The Crowned Clown (왕이 된 남자)

The Crowned Clown

The characters, organizations, locations, and events in this drama are fictional and have no relation to historical facts.

Episode 12

Can you not live for my sake?

After I entered the palace,

I almost died on several occasions.

Every time I thought I would really die,

I desperately wanted to survive.

Even if I can only live one more day, I want to live with you.

Next to you, while listening to the sound of your laughter,

together like that,

Together like that,

for a very long time.

for a very long time.

Please live.

For me, please.

Your Majesty?

Your Majesty!

Your Majesty!

Move out!

Please wake up, Your Majesty!

Taepyeonggwan

Vice Minister of War.

Please hold for a moment.

I apologize for his rude behavior.

Please forgive Chief Secretary's wrongdoing.

This is the person who'd beg for forgiveness.

Why should you ask for forgiveness?

What are you doing? Ask for forgiveness, quickly.

I won't do it.

What?

I came here as the King's subject and

not for personal business like Gosung without a title.

I can't soil His Majesty's name and this country to save my neck.

Aren't you afraid of death?

How can you be this brazen?

If my death can preserve the good relationship between Joseon and Ming Dynasty, then what will fear me?

Your Emperor wouldn't want the relationship with Joseon to go sour, either.

Isn't that right?

They said tongue (words) is better than the sword. I didn't realize a person like you existed in His subjects.

I see that among the Joseon subjects, there is a person like you.

That is a subjective complement.

There are countless people better than me in Joseon.

I'll come to the palace tomorrow.

Instead, as the envoy escort,

I will take Goseong Boowongeun with me.

I understand. Please do so.

Taepyeonggwan

I was wondering why he arrived a day earlier, disregarding courtesy.

I see it's your doing.

Don't make out His Highness' wrong move and your mistake like it's my fault.

Ahead of this country's approaching crisis,

I'm only showing my loyalty as Joseon's subject.

Is acting like a minion to Ming's envoy something that a Joseon subject would do?

Go and at least send a messenger to His Highness.

If he's still not in the palace tomorrow,

the problem will grow so big it will get out of hand.

Make haste.

Were you not hurt?

I'm somehow uneasy.

Since you're not talking,

by any chance, am I dreaming?

I was very scared.

Because I thought I would lose you,

I couldn't see in front of me

and my heart fell down a bottomless pit.

The thing that is scarier than death,

I realized that it was this.

Then, have you given up on dying?

This guilt of not knowing it even after I committed the sin,

I thought I should pay for it by death.

However, now,

even if the whole world points fingers at me, curses me, or throws a stone at me,

I will endure it.

I will live beside Your Highness.

You have saved two lives.

If you have not given up on dying,

I would have followed you and died.

Please lie down now.

I'm worried that your wound will get infected.

Close your eyes and get some sleep.

I feel like I cannot fall asleep

because it seems like you will disappear.

Don't worry.

I will not go anywhere.

I will stay by your side.

Please promise me.

Yes, I promise you.

An attack?

Where is His Majesty right now?

Officer Jang escorted him to a clinic near the exile house.

Did you catch the culprits?

We chased but lost them.

Is His Majesty seriously injured?

He was still unconscious when I left him.

I understand. Go back and protect him.

Don't you need to go to his side immediately?

Early tomorrow morning, Ming imperial envoy will arrive.

I will protect the palace until he returns.

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Can you explain this situation?

I was under the impression that I would meet the king today.

This seems to go against the agreement.

Joseon has been called the country of courteous people in the East,

however, the king of Joseon doesn't know basic manners?!

How highly fluent your Korean is, esteemed ambassador.

When did you learn to speak this way?

To become an ambassador of the emperor,

this is to be expected.

You should have known that I was coming,

how come you were missing?

Being rude to the emperor's envoy,

is the same as looking down on the emperor.

Of course, you might think that way.

Bring it in.

This is the skin of a tiger, is it not?

I went to catch an animal to use in my welcoming of you.

I was late, trying to hunt a tiger.

It's the best I've hunted recently, so please offer it to the emperor.

But...

the tail?

Did you see?

I only found out he had no tail after I caught him.

Isn't it surprising? A tiger missing a tail.

It's a precious item rarely found.

Please report that to the emperor exactly as such.

Yes.

His Majesty the Emperor.

At the news that you've driven out a loyal subject as Sin Chi Soo.

He was quite startled by it.

As there is filial piety between the superior nation (Ming) and the uncivilized nation (Joseon),

there is also loyalty that needs to be kept between the king and the subjects.

To bring him back into the royal court would be rightful duty.

Those are his words for you.

It is true.

Actually Duke of Goseong was a good host to the ambassador in my absence, I heard.

I will give Duke of Goseong an official duty again.

This immense grace by His Majesty the Emperor and Your Majesty the King.

I shall not forget it.

You did well.

Were you hit by the arrow here?

Earlier I thought you wouldn't be able to come when it was time.

Didn't I promise to return?

If Eunuch Jo hadn't let me know in advance,

when the ambassador told me to bring Sin Chi Soo back into the royal court,

I wouldn't have endured my fury and would've caused chaos.

It was good you endured it.

Since the ambassador arrived a day early,

it's very likely that everything, including bringing in Sin Chi Soo,

were all part of Sin Chi Soo's scheme to come back into the royal court.

To use the Ming envoy...

it becomes harder and harder to forgive.

Did you find Ha Seon and Queen's attackers?

I apologize.

We chased them, but failed to catch them in the end.

To go after two majesty's.

Who exactly are those impertinent men?

I don't know who put carried out the plan,

but I might have an idea who the mastermind is.

Who is that?

The only person who knew you left the palace.

It's the person who came into the grand palace,

to demand the surrender of the royal seal and military badge.

You can't mean...the Queen Dowager?

How could you not even do something so simple?!

The king would have followed the queen to his father-in-law's exile house.

So chase after him and stab him to death.

I already told you where and how.

So answer me! Can I indeed trust you?

To continue to plan the act together with you?

The act, you mean?

Besides me, who else would take up Queen Dowager's will to preserve this nation's royal family?

If all it takes if words to realize the act,

you would've been seated as king and then some by now!

Queen Dowager. Prince Yeonghwa is here.

Let him in.

You may leave.

Welcome, Prince Yeonghwa.

I was happy thinking you'd be going back to the queen's central palace when you said you'd returned to the royal palace.

Why are you staying in this ruined Youngchun Pagoda that is said to have ghosts?

I will finish the tea rites and return to the central palace.

So just bear it for three days.

Who is this for?

Someone you don't know.

Your highness...

there...

Queen. Your grace of returning safely back.

I don't know how I can repay you.

Grace is an unfitting word.

I ran away to avoid my crime.

But I only returned to face it entirely.

Now the duty that's left for me,

It's solely to protect him.

If it is to protect him,

I will do whatever it takes.

I've already heard of a similar statement once before.

The one who was in the grand palace, upon returning after a near-death, said the same thing to me.

That he wanted to have power in order to protect what's precious.

I will make a promise as well.

I will risk my life to protect the king and this nation.