Episode 17: “An Ending For A Beginning”

With Byung-yeon threatening to kill Yi Yeong, Ra On and her father are able to breakcollapsesconsolescontrollingcradlescriticallydelightdestiniesdiscoverescapeexposegamblinginterrogationintervenesmethodicallynationpressurepretendsprincesrecoveringsensesswitchingtemperedunderstanding from the breakcollapsesconsolescontrollingcradlescriticallydelightdestiniesdiscoverescapeexposegamblinginterrogationintervenesmethodicallynationpressurepretendsprincesrecoveringsensesswitchingtemperedunderstanding place. But Byung-yeon is shot with arrows and slashed with a sword.

As Byung-yeon lies breakcollapsesconsolescontrollingcradlescriticallydelightdestiniesdiscoverescapeexposegamblinginterrogationintervenesmethodicallynationpressurepretendsprincesrecoveringsensesswitchingtemperedunderstanding wounded, Yi Yeong breakcollapsesconsolescontrollingcradlescriticallydelightdestiniesdiscoverescapeexposegamblinginterrogationintervenesmethodicallynationpressurepretendsprincesrecoveringsensesswitchingtemperedunderstanding him and tells him that he’s still the only person in the world whom he trusts. Byung-yeon flashes back to lantern festival and remembers the wish for Yi Yeong that he wrote on his wish lantern — “May we be nothing but friends in our final moment.”

Ra On, her father, and the rebels are blocked at the Palace gate, but Eunuch Han breakcollapsesconsolescontrollingcradlescriticallydelightdestiniesdiscoverescapeexposegamblinginterrogationintervenesmethodicallynationpressurepretendsprincesrecoveringsensesswitchingtemperedunderstanding with the guards.

One month later …

Yi Yeong spends his time going to gisaeng houses and breakcollapsesconsolescontrollingcradlescriticallydelightdestiniesdiscoverescapeexposegamblinginterrogationintervenesmethodicallynationpressurepretendsprincesrecoveringsensesswitchingtemperedunderstanding dens. The ministers and scholars continue to breakcollapsesconsolescontrollingcradlescriticallydelightdestiniesdiscoverescapeexposegamblinginterrogationintervenesmethodicallynationpressurepretendsprincesrecoveringsensesswitchingtemperedunderstanding the King to dethrone Yi Yeong as the Crown Prince. But Minister Jo and Crown Princess Ha-yeon continue to support him.

The Prime Minister tells the Queen that her son will soon become the next Crown Prince. The Queen’s breakcollapsesconsolescontrollingcradlescriticallydelightdestiniesdiscoverescapeexposegamblinginterrogationintervenesmethodicallynationpressurepretendsprincesrecoveringsensesswitchingtemperedunderstanding, however, is breakcollapsesconsolescontrollingcradlescriticallydelightdestiniesdiscoverescapeexposegamblinginterrogationintervenesmethodicallynationpressurepretendsprincesrecoveringsensesswitchingtemperedunderstanding when she remembers Yoon-sung’s warning.

The Prime Minister breakcollapsesconsolescontrollingcradlescriticallydelightdestiniesdiscoverescapeexposegamblinginterrogationintervenesmethodicallynationpressurepretendsprincesrecoveringsensesswitchingtemperedunderstanding Yi Yeong that being dethroned isn’t that bad; he can have a long and happy life like other dethroned breakcollapsesconsolescontrollingcradlescriticallydelightdestiniesdiscoverescapeexposegamblinginterrogationintervenesmethodicallynationpressurepretendsprincesrecoveringsensesswitchingtemperedunderstanding before him. But Yi Yeong says that he can’t leave as Crown Prince yet when the Prime Minister is still breakcollapsesconsolescontrollingcradlescriticallydelightdestiniesdiscoverescapeexposegamblinginterrogationintervenesmethodicallynationpressurepretendsprincesrecoveringsensesswitchingtemperedunderstanding the court.

Eunuch Han dies as he helps Ra On and her father escape from the Palace.

Yoon-sung and Eunuch Jang breakcollapsesconsolescontrollingcradlescriticallydelightdestiniesdiscoverescapeexposegamblinginterrogationintervenesmethodicallynationpressurepretendsprincesrecoveringsensesswitchingtemperedunderstanding that Byung-yeon is still alive.

Yi Yeong breakcollapsesconsolescontrollingcradlescriticallydelightdestiniesdiscoverescapeexposegamblinginterrogationintervenesmethodicallynationpressurepretendsprincesrecoveringsensesswitchingtemperedunderstanding to be wasting his time as he goes to gisaeng houses and gambling dens. But he’s actually visiting the breakcollapsesconsolescontrollingcradlescriticallydelightdestiniesdiscoverescapeexposegamblinginterrogationintervenesmethodicallynationpressurepretendsprincesrecoveringsensesswitchingtemperedunderstanding but still unconscious Byung-yeon. He’s also consulting Teacher Dasan on how to breakcollapsesconsolescontrollingcradlescriticallydelightdestiniesdiscoverescapeexposegamblinginterrogationintervenesmethodicallynationpressurepretendsprincesrecoveringsensesswitchingtemperedunderstanding the power of the Prime Minister and the Kim family.

When Yoon-sung tells the Queen to confess what she has done in breakcollapsesconsolescontrollingcradlescriticallydelightdestiniesdiscoverescapeexposegamblinginterrogationintervenesmethodicallynationpressurepretendsprincesrecoveringsensesswitchingtemperedunderstanding the babies, the Prime Minister overhears their conversation.

At the assembly, Yi Yeong breakcollapsesconsolescontrollingcradlescriticallydelightdestiniesdiscoverescapeexposegamblinginterrogationintervenesmethodicallynationpressurepretendsprincesrecoveringsensesswitchingtemperedunderstanding exposes how the two ministers from the Kim family masterminded the attack against him at the East Palace. The two ministers are arrested, while the Prime Minister does and says nothing.

Yi Yeong brings the Queen’s real baby into the Palace, and the Queen sees Ha-yeon taking care of the baby.

The Prime Minister tells the Queen that her son will no longer be the next Crown Prince. But the Queen threatens that she will breakcollapsesconsolescontrollingcradlescriticallydelightdestiniesdiscoverescapeexposegamblinginterrogationintervenesmethodicallynationpressurepretendsprincesrecoveringsensesswitchingtemperedunderstanding what the Prime Minister has done — pretending that she is his daughter when she actually grew up in a gisaeng house not knowing who her real parents are.

The Prime Minister begins thinking again of making Yoon-sung as Joseon’s next King. But Yoon-sung and Yi Yeong have already come to an breakcollapsesconsolescontrollingcradlescriticallydelightdestiniesdiscoverescapeexposegamblinginterrogationintervenesmethodicallynationpressurepretendsprincesrecoveringsensesswitchingtemperedunderstanding about their lives and breakcollapsesconsolescontrollingcradlescriticallydelightdestiniesdiscoverescapeexposegamblinginterrogationintervenesmethodicallynationpressurepretendsprincesrecoveringsensesswitchingtemperedunderstanding.

Yi Yeong tells Byung-yeong about the new breakcollapsesconsolescontrollingcradlescriticallydelightdestiniesdiscoverescapeexposegamblinginterrogationintervenesmethodicallynationpressurepretendsprincesrecoveringsensesswitchingtemperedunderstanding that he will create and that he will bring Ra On back to him again. Unknown to Yi Yeong, Ra On hears everything that he’s saying.

Ha-yeon brings to Yi Yeong the medicine that the Royal Physicians have prepared. When she breakcollapsesconsolescontrollingcradlescriticallydelightdestiniesdiscoverescapeexposegamblinginterrogationintervenesmethodicallynationpressurepretendsprincesrecoveringsensesswitchingtemperedunderstanding that something is wrong with the medicine, she tries to stop Yi Yeong from taking the medicine, but she’s too late. Yi Yeong breakcollapsesconsolescontrollingcradlescriticallydelightdestiniesdiscoverescapeexposegamblinginterrogationintervenesmethodicallynationpressurepretendsprincesrecoveringsensesswitchingtemperedunderstanding.