic?

I am able to prolong my life because of the black magic.

Seeing that bit by bit my body is not moving the way I wish it to,

I don't think I can endure for long.

Your Excellency.

Once the black magic completely eats away at me, I won't be able to use my body as I wish.

Before that, there is much I need to do for Yeon Hee.

Yo Gwang.

Your Excellency, I will help you.

Remain seated.

I apologize.

You tried hard. Because of you the royal family overcame a great danger, but...

There's no way Hong Joo will stop at this point.

She will not give up easily.

That child, you said she was called Yeon Hee.

I saw her just moments ago.

You said that child needs to break the curse for this tragedy to come to an end, right?

Yes, that is so.

Have you come to your senses?

What happened?

Didn't you say I would be well if I performed the cleansing rite?

Did you deceive me?

I apologize.

The Chief of the Taoist Temple, Choi Hyeon Seo and his son had interfered so the ceremony could not be completed.

What did you say? How is it that Poong Yeon—?

Shut up!

Your Majesty, how much do you trust Royal Guards' Captain Choi Poong Yeon?

Are you trying to exacerbate the relationship between Poong Yeon and me?

Exacerbate? This lowly servant is only asking out of curiosity.

The loyalty between a loyal subject and his liege, the trust between friends truly

will it not waver in front of personal and selfish desires? I am only curious about that.

I heard His Excellency, Choi Hyeon Seo, raised the Princess as if she was his own daughter.

Her name is Yeon Hee.

It seems that Captain Choi did not know she was a princess.

That is probably why he didn't inform you.

Where is this?

Go ahead inside. There is someone who wants to meet you.

Are you Yeon Hee?

Yes. But... Who are you?

I am...

I...

It may seem sudden, but will you listen to me?

What is going on?

I don't even know either.

It is something that you need to know sometime,

but I keep wondering if I need to do this. I keep wondering what would happen if I don't.

I don't even know either.

Huh?

There's something like th...

Why are you acting like that?

Your Excellency.

Is she meeting Her Majesty?

Yes.

We meet again. I'm sorry I wasn't able to introduce myself properly yesterday.

I will get straight to the point and ask.

What is it?

Last night, a woman named Hong Joo tried to use the king to kill Yeon Hee.

And Hong Joo called the King, His Highness the Crown Prince.

Does Yeon Hee's curse have something to do with the king?

Years ago,

I couldn't give birth to children so I received the help of Hong Joo.

So I gave birth a pair of very pretty twins: a boy and a girl.

But she said that the children were cursed.

She said that she could only save one child out of the two,

and I, who wanted a prince to continue the royal line so badly,

chose the Prince.

Me.

I was the one who threw you, my child, away.

It looks like you've stayed alive.

From earlier,

what are you talking about?

It looks like... you've got the wrong person.

To you, I am a mother who doesn't even have the right to ask you for forgiveness.

I was lacking and cold. That I was.

Why are you acting like this?

It's okay if you hate and resent me. It's okay if you don't accept me as a mother as well.

But,

Please end this chain of curse.

Last night,

to spread the curse to the Royal Family, Hong Joo

used the soul of the Crown Prince to try to kill you.

It's my fault.

It is my sin for using black magic.

Because of my sins, my Boo and you...

are going through pain.

What you are saying,

I don't really know.

That shaman, says being born...

was her mistake.

Was it true?

Hong Joo will try to kill you again.

No longer,

can I leave the royal family to be played into the hands of Hong Joo.

Princess, only you can go against Hong Joo.

I will help you. I will do anything so

that Boo, your brother, and I...

help us get away from the palm of Hong Joo's hands.

Please, save the royal family.

Child.

Don't call me like that.

Father.

Father.

I missed you.

I wanted to see you so much.

The person in there is saying something weird.

That she is my mother.

That I am a princess.

That it is her fault.

That I am someone's mistake.

Am I someone's sin?

Just...

Who am I?

Father?

Father!

Your Highness, the Princess.

Your subject, Choi Hyeon Seo greets you formally.

To protect Your Highness the princess from the curse,

this lowly servant has locked you away in the Black Forest.

Father don't be like this.

I did wrong.

Don't be like this.

Even though it is difficult, you must accept it.

The one who is able to go against Hong Joo, now

The one who is able to end the curse against this country...

Is only you, Your Highness.

Don't be like this.

To let you know like this.

I apologize.

Hong Joo is the one behind the Red Robes.

She is slaying the innocent people, and slandering your majesty while being by your side.

We must arrest her immediately and punish her accordingly.

Hong Joo, she...

told me to keep my distance from you

But you say to keep her far.

Your Majesty.

I would believe you

Would I believe her?

Poong Yeon, I think of you as a true friend.

I believe your loyalty...

I have believed the heart that sincerely pitied me.

No longer do I do want to be played by Hong Joo's attempts to create a rift between us.

The Princess' name...

Is Yeon Hee.

If you have found the Princess,

By midnight tomorrow, bring her in front of me.

Let me continue to believe in you.

Why here?

I want to ask my brother.

The words of my father and her majesty,

I cannot believe them.

And what if your brother confirms what they said, will you believe it?

I wish older brother said that it wasn't true.

What's a mother like?

I don't know at all.

What a mother is.

When I was young, after coming in crying because the other children made fun of me.

My mother held my hands tightly like this.

How warm that hand was. My heart became less burdened.

All the mothers in the world must be the same...

So, do not be so sad.

She said she threw me away.

Because I was cursed.

Why do I have to go against her?

Who am I?

I don't know who I am.

The you, whom I met in the Black Forest on that day and the you, whom I met again at Cheongbin Temple,

And even the you, in front of me now.

For me, it's all the same Yeon Hee.

Whether you are cursed, hair is white or black, or the princess...

You are just Yeon Hee to me.

Where were you? I did not see you at all the whole time.

I went to search for you, Sir.

Since you disappeared all of sudden.

A lot of things have happened.

Where are you going?

I have to meet Yeon Hee.

Does it hurt?

I am alright.

I apologize.

Are you being swayed by the Young Master Poong Yeon?

It's not like that. He is hard to deal with, so I was only hesitating.

I heard a warrior will lose his life once he hesitates.

If your hesitation is because of Young Master Poong Yeon, I can get rid of him.

He will meet the Princess again.

Isn't it because of the Princess you asked me to gain his trust?

This time, with no mistake, I will find where the princess is hiding.

Let me fulfill my mission.

Keep that in mind. Nothing destroys you as much as having a heart for someone.

Please don't go.

Can you not go?

I'm sorry. I was only suggesting it since your complexion didn't look good.

I am alright. Don't worry.

Are you all right?

That Heo Jun guy, is he close to Yeon Hee?

Scholar Heo came to have the cursed pattern.

On that guy?

That guy is a talismanic shield, so the curse is not working.

It means that the talismanic shield protects Scholar Heo himself.

You've been chasing Red Robes with him, weren't you?

Have you by chance found any clues?

I'm doing this since I have to catch this guy, too

if you ever find any clues, just please let me know too. I'll help, ok?

Oh, are you hurt or something?

There's nothing that I have for you to know, so please just shut your mouth up.

You make me feel distracted.

Is your body ok?

And your heart?

Brother, have you known who I was all along?

I came to know this time.

What am I supposed to do?

I want to live as father's daughter, and your sister.

Nothing has changed.

Yeon Hee, I will be beside you like I used to be.

Many have died because of my curse.

Brother may get hurt.

I don't care about anything, like the curse.

Leave with me. I will find a place like the old Black Forest before.

Like before you just have to stay inside.

I will stand guard beside you.

I have something to show you.

Please come with me.

Here, this place I have been staying at, is called Cheongbin Temple.

In the meantime, I have lived lighting all the candles here.

To lift the curse to go back to father and brother.

I will help you so that you can lift the curse.

At your side, I will help you so that you do not have to turn into such a horrid-looking state again.

Brother.

That me in that horrid-looking state, is also

The me that is in front of brother.

It is all me.

I'm sorry, Yeon Hee.

I'm very tired today. Then I'm going to go back.

Brother, please.

Brother.

That horrific look

was not you.

I'll contact you later.

How do you drink this much even though you can't drink?

Sol Gae, to Yeon Hee...

I gave a pain again.

I told her I'd protect her.

Actually, I don't do anything.

Sir.

His Majesty told me to bring Yeon Hee.

How cruel is he?

Did he mean I drive her to the place of death with my own hands?

But do you know what makes me more distressed?

While I'm anxious whether I lose Yeon Hee,

I'm weighing in agony

what I have to do for His Majesty.

I'm weighing in agony what to do with Yeon Hee.

I don't like myself, who is doing this.

It was not easy with this kind of my mind so I wanted to run away.

I really dislike myself.

Get up. I said to get up.

Until when will you keep lying down? An excuse for sickness should be only for one or two days.

If you do not want to get fired, strengthen up and go to work.

I do not want to. Please leave me alone.

This ugly wretch!

Ugly wretch? Ugly wretch, ugly wretch, that ugly wretch!

This is all mother's fault.

Of course, I look ugly because you compare me with Jun.

You should have borne me with a good brain if you were not able to make me with a good-looking face.

F-father is no fault at all.

All of this is because of your fault.

Stop an ugly talking.

Do you know what this is?

This is the local-breeding beef that was presented to the King.

I sent it to the King as wishing not to forget you.

Even though it was you who caught a fake Red Robes,

wasn't it the King who closed the case without the proper investigation?

Since the King is your backing support, you should not get anxious about it.

By chance, His Majesty will be my side.

If Jun finds the truth, he'll blame everything on me.

Then you must go to the higher position so that he cannot even dare to look at you.

What do you mean the highest position? That highest position makes you stand over everybody.

The higher position you get,

The more people stand under your feet.

At that time, you'll take care of Jun without any effort.

Well, there is nothing better than this beef for strengthening up.

Eat a lot, strengthen up, and enter the palace.

Here.

This mother will present something to the King often.

No matter what, you make some chances

and you should get noticed by the King. Understand?

Chew it thoroughly.

Poong Yeon. What is wrong?

Why did you not tell me?

If father had only told me.

I would not have taken Yeon Hee out of the Black Forest.

If I had not done that...

I would not have given any pain to Yeon Hee like this.

Why did you do that?

Just why?

Right now, you are confused.

I know... Whom do I blame for it?

It is all my fault. Because I'm foolish.

Father. Now what do I have to do?

As long as your heart doesn't change, it'll be okay.

My heart has not changed.

My heart is still with Yeon Hee.

The only woman I have loved all my life is Yeon Hee.

That woman suddenly changed to a different woman.

How can I easily accept that?

Yeon Hee didn't change but got dangerous.

You, who is her brother, have to protect her.

Brother.

I don't like it. I'll not be her brother anymore.

Poong Yeon.

If you had known Yeon Hee's curse, what would be different?

If you cannot accept it now, you would not be able to accept in the first place.

Poong Yeon, I don't like you to get hurt as a father.

However, I hope you do your best on your duty as a loyal subject and protect the country.

If that is what you have to do, even sacrificing your life...

I hope so.

As a man, you can't do, then as a brother or a loyal subject,

protect the princess.

I do not want to. Princess or monster, I don't care.

I, the Yeon Hee I loved...

Will find her.

Taoist!

Seo Ri. Scholar Heo.

Seo Ri.

How did you come here?

You struggled to light up the candles in this kind of place?

To lift up the curse?

For those mere candles, you didn't know all those people were dying.

By chance, do you remember?

Because of you, everyone will die.

This man is also dying because of you.

S - Scholar Heo!

Die. Die.

Die, wench. Die!

♪ Don't cry sky, let me see him ♪

Because of my curse...

That is the last thing I can do.

If Yeon Hee is not able to lift up the curse,

you will be sick lingeringly for 15 days then die.

Please don't go!

Leave Heo Jun here and come with me.

That child, who existed when only brother's words were everything to her, is no longer here.

This is the forgetfulness potion. If you drink this, you can save your life.

Who disregarded your love again?

Tell me quickly.

We finally part.

From now on, Your Excellency and I will be on the same side until dying.

The princess cannot be captured even for the palace or the royal court.

Following Poong Yeon, catch his sister and bring he in.

Did you take away the princess?

I will go into the palace.

♪ Let me see him, my love drifting farther ♪