Episode 4:

befriendedbefriendsblamescalled offChaosdrunkeninterveneitinerantmisfortunesmisinterpretoffersoverhearsOverwhelmedpanicravinerevelryrevengeriotstoningtemple by her emotions, Seok Soon doesn’t give Saimdang’s letter to Lee Gyeom. Later, she goes to where Saimdang is waiting and befriendedbefriendsblamescalled offChaosdrunkeninterveneitinerantmisfortunesmisinterpretoffersoverhearsOverwhelmedpanicravinerevelryrevengeriotstoningtemple to help her. Together, they go to Unpyeong Temple.

At the temple, the drunken befriendedbefriendsblamescalled offChaosdrunkeninterveneitinerantmisfortunesmisinterpretoffersoverhearsOverwhelmedpanicravinerevelryrevengeriotstoningtemple by the government officials, the nobles, and the gisaengs continues even as dozens of starving people are waiting be fed by the monks. When the child befriendedbefriendsblamescalled offChaosdrunkeninterveneitinerantmisfortunesmisinterpretoffersoverhearsOverwhelmedpanicravinerevelryrevengeriotstoningtemple earlier by Saimdang steals some fruits from the nobles, the befriendedbefriendsblamescalled offChaosdrunkeninterveneitinerantmisfortunesmisinterpretoffersoverhearsOverwhelmedpanicravinerevelryrevengeriotstoningtemple son of Lord Young-myung kills the child and the head monk who tried to befriendedbefriendsblamescalled offChaosdrunkeninterveneitinerantmisfortunesmisinterpretoffersoverhearsOverwhelmedpanicravinerevelryrevengeriotstoningtemple.

The monks and the people begin befriendedbefriendsblamescalled offChaosdrunkeninterveneitinerantmisfortunesmisinterpretoffersoverhearsOverwhelmedpanicravinerevelryrevengeriotstoningtemple the nobles. Min Chi-hyung arrives and orders his private soldiers to kill all the monks and the people. befriendedbefriendsblamescalled offChaosdrunkeninterveneitinerantmisfortunesmisinterpretoffersoverhearsOverwhelmedpanicravinerevelryrevengeriotstoningtemple erupts in the temple. Chased by the soldiers, Saimdang and Seok Soon try to escape, but they fall into a befriendedbefriendsblamescalled offChaosdrunkeninterveneitinerantmisfortunesmisinterpretoffersoverhearsOverwhelmedpanicravinerevelryrevengeriotstoningtemple.

Meanwhile, news spreads about the befriendedbefriendsblamescalled offChaosdrunkeninterveneitinerantmisfortunesmisinterpretoffersoverhearsOverwhelmedpanicravinerevelryrevengeriotstoningtemple, and Lee Gyeom finds out that Saimdang is at the temple. He rides out and finds Seok Soon carrying Saimdang on her back. Lee Gyeom takes Saimdang with him and leaves Seok Soon all by herself.

Seok Soon befriendedbefriendsblamescalled offChaosdrunkeninterveneitinerantmisfortunesmisinterpretoffersoverhearsOverwhelmedpanicravinerevelryrevengeriotstoningtemple Saimdang for all her befriendedbefriendsblamescalled offChaosdrunkeninterveneitinerantmisfortunesmisinterpretoffersoverhearsOverwhelmedpanicravinerevelryrevengeriotstoningtemple and decides to seek befriendedbefriendsblamescalled offChaosdrunkeninterveneitinerantmisfortunesmisinterpretoffersoverhearsOverwhelmedpanicravinerevelryrevengeriotstoningtemple.

Meanwhile, the King befriendedbefriendsblamescalled offChaosdrunkeninterveneitinerantmisfortunesmisinterpretoffersoverhearsOverwhelmedpanicravinerevelryrevengeriotstoningtemple from some befriendedbefriendsblamescalled offChaosdrunkeninterveneitinerantmisfortunesmisinterpretoffersoverhearsOverwhelmedpanicravinerevelryrevengeriotstoningtemple merchants about the massacre at the temple. One of the merchants says that the massacre was caused by a poem and begins reciting the poem. The King recognizes the poem and starts to befriendedbefriendsblamescalled offChaosdrunkeninterveneitinerantmisfortunesmisinterpretoffersoverhearsOverwhelmedpanicravinerevelryrevengeriotstoningtemple. He fears that the ministers will befriendedbefriendsblamescalled offChaosdrunkeninterveneitinerantmisfortunesmisinterpretoffersoverhearsOverwhelmedpanicravinerevelryrevengeriotstoningtemple the poem and rebel against him, just like what they did with the former King.

The King orders his bodyguard to kill everyone who received the poem, including Saimdang’s father. When the bodyguard asks him about Saimdang and Lee Gyeom, the King tells him, “If Saimdang and Lee Gyeom’s marriage isn’t befriendedbefriendsblamescalled offChaosdrunkeninterveneitinerantmisfortunesmisinterpretoffersoverhearsOverwhelmedpanicravinerevelryrevengeriotstoningtemple, kill them both!”

Seok Soon befriendedbefriendsblamescalled offChaosdrunkeninterveneitinerantmisfortunesmisinterpretoffersoverhearsOverwhelmedpanicravinerevelryrevengeriotstoningtemple Saimdang as they walk towards the befriendedbefriendsblamescalled offChaosdrunkeninterveneitinerantmisfortunesmisinterpretoffersoverhearsOverwhelmedpanicravinerevelryrevengeriotstoningtemple. She admires Saimdang’s ribbon and says that it must have been given by Saimdang’s lover.