There's been some major drama behind this drama.
Bora comes to and urges her husband to leave her behind and save himself. Like Chunchu's gonna do that. He picks her up and carries her out of the burning building just before the roof collapses. As Chunchu and Yushin tend to Bora, they learn the important documents concerning the illegal salt trade have been stolen. Chunchu swears vengeance against those who endangered his wife and child just to cover their other crime.
Queen Seungman returns the documents to Yushin's grandfather. Chunchu is like a dog with a bone, however, and goes to confront the Prime Minister about his corruption. He offers the old man a way out if he'll just resign his post and return all his ill-gotten gains. The Prime Minister refuses.
Chunchu hears that the Hwarang are giving out high interest loans. He takes his men to go and confront the warriors. The Hwarang won't let Chunchu's men in. The two camps get into a brawl. It takes Yushin to break them all up. He grants Chunchu access, vowing there is no corruption here and if there is, Yushin will take all the blame.
Yushin's sisters, Bohui and Munhui, are out shopping at the marketplace. Bohui wanders off to the side to look at some material and witnesses Bihyeong being attacked by market ninjas. Methinks Bohui's heart is all aflutter for Bihyeong. He wields his iron fan and flips and twirls all over the alley as he takes on this roaming band of ninjas. (Silla is absolutely infested with ninjas! They need to spray or something.)
One ninja (who is entirely too fat to qualify for ninjahood) sees Bohui just standing there and he goes after her. Before his sword can connect with the damsel, Bihyeong eliminates the ninja and catches the falling girl before she hits the ground. Oh yeah, major heart fluttering going on here.
Bihyeong's sidekick, Nanseung of the Great Hair, busts open a giant crock pot to discover what they were looking for. And it is... uh, what? Something. With one last longing look back at Bohui (flutter flutter), Bihyeong orders his Gwimun away. So I guess this means it is up to Bohui to clean up the bodies he left behind. I mean, somebody's gotta do it.
That night Bihyeong meets with Chunchu. Apparently what Nanseung found in the crock were the documents of the illegal salt trade, as well as evidence of the Hwarang's high interest loans. Meanwhile, Seungman begins to suspect her maid, Sino, is a spy and is the one who told Bihyeong where to find the incriminating documents.
Chunchu formerly hands over his evidence to King Jinpyeong. When the king asks where the Hwarang got the money to give out as loans in the first place, Chunchu implicates the queen. Jinpyeong turns against Seungman and threatens to dethrone her.
Kim Yushin is brought in to testify before the king. While he admits the Hwarang were giving out loans, Yushin pleads that the money went to good causes like strengthening fortifications and training new soldiers to defend the kingdom. This convinces the king to sweep this little matter under the rug. Now, on to the salt sales.
In order to save the Prime Minister as well as the fate of the entire clan, Kim Yushin's father, Kim Seohyeon, confesses that he was the mastermind behind the salt scandal. Seohyeon is stripped of his titles, beaten, and exiled out of the city.
Seungman fake-cries and guilt-trips the gullible old king into forgiving her.
Fearing for their safety, King Jinpyeong banishes his concubine Boryang and their son Boro from the palace. Princess Deokman tries to come to their defense but for once the king will not be swayed. Deokman demands her father banish her from the palace as well. Surprisingly it is Queen Seungman who comes running to beg the king to forgive the princess. (Oh, Lee Young Ah, you just don't cry very well.)
The next day over tea, Seungman suggests to the Prime Minister to make one of his granddaughters become a royal concubine. Will it be Munhui who is crushing on the married Chunchu, or Bonhui who crushing on the outlaw Bihyeong?
In an effort to work things out between them, Princess Deokman hosts the K-League Classic between Chunchu's men (in blue) and the Hwarang (in red.) Things are going sportingly until Yushin's brother, Heumsun, performs unnecessary roughness against Chunchu. Suddenly a hockey game breaks out! What's so funny about peace love and understanding?
After getting a right royal dressing down from Princess Deokman, the men settle their differences the old fashioned way - with alcohol!
Yushin takes a drunk Chunchu back to his house to sleep it off. This sets up the scenario of drunk Chunchu to do the deed with Munhui, thinking she was his wife Bora. In his defense, Munhui wasn't exactly trying to correct his mistaken assumption.
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