My Royal Nemesis (멋진 신세계)

MY ROYAL NEMESIS

The caller you are trying to reach is unavailable.

You will be transferred to voicemail

after the beep.

Shin Seo-ri, I was wrong.

It's all my fault. Just pick up your phone.

I'll wait here until you come home.

JANGSUGOL PORK BACKBONE STEW

- Shin Seo-ri. - Step back.

- Step back. - Get out of my way.

Let me through! I'm her guardian.

Let go!

Shin Seo-ri.

Shin Seo-ri, wake up.

Wake up, Shin Seo-ri!

EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER

- Please clear the way. - Make way.

- Please step back. - Coming through!

Coming through!

27 SURGICAL TIME, ANESTHESIA TIME

Your Highness.

Your Highness, are you awake?

- Hurry. Go fetch the physician! - Yes, ma'am!

Your Highness?

Your Highness, are you awake?

Where am I…

Do you recognize me?

EPISODE 11 WHAT LIES ON THE HIDDEN PATH

What are you doing here…

What is wrong with her?

Why can she not move when she is clearly awake?

Her blood flow and vital energy have yet to be restored.

Still, she has escaped the deathly trance. Let us wait and see.

Deathly trance?

With breath restored, once blood flow and vital energy return,

she should be able to move.

So are we to just wait indefinitely?

It is truly a miracle she has made it this far.

Even if she was shielded with the herbal antidote,

- her organs were damaged by the poison… - Poison?

- …and have not fully healed. - Have I truly returned?

But what is wrong with my body…

She is stable for now.

I shall prepare the remainder of the Chuhontang and calamus extract.

All right. Make haste.

Hey. Stop.

Can you not hear my voice?

Hey!

Am I

trapped

in this body?

A small bleed has caused some swelling in the brain.

Fortunately, medication was enough. No surgery was needed.

No serious external injuries aside from bruising.

So her life isn't in danger?

That's right. As long as there are no complications,

she should regain consciousness in a few days.

The problem is Chairman Cha.

Tell me.

The surgery was successful,

but we must monitor him until his breathing stabilizes.

This afternoon, Chail Group's Chairman Cha Dal-su

was critically injured in a drunk driving accident

involving a truck.

- My goodness. - The driver…

Had a blood alcohol level of 0.12%

and was found to be heavily intoxicated.

- Father. - Father.

What an absolute nightmare this is.

Father. Our poor father.

Se-gye, I heard you went straight to the accident scene.

How did you know to go there?

- What do you mean? - Well, think about it.

The accident is strange, as is how quickly you showed up.

What are you trying to say?

Stop it.

Is this really the time for that?

I'm just merely raising

a reasonable suspicion.

I mean, the logic just isn't there.

A car crashing into a restaurant in broad daylight

isn't exactly something you can easily wrap your head around.

Is Grandfather okay?

He just came out of surgery.

The doctor said it went well, so we must be patient.

Se-gye, you don't look well at all.

Do you want to step outside for some fresh air?

I'm fine.

GRANDMOTHER OK-SUN

Sorry to bother you.

But I just can't seem to reach Seo-ri.

Is everything okay in Seoul?

Yes.

Everything is fine.

Don't worry.

I'll take care of your restaurant too.

So please don't worry about a thing.

My goodness.

Hearing you say that is nice and reassuring,

but please don't overdo it.

It'd be nice if things went the way you planned,

but nothing comes easy in life.

I'm plenty grateful as it is.

Thanks to you, I can finally relax.

I've always had this knot in my chest

because I was worried she'd wither away alone.

Now I can finally breathe easy.

My Seo-ri takes after me. She can be a bit feisty.

She just runs her mouth without thinking sometimes.

Even so, just say that it's lovely.

When someone close to you keeps calling you lovely,

you really do become lovely. It's human nature.

All right.

I will.

I promise I will.

Do not follow me.

- I cannot stand the sight of you. - As if.

Your grandmother was right.

You're feisty and difficult.

You throw hurtful words around without thinking.

But what can I do?

Even if you can't stand me, we have no other choice.

No matter how much you push me away,

I'm going to stick right by your side.

When I was a kid,

I used to love the days

I would hold my mom's hand to go to your house.

There was so much delicious food.

The house was huge.

I even thought it would be nice if Mom and I lived there with you.

Since you were alone anyway.

I wished you were my father.

When I gave you the transplant,

I'd be lying if I said I didn't have any ulterior motive.

But it made me feel like we became connected somehow.

You and me.

Even though I meant nothing to you.

So what's your point?

Did you really come here

thinking that gave you leverage over Se-gye?

Some trifling brat?

Because I know

Jin-u still breaks your heart, after all this time.

I couldn't let Se-gye betray you as well.

I shot myself in the foot.

You had such wicked eyes, even as a boy.

I knew this day would come.

I couldn't refuse Hye-suk's request,

and now I'm paying for it dearly.

Why do you think I've kept you by my side

for all these years?

You're nothing but a debt to me.

A debt my only sister left behind with our blood ties as collateral.

And you dare

disgrace my grandson?

A lowly bastard like you!

If I'm the debt you owe my mother,

then that debt…

You can start paying me back now.

Be sure to include the interest for my loyalty over the last 20 years.

If you do, I'm willing to show you some leniency,

Uncle.

RESEARCHER

BIOJEI…

- Their image is completely ruined. - Who would buy it now?

Sir.

The news…

The news?

Chail Group, a cornerstone of Korea's corporate world,

is facing a seismic shift in its succession.

A chain of setbacks has been hitting

this top-ten conglomerate in rapid succession,

putting its future in jeopardy.

Cha Se-gye of the Cha Family

is under fire, and a major earnings miss

has only fueled the controversy.

The backlash is mounting after carcinogenic substances

were discovered in Dynaestie, a new line from Cha's cosmetics startup,

- Biojei. - The rest to the CEO's office!

Biojei was quick to dismiss the claims as baseless,

but whistleblower reports of harmful substances

in an upcoming product have been pouring in.

An online boycott of the brand has spread like wildfire.

A past power-abuse scandal resurfacing amid everything else

has sent their stock into free fall.

In the fallout, Kaiserman Capital,

Dynaestie's largest known investor,

exercised its conversion rights

to take the top shareholder position at Biojei,

positioning itself as a white knight.

With Kaiserman now participating in management,

the business world is watching to see if Biojei can bounce back.

Meanwhile, Chail Group Chairman Cha Dal-su

has fallen into a coma following a sudden accident.

Management convened an emergency shareholders' meeting

in a bid to shore up the falling stock price.

At the meeting, Choi Mun-do, Chairman Cha Dal-su's nephew

and current president of Chail E&C,

was approved to take over leadership of the group,

with 69.3% in favor and 30.7% against.