The scenes outside the Palace gate ______ tumultuous with poor folks fighting over the free rice from the King and Confucian scholars protesting and calling for Saimdang’s arrest.

Lee Gyeom brings food for Saimdang and _____ her that as head of the Office of Art, he’s ordering her to eat.

King: “Confucian scholars across the nation ______ because of you and have been flooding the palace with appeals.”

Surprised by Saimdang’s answer, the King describes her calmness as “stillness that ______ amidst a blizzard.”

Saimdang: “Once I accepted it as fate, I ______ afraid of anything and felt like I could do anything.”

Saimdang: “I wanted to give hope to my daughter who ______ to be a member of the Office of Art.”

Saimdang: “The reason we’re not afraid of the dark at night ______ because we believe that the dawn will break and the sun will come up if we just wait.!”

The King’s paranoia ______ when he hears people at the Yangyoo Paper Production Office praising Saimdang for bringing them hope that the King could not.

In a meeting with the Japanese that nearly _____ bloody, Min Chi-hyung again promises to deliver to them the blueprints for Joseon’s turtle ship.

Lee Gyeom says that his early romance with Saimdang ______ now just an old memory they can laugh about and that he has no ulterior motive.