The Forbidden Marriage (Golden Spirit: Joseon Marriage Prohibition / Geumhonryeong: Joseon Honin Geumjiryeong / 금혼령, 조선 혼인 금지령)

(and is not associated with actual people,)

I am sorry.

I am so sorry.

I missed you.

I thought you would never forgive me.

Your words may have been lies, but I know...

your feelings were true.

Do you know...

how much I prayed that you were alive?

It was only after you left that it became clear to me...

that I...

cannot lose you.

Thank you for being alive.

What?

It is quite possible.

During the first queen selection,

Lady Hwa Yoon was at the center of attention.

Then will my daughter...

Once the Prohibition of Marriage ends,

the abductors will hide amongst other people...

as though they did nothing wrong.

Then it will be harder to punish them for their crimes.

That is why we must arrest all of them at once.

Is there anything I can do?

Hwa Yoon, you must not get involved.

He said this is the last chance to catch them.

Investigator Lee.

The person those men were after was me.

If necessary, I should become the bait...

that will end up hooking them.

I told you that you cannot.

Then you can come to save me.

Did you forget you owe your life to my family?

But...

Take her.

- Open it. - Yes, sir.

Lift your head.

What is with that look on your face? Were you expecting someone else?

Darn it!

Drop your weapons!

My gosh. I need to bring this back to Lady Hwa Young in one piece.

I am sorry.

I see. You are trying to scar me with that...

so that I do not get selected to be queen.

No, of course not. I would never do that.

If this is a scheme to change the future queen,

this is high treason!

No, ma'am.

You look more beautiful than a fairy from the moon palace,

Lady Hyun Sun. I mean, Your Highness.

You changed your tune quickly.

Do you know what happened to that wench from the Sung Clan?

Today is an important day,

so it is hard to meet with them to receive the report.

But do not worry.

Your mother is not the type to only have one plan.

Lady So Rang.

I am here as your servant, so please speak down to me.

Okay, So Rang. Let us go.

She is good at talking down to me.

Why are you coming from that side?

Lady Hwa Yoon entered the palace last night...

and stayed in the annex within the palace.

That is not fair, is it?

You had the time to adjust to the palace in advance.

I have a reason.

Someone was after my life outside of the palace.

Goodness.

That is why you must always strive after virtue.

Oh, yes. You said that back then.

You pretended to be covering up a colleague's flaw...

in the first queen selection...

but only pointed it out more.

You should all be careful in front of this lady.

You never know how she will criticize you.

Well said. Everyone should be careful.

This is a competition.

We can only make it to the next round by beating others.

That is to be done by oneself.

Earning points by stepping on others...

is the same as stealing.

And yet you get protected by the court ladies.

I can see what is going on behind this queen selection.

Goodness.

Let us go, my lady.

It was all done by the same men.

They had tried to harm So Rang,

conspired the fake Crown Princess incident,

and killed the Chief Commander of the Palace Guard.

I heard you arrested the leader of the abduction gang.

So why do you want the sketch of this criminal?

I must check something.

Here.

Someone showed up and said he killed...

the late Crown Princess.

How much longer must I stay here?

The lord.

He knows I am in here, does he not?

I must see him. Bring him to me.

A mere kidnapper like you should not expect his lord to meet you.

It is not a good idea...

to treat me like that.

Who knows what I might blurt out?

Pass along this message to him.

I must meet with his lord...

to tell him something.

What?

What is this?

What is it? What happened to her?

It seems to be scarlet fever.

It is a scary infection.

- What? - Dismiss this maiden at once.

Take the tea table away.

An infection?

An infection brought in by an outsider...

that spreads throughout the palace was said to be terrifying.

Do not act rashly.

Call in a doctor and have her examine the situation.

Understood, Queen Dowager.

My lady. It is poison ivy.

My apologies.

My servant just told me...

she had mixed my tea table with yours.

She was wrong. We each have the correct tea tables.

What is with this ruckus?

I beg your pardon,

but this is not an infection.

What did you say?

The tea gives off the smell of poison ivy, not purple parsnip.

Nonsense.

Who would allow such dangerous food...

into this scared queen selection hall?

Will you believe me...

if I drink this and suffer from blisters?

Stop right there.

The doctor will identify...

whether it is an infection or poison ivy by examining the maiden.

Then I would like to ask Hyun Sun of the Ye Clan.

I only stated our tea tables might have gotten switched.

But why did you make such a fuss? Did you know what was in the tea?

I feel wronged, Queen Dowager.

I was simply startled that I might get infected.

It is obvious to me who was behind this scheme.

But we have the same fate and were called to this hall.

So I will not point out who it is.

Does that mean this man...

It is he who had murdered the Crown Princess...

seven years ago.

There is more.

He had used this knife to cut ties and kill Kim Eui Jun...

in the last fake Crown Princess incident.

Also,

he had tried to harm...

So Rang outside the palace a while back.

Your Majesty?

Minister of War Cho Sung Kyun.

Did you know that the Department of Justice...

arrested the leader of the abduction gang,

the most wicked in the Prohibition of Marriage era?

Yes, I have heard of it.

As we were investigating him,

we came upon something surprising.

What was it?

It was too outrageous and has left me speechless.

So I have a favor to ask you, Minister of War.

Please give me your order.

Can you interrogate...

that man yourself as a temporary chief judge?

I will call out the three names with the highest scores.

Yoon Seo of the Park Clan.

Hye Bi of the Hong Clan.

And...

Hyun Sun of the Ye Clan.

But the scoring does not end here.

The maidens will evaluate one another.

Furthermore, it will be combined with the scores you have accumulated thus far,

so be mindful of what you put down.

The ranks have changed dramatically.

The ultimate person on top...

is Sung Hwa Yoon.

Lady Hwa Yoon.

Hold on.

Can the servants please come back up?

I asked a female physician,

and the cause of those blisters was poison ivy.

Then who put poison ivy in the teacups?

Everyone put your hands out.

What on earth did you do here today?

That is not it, Your Highness.

My hand ended up like this...

because I smelled the tea after the incident happened.

If I knew this was poison ivy, I never would have touched the tea.

I do not need your excuses!

Imprison her immediately!

Your Highness. It is not that!

Your Highness.

Lord Cho.

Na Sang Ju keeps insisting on meeting you.

What should we do?

How could I go there?