Wang So watches helplessly as it appears Shin Yool has breathed her last. Back at his pad, Wang Uk is remembering all the good times with Yool (before she totally friendzoned him). With a new determination in his step, Uk marches into the royal palace and demands to see the king. King Crazy is laughing and swinging his sword around. He does say one thing profound in all his craziness. The king warns his brother that if Uk does become king with Wang Shik Ryum's help, Uk will be just as weak and worthless as the current king. Seeing that he's not going to get anywhere with the king, Uk goes to his sister, Yeo Won, to hatch a plan to save their respective loved ones.
At the royal prison, So is screaming his lungs out at the soldiers to go get a doctor. The guards are under orders from Shik Ryum to not even bother. Thankfully Wang Uk arrives, bringing with him a doctor and hmm, is that Se Won disguised as a guard?
Uk's doctor spoons some medicine down Yool's throat but even he doesn't believe it will help much. Uk orders one of the guards to go get a brazier for the cell. Ah, that was Se Won in disguise and he's got some ninja tricks up his sleeve. He drops a smoke bomb that makes everyone around suddenly fall unconscious. Uk covers Yool's mouth and nose and motions for So to shield himself from the smoke.
(I ask you: where would the world of entertainment be without ninjas and their secret weapons?)
Uk hands the official antidote over to So because this brother is the only one King Crazy still trusts. Wang So is to slip out of the prison, reach the king, make the monarch take his medicine, then come back to the prison and act as if nothing happened. Piece of cake.
Outside the prison, Yeo Won stops the doctor and asks for a report on Yool. He tells the princess Yool will eventually regain consciousness but she's in pretty bad shape. He's surprised she's lived this long but doesn't see her lasting to next year.
No surprise, So comes waltzing into King Crazy's crib. At first the king is glad to see So, but then he thinks So is here to avenge the previous king that King Crazy was involved in assassinating. (Not the old king, everyone's father, but another older brother who didn't even warrant screen time. Which begs the question of why is it alright to go after Wang Shik Ryum for killing the old king (Dad) but no one is bothered by the fact King Crazy is just as bad for killing his brother?)
Yool awakens in her cell to see Uk and Yeo Won are standing over her. Yool takes this moment to ask Yeo Won a favor and to help Chunghae Trading Company to survive. This is not for her benefit but for Wang So's. Yool reasons after she dies So will need the love and support of his friends at Chunghae. So returns to the prison to inform everyone the king took the antidote. Uk and Yeo Won leave and the guards begin to regain consciousness.
It's a bright, sunny day for the inquisition. Wang So and Shin Yool are brought before Shik Ryum and his henchmen. Under the old man's questioning, both Yool and So admit they did go through a wedding ceremony but deny they are actually married. Shik Ryum isn't about to argue semantics with them. Not that he would get the chance as finally the (sane) king arrives to take things over.
The king calls Yang Gyu Dal to testify. It's a rather funny scene as Gyu Dal doesn't hold back and tells about how he was caught with General Kwak's sister back in Gaebong. Kwak's price for not killing Gyu Dal was Yool's hand in marriage. Rather than marry Yool to a man old enough to be her father, Gyu Dal and the gang went out and kidnapped the first Goryeo man they could find. It was all a farce to get rid of Kwak.
Shik Ryum tries to get Team Yool, a bunch of commoners, thrown out of this royal inquisition. King Sane puts his foot down and declares he called these people as witnesses so no one touches them. Shik Ryum calls the king away for a private counsel (also known as blackmail) and reminds King Sane about the incriminating contract from last episode. King Sane keeps a hold of his backbone and tells his uncle fine, go ahead. You expose the contract, I'll reveal the bronze talismans, and we'll go down in flames together. They've reached a stalemate.
Returning to the inquisition, Shik Ryum has delivered all the scrolls from the noble families who demand Prince Wang So and his illegal wife to be punished to the utmost of the law. In reply, the King Mother brings in all the scrolls from the other noble families who demand this silly old marriage law be abolished from the books. Another stalemate.
Shik Ryum still argues that the couple were definitely married. After all, why would they be such a twosome now if their marriage was a fake? Wang Uk finally speaks up, much to Shik Ryum's surprise, and claims Wang So was acting on Uk's behalf to work out a marriage between Uk and Yool. Uk officially asks the king for permission to marry Yool so there'll be no breaking of the law.
Even though his heart is breaking, Wang So is like, "This woman is nothing to me. I don't care if she marries Uk or not. Whatevs." Knowing this is the only way to save Yool's life, the king agrees to the marriage. He also orders Wang So to work under the Spawn of Satan (Poong) in drafting forced labor for the capital transfer.
Freed from the threat of execution, So takes Yool back to the sacred mountain so they can formally end their blood brotherhood and fake marriage. They will now be strangers to each other.
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