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ALL CHARACTERS, LOCATIONS, ORGANIZATIONS, AND INCIDENTS IN THIS DRAMA ARE FICTITIOUS

The head acupuncturist, Yoo Se-yeop.

He was born in Hanyang.

He has never ventured beyond the four main gates of Hanyang

making him a true Hanyang man.

At age 15, he enrolled at Sungkyunkwan,

and at age 17, he passed the Special Liberal Arts Exam.

But that is not all.

When he was 18,

he easily passed both parts of the Triennial Liberal Arts Exams.

But after his mother died of an illness, he gave up on liberal arts

and went into medicine. He is completely crazy.

Anyway, after he passed the Medical Exam with flying colors,

he immediately entered the Royal Infirmary.

He has read every single medical text in the country.

As for his acupuncture skills,

he was so talented that he was named the head acupuncturist by the king.

He was born rich as the son of the Minister of Personnel, Yoo Hoo-myung.

Honestly, everybody in the royal palace

wanted to be treated by him.

On top of that, he is very handsome too.

Oh, my. They are all swooning.

Ever since becoming a physician,

the extraordinary young master has saved every patient who was treated by him.

But while he was on the road to success

with his perfect treatment record…

What is it?

What is going on?

Please do something, sir.

What if she dies?

She is already dead.

Dead?

Then what should we do?

She worked for the Royal Kitchen,

so tell Court Lady Park to take the body away.

Hold on.

Please stop.

What? Are you so confident in your skills

that you think you can bring her back to life?

No, I am doing this because she is not dead yet.

You almost did kill her,

but she will live with my help.

What do you think you are doing?

She appeared dead because her energy could not reach her brain,

but she is still alive.

Did she not scream before starting to convulse?

Yes. She screamed before she started convulsing.

It is cholecystitis.

Please move aside.

My goodness…

I will perform acupuncture…

OKDANG, HWAGAE, CHEONDOL

…on the three conception vessels.

One,

two,

three.

-She is alive. -She is alive.

-She is alive? -She is alive.

-I need a pair of scissors. -What?

-Scissors. -Right.

What on earth are you doing?

You just ripped a court lady's skirt…

My goodness.

You said she was dead 15 minutes ago.

Cutting a court lady's skirt does not matter

when she could have been carted away as a corpse.

Book of Medicine, chapter 64.

With cholecystitis, one might appear dead.

But you can save them quickly with acupuncture needles.

-I knew that too. -We are running out of time.

I will have to use another needle.

One,

two,

three.

He saved her.

What is all this noise?

The Crown Prince is on the brink of death!

The Crown Prince just recently began suffering from malaria.

I told you to come to the Crown Prince's Court.

Why did you not follow my orders?

I was told that he was suffering from mild indigestion today.

-That court lady could have died… -Who cares about her?

The Crown Prince's symptoms are persisting after the acupuncture.

That is why His Highness called for you.

Do not be so thoughtless.

If you think you are allowed to disrespect the King

just because you studied with the Crown Prince,

I will kick you out. Do you understand?

Yes, sir.

None of the needles or medicine have managed to cure him.

-Do you think you can do it? -Yes, Your Majesty.

However, you must step away

before I apply the acupuncture needle.

That rude brat!

Please forgive him, Your Majesty.

-Like this, you mean? -Yes, Your Majesty.

One,

two,

three.

Help me sit up. Quickly!

Is this why you told me to step away?

Yes, Your Majesty.

This can settle indigestion.

However, if it cannot be settled, the patient will vomit instead.

I did not want your royal robes to get wet.

So you were thinking one step ahead before applying the needle?

You truly are a good acupuncturist.

Crown Prince.

Are you feeling better?

I feel much better.

That is good.

I am sorry for telling you to not become a physician.

You said that because he wanted to be a physician

even after he passed the Liberal Arts Exam.

Even his father, Minister Yoo, is still angry at him.

Is that true, Minister Yoo?

Pardon me, Your Majesty.

I think I will make you the head acupuncturist.

Pardon me, Your Majesty,

but I am already the head acupuncturist.

Is that so?

Goodness.

So your only other option is becoming the royal physician.

All right, then.

Give the physician Yoo Se-yeop the title of Top Acupuncturist,

as well as twenty seom of rice.

Yes, Your Majesty.

Your acupuncture skills are unparalleled.

You have gotten much better.

However, you must never act arrogant and always stay humble.

Yes, Father.

I will keep that in mind.

Is something on your mind?

His Majesty has made me the Overseer of the Royal Infirmary.

OVERSEER: THE HIGHEST RANKING OFFICIAL IN AN OFFICE

Is something the matter with His Majesty's health?

Se-yeop,

His Majesty is planning on waging war to our north.

But Councilor Cho and his allies will never let that happen.

A storm is approaching.

If the energy in his liver stagnates due to stress,

the boils on his skin will become much worse.

You must not, Your Majesty.

Councilor Cho, you have been telling me since five years ago

that I must wait until the moment is right.

Do you even wish to conquer the north?

Once you start a war, you cannot stop it.

You must wait for the right time.

The Qing Dynasty is in a disarray because of their frontier's rebellion.

I cannot miss this opportunity.

I shall raise the armies of the generals, so make sure that we are prepared.

Your Majesty,

you cannot make your people bleed

for your own desires.

Please do not do this, Your Majesty!

Councilor Cho!

My people who were dragged off on the Year of the Red Mouse

are still living in terror.

It is my duty to rescue them

as soon as possible.

I thought we had been watching him closely.

When did His Majesty contact the generals without us knowing?

This is like running into a fire while drenched in oil.

We must stop this.

His Majesty will not be able to conquer the north.

Your Majesty, they have brought your late-night meal.

Your Majesty, did you suffer from a nightmare?

I need to conquer the north sooner than I had planned.

There is little time to waste.

Run and deliver this message to General Lee.

Your Majesty, please give the order

to stop your conquest of the north.

Please do not do this, Your Majesty.

Think of your pitiful people, Your Majesty.

-Please do not do this, Your Majesty. -Please do not do this, Your Majesty.

Why can you all not understand…

what I am attempting to do?

Your Majesty.

Your Majesty!

What are you doing?

Take His Majesty to his quarters.

Your Majesty, can you hear me?

Young Master, where are you going looking like that?

I was called to the palace. I will be right back.

Stop.

I told you that I need to hurry.

All done. You must hurry.

He has been healthy so far. What has happened to him?

The energy in his liver is trapped in place

because of his stress and worries.

If I make an incision and drain the boils, the pain will go away in an instant.

-But… -But?

How did the boils get bigger so quickly overnight?

How bizarre. It does not make any sense.

I cannot administer the treatment.

You should call for the royal physician.

You are the head acupuncturist, are you not?

I trust you.

Your Majesty, please wait for the royal physician.

-Your Majesty. -Your Majesty.

Se-yeop, apply the needle to my father.

What are you waiting for? Treat His Majesty right away.

No, he must not. Let us wait for the royal physician.

You need to hurry, sir.

All right.

What if His Majesty becomes even more ill while waiting for the royal physician?

-Your Majesty. -Your Majesty.

What if somebody used poison

to hasten his blood flow and make the boils swell?

No, that cannot be.

This is an order.

Make this pain go away.

Quickly.

-Your Majesty. -Se-yeop, just do it.

Se-yeop, you cannot.

You must not do it.

Se-yeop, hurry.

Do something.

I, the head acupuncturist Yoo Se-yeop, shall treat His Majesty.

Blood?

This is not right.

This kind of bleeding is not normal.

-Your Majesty. -What have you done?

Father.

Stop the bleeding, quickly.

Se-yeop, what happened?

You should not have made an incision for his symptoms!

Look at what you have done!

That is the head acupuncturist, Yoo Se-yeop.

Yoo Se-yeop, you are under arrest.

This is the needle that Physician Yoo used when treating His Majesty.

It was custom-made,

so only a deadly poison would change the color like this.

Someone dared to poison my father?

Who? How?

I do not know yet, Your Highness, but I shall find out the truth.

-There is nothing here. -Are you sure?

Were there any suspicious herbs or foods?

Nothing yet, sir.

What about the court ladies' rooms and their belongings?

There was nothing unusual.

Please forgive me, sir.

Are you not a court lady who works in the Royal Kitchen?

I am so terrified I cannot bear it any longer.

I think,

I think that I may have killed His Majesty.

I did not even know what that was.

I was simply told that it was an herb from Qing.

Please take a closer look.

-I do not know what that is. -Wait…

Do you have any idea what this is?

I have never seen it before in my life.

Hey.

Minister Yoo is digging through the medicine collection records.

Poisonous herbs were collected and burnt

under the orders of the royal physician, Shin Gwi-soo.

I must hurry and show this document to the Crown Prince.

-I think he fell. -What happened?

Young Master.

Minister Yoo…

Minister Yoo…

Minister Yoo has…

No.

That cannot be.

It cannot be true!

As you all know,

Minister Yoo fell from his horse last night

and passed away.

This is another tragedy in these sorrowful times.

However,

his death does not erase his crimes.

Minister of Personnel, Yoo Hoo-myung,

shall have his position taken away and erased from the records

in order to hold him responsible for the King's death

while he was the Overseer.

The financial powers that were given to him

shall be forfeited as well.

As for his son, Yoo Se-yeop…

Although he was responsible for the death of the King,

No royal physician has ever been executed for this reason.

Therefore,

Yoo Se-yeop, the head acupuncturist,

shall be stripped of his title

and will be banned from entering Hanyang.

He is a physician

who made the King pass away with the wrong treatment.

He should be executed.

Yes, he should be killed.

His Majesty ordered a harsh punishment for Yoo Hoo-myung, who is dead,

to spare Yoo Se-yeop's life.

It is the first order that he has given as our King.

So let us follow it.

Se-yeop, you must survive.

You are the only person who can discover the truth now.

Miss.

That scared me. Gosh.

Dan, blood should appear

if it comes into contact with this herb.

So can I not see anything?

-Where do you think she got stabbed? -Pardon?

I do not know.

Miss, you do not have the time to do this right now.

I have told you that you need to get your wedding dress fitted today.

She definitely was not poisoned.

The chickens that ate the rice that was placed in this woman's mouth

must still be alive.

Let us go and check.

-Wait for just a moment. -What?

No. They are all waiting for you.

We need to go, miss.

-Gosh. -Fine.

Miss.

Did you sneak into the mortuary again and look at a corpse?

If Lord Seo sees, he will be enraged.

Do not worry. I will make up a good excuse for him.

Please, you cannot…

I will catch the perpetrator and make you take the credit.

Just wait a moment.

You are still so young.

I think the other family is hurrying too much.

Such a good husband is hard to come by, ma'am.

Look at how smooth and shiny the fabric is.

We just need to take in a few places, and…

-That hurts. -Hey, be careful.

Are you all right, Eun-woo?

I apologize, miss.

This is it.

Thank you. We are all done, right?

-Hey, Eun-woo. -Miss.

-Where are you going? -Miss.

Where did all of the chickens go?

I saw them in the cage not long ago.

Maybe a tiger caught them.

I just looked at Ms. Choi's corpse.

And?

There was no bleeding.

So the officials thought she was poisoned,

and locked up the servant who brought her breakfast.

Release the servant right away.

Right now?

We cannot release the servant without the perpetrator.

The perpetrator killed Ms. Choi

by stabbing the top of her head with a needle.

That is why there was no bleeding.

The perpetrator…

is the one who stole the chickens.

Why would Ms. Choi's murderer

steal the chickens of the government office?

He was trying to disguise the stabbing as a poisoning.

So the perpetrator was trying to frame the servant.

What happens when rice is placed in the mouth of someone poisoned?

Well, the poison will seep into the rice.

And if you feed that to the chicken?

Then the chicken that eats the rice will die.

But what if the chicken does not die?

Then people will know that the woman was not poisoned.

That is why the chickens were stolen.

-You are so smart, miss. -That is right.

Then how are we going to go and catch the perpetrator?

The perpetrator must have hidden in a cave at Sorak Mountain.

All right.

Miss.

What are you going to do?

It is too dangerous to go alone.

There you are.

Hey.

How dare you steal the evidence in a murder case?

Wait.

Wait, what are you doing?

So…

By any chance

have you seen my chickens?

You are heavy.

Oh, my.

ACUPUNCTURE NEEDLE CASE

HIGH-END TASSEL BELT

JADE PINS

You were…

not thinking of jumping from here,

were you?

Mind your own business.

You are a nobleman.

Someone who is from Hanyang.

And…

you are a physician.

You were in the Royal Infirmary, right?

How did you know that?

You have saved many other people

but why are you not trying to save yourself?

There are things that you can only see, hear, and feel when you are alive.

Look at those trees.

Have you ever seen a tree break its own branch?

No, for trees do not break their own branches.

But humans

break the hearts of their loved ones

and even their own.

Do not break yourself.

You are not someone who breaks people.

You save people, do you not?

Young Master.

What are you doing over there?

Please come back here.

Hurry.

Looks like you have a companion.

Oh, the chicken thief.

Well…

You will probably save a lot of people,

so please live, all right?

GYESU INFIRMARY

ONE YEAR LATER

Granny, time to eat.

Jang-goon, come eat.

What are you doing? Eat up.

You will get gastric cancer if you eat burnt rice.

This is not burnt. This is savory scorched rice.

What is a rag doing up on the table?

It is not a rag. I cut it so that it is easier to eat.

Try it.

Then is this a "well stew"?

-It is pale like a well. -Exactly.

Let us eat. You will not die from it.

We must survive until Nam-hae returns.

You are just being picky. This is delicious.

What do we have in the herb inventory?

Two mals of Korean angelica, one mal of goji,

one mal of milkvetch roots, three mals of licorice,

two geuns of antlers, and three geuns of ginseng.

We do not have any rehmannia or barberry root.

We need to get more rehmannia.

-Granny. -What?

What do you do after you wake up?

After I wake up?

I poop.

Measure my poop too.

One doe of dry poop, and two doe of wet poop.

What about liquid poop?

You do not need to…

I told them not to rope dance.

Those rascals.

Chae-yeon, come here.

Young Master, we have nothing more to sell.

No, we cannot sell this.

This was for passing the Liberal Arts Exam.

That is why we should sell it.

I no longer have any use for it.

But…

Hey, are you all right?

Just keep playing the music.

Gosh, that tastes good.

What would you like?

I would like some jeho-tang.

We do not have something like that here. All we have is rice wine.

I cannot drink.

Then I would like some cinnamon punch.

Hey!

What is wrong? Hey! Wake up!

Help!

Somebody help!

-What is going on? -Hey, there is a physician.

He is a physician.

Please help.

-What if he dies? -Oh, no.

Please save him.

-Oh, goodness. -Help him.

-It is a needle. -Is that a needle?

Why is he not doing anything?

-Come on, do something. -Quickly.

Get out of the way.

-He is all right now. -He is saved.

It is fine.

Thank you, sir.

How can I ever repay you?

Do not worry about paying me back.

I shall take care of this evil rice cake that tried to kill you.

Of course. You can take them all.

Thank you.

-Thank you. -Go drink some water.

-Water. -Have some water.

-The rice cake… -Goodness.

With those hands,

it will be hard to practice as a physician.

I do not need somebody like you to worry about me.

And here I was planning to fix your hands.

I am not interested in getting treated by an alcoholic.

You are an idiot who cannot even place needles.

I suppose you have not suffered enough.

If you change your mind,

you can come to find me at the infirmary in the village down there

near the cassia tree.

Hey.

Wake up.

Hey.

You will probably save a lot of people,

so please live, all right?

Please.

Hey, wake up.

Hey.

Please wake up!

GYESU INFIRMARY

How many major veins are there?

Twenty…

eight?

That is right.

If you know the four major types,

bu, chim, ji, and sak,

you can identify most illnesses.

Here, try it.

Do you feel my pulse?

Dad, are you sick? I cannot feel anything.

Hey, I am not dead. Of course my heart is beating.

Do not grab it so tightly. Be gentle, like a feather.

You are indeed alive, Dad.

This is so frustrating. I am getting more patients,

but I do not have anybody to help me out.

Is there a physician here?

Come outside.

Wait, you are…

You are that idiot from earlier.

She was drowning.

She is breathing, but her pulse is weak.

This way.

You need to place the needles between her eyebrows and on her hands.

Stop running your mouth.

Where did such a pretty woman come from?

Change her clothes,

and massage her limbs with Granny to improve blood circulation.

Get out.

Are you going to watch as she gets changed?

Now that she is alive,

she just needs to have a bowl of tonic.

Hey.

You idiot, stop right there.

Where are you going in such a hurry?

She almost died. Please take good care of her.

What the hell are you saying? I asked you where you are going.

What?

"Hell"?

You cannot speak like that to my young master.

And who may your young master be?

My young master

passed the Liberal Arts Exam and the Medical Exam with flying colors,

and he is the son of Minister Yoo.

He performed so well in the Royal Infirmary

that the King himself called him the Top Acupuncturist.

You are from the Royal Infirmary?

I get it now.

People there are famous for sucking up to others

rather than being good at acupuncture.

So you are like this because you learned from those idiots?

You were shaking as you held the needle.

Jang-goon.

Yes.

-I am here. I need to boil poppy flowers. -Go and get Chil-sung.

He can come to get these two.

Okay.

Jang-goon, what does Chil-sung do?

He is an officer of the government.

Let us see.

The tonic, acupuncture, and clothes.

That should be at least ten nyangs.

Give me ten nyangs or get arrested.

I saved somebody from drowning, and you want me to pay you?

Then who else will pay me? Myself?

Cut the nonsense. If you do not want to get arrested,

then stay right here until the patient wakes up.

The space inside this line belongs to you.

You heard that, right?

You are under my control now.

If you cross that line,

then that will be the end for you.

Hey.

I told you that you cannot drink.

Oh, come on.

I was going to have just one cup.

Do not give me that nonsense.

These guys need to stay with you for tonight.

Sorry for bothering you.

Do not worry about it. I am happy to have you here.

Here, drink.

Do not tell him to drink.

He changes into a different person with alcohol.

Do not give him even a single drop.

Your life must be no fun.

Young Master, I have not seen bedsheets in such a long time.

That feels so nice.

This feels divine.

Come on, lie down. I am not kidding.

Why would you sleep there instead of here?

Hey, come out here.

Come outside.

Coming.

Looks like my master is sleeping well without nightmares.

This house must have good energy.

Young Master, get up. Mr. Gye is calling for you.

Young Master.

Goodness, she really ran away.

My gosh, you saved her life,

and she stole your money without saying goodbye?

This is why I kept you two here.

Hey, Chil-sung.

How is your mother's back nowadays?

When it is not raining, she can even go to the market.

Bring her to see me some time.

I will either make the rain stop or fix her back once and for all.

Thank you, Mr. Gye.

Right, then let us run the calculations.

The acupuncture is three nyangs, and the tonic is five.

The clothes are two nyangs.

Are we still talking about money?

Hey, you should always be accurate when you are calculating money.

Now, for the interest…

Just stop it. You are a physician who saves people.

Why are you so obsessed with money?

-What the hell are you saying now? -I have seen many corrupt physicians,

but I have never seen one like you who likes alcohol and money,

and spews profanities so much.

I am already famous for being corrupt.

But,

you two obviously have no money.

And I need more workers at this infirmary because we are so famous for being good.

So, I will be nice.

To pay ten nyangs for the treatment and one nyang for the stay,

you will treat patients at Gyesu Infirmary for 11 days.

If you do not, then you will be punished by government officials.

What do you think?

Is that not kind of me?

Your fingerprint.

Do you think I will agree to this?

And if you disagree?

I am being considerate because you are a physician.

I told you. I have never seen her before.

So you say.

Perhaps that widow fell in the water while running away with you.

And after falling in the water,

she ran away because she was not impressed with you.

What did you just say?

Hey, Young Master.

Goodness, how scary.

You brat. You are being very rude just because I cussed at you once?

Fine, hit me. I will make you pay for it too.

Hit me. Go on.

-Hit me. -My goodness.

Young Master, it will do no good to get involved

with the government office while you are banished.

Just agree to it.

No, I cannot agree to such unfair terms.

You did not pay and committed fraud.

You will be arrested right away.

Young Master, I will get ten nyangs tomorrow somehow.

Just agree to it, all right?

Come on.

Just do as I say, just for today.

I have followed your orders for the past year.

Do you want to end all of this right here?

Relax. You might get hurt.

Here you go.

Ip-boon, it is time to visit the patients.

Patients will not come in the morning, for they are all working in the fields.

Treat that guy first.

He does rope dancing but he has vertigo.

Take care of him.

Do not let him drink alcohol.

Dad, do you know those guys?

How do you know a nobleman from the Royal Infirmary?

And he is the son of Minister Yoo.

He performed so well in the Royal Infirmary

that the King himself called him the Top Acupuncturist.

Come on, tell me. Do you know those guys?

Of course I do.

I have opened up countless corpses during the war.

I know how people think.

That is not what I am asking.

You do not actually know them, do you?

You told strangers to take care of a patient?

Is that fine?

He needs somewhere to lean on,

so he will not try anything stupid.

It is as if you know something that I do not.

I have brought a royal physician to feel your pulse,

-So do not worry. -A royal physician?

May I see your wrist?

Bu, chim, ji, and sak.

You just had to figure out one of them, and you found nothing.

I swear, I did not feel any of them.

She is totally crazy.

Her pulse was just dancing around everywhere.

Why would a person's pulse be dancing?

Unbelievable!

I was so scared

to go into the water,

but she walked right in

without any hesitation.

All this happened after she told me to live.

I am still alive,

so why…

How can you let a patient have alcohol? And you call yourself a physician?

I am not a physician

anymore.

"Not a physician anymore"?

You are saying that because you do not want to pay me back.

You are talking about money again.

I used to be called

the Top Acupuncturist.

But now,

I cannot place needles anymore.

I am no longer a physician!

Fine.

So because you were sad about not being able to place needles,

you gave a vertigo patient alcohol?

That just means

that you do not know the first thing about being a physician.

You just did not treat him like a proper patient.

Anyway,

you have a long way to go.

All right, come at me. I will fight you right back.

He never acts like this when he is sober.

He just goes crazy when he drinks alcohol.

Water…

Sir.

Am I going to die?

No,

at least not yet.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, sir.

Do not drink from now on.

Sir.

You see,

I really need to do rope dancing.

Life is meaningless if I cannot dance on the rope.

I started drinking because I could not enjoy life anymore.

Now I cannot go a single day without drinking.

You are amazing.

Hey, this is nothing to applaud me for.

-How many? -Four.

Only four? Here I go.

Sit down.

Watch what you eat, all right?

I will treat the vertigo patient.

But I will leave as soon as I am done with him.

Please tear up the contract as well.

Of course you need to treat him.

But you need to give me something else for a promise like that.

What else do you want from me?

Make him able to dance on the rope again.

If you cannot, then that will be ten more days.

About three months ago,

I fell from the rope.

Ever since then, I have been unable to rope dance without drinking.

As I have treated his alcohol poisoning,

I will begin treating his vertigo.

There are six types of vertigo,

but what you have does not directly match any one of them.

I will treat you for peripheral vertigo, which you seem to have symptoms for.

PERIPHERAL VERTIGO: A TYPE OF DIZZINESS

The foot.

The vein on the shin.

Then needles in the veins of the hands and feet.

Goodness.

I feel very relaxed, and my body feels strong.

I feel like I could go and rope dance right now.

You will recover little by little.

Just thinking about being able to rope dance again

makes me breathless with joy.

When I am on that rope,

everybody is under my feet.

It makes me feel like I am on top of the world.

Mr. Gye!

Hey, take a look!

Mr. Gye, come outside.

After that physician treated me yesterday, look!

I can do this now!

I should strike while the iron is hot. I will go and try to rope dance.

You should come and watch. I will put on a great show for you.

Wait for me.

You said I can leave if he can rope dance.

Have the contract ready.

Are you feeling dizzy? Do not overdo it.

I am fine.

No, I think you should come down.

I am fine!

If I go down right now,

I might never come back up.

-Hey. -Hey!

I do not think it worked.

I do not think I can do it.

The treatment has just started.

No, that is not it.

I think…

something is seriously wrong with me.

Nothing is wrong with you.

Without acupuncture, you will have to recover slowly.

What?

You did not use your needles?

Then how did you treat his vertigo?

I told you, I cannot place my needles anymore.

You are not an idiot, you are a fraud.

You must not even be a real physician.

My young master is an amazing man.

He was even called the Top Acupuncturist.

He is simply like this because of the shock.

This is all temporary, I swear.

Then try to place a needle.

I want to see if the damage is temporary or permanent.

What?

Do you carry around that needle case to commit fraud?

If I had rope danced just one more time,

I would not be so sad.

If I had known that day would be my last time on the rope,

I would have been on the rope for so much longer.

What?

Are you feeling guilty because you think it is your fault?

Or are you sympathetic because you see yourself in him?

Vertigo itself is not that hard to treat.

But something else seems to be the problem for him.

He thinks he will die without rope dancing.

That obsession has given birth to a mental illness.

Life is meaningless

if I cannot dance on the rope.

I am not a physician

anymore.

Please.

Try going on the rope.

What?

Close your eyes and get on the rope.

That rope is your entire world.

So you could do it with your eyes closed.

Do not cry.

You said you wanted to rope dance just one last time, right?

Well, here is your chance.

It is on the ground.

A rope does not have to be up in the sky.

A rope does not always have to be above everybody else.

Play the music, please.

Let us play!

When I am on that rope,

everybody is under my feet.

I am the king,

and I am the sky.

On this rope,

I own the world.

You have to be kidding me.

Is that what they teach you at the Royal Infirmary?

Using your tongue to sway people's hearts?

All right.

He was trying to figure out which instrument to play.

Now that he has something to do besides rope dancing, he will live.

Is being unable to place your needles really so embarrassing?

Now that my patient found a way to live, I shall take my leave.

If you cannot do acupuncture, perform moxibustion.

If you cannot perform moxibustion, use tonics.

Or you can use your words to save your patients.

Running away will not solve anything, you idiot.

If you are suffering, then yell for help,

wave your arms around,

or you could even listen to an alcoholic like me.

Then you can start living again. Just like that vertigo patient.

Seeing that you do not understand, you are as dumb as you look.

Anyway, since you did not make him actually rope dance,

you need to work here for 20 more days as we agreed.

Are you not going to eat?

There is egg in it too.

Do I really need to visit the patients?

That was not part of the contract.

The contract said nothing about not visiting patients either.

Delicious.

Your energy is not circulating.

Have you been stressed recently?

How did you know that?

You are in pain because your energy is not circulating.

The pain is concentrated in your neck, so it is hard to swallow.

This very old physician

will prescribe the right tonic for you.

Yes, ma'am. I shall prepare the tonic right away.

Since I am done, I shall leave.

Sir, can you please save my lady?

-Excuse me, I am… -Hurry.

This way. Hurry.

Physicians from Hanyang are just better.

His face is the perfect medicine.

There is a patient here!

Stop being nosy about other people's business.

It hurts right here, does it not?

Stop right there!

You have killed your husband.

My son is dead because of you.

Just listen to what the patients have to say.

Try to cheer up those who are furious too.

Why do you keep trying to save me? Why?

Will you give me a chance to save you then?

I will find a reason for you to live.

Subtitle translation by: Su-in Choi