Here I am at the next to last episode and I keep getting kicked off the internet. Waah!
Poong's men are beating up a conscripted laborer. Wang So comes to the poor man's defense. Also in the crowd is Eun Chun who rushes over to deliver So's big ass halberd. Playtime is over, Poong. Wang So is ready take them all on but Eun Chan and the others beg So to escape and save them later. (Um, why did you give him his halberd, Eun Chun, if you didn't want him to fight?) Despite their chains, the laborers run to block Poong's soldiers as the prince and Eun Chun slip away.
After the ruckus dies down, we get a scene where a conscript and a guard recognize each other as being from the same village. The guard isn't really evil, he's just working to feed the family. He slips his old compatriot a key to unlock the leg shackles and escape.
Wang So quickly figures out what trouble Shik Ryum is planning to cause using the Chunghae village. (That's what I like about this show - everyone is pretty quick on the draw.) Meanwhile at the shack, Shin Yool isn't doing very well. The doctor hired to treat her warns a visiting Wang Uk to prepare for the worst. Baek Myo offers to go get Wang So but Shin Yool doesn't want him to see her like this. Besides, he's to think her really dead so he can go on and become king.
Back in town, Cheong Ok reports back to Princess Yeo Won. She relays So's orders to ready their own army for when Shik Ryum's army arrives. Yeo Won goes into action, even making peace with her rivals in order for them to band together against Shik Ryum.
Over at Chunghae village the ex-slaves are in mourning for the supposedly dead Yool. Two of the villagers are actually in the employ of Shik Ryum's crony. They start wailing loudly about poor Yool and how she was cruelly cut down by an assassin. This gets the other villagers worked up and convinced they're going to be killed because they're from Balhae. That night a couple of red ninjas sneak into the village and kill an old woman. Her body is found the next day which only agitates the villagers even more. Rumors are rampant as the people suspect it is the king of Goryeo himself who has sent the assassins to wipe out the hated Balhae people. Talk escalates for the villagers to start arming themselves and fight back, which is just what Shik Ryum wants.
Wang So arrives at the Chunghae trading post and is disturbed to see a notice of mourning on the door. Inside, Team Yool are discussing whether to bring her back home or not when a despondent So bursts into the room. He demands to know what is going on and where is his Gaebong-ah. Staying true to her wishes, Kang Myung tells the prince Yool was killed. So grabs a sword and announces his intent to go kill Shik Ryum slowly and painfully. Team Yool throw themselves on him in order to restrain So. (Technically speaking this is the second time this episode people have had to hold So back.)
Wang So is allowed to mourn alone in Yool's bedroom. Ah, but that quick mind is at work again. If Yool was murdered in her bed, why is there no trace of blood? And where is Baek Myo? Something's going on here. He does some searching of her room and finds the other half of their butterfly necklace. So knows if Yool had been killed she would have been wearing this necklace at the time. If she were cremated as they claimed, the necklace would have burnt up in the flames. Therefore his Gaebong-ah must still be alive. Wang So tricks Gyu Dal into spilling the beans. Wang Uk breaks down and gives So directions to the shack.
Shik Ryum is out for his regular "I'm better than you" ride through the city when he's confronted by Wang So and the black ninjas. After delivering a death threat... they all just walk off. I guess/hope this is part of So's plans to make Shik Ryum nervous and play his hand too early.
Wang So sets off on his horse to Yool's shack. He'd better get there soon because that crazy doctor has the craziest idea of treating her. He wants to put Yool into an even colder body of water to cure the cold in her that she caught from being put into a cold body of water.
Hearing that her hyungnim has arrived, Yool tries to refuse him entrance into the shack. Wang So tells her not to worry about how ill she looks as she will always be the most beautiful woman in his eyes. Now open up the door so I can hold you in my arms and wipe away your tears. Who can resist that? Certainly not Yool.
Wang So is told about the crazy doctor's crazy cure. Rather than say, "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard!", Wang So offers to go into the icy waters with Shin Yool. Either they both come out alive or they both die but at least they'll be together.
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