Seeing Yool/Gaebong dressed up in women's clothing has Wang So wondering again if his drinking buddy is indeed a girl, and a pretty one at that. Once in the royal library Yool is too busy drooling over the scrolls to notice So giving her that "I'm in love" look. You know the one I mean. If you don't, you must be new to Kdramas.
But the prince has other business he needs to attend to. So slips away from the library so he can go meet with his brother. The king is desperate to know if Wang So was able to contact the black ninjas. So replies he succeeded in contacting the secretive band but for the moment it is too dangerous for both sides to meet. The king was hoping they would help him to stop this Tournament of Princes but it looks like it will have to go through.
Oh no, here comes Mommy Dearest! She snarls at her cursed son for daring to break into the palace where he's not wanted and endangering the life of the king.
Yool changes back into her Gaebong disguise and is starting to leave the palace when she learns So hasn't been seen. She stays behind to wait on him to appear. When a heartbroken So ambles through the gates, Yool jumps all over him for making her worried sick. He goes from the cold rage of a mother who doesn't want him to someone caring enough to be concerned whether he was alright or not. So asks for a hug because he needs one right now. In the shadows, jelly nelly Wang Uk watches them in disgust.
Gaebong decides what her bro really needs is a good stiff drink poured by a pretty girl. She takes Wang So to the gisaeng house. The same house where he's better known to the staff as a prince. So winks at the head madam and keeps saying, "This is my first time here." The madam catches on quickly and says, "We're glad to have you here for the first time."
Wang So gets to reminiscing about his time in the city of Gaebong five years ago. Yool sheds a tear from learning that he hadn't forgotten her. Slowly they lean in towards each other. Slowly. Slowly. Almost there.
Wang Uk crashes the party! He goes along with pretending he's never met So before, then starts making his own moves on Yool while So must sit back and stew in his own juices. Uk asks "Gaebong" to start calling him hyungnim which totally gets stuck in So's craw. The people back at Chunghae are worried about Yool so Uk is here to take her home. So insists he'll be the one to take her home. Yool is totally baffled as to just what she is caught in the middle of and ends up going home with her bodyguard, Kyung.
The Legion of Doom are meeting in Wang Shik Ryum's basement. The old guy has finally wised up that these talisman pieces are a liability and suggests they all gather the remaining pieces and hide them well. The other members of Doom are against this as each piece has writing that when put together spell out "We killed the king!" or something like that. Each member holds one piece so that the others can't betray the Legion. One of the other members (since I've been calling them the Legion of Doom I'll just use Doom names and call him Sinestro) thinks to try using the Chinese red ninjas again. Later, Shik Ryum tells Bidam Wannabe #2 to use Sinestro as bait to draw out Wang So, then kill them both.
Wang Uk is the first to find the home of the master craftsman who created the bronze mirror. The man's son informs the prince that his father is dead but he remember Dad making the mirror five years ago for Kim Jong Sik. (You know, Kim Jong Sik is getting more airtime dead than when he was alive.) The son remembers Dad said there was writing on the back of the mirror but doesn't know what it said.
Uk reports back to Yeo Won. I'll give her this: Yeo Won is the only character on this show smart enough to figure out the entire plot already.
Wang So, confused about his sexuality, makes a pass at Eun Chan.
Yool, back in feminine garb, is also confused and ends up hugging a visiting Wang Uk. Not that he minds. Embarrassed, she goes running off. Uk stays to ask Baek Myo questions about this So guy who's been hanging around lately. Once again Baek Myo is a font of information, assuring the prince that So still thinks Yool is a man. The only time she does shut up is when Uk starts asking about Yool's family. All the ahjumma will say is that Yool's biological brother is probably dead and the mother, converted to a Buddhist nun, is also most likely dead. Since Wang Uk is in charge of all the Buddhist temples in Goryeo, he offers to help search for Yool's mother.
Wang So returns to his home to find a letter from Gyu Dal, Yool's adopted brother. Without the rest of the company knowing what he's doing, Gyu Dal is inviting all the competing princes to Chunghae so the company can get their measurements and stuff to suit the princes up (free of charge). So's numerous other brothers descend upon the merchant's house because who doesn't like free? (Seriously, if So's dad hadn't died from poison he would have died because of exhaustion from impregnating all these women.)
Yool asks if all the princes are here and learns the one missing is Prince So. The other brothers, Uk included, trash talk So down and predict he'll be the first prince to cave in competition.
Later that evening Gyu Dal has the princes sit down to dinner in a private room at the gisaeng house. While Gyu Dal is conveniently away, Wang So makes his princely appearance before his unappreciative brothers. So tries to remind his siblings that the Tournament of Princes was originally meant to bring the brothers together. Uk disagrees and says it is a clear pathway to throne. So announces he will join in the tournament in order to teach his brothers a lesson.
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