Queen Sinmyeongsunseong watches the butchery and smiles her biggest smile yet, since she couldn’t be any prouder of her son. I love how Wook is all, “If only we knew a hunting dog skilled in matters like these…”Įun’s grandfather Wang Gyu is caught and executed, along with other members of Eun’s family. King Jeongjong sits on the throne he coveted for so long, decreeing that Eun must be found in order for their plot (of making Eun’s grandfather seem as though he was planning a revolt, or something) to work. Wook keeps his poker face on as he does so, repeating the same chants of “Manseh!” as So did earlier. The king’s uncle, Minister of the Left Wang Shik-ryeom, bids Wook to kneel before his new king. Apparently, it was Wook who advised him to use Su to keep So in check. Eun and his wife have already escaped though, so the king returns to the palace to commend Wook on his evil deeds. There’s turmoil over at tenth prince Eun’s home as King Jeongjong seeks to solidify his power by ridding himself of his pesky brother. Won delightfully informs him that under the new king’s command, if Su were to somehow disappear from Damiwon, then he’d spread the news throughout Goryeo that she poisoned the late King Hyejong.
In answer, So drags her out of the palace, only to be stopped by ninth prince Won. Elsewhere in the room, Su whispers for So to rise to his feet, claiming that all of this happened because of her. In the present, Astronomer Choi looks down at the pitiful corpse of King Hyejong and calls upon the other princes to respectfully see to his remains. That’s when So Lite chimed in to say that he wanted to become king too, and Astronomer Choi told him not to worry-he would also become king. The young prince had claimed that the length of his life wasn’t as important as who he spent his final days with, proving that he had a good temperament even as a child. Astronomer Choi had reassured Mu that he had the star of a king, but he’d asked Mu what he would do if his lifeline didn’t last very long. We get a flashback of a young Crown Prince Mu, an equally young Astronomer Choi, and a tiny So (before he was scarred). With tears in his eyes, So grits out his allegiance to the new KING JEONGJONG, third monarch of Goryeo. Given the choice between saving Su or remaining faithful to the late King Hyejong, So drops his sword and drops to his knees before Yo. All this action will probably end in high stakes death threats for her, but what else is new? Just when we thought we’d lost our eyes and ears into this strange world of princes and transparent political machinations, we get a semblance of that back with the resurgence of Su as a thinking, decision-making human being. Our heroine finally does some stepping up this hour, and it couldn’t come at a more welcome time.
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