Shine Or Go Crazy Episode 16

 

 

The guards inform Gyu Dal and the others that Chunghae is being seized because of tax evasion. They're being audited in the middle of the night. Someone plants evidence in Shin Yool's room. She really needs to put a lock on her door.

 

Wang So runs back to the trading post and uses his "Do you know who I am?" to get inside. He wants to procure all the guards to go search for the kidnapped Yool. However, the letter that was planted in Yool's room is conveniently found. The forged document is supposedly Yool admitting she was cooking the books. Knowing she's about to be investigated, the letter goes on to say she's leaving town tonight.

 

With their fake concrete evidence, the auditors threaten to arrest everyone at Chunghae unless the company transfers all their assets over to another trading company. Just sign here. Wang So, rightfully smelling a rat since these guys just so happened to have all the paperwork ready and right here for the transfer, orders Gyu Dal not to sign anything under pain of death.

 

So finds an authentic letter from Yool. One of those, "If you're reading this I must be dead" kind of things. In the letter she tells So about Yeo Won's part in the poison plot, the use of the poison detecting jewel, and the fact So's wife knows about his first marriage in Gaebong.

 

Over at the Hall of Doom, Wang Shik Ryum just can't help crowing to Wang Uk about seizing control of Chunghae, thanks to Yeo Won. Uk rushes over to the merchant house where Baek Myo tells him about Yool being kidnapped. The maid pleads with the prince to find Yool as she's terrified this cold night air will be the death of the fragile girl. Baek Myo gives Uk some medicine to give Yool in case he finds her.

 

Wang So goes home to confront his wife only to find Yeo Won has given everyone the slip. Wang Uk goes to confront his uncle. Shik Ryum decides Uk is too caught up in a mere girl to be much of a king who can be controlled. Perhaps Uk should turn in his Legion of Doom membership card. Wang Uk swallows his pride and promises to be the puppet king Shik Ryum wants as long as Shin Yool is allowed to live. The uncle replies the price of Yool's life is the Chunghae Trading Company.

 

Wang So goes to Cheong Ok to ask her for directions to the place she was taken to when Yeo Won had her kidnapped.

 

Shin Yool is indeed in the shack with Yeo Won and the masked Se Won. Yool isn't looking too healthy and it's not from any poisons. Yeo Won delights in telling her rival about what is happening to Chunghae and its people right now. Yool finally speaks up. She tells Yeo Won about Ji Mong's prediction that Wang So will become king. However, So needs Yool (and therefore Chunghae) to achieve this goal. Ergo, if Yeo Won wants to become queen (and boy does she ever) she has to let Yool live.

 

Yeo Won exits the shack, leaving orders for Se Won to kill Yool. What Yeo Won doesn't know is Shik Ryum has previously given counter orders to the bodyguard to not kill Yool. Who will Se Won obey?

 

Shin Yool notices the flying fish trinket on Se Won's sword and strikes up a conversation with her executioner. She tells him about being from Balhae about her mother and brother. This rattles Se Won as it makes him have a dim memory of his childhood. While he's flashbacking, Yool starts a fire and stumbles out of the shack.

 

She staggers through the forest with Se Won slowly stalking her. Wang So arrives at the shack too late. Why did she start the fire? I don't get that part. Anyway, Yool weakens and falls to the ground. Se Won stands over her and unsheathes his sword. Thinking this is the end, Yool pulls out her butterfly necklace and prays. Se Won recognizes the butterfly. It must be some kind of family heirloom. He starts asking her questions about Balhae but Yool faints on him. Unable to kill a woman who could be his sister, Se Won runs away.

 

Wang So is running around the woods screaming "Gaebong-ah!" when he ultimately finds Yool's unconscious body. Then Wang Uk shows up. Where'd he come from? Darn it, I was hoping Wang So would warm Yool up with his body heat. Now that Uk is here, he'll give Yool the boring medicine instead.

 

Wang So drops Yool off at Chunghae while he goes to kick his wife's ass. Well, that's what I'm hoping at least. The auditors were just about to force Gyu Dal into signing away the company when Yool comes in. She identifies the ledger as a fake and says Wang Uk will back her up. But because he's made a deal with the devil, Uk must betray Yool and say the ledger is authentic.

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We flash back a bit as Shin Yool tests out her new poison-detecting bracelet. The jewels start off white but turn dark when near deadly toxin. Now it's time to go have tea with Yeo Won.

 

After Yeo Won does her usual "Stay away from my husband" routine, Yool exposes her new jewelry. At least neither woman dances around the subject and get right to the point. Yool offers a deal. If Yeo Won will hand over the antidote, Yool will keep secret Yeo Won's involvement in the poison plot. The princess has one day to capitulate. (No, I say. Never give your enemy 24 hours to plan your death. Demand the antidote now! Eh, no one ever listens to me anyway.)

 

With King Crazy under the weather, Shik Ryum and his pet, Wang Uk, are rushing through the transfer of the capital to Pyongyang. So tries to get through to his older brother only to find King Crazy is deep in psychosis. Desperate to save his brother, and not knowing about Yool's intrigue, Wang So goes to his wife to ask Yeo Won for an antidote. He doesn't come right out and say he knows she's the one who poisoned the king. Instead he strokes her ego by explaining he knows she so clever and skilled in medicine, surely she can come up with an antidote. I'm sure Yeo Won is too smart to believe all this but at least she's been given a window of opportunity to cure the king without being named as his assassin.

 

Wang So leaves to meet with Ji Mong and Eun Chan and explain about Cheong Ok. As I was hoping, it was So who told Cheong Ok to become one of Yeo Won's minions. In So's opinion, Yeo Won will have a better chance at retrieving all the bronze talismans from the Legion of Doom. When she does, Cheong Ok will then steal them and bring the evidence to Wang So.

 

The prince goes on to reveal that while Wang Shik Ryum was the one behind the poisoning, it was Princess Yeo Won who supplied the stuff. Ji Mong, still under the delusion that So and Yeo Won were fated to be together, urges So to cut ties with Yool and stick with his wife. After all, the prince barely knows this merchant woman. So mutters he's known her for five years. Ji Mong and Eun Chan wonder what that's supposed to mean. I'm sure they'll be sticking their noses in Wang So's past.

 

Wang Uk and Se Won are trying to figure out where the black ninjas headquarters could be. Uk suddenly realizes they're probably hiding in plain sight right here in the city. The Foreshadowing Hammer makes Uk notice the flying fish talisman hanging off of Se Won's sword, which reminds the prince of what Yool told him at the abandoned temple. Uk asks the bodyguard if he is from Balhae. Se Won admits he once had a mother and sister but he believes they are dead.

 

Shin Yool is starting to get nervous, wondering if Yeo Won is going to give in or not. Gyu Dal comes in to tell her Wang So is in the storage building, the couple's hangout. The prince is needing some comforting after his stressful day. Without saying too much, Yool confides to So that she might be able to come up with the antidote by tomorrow. The Foreshadowing Hammer makes So ask if he needs to be worried about her safety. Yool assures him she'll be fine. (Famous last words.)

 

Yeo Won goes to her secret stash intending to get the antidote only to find it is already gone. After a few seconds of thinking, Yeo Won is horrified to conclude it could only be Wang Uk who could have taken the antidote. The princess wastes no time in confronting her brother. Uk pretends he doesn't know what she's talking about. Seeing she's not going to be getting it back, Yeo Won gives some parting advice to Uk: if he's going to use the antidote as a weapon, then use it well and at the right time.

 

Se Won asks to accompany Wang Uk to his scheduled meeting at the Chunghae Trading Company. Se Won feels confident that Wang So won't recognize the red ninja. It's good ol' Kang Myung who wonders, "Who is this new guy? He kind of looks familiar." While our main cast is holding their meeting, Se Won is sneaking around the place, leaving a message in Shin Yool's room.

 

Wang Uk is big in his boots as he announces plans to draft men from 16 to 60 to work on the new capital. Wang So argues back the only person who could order such a thing is the king himself and until King Crazy does these plans are dead in the water. Shin Yool is trapped between these two men and their Weapons of Mass Testosterone. She decides the only way to deal with this is for everyone to get their drink on. Well, mainly for her to get her drink on.

 

Shin Yool finds the unsigned note which tells her to be at a certain place at a certain time if she wants to get the antidote. What isn't part of Se Won's plan is for Yool to tell So she may be able to get her hands on the antidote tonight. Elsewhere, Yeo Won and Lackette are forging some documents in Yool's handwriting. Yeo Won goes to Uncle Shik Ryum with the forgeries which she claims will help them take control of Chunghae Trading Company.

 

Baek Myo asks Wang Uk if he's learned anymore about where Yool's mother may possibly be. This reminds Uk about Yool mentioning a brother and he asks the maid what the boy's name was. Baek Myo responds the brother was called Ho Yool but they believe he was killed by the Khitans. Wang Uk almost but not quite makes the connection between Ho Yool and Se Won.

 

 

Yool is surprised by a visit from Ji Mong. He bluffs about knowing she and Wang So were together five years ago in Gaebong. Thinking they've been found out, Yool drops to her knees and begs for So's life. Put the blame on her. She didn't know he was a prince when they got married. Ji Mong is like, "Say what?"

 

At first Ji Mong joins the chorus of Yool needing to get out of town. However he finally gets around to questioning whether his prediction of So and a certain princess being fated to be together may have meant Yool and not Yeo Won.

 

As the time of the secret meeting nears, we see that Yool had the sense to send her bodyguard Kyung on ahead to scout things out and be on hand in case Yool finds herself in danger. What Yool and Kyung don't know is Prince Wang So is keeping an eye on Yool tonight while Eun Chan observes what Yeo Won is up to.

 

Yool, dressed in male garb, leaves Chunghae to go to the meeting place. Right behind her is Wang So. Suddenly a masked Se Won on horseback rides out of the shadows and snatches Yool up. So gives chase but he's on foot and no match for a horse. Back at the merchant house, royal guards march in and take over the place.

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Wang So gets down on his knees and begs his brother for official permission to take down Wang Shik Ryum. This is when King Crazy grabs his sword and acts like he wants to behead So. Wang So keeps his calm, though, and manages to talk the king down from his bad trip.

 

The next day, as part of So's plan, the king tells Shik Ryum the royal order has been given to arrest the black ninjas. Shik Ryum is to concentrate on capturing the thieves while the king sends his own man to keep an eye on the capital relocation project. Uh-oh, right after Shik Ryum leaves the room, King Crazy gets a nose bleed. That's never a good sign in a Kdrama.

 

 

Wang So invites his uncle out for a drink and a conversation. (Shik Ryum spits out the cheap alcohol but stays for the talk.) So laughs while threatening his uncle with retaliation for killing his father. Shik Ryum smiles and advises his nephew not to rush things or So will be the one who will reach the afterlife first.

 

Wang So sends his black ninjas out on a mission to find whoever deals in rare plants from India. Whoever has the poisonous plant must also have the antidote. Shik Ryum warns Wang Uk that the king will be sending a superintendent over the capital transfer. Uk is to use whatever means necessary (money, whores) to buy the man's loyalty.

 

Uk meets with Shin Yool at Chunghae to warn her there may be trouble with the new superintendent. Yool replies that her company will be the first rats to abandon ship if necessary. Suddenly they are joined by Prince Wang So - the new superintendent. (C'mon, you surely saw that one coming.) So insists that the workers be paid for their work, not pressed into work gangs. This ain't the feudal ages. Well, actually it is.

 

Team Shin Yool has had a break with the poisoning project. There is a certain jewel that can react to the specific poison and Yool is out to get it.

 

 

Meanwhile, black ninja Cheong Ok is at the gisaeng house investigating the murder of the head madam. (When did that happen, you ask. Just a second ago offscreen is all I can tell you.) Lackette and her henchmen burst into the room. Cheong Ok admirably fends them off (with a spoon!) but ultimately is overcome. Her younger sister is used as a tool against her to get Cheong Ok to talk. Yeo Won takes over the interrogation herself, learning from the black ninja about the bronze talismans that spell "We killed the king" when put together.

 

Yeo Won poisons both Cheong Ok and the sister. They have just 24 hours to live. However, if Cheong Ok gets back the bronze talismans the black ninjas have, Yeo Won will give her the antidote.

 

Wang So and Wang Uk get into a argument over taxing the 1%. In an effort to get his sister and the prince back together, Yang Gyu Dal locks So and Yool in the storage building. Yool beats the prince with a feather.

 

Yeo Won jumps on Wang Uk's case for becoming Shik Ryum's tool. After leaving Chunghae, Wang So spots and follows a sickly Cheong Ok as she stumbles through the streets. She's gone back to the black ninjas headquarters to get the bronze talismans, which are in a box that are in a box resting in a box. Caught in the act by the prince, Wang So makes her tell him everything. He allows Cheong Ok to take the pieces back to Yeo Won. Once the talismans are in her possession, Yeo Won keeps her word (which surprises me) and hands over the antidote. Cheong Ok gives it to her sister but won't drink it herself unless Yeo Won takes Cheong Ok on as one of her people. Oh, I hope this is part of Wang So's plan.

 

King Crazy collapses. Wang Shik Ryum utilizes emergency powers to seize control of the state. Yeo Won invites Yool over for another cup of tea. The princess orders the merchant to leave the country entirely. Yool exposes her new bracelet, complete with the special poison-detecting jewel.

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Shin Yool throws a party at Chunghae in an attempt to distract herself from thinking about Wang So and what he's up to with Yeo Won.

 

What he's up to ain't much as So quickly informs his (second) wife that he's just here to sleep.

 

Yool's party is crashed by Wang Uk who claims he's here for business, not stalking. He orders her to drink and eat as he can tell she's been too depressed to take care of herself. Yool says she now understands how Uk must have felt having to send his dead girlfriend to marry his father. She asks the prince for advice on how to get over the pain. Uk gives her the old, "Time heals all wounds" and "There are other fish in the sea" talk.

 

Wang So stalls and stalls and stalls. He asks Yeo Won if she's ever considered using her powers for Good (the kingdom) and not Evil (her clan). Yeo Won counters with her own question of since So loves Goryeo so much, why doesn't he seize the throne.

 

Yeo Won never does get any. So goes back to his own bedroom to stare longingly at his butterfly necklace.

 

The next day Yeo Won invites Yool over for tea. The princess lies through her teeth and claims the consummation went swimmingly. After gently threatening Yool's life, Yeo Won discloses that she knows Yool and So were married which is against Goryeo law. Yool promises, for So's sake, to end their relationship.

 

Back in her room, Yool studies on the medical book the doctor gave her and finds what she believe is the poison that is making the king be King Crazy.

 

Yool is a busy woman today as she has sent for Wang So to give him the Breakup Speech. Don't come back here ever again. So knows this is all about their secret marriage but pretends for Yool that he believes the breakup is because of him sleeping with his wife. She changes the subject and warns So she believes the king is being poisoned. She wasn't able to find an antidote in the medical book which means So must find out how the poison is getting to his brother in order to stop further contamination. What Yool doesn't tell So is she suspects Yeo Won is the source.

 

Wang Shik Ryum is reporting to the king about the transfer of the capital being held up by the evil Chunghae Trading Company. He also reminds the king the black ninjas are also evil and evil Wang So is probably their evil leader. Evil, evil, evil.

 

Under the influence of Shik Ryum and the drug, King Crazy orders Wang So to have the leader of the black ninjas come in for a meeting. If the man shows up, the king will know the black ninjas are good. If no one comes, then the king will have everyone arrested.

 

Separately, Team Wang So and Team Shin Yool are looking for an antidote for the king. Wang Uk is officially inducted into the Legion of Doom. Despite the Breakup, So meets with Yool to inform her his team has learned how the poison is being passed to the king through the scrolls he reads. They've recovered some of the powder. So gives Yool a sample for her own team to study. She tells him about Wang Uk being put in charge of the transfer of the capital. Out of the blue So asks if it is Uk who knows about their secret marriage. Yool is momentarily surprised So knows, then proceeds to lie and says no one else knows.

 

Yeo Won, still threatened by the shopkeeper, comes up with the ultimate idea on how to break Yool and So up permanently: Yool should get married to Uk. Surprisingly it is Uk who says, "I don't think so, Sis." This doesn't sit well with Yeo Won. Nothing is going her way.

 

Shik Ryum learns the Justice League has discovered the truth about the poison letters. He orders Se Won to do what has to be done to cover their tracks so the plot can't be traced back to the Legion of Doom. Although the Justice League has cut off any new poison to him, King Crazy still has enough in his system to keep him crazy and suspicious of his brother. He tells So that tomorrow at a certain time the king will be all alone in the throne room, waiting for the arrival of the leader of the black ninjas.

 

So agonizes over whether or not to reveal his secret identity to the king. If only he had his old drinking buddy Gaebong to talk this over with. But Gaebong is no more. Wang Uk stops by Chunghae for business, not stalking.

 

Wang So decides to appear before the king in his ninja uniform. In King Crazy's mind this just confirms Shik Ryum was telling the truth and So is not to be trusted. So attempts to tell the king about the poisoning but King Crazy won't listen. The monarch has a major meltdown. He grabs a sword and prepares to lop So's head off.

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After his confusing and hurtful encounter with Mommy Dearest, Wang So returns home to his quarters and the first thing he notices is his battle outfit is missing. (A jealous Yeo Won had taken a sword to it after learning about her husband's other marriage.) Yeo Won asks how his tea went with his mother. So replies he didn't get any tea, just heaps and heaps of abuse as usual. Yeo Won immediately figures out that someone else must have been there for Mommy Dearest to act the way she did.

 

Wang So, echoing my own childhood, asks "What are you doing in my room touching my stuff?" Yeo Won announces she knows, and she knows So knows, that Gaebong is really a woman, so they need to stop hanging out together so much. Wang So laughs at the princess for suddenly trying to act like a wife after all this time. Oh, and she'd better not touch his stuff, or his people, ever again.

 

Wang So leaves the house, just missing Shin Yool who has come to see the princess. Yeo Won offers some tea and some advice: stop spending time with my husband. The princess also returns the battle outfit to Yool (complete with alterations made by a sharp sword). Yool knows exactly what this means.

 

Wang Uk goes to Wang Shik Ryum, asking to borrow the red ninjas in order to capture the black ninjas. In return, Uk will become Shik Ryum's tool. At least, that's what the old man will think. Uk has his own secret plans of getting rid of Wang So and then seizing the throne. The only one who knows about this double dealing is Se Won.

 

It has been two days since Gyu Dal was drugged by the gisaeng madam. He can remember very little of that night, just that he was served tea and there was incense that smelled divine. (The incense was the drug.)

 

Despite Yeo Won's threats, Yool sneaks away to spend some time with Wang So as they deliver medicine to a local clinic. The doctor hands over to Yool a book compiling all the poisons and antidotes he's been studying. (This should come in handy for curing King Crazy.)

 

After a day of cuteness overload, Yool sneaks So into her private quarters. Their hormones are in full swing and it looks like they may just get around to consummating their marriage. Not. Here comes Baek Myo into the room, forcing So to hide under the table.

 

Wang So returns home (no, I don't know if he ever did get any or not) to be surprised by a visit from Mommy Dearest. She's come to have tea with him. So understandably doesn't know how to react to her sudden kindness. Mommy explains she had to act so awful to him last episode because too many eyes are watching her at the palace. Here and now, though, she begs for a new beginning for both of them. So serves his mother a cup of tea, showing he's ready to forgive her. (This is a three-hankie scene, people!)

 

Yool receives a summons from Wang Shik Ryum. When she arrives she finds Wang Uk also in attendance. Now that he can see her without the beekeeper hat on, Shik Ryum comments on how much Yool does resemble Uk's old girlfriend who had to marry Uk's dad. I'll say this: Yool isn't a bit rattled at being in the old man's presence. From behind a screen Se Won watches all. A-ha, what's that hanging from his sword? Is it a trinket in the shape of a flying fish, guardian god of the Balhae? More and more you people have convinced me Se Won is related to Yool.

 

Anyway, the Legion of Doom want Chunghae to simply hand over some people and materials. Yool says no. Yool offers a partnership. Uk says no. Well, this is going nowhere fast.

 

As Yool is about to leave she stops and asks Uk about his old girlfriend (that we see in a flashback hanging from the neck until dead.) If Uk wanted to keep the girlfriend, why didn't he marry her? Uk yells that in this country for a prince to marry without the king's permission automatically means death. Yool now realizes her hasty marriage to Wang So could put him in jeopardy if it ever got out.

 

Mommy (I can't call her Dearest anymore) finds out that So and Yeo Won haven't consummated their marriage and decides to do something about it.

 

 

 

 

Wang So has snuck back into Yool's bedroom, planning to surprise her with couple's rings. Yool comes back to her room trying to find the resolve to put an end to her relationship with So. While he watches from his hiding place, Yool pulls out her old wedding outfit from five years ago. At last that secret is finally resolved as So recognizes the dress and puts two and two together. Yool is weeping into her wedding dress and never sees So, who also realizes the danger they both could be in.

 

He is standing outside in the courtyard when Yool finally encounters him, thinking he just arrived. So acts like the same old goofball and asks what she's hiding behind her back, knowing full well it's her wedding dress. Yool claims she was just throwing something old away. So hugs her and says you can throw things away but you can't throw memories away.

 

Mommy sends for Wang So and Yeo Won to attend to her. The dowager queen has cast their fortune and set the date. In five days it will be the perfect time for the couple to knock boots. Roll in the hay. Succumb to their treacherous bodies. To be washed upon love's transcendent shores.

 

Naturally Yeo Won is all for it. That night she sends Lackette to Chunghae supposedly with a request for Yool to pick a good night for the prince and princess to do it all for the nookie.

 

Suddenly it's five days later. Both So and Yeo Won are being prepared for the sacrifice. With a stone cold face, So marches forward to do the deed. Can you feel the love tonight? 

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Wang Uk is proclaiming his feelings and grabbing Shin Yool up in that awkward hug. After a moment's hesitation of WTH, Yool shrugs herself out of his embrace.

 

 

Now that he's been rejected by Yool, and in a way betrayed by sister Yeo Won (who nursed Wang So back to health in order to win the tournament), Uk is determined to become a new man. A man who won't depend on other people to get what he wants. (Normally this is the part of the show when the second lead becomes all villainy. Judging from what I've seen of this guy's acting skills, however, I don't foresee much of a change for his character.)

 

Wang So - in prince mode - asks Wang Uk over for some conversation. So wants to find out where Uk learned his swordfighting technique. Oh So, to quote the great Jim Profit: The worst way to get a straight answer is to ask an honest question. (Damn, I loved Profit. Why did it have to get canceled? Why?) As expected, Uk is suddenly on defense and becomes all evasive. It was a drifter; a man I'll never see again and you can't contact. Wang So reveals that he realizes now that Gaebong is a woman. Uk acknowledges he wants to make Gaebong/Yool his woman (without mentioning her earlier friend-zoning) and asks So to be nice and back off. 

 

Wang So says No.

 

With her eyes opened to Shik Ryum's ulterior motives, Mommy Dearest wants to join up with the Justice League against the Legion of Doom. She understands this means she'll have to change her way of thinking when it comes to Wang So. I demand huge groveling!

 

 

By Yeo Won's orders, the princess's main lackey (Lackette?) bullies Gil Bok into helping her break Wang So and Shin Yool up so So and Yeo Won can become a real husband and wife. Thankfully Wang So quickly catches on that Gil Bok is up to something and sends the flunky off to the mountains.

 

Since his identity has been revealed, everyone at Chunghae acts differently towards So. He insists they go back to the way things were before. So pretends like he still thinks Gaebong is a man and the assistant head of the company is a completely different person. He asks to meet the woman in order to make his formal greetings to Yool. As revenge the prince makes Yool constantly change back and forth from feminine to masculine garb.

 

 

So ends his hijinks by dumping Gaebong in a bathtub and growling at her for tricking him for so long. Yool has a valid rebuttal in that he tricked her about being a prince. So shows how grateful he is that he's not gay. When Baek Myo starts to come into the bath house, Yool hides So under the water.

 

Yool tells him she'll still have to dress like a man so Baek Myo won't find out So has found out. Not that Yool can stop giggling like a teenager around him in front of everybody. A drunk Gyu Dal starts muttering about his sister's mission to find someone from five years ago before he's stopped. This makes So jealous to think Yool has someone in her past.

 

The king is being inundated with requests for him to have the black ninjas hunted down and executed. Oh no, one of the requests has been seeded with that secret poison that makes the king go crazy. Just when it appeared Yool's tea was helping him. Under the influence of the drug, the king gives his permission to capture the black ninjas. He also has a bit of a crack up in front of the court which gets tongues to wagging.

 

Shik Ryum continues his campaign to turn the king against Wang So.

 

Mirroring Lackette and Gil Bok from earlier, Ji Mong and Eun Chan decide to break Wang So and Yool up in order to save the prince's marriage.

 

Yool is surprised to be invited to tea with Mommy Dearest. And Yeo Won. The dowager queen's motives are innocent as she simply wants to get a nice present for So for winning the tournament. Not the sharpest tool in the shed, Mommy Dearest doesn't pick up on the undercurrents between Yool and Yeo Won.

 

Yeo Won spies the butterfly necklace on Yool and starts asking questions, like where is the other half of it, knowing full well where it is. Yool smoothly claims no, the ornament is supposed to look like this. There is no other half. I luv me some mind games.

 

Yeo Won may be jealous but she's still razor sharp in the brains department as she suspects that new gisaeng, Cheong Ok, is one of Wang So's crew.

 

Since it didn't work out with Wang Uk, So asks his father-in-law who trained the prince. This time he at least learns it was a bodyguard the old man fired six years ago. (Fired because the old man saw how close Se Won and Yeo Won were getting.)

 

 

Yeo Won has laid a trap for Gyu Dal at the gisaeng house. The madam drugs the brother with ancient sodium pentothal (not that it takes much for Gyu Dal to spill his guts in the first place.) Gyu Dal tells all about his sister getting married to So five years ago but the prince doesn't recognize his first wife now.

 

Yeo Won be illin' when she receives this information.

 

Mommy Dearest has been sending invitations to Wang So for him to come visit her but he found it hard to believe she would want to see him. Unfortunately by the time So does show up to see Mommy, she's having face time with Shik Ryum. (She's been acting like she still believes in Shik Ryum's lies. Now that So is here, Mommy Dearest will have to continue to behave like Mommy Dearest instead of making up lost time with her son. Oh, the pain.)

 

 

Okay, Show, you picked up steam again. Good job.

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We go back to the depressing victory feast when King Crazy has the veiled Shin Yool brought in. However this time we get a few more scenes we didn't last episode. The king has asked her who will be the next king and Yool dodges the bullet by answering a prince with the name of Wang. King Crazy then asks Yool to predict Prince Wang So's fate. Yool requires So to write out a letter, which he does, but just as Yool is about to study the paper the king changes his mind and asks for Prince Wang Uk to write a letter. Yool's fortunetelling predicts Uk will have a lonely future. Enjoying this, the king then has Prince Wang Teen Idol to write something. Yool reads this guy as being too easily lead by other people and he would be better off becoming a Buddhist monk.

 

King Crazy starts to tire of this game and holds his sword at Yool's throat. Wang So finally speaks up and tells her to tell the king what she plans to do with the profits she'll be making from this tournament. Yool explains she'll use the money to pay physicians and provide medicine for the sick. With others begging him to allow the tournament to end on a high note (and not, you know, murder), King Crazy allows Yool to live while warning her he'll be watching.

 

Shik Ryum seizes his chance to plant the bug in the king's ear that Prince Wang So spent some time at the Chunghae Trading Company. Surely So and Yool have cooked something up against the king. King Crazy gets paranoid all over again.

 

We get a flashback of when Yeo Won was nursing her husband back to health. Wang So wonders why she's bothering because if he isn't well enough to be in the tournament then surely Wang Uk will win. Yeo Won answers she still has some use for him.

 

Yool returns home and tells everyone about So being a prince but until he reveals the truth himself they are to treat So like he's the same old same old. Baek Myo doesn't care if So is a real prince or not, she still doesn't like him and urges Yool not to allow him back in. Yeah, that doesn't happen.

 

Dressed as Gaebong, she welcomes back So and scolds him for making her worry about his wound. Suddenly Baek Myo barges in and drags Gaebong away. The king is here! While Yool is quickly changing back into her beekeeper hat, King Crazy runs into So which only confirms the monarch's suspicions about So's part in a conspiracy. Naturally So denies any of this.

 

A veiled Yool comes into the room. Seeing the king's hand shaking she offers to serve him a rare tea. Hopefully it will be an antidote to the poison that's been making him nuts. The king starts interrogating Yool on her relationship with his brother. Carefully manoeuvring through this landmine, Yool relates how So has a close relationship with another worker at the trading company. She tells how So was locked up for being drunk, accused of stealing, and punished for being lazy. Obviously none of them knew he was a prince because who would treat royalty this way?

 

Perhaps the tea is helping as King Crazy seems satisfied and is willing to trust Wang So again. After the ruler leaves, So goes sneaking around Chunghae and catches Yool with her beekeeper hat off. Now we have another secret revealed. So is relieved he's not gay but he wants revenge for all Gaebong/Yool has put him through.

 

Meanwhile, Shik Ryum realizes one of the talismans the Legion of Doom gave him to keep is a fake. He figures Wang So must have the real one.

 

Yeo Won is at home with dinner on the table, waiting for her husband to come back. She must think all her nursing must have changed So's mind about their marriage. This is all quickly dashed to pieces when Yeo Won is informed about So's return to Chunghae.

 

The next day there's even more trouble at Chunghae. Prince Wang Teen Idol, the one who would be better off as a monk, is trashing the place in a drunken rage. Thankfully Wang Uk swoops in and runs little brother off. Uk then goes on to confess his feelings for Yool, grabbing her up in a stiff hug.

 

Not much of a cliffhanger. Show, you're starting to lose steam.