Jang Ok jung, Live in Love (Jang Ok jung, Living by Love / Jang Ok jeong, Sarang e salda / 장옥정, 사랑에 살다)

Your Majesty!

I served His Majesty, this can't be happening!

Pour it into her mouth!

Your Majesty!

You wench!

You told me to drink the medicine to live, otherwise you'd kill me.

Then I'd rather die.

What? What did you say?

If I cannot bear a child of the precious one...

As a woman, I'd rather kill myself with this silver knife.

You wench must be lying.

You just need to drink some medicine, and you're talking about death?

No, I'd rather die. That's a hundred times better.

If a court maid with His Majesty's grace dies...

at this late hour in this remote corner of the palace...

Knowing His Majesty, he will get to the bottom of this.

What should I do? Would you like to see me cut my throat and kill myself right here?

What a rude wench!

Hold on!

What a wicked wench...

Stand aside.

Let's go.

Queen Dowager!

Why wouldn't you help Court Lady Jang when she's in so much trouble?

For a court maid who doesn't have a proper appointment...

If she can't get handle something like this...

how will she survive in the palace?

Still, it's so scary...

Even with her life on the line, a concubine should...

not give up the right to bear His Majesty's child.

If she gave up that right and drank that medicine...

She'd have been abandoned by me as well.

Your Majesty!

Is that you, Ok Jung?

Your Majesty!

Ok Jung!

What on earth happened?

My... that Jang is no ordinary girl.

The most wicked of the wicked.

Forgive me.

That wench wouldn't tell the King, would she?

That would mean that she'd be coming in between His Majesty and you.

She would'n't be able to do that.

I didn't even get to finish the job and now she has something on me.

What on earth happened to you?

It's unlike you to be so unkempt and out walking in bare feet...

It's nothing.

I was wandering like a child with a lot on my mind...

Then I was so happy to see you, so I cried.

No, something definitely happened.

Did someone try to harm you? Then I'd...

No, it's not. Who would harm His Majesty's woman in the palace?

Please, just don't ask me anything today.

Someday, if I want to tell you about it, I'll tell you, Your Majesty.

But...

I got it. I don't know what happened to you...

Just tell me when you want to.

Regardless of when or what the situation is, I'll be on your side.

I'm so happy just to hear that.

Please stay with me until I fall asleep.

Would you do that for me?

I will. Get some sleep. I'll stay by your side.

Don't leave for a moment and stay by her side.

Even if there's a change in her breathing, let me know right away.

Yes, Your Majesty.

Are you there, Yang Goon?

Yes, Your Majesty.

Check on the construction progress again...

Move up the completion as much as possible.

The problem is that you, a wicked wench, is being looked after at all.

Your Majesty!

The King's woman?

Using the promise as an excuse...

You'll suck the blood of the precious noble like a leech.

Your Majesty, I could never say it myself...

What horrible thing your mother did to me...

I'll make her say it herself someday.

Instead, I'll give her one to hold in her arms.

The most precious grandson you could ask for.

No matter what.

You didn't even go to the court yesterday...

Do you have any concerns?

About the late Queen...

My Queen Inkyung?

I learned how she passed in such an unfortunate situation.

What do you mean by that?

Queen Inkyung closed her eyes in peace in the arms of His Majesty...

His Majesty and Court Lady Jang had a relationship...

when the late Queen was still alive.

Besides, even at the moment of passing away from smallpox...

His Majesty was holding that Jang in front of the late Queen.

For such a broad-minded person, since when...

were you so concerned about a concubine?

What parent could be indifferent about something concerning his child?

If the reason of His Majesty's disinterest in the...

late Queen was because of that wicked Jang...

It doesn't feel like something that doesn't concern me.

So let's make up.

And revive our relationship that turned distant after the princess selection process.

Let's stop the King from solidifying...

the royal power with the Western Party.

Do you have anything to put a brake on solidifying the royal power?

Just like His Majesty cut off our source of funding with the prohibition law...

We should answer him by cutting off his source of funding.

Why don't you take charge of that?

His Majesty's source of funding?

What? Get rid of the new coin?

Yes, Your Majesty.

People find it easier to barter with rice than to use coins to trade.

The coins are causing confusion in the market.

But, there are plenty of reasons why rice is more inconvenient as money.

Plus, for Joseon to grow as a commercial country...

circulation of money is absolutely necessary.

Besides, it's my first ambitious project since I took the throne!

How can you be against it?

I agree, Your Majesty.

How could you speak of repealing the new system without even a proper trial?

Your Majesty, I've seen and heard a few things on my way to and back from China.

It's already been done in China and has been working well.

I believe it should be done in Joseon, too!

How could the big country China and our Joseon be the same?

Besides, this is not for you to express your opinion as a delegate.

Your Majesty, circulation of coins is only putting the people in crisis.

I believe abolishing the use of coins is the only solution.

Using the coins would only put the people in crisis?

And it's worsening trade in the market? Do you have proof?

Fake coins have been found!

Lord Kim Man Gi.

These are fake coins already being circulated in the market.

Present them.

This is the proof that it's tormenting the people.

Fake coins... they're also called personal coins.

If fake coins like this keep getting circulated...

prices will soar and the market will collapse.

So how would we guarantee that circulation...

of coins wouldn't put people in trouble?

But...

Please postpone your plan of creating the...

central military with the profit from this coin project.

And start the procedure for abolishing the use of the coins.

Please consider!

What happened?

I thought we agreed on many things...

That was a surprising move.

Forgive me. Even if I share opinions with Your Majesty on many things...

There are rules of the party which I have to follow.

Pardon me.

Kim Man Gi made up with Min Yoo Joong and held hands again?

It seems so.

But Your Majesty, abolishing the circulation...

of coins should be stopped at all cost.

Of course. If the coin project is abolished now...

other projects under planning will get caught, too.

I plan to find a position for you soon so that...

you get more deeply involved in the court affairs.

So be prepared.

Your Majesty, your grace is immeasurable.

I'll have to go to the market and check it myself.

Please go meet with Officer Jang and...

do your best to promote the use of the coins.

I receive your command, Your Majesty.

Let's start.

First, from the fish stores.

A decrease of 80 percent from before.

What happened?

That's because... fake coins continue to show up and cause trouble.

With the Western Party in charge, plus Min Yoo Joong in back...

If you plan to make up such excuses... get your hands off of my business.

Hee Jae, fire him and promote the next one to take charge.

Yes, Uncle.

Do you see this coin?

Do you know why I like this coin?

People are assigned to their father and mother when they're born...

But this coin is up for grabs for anyone.

Although deals are still traded in rice...

This coin of His Majesty's ambitious project...

will change the dynamics of Joseon commerce.

So remember what I said and do your best to promote the use of this coin.

- Understood? - Yes!

What's that over there?

Goodness, isn't that the goblin's fire?

Goblin's fire?

Goblin!

Someone's screaming!

A ghost?

Goblin's fire?

Yes, there has been a lot of goblin's fire recently.

There is even a rumor that it's because of the unjustified death of a court maid.

And since the goblin's fire, His Majesty's not visiting either...

It's really ominous. Shouldn't we use an amulet?

Why an amulet?

Women of the palace are hand-in-hand with spells and amulets.

- Spells in this strict palace? - Of course.

When His Majesty was ill, the Queen Mother...

conducted an exorcism and saved him!

I would have never thought so... the palace is such a strict place.

About His Majesty... he wanted me to tell him...

even if there was a change in your breathing.

But he stopped coming since then...

Isn't it a bit strange?