Their only child ______ Jang Geum, an intelligent girl who always gets punished for her inquisitiveness and desire for learning.

She ______ to a senior court lady what Choi Cheng Qing, another junior court lady, did with the food meant for the Queen Mother.

But the senior court lady betrays Park Meong Yi to the Highest Kitchen Lady; they ______ her to the forest and ______ her to drink poison.

But Park Meong Yi says that their fates ______ now intertwined.

They ______ under false identities to escape from King Yeonsan’s intensifying persecution of all the people responsible for the death of his mother, Queen Yiun.

In her dying moments, she ______ that Jang Geum is the third woman in the prophecy.

She secretly ______ her best friend in the Royal Kitchen, who’s now Lady Han.

A Buddhist monk ______ to understand and explain to him what the hermit’s prophecy ______.

The hermit then ______ about how his fate will be determined by three women.

But before Lady Han can help out, Park Meong Yi and Jang Geum ______ captured by the henchmen of the merchant Choi Pan Sul.