Our Blooming Youth (Youth, Climb the Barrier / Cheongchunwoldam / 청춘월담)

[All the characters, groups, locales, groups, and incidents have no connection to historical facts. This is a work of fiction. The use of animals during filming was done with props or special effects.]

Look over here!

Here is a woman who committed a treacherous crime!

Please take her away!

But please listen to what I have to say.

The Crown Prince of Joseon received a cursed letter from a ghost.

The rumor in the streets is true!

Your Highness,

I will never become a detriment to you.

So, please...

Please...

Please help me.

[The Crown Prince dragged in one of the soldiers of the fifth degree from the military training hunting grounds.]

Did you say that you would become one of my first people?

That is so, Your Highness.

You were not so bad as the one who would become my first people.

Did you say that you risked your life to come here to me from Gaeseong?

That is correct, Your Highness.

Then it would be even easier for you to come to the Eastern Palace.*

Did you say that Joseon does not tell a girl,

"Yes, you can. Do it. Try it"?

As the one who will become my first people, I will give all of those permissions.

Come to the Eastern Palace.

However, you must find your own way inside.

Yes, you can.

Do it.

Try it.

What is the matter, Your Highness?

You said to wait from afar, so I did as you had ordered,

but I heard a loud noise.

Let us go.

Are we just going?

What about that bastard?

Your Highness. Crown Prince, Your Highness!

Your Highness, I shall do as you have commanded me.

Would it be all right to just let that bastard be?

Let us see what he decides to do.

Excuse me, what do I need to do to change into a eunuch's uniform?

- Are you a eunuch? - Yes.

I'm the new eunuch for the Eastern Palace.

I followed His Highness to the military training hunt,

and I did not get to change my clothes yet.

His Highness ordered that I get changed into my uniform.

Eunuch Byung.

He's a eunuch at the Eastern Palace.

His Highness ordered him to get changed into a new uniform.

Follow me.

Yes.

Come inside.

Here. Take these.

- You may go inside there and get changed. - Yes.

Thank you.

Who is that?

He's a new eunuch at the Eastern Palace.

He's so unlucky.

How would such a delicate guy last long in the Eastern Palace?

Gosh, he won't even last three days.

Come and take a seat here.

I mean, how could you say that you love her?

Even if she were to be innocent like you said, Teacher,

that woman has a fiance-

According to rumors, she also had another man on the side.

But what does it matter?

Since I like her.

Have you ever seen this book?

What is this book?

It is Shin Ju Mu Won Rok. Are you not able to read?

How are you thinking of becoming my student when you cannot even read?

What does being able to read have anything to do with the autopsy?

- Autopsy is usually done by ojakin*- - Oh, so what you are saying is...

since autopsy is done by lowly ojakin,

it is fine if you are unable to read books.

Is that what you are saying?

Hey! Look at this guy.

Even though an autopsy is considered a lowly work because it deals with dead bodies,

but it is also the work of finding out the cause of death,

so it is an important job that values life!

When I was under a different teacher,

- I learned Female Letters- - What do you mean by Female Letters!

That's a derogatory term for the written language.

Did not that teacher teach you what a beautiful alphabet our written language is?

Yes, I learned all of that. I did, but...

there are bugs living in my head.

Whenever I learn something, these bugs eat it all up.

Also, where would a lowly person like me ever use something like that?

Where would you use it? You would use it...

to make a living.

I can understand if you do not know Chinese characters because it is difficult,

but you should at least know the written language!

- I am already busy working to get by- - What a lazy bastard!

The written language was made by the great King Se Jong

for guys like you.

No matter how stupid someone is, they can learn it in just one day.

Do you think there is any other alphabet out there as good as this?

Since you say that you did learn from your previous teacher,

I will first assess your skills,

so try writing my name.

My name is Kim Myeong Jin.

You wrote it pretty well! You're not so bad!

Since you have the fundamentals, it won't even take half a day!

Wow, gosh.

In any case,

then,

how about you tell me about yourself?

About what?

If I were to use you as my student, I should know what kind of person you are.

I mean, as we were coming here in the morning,

you introduced me as your student to everyone in the neighborhood!

If I don't like you,

then I will send you packing.

Seriously...

Your writing skills

are not too shabby.

Tell me what you know how to do and what you do not.

Your Highness, there is something we prepared last night.

You came back so late from the military training hunt that we could not show it to you.

We should show it to you now.

Your Highness,

please pretend it is last night right now.

If he shoots it, it is one shot, one kill.

- His Highness is amazing! - His Highness!

He's the best! What a genius he is!

The best in Joseon! Your Highness!

Hooray!

Please stop.

But how did you keep that under your robes?

For Your Highness, this is nothing.

Thank you.

Your Highness, if we were to bring in a new servant to the Eastern Palace at a time like this,

how good would it be to have their fresh new energy?

That is right, Your Highness.

If you were to give us the command, we would immediately go and

- bring someone who's friendly and energetic- - No, that should not be so.

I have you guys who take such good care of me,

so what is the use of having someone who is friendly and energetic?

I refuse.

Open the doors!

We failed again.

What can you do? He really does not like bringing in new people.

Then he should not fire people.

He fires people on a whim.

Just offer up your prayers.

You never know. Something unusual might happen today, and His Highness

may accept someone new out of a generous heart.

- Shall we go to the wishing shrine? - Let us first go draw some water.

As a eunuch of the Eastern Palace, I cannot ask where the Eastern Palace is...

You are going to have problems like that.

I am afraid that you may spill the sami tea that I specially prepared for Orabeoni.

Give it to me. I will carry it.

I am sorry.

Everyone will be at ease

if you slow down while walking

and mind your manners as a royal, Princess.

The Princess is going to meet her Orabeoni?

Are you all right?

How dare you! Get away from her this instant!

How could you dare touch the Princess!

You are a new face.

I will be working at the Eastern Palace starting today.

But it is my first time at the Eastern Palace

so I was lost in the palace, to my shame.

Yeah. The palace is quite huge.

Follow me. I was heading to my orabeoni anyway.

It is an honor.

The news of His Highness being quite picky is widespread amongst the eunuchs, right?

You will know as you get to know him.

My orabeoni is not like that.

Could you promise me that you will assist the Crown Prince, His Highness, with much care?

How could I do otherwise, Your Highness?

Does it not matter regardless of how insignificant it is?

Yes. Tell me.

First, I am good at jumping fences.

I mean,

are you talking about this kind of jumping fence?

I am just so good at jumping fences.

Nice!

What were you thinking that you wore a man's clothing?

Father...

Your Lordship...

Honestly,

There was a sickly man in the lower village who received fifty beatings and was put in jail.

But from what I can tell, he is not the culprit.

This is not just a matter of resolving the situation of a man who was unjustly confined.

You cannot go around like this.

How could a girl dress in a man's clothes?

I need to be a man... I need to be a man to save him.

I need to present myself like this for my voice to be heard.

Does the world even listen to a girl wearing a dress?

His young daughter is starving at home, waiting for her father to return.

I must prove his innocence so that I can return her father to the daughter.

For you to wear a man's clothes

is to oppose the order of this world.

It is to fight against the world.

If you leave the women's quarters and try to start something,

the walls of the world will stop you.

Also, there will continuously be high thresholds

will be placed in your path.

Will you be able to endure it?

Will you be able to continue pushing forward without giving up?

I like the world too much