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Episode 15
Rapid streams, do not boast of your speed.
Once you reach the ocean, you can never turn back.
The moon is shining brightly on the mountain, will you not rest a while?
You must not turn back. Make her believe you don't care.
Only then will she follow you.
Let's go.
What are you doing?
- She's not coming? - What?
That... that...!
What?
She's getting on her palanquin!
Her palanquin?
She recited a magnificent poem, but you didn't turn back. Maybe she's angry!
We barely managed to get her here, but now she's leaving!
What if she never returns to you?
That... that...! Look at that!
She's turning the other way!
What?
Your Excellency!
How exhausting for you to walk forward when your heart is behind you!
But it seems you have done well enough to come this far.
You bitch!
What a pity, your Excellency.
You cannot gain everything with falsehood.
Even if it is a common courtesan's heart.
Let us go.
This isn't his poem.
It is impossible.
What is this? Why are these in my desk?
This is your handwriting, isn't it?
Why did you copy my poems?
How can this be!
- If these are here, then Myung-Wol...! - Did you say Myung-Wol?
Look here!
That's right.
I stole your poems.
They were quite poignant.
Your heart towards that wench was very poignant.
Each poem was superb.
So...
I wanted to steal that heart... I wanted to steal that heart of yours...
I wanted to get her attention.
You really...!
Despise me if you wish.
I don't care if you mock me!
Because I hate myself right now.
Lies can never bring you anything.
No matter what anyone says, the only way to win someone's heart is...
Sincerity?
Stop talking about sincerity.
I'm sick of it!
From the moment I was born, I have never known sincerity.
Be wary of others. Be distant from smiling faces.
Your greatest enemy is your best friend.
Don't be fooled by flattery.
Just buy your friends and women with your wealth and power!
Stop!
That is what the royal family must never forget!
Wealth and power can only buy you false things.
Stop your damned preaching!
This is...
...the first time.
She's the first woman I do not want to discard after playing with her.
She's the first.
But she is always beyond my grasp.
There is nothing I can do to get her in my hands.
Give her your sincerity.
Don't borrow from others, but give her what's in your heart.
That is only way you will win her heart.
What... did you mean by that?
Do not be anxious.
Don't think of her as a plaything.
Cherish her as an artist and a woman.
Does that mean...
You would be willing to give her to me?
I never had her to begin with.
Love her with all your heart, and teach her one thing.
Those who meet must part.
Parting does not just happen between a man and a courtesan...
... but to all mankind.
Therefore...
tell her not to be hurt too greatly.
The lonely sound of the Guhmungo...
At first I thought it was an artist's song...
but it is the sound of a woman's sigh...
Myung-Wol's manservant was here?
We caught him sneaking into the Minister's quarters.
He will not say anything else but that he has something to tell the Minister.
If Myung-Wol is looking for him at this hour of the night,
there can only be one reason.
What a pity, your Excellency.
You cannot gain everything with falsehood.
Even if it is a common courtesan's heart.
She knew everything from the start.
She knew everything, but she came to me just to mock me!
That impudent wench!
- Leaving? - He's leaving for the city tonight.
Were you at the music library?
Come in for a moment. I have something to tell you.
Let's go together. I'll get Mu-Myung and the servants, so let's go together!
- What is the matter? - What?
I heard a horse whiny just now.
That...
What is the meaning of this?
Get out of my way this instant!
A woman should be more submissive.
Who goes there!
What is going on here!
Are you alright?
That rascal...!
You want to set off even before sunrise?
Are you running from something?
He said he was your manservant.
- And so? - Did you order him to hurt Myung-Wol?
She is a woman who sees no fault in offending her superiors.
Do not lay a finger on her.
Impudent wench!
An artist's life can end with a single cut finger.
Shall I put you to death too?
Even though I am but a common wench, it would still be murder.
It is a crime punishable by death.
Even if I don't, you know quite well
that the nation's law will not leave you unpunished.
Fortunately, she has not been hurt, and so I will forgive this instance. But...
If this happens again, I will not sit idly by.
Then, I shall be on my way.
Forgive me for disturbing you at this time of night, your Excellency.
Let us go.
Lord Byuk Gae-Soo's wrath is palpable.
How could you have created this situation?
You have picked the wrong person to trifle with.
Sir, if I had not done so, wouldn't his delusion have continued?
I did not want to see her succumb to his persistence.
Due to this, Dan-Shim will feel better.
And Jin-Yi will believe in sincerity again.
I think she wanted to get on the boat too.
If I had waited a little while longer, I would have made double the fare!
Did you leave anything behind?
Do these not belong to you?
I... I do not think these should come to me yet.
Please... take them.
The heart in these poems is so heavy that I am weary from carrying it.
Did you wish to leave Song-Do...
... because your heavy heart was too much of a burden?
Our nation's music comes from our mothers.
You wanted to protect that music.
Look here...
How can you give up such a important duty just because of a common courtesan?
That is not a good thing, my Lord.
I...
am uncomfortable when you are around me.
The more I want you,
the more I despise myself.
One should avoid relationships he cannot be responsible for.
I despise myself for knowing that.
And you are someone that I cannot be responsible for.
There is nothing I can do for you.
I despise myself and everything about this.
I cannot stand it.
Your heart will be calm soon, my Lord.
That's how love is.
As time passes and our bodies rot and disappear,
there is nothing left of love.
But your duty to this nation will never vanish.
Perhaps even after we're all long dead and gone,
this love that you have for the people of this nation,
this love will be with them forever.
Return to the music library and complete your work.
I will not be selfish to ask for your love.
But I would like to see
you achieve your great dream.
I would like...
... that to be the last image that I have of you.
You told Myung-Wol to change the Minister's mind?
My Lord!
Why are you so upset?
Are you worried that after her defeat at the Tournament,
she would lose her way again?
You know that Myung-Wol resembles you a great deal.
So she probably would never give up her arts because of her lovesickness.
It depends who the man is, my Lord!
So if I had offered to throw away everything for you many years ago,
would you have given up your art?
Of course not.
You are not capable of doing that.
- My Lord! - If you can do it, so can she.
Just leave her alone and let her be.
The Minister and Myung-Wol... Those two are wiser than both of us.
They will be able to find a solution even if we weren't able to.
You are early today.
Well, let's begin.
This is the updated music scores, my Lord.
You wish to return to the city?
- But the Minister is back here! - I know.
Myung-Wol will be in his arms in no time!
We can't just leave like this.
You've been humiliated by that wench and the Mistress! How can you leave?
How dare you challenge me!
How glib-tongued you are!
Or is it that you give your heart away too easily?
It is better to give your heart away, than be cold-hearted like you.
I will not forgive you if your distraction causes you fall back on practice.
As long as you don't collapse from exerting yourself in practice, I will be fine.
Myung-Wol should have improved her dance significantly by now.
If I say this, I will risk your jealousy and wrath again.
But I have never seen...
such passion in a girl's eyes.
And what of her speed of her learning?
When you speak of one, she knows ten.
And if you teach her ten, she will show a hundred.
Because of her...
I enjoyed dance again for the first time in many years.
- Mistress! - And more than that...
She taught me a valuable lesson.
I... I, Mae-Hyang...
Before I was the Palace Mistress,
I was a dancer and a courtesan.
Does it upset you?
You should have helped me bring her in as my disciple.
Please stop, Mistress.
- Because of her... - I kept my position?
Is that not the honest truth?
If she had become my disciple,
you would have at least had a chance.
You would have had one more chance to battle her in dance.
But it's too late now. You made a grave mistake.
Even if you spend the rest of your life practising,
you will never be able to be better than her.
Why do you stop?
It's a new dance, Mistress!
I've been with you for over ten years, but I have never seen this dance!
- It is called the Awoken Drum Dance. - Awoken Drum Dance?
We awaken the drum,
so that it may silence the cry of the world.
That's why my mistress and I named it so.
So... this dance was created by the famous Ja Dong Sun?
That means she did not just give all her dances to Mistress Baek-Moo!
But the dance is still incomplete.
Why did I not realize it then?
Why didn't I realize that every dancer has a different dance she is suited for.
I despised my mistress for teaching me one dance when she taught Baek-Moo four.
Don't you want to complete the dance and reveal it to the world?
I was just dancing to settle my thoughts.
My body is too rusty, and my head is too heavy.
Let me... Please let me help you!
I will help you to the best of my ability!
Please teach me what you know of this dance!
I will help you complete it!
Is your rivalry with Myung-Wol so great?
I know how you feel.
Prodigies have a way of making a mockery of effort and hard work.
Louder!
- That's what he would have looked like. - What?
If he had grown up and become an official, he would be exactly like that.
- I'm sure of it. - Miss...!
Long time ago, I saw you and Eun-Ho working the fields together.
It was exactly like this.
He was smiling exactly like that.
Louder!
Good work today. Let's drink!
Have a drink too!
Here!
So you weren't able to capture that Myung-Wol's heart?
You were there for over a month, so I assumed things were going well.
I returned because I could not stand it any longer.
Why don't you mock me too?
Laugh at me as I'm a fool that could not even taste
the food that was prepared before me.
How can you say such a thing?
I will think of another way for you.
I will bring her into your arms.
No, that is not necessary.
- I don't want her anymore. - Your Excellency!
I'm going to crush her until she is no longer recognizable.
But you're still on my side.
You're the only one that is thinking of me, Bu-Yong.
Will you stay the night?
Why do you not answer?
I beg your pardon, your Excellency.
Even though you're not the nation's best,
you're at least the capital city's best.
You don't want to be secondplace?
Fine. You deserve better.
You're different from her.
What did you eat to make you retch like this?
Did you eat something at night again?
- No I didn't. - Tell the truth!
How can you still eat like a servant girl when you look like a courtesan now?
Please stop talking to me. I'm too tired from vomiting.
- How is it? - It is an honorable poem.
This poem has captured your sense of honor and propriety.
I wonder how it would have been if you were born a man?
Then...
We could have been friends who could have kept each other company.
What about if I was a daughter of a noble family?
Then I could have been your wife.
We could have lived the rest of our lives together.
We could have written poetry together like this,
not knowing if the days were passing or if it was day or night.
We could have lived a whole lifetime like that.
We could have had three or four children?
Why do you look at me so?
Are you afraid I was going to beg you to marry me?
You speak of this so casually as if you were talking about someone else.
Because it is someone else.
I have no expectations for love,
nor hope to live as any other woman would.
I've forgotten that long ago.
No...
I should never have had those dreams in the first place.
Did you have those dreams for the departed young man?
It was a young child's silly wish.
What would happen if I asked to be in his stead?
What if I replaced him in those dreams and offered you a place at my side?
- So trust me and... - We have already settled that.
You may have settled this, but...
It cannot be.
- The world has built walls... - Walls can be torn down.
My Lord!
If we believe in the power of love,
and just give it one try...
It is late, my Lord. You should retire now.
If the world is on our side, I will go to you no matter what.
I will pave a road for you, so until then...
Don't lose hope.
What are you thinking about now?
Are you thinking of the young master again?
How can they be so similar?
How can they be so innocent?
So unafraid of this world?
So courageous?
How can they be so similar?
They're not.
They're not similar at all!
What crazy fool will lie to the woman he loves?
Even a servant like me knows that you have to be sincere to gain love.
- Look here...! - Courageous?
If you're in love, who wouldn't want to defy the world?
What is it that you're trying to say?
Stop hiding behind the young master!
Be honest with yourself and everyone around you!
- That's enough! - You're afraid to love the Minister.
So you say that it's because he resembles the young master.
- Not because you just like him... - I said that's enough!
You think it's the resemblance that is making you like him.
I'm saying that's why you're so confused!
So what changes if you're right?
What if it's not because he resembles him, but because I just like him?
And that's why I'm so confused.
What changes?
Miss...!
- Once is enough. - What?
Burying your loved one in the mud.
Once is enough.
I cannot do it again.
A Gisaeng-Husband? Did you say you wanted a Gisaeng-Husband?
Sir, will you review this request?
Jin-Yi, you...!
Why is your life always so dramatic?
Don't you know what a Gisaeng-Husband is?
I know that nobleman can never be Gisaeng-Husbands.
I did not know that you cared about class and status, mother!
You know that's not what I meant!
Then what is the problem?
I want to meet someone from my own class and status and fall in love with him.
And more than that, I want to have a carefree life.
You are literate.
How would that be possible?
Then...
How did you read this?
I have never read Mae Wol Dang's...
So I was right.
You know Mae Wol Dang.
You can appreciate Mae Wol Dang's poetry...
Mae Wol Dang's book is one that even scholars dare not read in the open.
It is because it ridicules the class system and criticizes society.
Who are you?
What kind of person are you?
Tell me the truth!
I am...
...a nameless wanderer.
Who are you? What kind of person are you?
Master Jung Am was your best friend, Father!
Is power so valuable that you have to kill your best friend?
If I don't kill him, then I will die. That is power!
He has been abandoned by the world.
If he knows to appreciate Mae Wol Dang's poetry, then he must be educated.
But why do you think he is living the life he is now?
He must be the son of a noble family who was sacrificed during the political upheaval.
He has the knowledge and education worthy of a nobleman.
But he can never be able to return to aristocratic society.
Don't you think a man like him would be a suitable match for Myung-Wol?
For the past few years...
I know how carefully you have protected my Myung-Wol.
I know this very well.
Can you continue doing so?
Will you protect and cherish her?
What a man!
- He is a fine specimen of a man! - I agree!
If all the men at the banquets looked like him, I would run to each banquet!
That's right!
Stop drooling!
All that saliva of yours will create a new river right here!
Useless fool!
Come to think of it, you must be really worried, Duk-Pal!
- Wo... worried? - That's right.
How can you both be men but be as different as heaven and earth?
You should be more worried!
How can you eat the same food as our Miss Myung-Wol
and look as different from her as heaven and earth... no!
- It's a bigger difference! - How dare you!
Stop your useless dreaming!
He's going to become a Gisaeng-Husband.
- A Gisaeng-Husband? - Who's Gisaeng-Husband?
Who else? Miss Myung-Wol's!
- Unbelievable! - What is?
- He was supposed to be mine! - What in the world...?
That's really strange...?
Why does she want a Gisaeng-Husband all of a sudden?
It's not all of a sudden. It's a good thing.
She won't have to be confused anymore, so it's a good thing.
I told you to go back! Why are you still here?
Your father thinks you're at the temple in the mountains!
That's right!
What your manservant is saying, my Lord...
When you asked your father for the large sum of money,
he asked why you needed so much money when you were at a temple.
I told you to tell him I wanted to make a donation!
This is a sad story, my Lord. You're going to sell Buddha for a courtesan?
Why don't you just settle down here as a Gisaeng-Husband?
How can a nobleman be a Gisaeng-Husband?
If you don't want that, then go to the mountains and study!
I study better here.
I can hold her hand like this, and then flip a page.
And do this, and flip another page...
The words just go straight into my head!
Oh, my Lord...!
Get out!
What brings you here?
Myung-Wol's mother Hyun-Geum has sent some special tea for you.
Actually, I wanted to visit her myself.
Why didn't you ask for me there?
As her body is frail and her mind preoccupied, she did not have time to spare.
No time to spare?
Has something happened at the gyobang?
I have heard that there are no banquets planned for some time.
Nothing's happened at the gyobang, but something is happening with Myung-Wol.
Myung-Wol?
She will be taking a Gisaeng-Husband soon.
A Gisaeng-Husband?
Although his role is to protect her,
it is the same as marriage in many ways.
Her mother is busy with preparations.
There will be a small banquet, so if you are available...
She has asked me to invite you.
Please have a drink.
So you're taking a Gisaeng-Husband?
It is a common event for courtesans.
It is time for my practice. If there is nothing else...
I shall take my leave.
If this is for my sake, it is not a good thing.
Although I cannot choose my partner for the banquets,
I am given the right to choose my own Gisaeng-Husband.
I would not have chosen a man who was not to my liking.
Do you want to be my Gisaeng-Husband?
Are you willing?
You want to be my husband, but you won't answer my question?
If this is what you want, it is acceptable to me.
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