Queen For Seven Days (7일의 왕비)

Episode 7

It is you. I know it's you.

Why are you lying? Why are you denying it?

It is you.

You are him.

- Oh my, maiden. - Are you alright?

That way.

Stop.

If we lose him, it's our heads that will roll. Search every inch.

Yes.

Why are we being chased? Who are those people?

It's because you meddled with other people's affairs.

Why?

It must hurt-

Why did you lie? How long were you going to keep lying?

Didn't you feel bad whenever you saw me chasing you like a fool?

You are too much.

Do you know how anxious I was for the past several days?

No, it's not several days, it's several years.

Do you know how hard it was for me?

I didn't even know you were alive and fine like this.

Do I look like I am doing fine?

Why did I pretend to not know you? How long was I going to keep up the act?

If possible, I would have kept it up forever. I would have pretended like I didn't know you.

You're dense, stubborn, nosy for no reason, and don't have any fear whatsoever.

Look at this! Whenever I am with you, I get entangled into dangerous incidents.

Did you really not miss me?

What do you think?

Right.

Once, I lived as Grand Prince Jin Seong and Lee Yeok.

Until I died when I was ambushed by assassins

on my way to exile.

Assassins?

Hit by an arrow,

stabbed with a knife,

I rolled down a cliff with no breath left.

The boy who should have been long dead...

survived like a miracle.

W-who did such a thing?

You could ask your brother, the king, for help.

Because of such naive thinking,

I should have died earlier.

If you wish for me to die again, stop anyone and ask for help.

You may use the Royal Guard, Royal Investigative Bureau, the Police Bureau,

the royal forces, or soldiers. Whatever is necessary.

I will find him and dispose of him immediately.

No. Bring him to me.

I must see him with my own two eyes.

Geum Oh Moon: Main gate of the Royal Investigative Bureau

Give me some troops to catch a thief.

Close the gate and inspect every single person entering or leaving through the gate.

He's not at the eastern valley.

But I am relieved.

The person I came to like is you, Your Highness.

I was worried,

that I might have given my heart to a weird bastard.

Let's stay together

until the sun rises.

It'll be the last time.

When the sun rises,

I will never utter your name again.

I won't miss you

nor wait for you.

The promise I have made

is now invalid.

- Search the area. - Yes.

The Chief Royal Secretary personally led the Royal Investigative Bureau troops.

We need to find Orabeoni before they do.

Hit by an arrow,stabbed with a knife, I rolled down a cliff with no breath left.

The boy who should have been long dead survived like a miracle

Where is the man?

Drag her.

Wait. Should we gather others and follow them?

I think they are going deep into the mountain. Don't you think we would be too late?

Did anyone get hurt?

Yes. She was washing a bloody bandage.

Then he's around here somewhere. This is Asian Lizard's tail (Saururus chinensis). It only grows around streams.

Then, why are those people headed towards Stone Mountain?

Where is that bastard?

I said, where is that bastard?

You're here, Lord.

I was continuing the search around the area.

That must mean you haven't caught him yet.

Instead, I caught the girl who helped him escape.

It's the girl you told me about.

Look who's here.

You're Minister Sin Soo Geun's precious daughter.

A precious one has helped a thief escape?

Where is he?

You could ask your brother, the King, for help.

Because of such naive thinking,

I should have died earlier.

Chae Gyeong...Why has she been captured?

The man you have ordered to find,

Miss Sin was with the man all night long and misled the royal forces,

and helped him escape.

But still, how can we put her behind bars?

Your Majesty, to be honest, he is a thief that robbed the ship with royal offerings.

Robbed a ship? It wasn't the storm that sank the royal offerings?

I am deeply sorry, Your Majesty.

To report such trivial matters to you-

So, that bastard who looks like the Grand Prince Jin Seong is the culprit in the theft of royal offerings,

Chae Gyeong, unaware of this, is captured for helping him escape?

Whether she knew or were unaware of the theft,

we would only know after hearing her confession.

I have to hear it from Chae Gyeong herself.

Your Majesty.

Did you say he's a thief that stole the royal offerings?

That's not true. He is...

He is only a merchant.

That merchant has deceived you.

I wasn't deceived.

Then,

tell me everything you know about him. I will release you once he's captured.

I don't know anything.

I just happened to be with him.

You don't know?

Yes.

You don't know anything.

Yes.

Do you really intend to deceive me?

You even lie to me?

Is it because of Yeok?

Just because he looks like Yeok, you dare try to fool me?

He might have been set up.

It's possible that someone set a trap to harm him.

Who exactly is he that someone will set a trap to catch one person?

I am deeply sorry, Your Majesty.

I have nothing more to say.

Chae Gyeong wouldn't act this way just because he looks like Yeok.

She even defended him saying he might have been set up.

Your Majesty, you'll find out once you capture the thief.

For now, Miss Sin is the only way to catch that bastard.

Please spread the news around the capital that Miss Sin has been captured.

Head Eunuch.

Yes, Your Majesty.

How is Queen Dowager Her Highness doing lately?

Using the juice of mugwort, I made green color this time.

Don't you think the color is prettier than the noodles I made last year?

Indeed it is so.

However, why isn't the Queen here with us today?

An disgraceful incident happened at her private house outside of the palace. So she's lying low in her chambers.

The news about the First Vice Premier's daughter being held at the Royal Investigative Bureau

must be true.

Too bad a disgraceful incident occurred on a auspicious day.

Court Lady Joo

Yes, Your Highness Queen Dowager.

This is a gift for the Queen. Please set it aside.

Yes.

So threading flour balls like beads and wearing it on the body

or hanging it over the doorpost is known to chase away the evil spirits.

It's something that the Queen Dowager and court ladies

have been doing on June 15th of each year.

Bullseye.

Are you trying to deceive me, Queen Dowager?

I think His Majesty has figured out that the Grand Prince Jin Seong is alive.

He has personally checked on the Queen Dowager's movements.

How about the Queen Dowager?

There is no way she would be unaware of her only son's death.

Normally, if she knew Miss Sin was being held at the Royal Investigative Bureau,

she would have somehow blown this up, to bring down the First Vice Premier.

She's being too quiet about it.

Thus, His Majesty is even more sure of the truth.

Your Majesty.

Your Majesty, are you alright?

King Seong Jong, father of the two brothers: the current king Yeonsangun and Grand Prince Jin Seong

When Grand Prince Jin Seong becomes an adult, hand over the throne to him.

Your Majesty.

Chief Royal Secretary.

Yes, Your Majesty.

The sin of killing my younger brother without my order,

or the sin of letting my younger brother, whom I thought was dead, return living.

Out of the two which sin do you think is the greater and more serious?

At that time, I pretended that I didn't know.

Because, thanks to that, for the first time in many years,

I felt what freedom was.

Because the will of my late father, His Majesty, and my mother, who died as a deposed queen,

the court officials' prejudice and checks against that dirty blood and anxiety and fury from it all,

disappeared together with that child.

However, all of that is coming back.

with the blame for killing my own brother added on top of that.

I-I apologise, Your Majesty.

I give you the full authority over this matter, so keep in mind.

The day that this freedom ends,

your riches and honors, power and everything else you gained in return,

all will be lost.

I will keep that in mind.

What are you planning to do?

Do you think it can be unravelled?

If I am not to die, I must kill others.

As I have always done.

Bulletin

Around June 8th, this man stole the royal offerings from the three southern provinces

and using Miss Sin, he misled the Royal Forces and escaped

If he is not caught by 6 o' clock on the 30th,

all charges will be brought against Miss Sin who had already been arrested.

and Miss Sin will be severely punished.

Apparently, royal offering thief has escaped.

He's on the run after putting all the blame on the girl.

They're just blatantly telling Yeok to come to the palace. It's an invitation.