EPISODE 6 RECAP
[size=13.3333px]When Jung Do-jeon gave Boon-yi the figurine, he’d also told her where to find him and who to ask. She sets off to do just that, but Bang-won stops her. He’s worried she was seen setting fire to the storage building, and that she’ll be caught if she doesn’t hide with him. [size=13.3333px]She refuses his help, knowing well what she got herself into. It’d be better for him to cease his involvement with her, she claims, adding that their perspectives are vastly different—he thinks she broke the law by farming land no one wanted in secret, and though she set fire to the grain storage as funeral rites for the little girl who died, he considers her a criminal. [size=13.3333px]“For a nobleman who has been delicately raised like a flower in a glass house, this is not something you can handle,” Boon-yi says. She thanks him for saving her and her fellow captives just the same, and takes her leave.
[size=13.3333px] [size=13.3333px] [size=13.3333px]Bang-won takes offense to being called a delicate flower, leading Young-kyu to ask if he likes Boon-yi. Did he hear another sound in his wittle heart? To his bodyguard’s sarcastic tone, Bang-won straightens up and answers seriously that he did hear his heart. And right now, his heart is telling him to follow Boon-yi until the bitter end. [size=13.3333px]Boon-yi, meanwhile, tells her fellow villagers hiding in a cave to hang on without her for a month, while she goes to fetch someone who can actually help them. They don’t find this prospect appealing until Bang-won enters the cave, having tracked Boon-yi down. [size=13.3333px]They all look at his fine silk clothes in awe… but in the next shot, he’s been stripped of everything but his baji (ye olde underpants) and tied to a tree. A straight-faced Boon-yi tells him they’re all very sorry for stealing his clothes, but she’ll never forget his kindness.
[size=13.3333px] [size=13.3333px] [size=13.3333px]Bang-won is understandably outraged, though he claims he understands their situation, and would be happy if they could survive off selling what they stole for him. Still, Boon-yi won’t untie him, since he could report them to the magistrate’s office. Nothing Bang-won says will convince her otherwise. [size=13.3333px]The most she can do, again being quite apologetic, is to leave a rock he can use to cut his ropes in, oh, say, a day or so. Bang-won yells after her that he can’t even report her when he doesn’t know her name, though he catches it when another villager calls to her. Does he recognize her as the Boon-yi he once knew? [size=13.3333px]Moo-hyul confronts his teacher over lying to him about Maehwangsa being filled with a bunch of rookies, since he’d made Moo-hyul’s defeat of one of their warriors seem like nothing. Master Hong tries to prove his superiority by making a big show of drawing his sword, but Moo-hyul is able to best him in a direct fight easily.
[size=13.3333px] [size=13.3333px] [size=13.3333px]“When did I surpass you, Teacher?” Moo-hyul asks haltingly, only for Master Hong to sigh and admit that the pupil bested his teacher only one year after coming to him. He’s been lying to Moo-hyul about his abilities all these years in order to keep getting paid for “teaching” him. His only defense is that he held Moo-hyul back because he’s too strong for his own good. [size=13.3333px]Nothing Master Hong says now will convince Moo-hyul to stay with him, so his former student gives him a deep and respectful bow, despite everything, before going home to his enormous family. [size=13.3333px]Grandma Myo-sang isn’t thrilled that Master Hong’s been conning them out of food all these years, but she knows that he was right about Moo-hyul needing more than strength to attain a government post. They may not have wealth or connections, but a reputation is something Moo-hyul can get on his own. And defeating The Viper would garner him instant fame.
[size=13.3333px] [size=13.3333px] [size=13.3333px]Bang-won finally manages to cut his own ropes, now determined to remember Boon-yi’s name so he can get some payback. (He hasn’t made the connection yet.) Young-kyu finds him half-naked in the woods and procures him some plain cotton clothes at a nearby inn. [size=13.3333px]Luckily for him, he steps outside to see Boon-yi talking with the innkeeper. They both have that moment of recognition before Boon-yi runs away, calling over her shoulder that she said she was sorry. It’s funny that neither of them will stop running until the other stops. [size=13.3333px]Bang-won is the one to step down first, though it’s all a ploy—he catches up to Boon-yi, only for her to bite him and run. They keep dragging each other down until they’re just wrestling in the grass, which ends with Bang-won biting her back. “Did you think I couldn’t bite you when you bit me?!” he asks defensively.
[size=13.3333px] [size=13.3333px]He ends up straddling her and pinning her to the ground much like he did when they fought as children, but he crawls off once it’s clear she won’t run away again. He wants clear answers to his questions: “Did I save you or not?” “You saved me,” she admits. [size=13.3333px]His next question: Did he look at her like a criminal when she set fire to the grain storage? Again, no. His last question: Did she think he followed her because he wanted to report her, or because he was worried about her? Boon-yi admits in a low voice that she knows he followed her because he was worried. [size=13.3333px]That’s exactly his point—he would have given her his gold necklace and clothes if she would have just asked, so why did she feel the need to steal from him instead? “Why would you ignore my generosity?” he all but yells, pinning her back to the ground in the process.
[size=13.3333px] [size=13.3333px] [size=13.3333px]Even though he’s right on top of her, Boon-yi answers calmly, “You have power, and you are a noble. From what I have seen, those with power take everything away from us. That is why I cannot trust you.” [size=13.3333px]Bang-won leans in closer, so his face is just inches from hers as he tells her to take a good look at him, because he’s not the kind of person she described. Well, he tries not to be, anyway. But their little moment is broken when Bang-won recognizes the wooden figurine hanging around her neck as the twin of the one he took from the New Joseon Cave. [size=13.3333px]Boon-yi uses the time he’s distracted to make her escape, but not before she apologizes for hurting him. He’s too fixated on why she has that figurine to stop her.
[size=13.3333px] [size=13.3333px] [size=13.3333px]General Choi Young is incensed when he finds out that Minister Hong raised taxes to ninety percent and killed anyone who resisted, but it’s Jung Do-jeon’s old friend Jung Mong-joo who tells the general that he’s partially to blame. [size=13.3333px]Minister Hong is backed by Lee In-gyeom, and Lee In-gyeom was put into power by General Choi—and by leaving him unchecked, he was able to solidify his unholy alliance with Gil Tae-mi and the late Baek Yoon. But now that Baek Yoon is dead, Minister Hong has taken over, and he’s infinitely worse. [size=13.3333px]Listening in on their whole conversation are Bang-ji and Gab-boon, since they’ve been hired as musicians to provide the ministers’ entertainment. Once they’re alone, Gab-boon tries to ease Bang-ji’s mind, knowing that he’ll be upset that things have only gotten worse since he he killed Baek Yoon.
[size=13.3333px] [size=13.3333px] [size=13.3333px]He sends her off on an errand, and finds himself wishing again for Jung Do-jeon’s guidance. “Am I on the right path?” he asks. Flash back to his training with Jang Sam-bong, where he’d revealed to his teacher his conviction to kill Baek Yoon and bring an end to Goryeo. [size=13.3333px]When Jang Sam-bong had rightfully asked him what he’d do after killing Baek Yoon, Bang-ji returned that he’d find Jung Do-jeon and hear his next set of orders. That kind of thinking disappointed Jang Sam-bong, who said that if he had known that was Bang-ji’s goal, he would never have taken him under his wing. [size=13.3333px]Tears springing to his eyes, Bang-ji admitted gravely, “I have nothing else to do [in this world]… but this.” Examining Bang-ji’s blistered and bleeding hand, Jang Sam-bong sighed: “It is because of a woman, is it not? Then it’s something I cannot stop you from doing.” I must be missing the dot that connects Yeon-hee and his sudden conviction to follow Jung Do-jeon.
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