Shine Or Go Crazy Episode 17

Wang So asks Yeo Won for the antidote. She truthfully replies she doesn't have it anymore. He asks his wife how could she have stooped so low as to poison her own half-brother and king. Yeo Won shoots back that King Crazy isn't as squeaky clean as So would like to think. Apparently the king has had his own share of getting rid of rival siblings. It's simply what this family does to each other. If So wants to change things, why doesn't he make himself king? Wang So refuses to become what he abhors.

 

As her husband is about to leave, Yeo Won confesses she tried to kill Shin Yool, but it was all for So's sake. In Yeo Won's twisted mind, getting rid of the evidence (So's unauthorized bride) would save the prince's life. Wang So says let's just call it even. You not mention my illegal first wife to anyone, me not mentioning your hand in poisoning the king. Yeo Won has a bit of a breakdown.

 

(Wow, Honey Lee - I didn't know you had it in you!)

 

Over at Chunghae, Wang Uk is declaring the fake ledger to be authentic. Yool faints in despair. Uk thinks to himself it's alright for her to hate him as he's doing this to save her life. Yang Gyu Dal is forced to sign over the company to Poong Ho Trading (which just happens to be owned by Wang Shik Ryum.)

 

Wang So goes back to his wife and offers her an olive branch. He'll try his best to understand where she's coming from. So asks that Yeo Won help him to take down Shik Ryum and shape King Crazy into the kind of king this country needs.

 

Yool has taken to her sickbed. She's been through a lot so it's understandable. She's forced to get back up when Wang Uk and his men come to confiscate everything at Chunghae. Yool invites the prince in for some tea and sympathy. Her keen mind has already figured out Uk's actions are his attempts at protecting her from someone else.

 

Yeo Won contemplates her options.

 

Yool tries to let her workers go as she has no money to pay their wages. Kyung and the loyal workers don't care about their wages and volunteer to stay. Wang So arrives and orders everyone to have a hot and hearty meal while they all try to figure out where to go from here.

 

Later on when they're alone, Wang So assures Yool that she has nothing to fear from Yeo Won anymore as they've buried the hatchet. The couple goes back to the other plotline of where's the antidote. So figures out to himself the antidote must be in Uk's possession.

 

So calls Uk in for a private meeting at their father's memorial. Uk is shocked when So reveals the truth about their father's death. Dad didn't die from old age but from poisoning. Poisoning done by Wang Shik Ryum. So asks his brother to join with him in taking Shik Ryum down. Oh, and he asks for the antidote. Uk asks to see the evidence (the bronze talismans) So has against their uncle before there is to be any handing over of the antidote.

 

Wang So and Eun Chan plot on how to break into Shik Ryum's residence.

 

Down in the Hall of Doom, Shik Ryum's lackey hands over a catalogue from Chunghae. He's noticed a discrepancy in the list of slaves. Over the years Chunghae has recorded having 200 slaves, yet currently there are only three at the company. The dummies don't understand manumission and think Yool is hiding something. (Then again, perhaps there was no such thing as manumission in this period of Korea which would explain why these guys can't wrap their heads around such a concept.)

 

Wang So waits for Shik Ryum to leave his palace. The house workers try to keep a pushy So out but there's only so much "No" they can say to royalty. So makes himself at home inside. Outside, a masked Eun Chan creates a distraction to draw all the house workers away from Wang So. The prince is just about to discover the secret entrance to the Hall of Doom when dang it, Shik Ryum returns.

 

Team Yool get moving on working with what they've got in order to rebuild the company. Some of the slaves Yool freed earlier step up and offer all they have to help out. Unfortunately, Shik Ryum's lackey notices the slaves and follows them back to their village where the other freed slaves now live. A whole town Shik Ryum didn't know about. He orders his lackey to keep investigating.

 

Wang Uk questions Se Won as to why the bodyguard didn't kill Shin Yool. Se Won claims it was Shik Ryum's orders to not kill the merchant. Uk doesn't buy that excuse and asks if Yool is Se Won's sister. Bidam Wannabe #2 doesn't answer that question and instead directs the conversation to three possible locations for the black ninja headquarters.

 

Eun Chan is on his way to HQ now when he spots a suspicious character and realizes their hide-out has been discovered. Wang So decides to use this to their advantage. The black ninjas will make like they're having a meeting at HQ tonight in order to draw out the red ninjas as well as give So another chance at breaking into Shik Ryum's house and finding out what's behind the secret door.

 

Shik Ryum orders Uk to head up the red ninja attack but the prince says that's beneath him. He'll just stay right here in the Hall of Doom tonight. Shik Ryum's regular soldiers surround the headquarters and burst in only to find they've been duped: the place is empty.

 

Wang So, wearing his ninja uniform and mask, sneaks into Shik Ryum's palace and down into the Hall of Doom. After doing some searching, So finds the last few bronze talismans. (I hope they're not fakes.) As the prince is starting to leave he is confronted by a red ninja and they fight. Neither So nor anyone else is fooled. That's Uk behind the red mask.