Wang Uk asks Yeo Won to call on all her resources and see if a cure can be found for Shin Yool's lifelong ailment.
Now that both Uk and Yeo Won have betrayed him, Wang Shik Ryum decides to seize control for himself. Who needs a puppet king? First up, the evil old man implements his labor conscription of the common folk for the capital transfer. Wang So, as part of his sentence, is put under the control of Spawn of Satan. Poong makes the prince work as a sort of bounty hunter to bring in those men who attempt to avoid the draft.
Going against tradition, Wang Uk is planning to move in with his bride. He arrives at Chunghae with the promised ginseng the trading company so desperately needs. Yool seems to be getting weaker. She once again almost collapses. Uk is there to catch her in his arms. Yool does her 'Thanks, but please stop touching me' move. Uk notices they're being watched by Se Won, who is there under Shik Ryum's orders. The prince tells Yool's brother about her poor health.
Ji Mong advises Mommy that her clan, the Choongjoo, should now ally themselves with their mortal enemies, the equally powerful Hwang Joo clan. Yeo Won is all for this because she wants to make Wang So king so she can be queen.
Wang So is taking a lunch break when he sees Baek Myo walk past. Not long after he sees one of Shik Ryum's cronies following closely behind. So orders Eun Chan to keep an eye on them. Baek Myo is heading out to the Chunghae village where the former slaves all live. As she's gossiping with one of the woman, the crony overhears Yool referred to as a princess. Naturally the crony reports back to his boss.
Hearing this new information, Wang Shik Ryum comes up with a plan. He will claim Yool has built the Chunghae village as an attempt to resurrect her nation of Balhae. All this could be considered treason against the Goryeo kingdom.
Yool continues to try and prepare everything and everyone for her inevitable death. Yang Gyu Dal doesn't seem to get it. He thinks she's just quitting the business because she's getting married. Wang Uk tells Yool he's looking into finding a cure for her. Yool replies, "Don't bother to save me."
Wang So, who knows about Yool's tragic past from Eun Chan, comes to Chunghae to see her. He's here to ask her about the ledger she's lost that kept the record for all the slaves she's bought and freed. He believes Shik Ryum's crony has it. (Crony has a name - Baek Sool - but it's too late in the game for me to refer to him by it.) Shin Yool does her best to act distant and cool towards So since they can no longer be together.
Spawn of Satan goes to the pleasure house where our Cheong Ok woos him into spilling some of his secrets. Now Wang So knows the Legion of Doom are planning something for Chunghae village.
Uk has Se Won come over for some tea with Yool. She doesn't recognize the bodyguard as the man who tried to kill her a couple of episodes back. Uk doesn't come right out and say, "This is your brother," but he does get Se Won to talk about his mother. (Yool was just a baby being thrown in the icy river so she has no memories of their mom.) It's a rather touching scene but no one ever tells Yool the truth about who Se Won really is.
Wang So, under the pretense he doesn't want to be in town during Yool and Uk's wedding, asks to be transferred to Seokyung. He really wants to go there to scope out Shik Ryum's army. Shik Ryum allows the transfer with the understanding Poong will get rid of the prince once they're away from witnesses.
Shik Ryum orders Se Won to kill Yool tomorrow night or else things won't go well for Se Won's love, Yeo Won.
Spawn of Satan leads his men and conscripts to Seokyung. That night as the guards are all sleeping, Poong's men attack Wang So in the barracks.
Back home, a masked Se Won sneaks into Yool's bedroom. Just as he's about to strike his sleeping sister, Uk once again comes to her rescue.
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