Episode 10

Park Ki-woong

Lee Ji-hoon

Park Ji-hyun

Choi Deok-moon

Kim Min-sang

Gong Jung-hwan

Kim Yeo-jin

Sung Ji-ru

## Episode Synopsis

An unexpected appeal is presented to Yi Jin, which forces Woo-won into a difficult position. Yi Rim asks Hae-ryung her opinion about the other historians.

## Plot Summary

Prince Dowon and Goo Hae-ryung wait for the rain to subside. The prince tentatively reaches Goo for Hae-ryung’s hand.

She accompanies him back, using tigers as an excuse to hold his hand again. Apprentices Oh Eun-im and Heo Ah-ran suddenly arrive, and Goo Hae-ryung hastily shoves the prince into bushes to hide him.

At the Office of Royal Decrees, Officer Min Woo-won asks Goo Hae-ryung to rewrite her *wimu* yet again. When she asks why, he states that he can tell how she feels about Prince Dowon in her writing, ‘between the lines’.

Outside of Song Sa-hui’s house, various government officials wait to get into her father’s good books – Minister of Personnel Song Jae-chu – to receive a promotion. She is not interested in helping them. Other historians attempt to approach influential government officials to try and rise through the ranks.

The historians receive the new appointment list and Goo Hae-ryung is tasked with writing out the certificates. She notices a disparity between the supposed hometowns of the newly appointed employees with the hometowns listed in the *Record of Appearance* (which is required to be accurate). Officer Min Woo-won notices that this might be due to the Kinship Act, which prevents officials from being appointed in the same government office as kin. The historians suspect that the officials have forged fake hometowns so they could be appointed to their actual ones and receive bribes from people they know.

The office investigate and find more irregularities. Officer Hyun suggests that only one man is powerful enough to allow such underhanded tactics – Song Sa-hui’s father. Officer Min leaves to confront Song Jae-chu, giving him a chance to fix the mistakes. Song Sa-hui also confronts her father angrily about his methods.

At a royal meeting, the advisors receive a petition asking for the impeachment of Officer Min, based on the past actions of his father-in-law who was convicted of treason and executed. The historian is ordered to leave the meeting while the Crown Prince deliberates.

The news reaches the other historians. Officer Yang is appalled when Min Woo-won’s tragic past is brought up, in particular, the suicide of Woo-won’s wife. He takes Min out for a drink, where other officials speak badly of Woo-won’s wife.

Officer Min takes Goo Hae-ryung to record as he meets the Crown Prince, asking him to let him resign. The prince tries to remind him that Officer Min strove to become a historian to try and wash away his father’s crimes and leave behind the good name of his late wife, Dan-yeong.

> **Min Woo-won:** I can’t take it anymore. People gossiping about Dan-yeong. She died a lonely death while enduring the contempt of the people. She deserves to rest in peace, don’t you think?
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Hae-ryung asks Woo-won not to give up. That night, Woo-won drinks and his father approaches him.

> **Min Woo-won**: Why on earth did you do such a thing? Why did you have to do that to Dan-yeong?
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> **Min Ik-pyeong:** That’s how politics work. You ought to make sacrifices if necessary.
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> **Min Woo-won**: No. Not once have you had to sacrifice what is yours. You always demanded sacrifices from others…including your own children.
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Min woo-won experiences flashbacks.

Dan-yeong sits and embroiders. It is sunny and peaceful. Woo-won enthusiastically arrives, admitting that he couldn’t study because he was thinking about her too much. He asks if he can just stay with her for a little while. They are content.

Other memories come – Dan-yeong kneeling in the rain and begging Min Ik-pyeong to spare her father and family from ruin. Woo-won kneels beside her in silence as she sobs.

Later, dressed in white, Woo-won offers food and water to his wife from outside her quarters. She doesn’t reply. He opens the room and finds her body hanging. He clutches her legs and shouts her name, crying heavily.

Woo-won sits at the empty house and caresses the embroidered cloth Dan-yeong had made, that has both of their names. He says her name softly and cries.

The next day, Officer Hyun sits in Min’s chair at the Office of Royal Decrees when Officer Min suddenly arrives. Goo Hae-ryung gives him her revised *wimu*. He asks her to go out for a walk with him, where she says that he should thank her using her first name, but he seems physically incapable of addressing her so informally.

Prince Dowon comes across the two, and summons Goo Hae-ryung to *Nokseodang*. He asks her about what she thinks of the other historians, slightly jealous about Officer Min. She admits that she had held Prince Dowon’s hand not because of the tigers, but because she wanted to. It leaves him smiling.

Mo-wha meets with Lady Choe and asks her to pass on a message to the Queen Dowager about Goo Jae-gyeong. At a secret meeting between the Second State Councillor Min Ik-pyeong and the King, Goo Hae-ryung is caught trying to eavesdrop on their conversation.

## Starring

### Main cast:

* Shin Se-kyung as Goo Hae-ryung
* Cha Eun-woo as Prince Dowon
* Park Ki-woong as Crown Prince Yi Jin
* Lee Ji-hoon as Min Woo-won
* Gong Jung-hwan as Goo Jae-gyeong
* Kim Min-sang as King Hamyeong Yi Tae
* Choi Deok-moon as Min Ik-pyeong

#### Recurring:

* Kim Yeo-jin as Queen Dowager Yim
* Heo Jeong-do as Officer Yang Si-haeng
* Kang Hoon as Officer Hyeon Kyeong-mook
* Nam Tae-woo as Officer Son Gil-seung
* Yoon Jung-sub as Officer Hwang Jang-goon
* Ji Gun-woo as Officer Seong Seo-kwon
* Oh Hee-joon as Officer Ahn Hong-ik
* Lee Jung-ha as Officer Kim Chi-gook
* Park Ji-hyun as Apprentice Song Sa-hee
* Lee Ye-rim as Apprentice Oh Eun-im
* Jang Yoo-bin as Apprentica Heo Ah-ran
* Jeon Ik-ryung as Mo-hwa
* Sung Ji-ru as Heo Sam-bo
* Yang Jo-a as Seol-geum
* Lee Kwan-hoon as Gak-soi
* Ryoo Tae-ho as Song Jae-cheon
* Kim Yong-woon as Gwi Jae