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

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

Your Highness, Your Highness!

Chase him.

You must catch him

and show that

it was the work of people.

Your Highness, Your Highness!

Wake up, Your Highness!

Find the man who shot the arrow. We must catch him!

Yes, sir!

Your Highness! Your Highness...

There is nobody in the upper area.

Search carefully. He will not have made it out of the hunting grounds yet.

Yes, sir!

If there are two Tae Kangs, one can shoot an arrow at the Crown Prince,

Please wake up, Your Highness...

and the other could be by the Crown Prince's side.

They are twins.

That is right.

If they are twins, that is possible.

Should we tell His Highness that the Guardian Warrior has a twin?

Sir, where should we put this?

Place the cauldron in the kitchen.

Move it carefully.

Glue the paper weather strips carefully so no wind passes through.

- You have to attach the door properly so it does not fall off. - Yes, sir.

It is late at night, so hurry.

- Put it down. - Two, three.

Your Highness.

From here, you must walk.

Please go in. I will be guarding the front.

Let us go.

I am sorry that I had noble guests such as yourselves come all the way here.

It is okay.

We ended up here because we had a particular situation, so please excuse us.

By chance,

have you heard about us?

I am a wanderer, but I am capable of reading physiognomy.

You have a nobility about you that cannot be hidden.

Please let the Young Master and I have some time by ourselves.

Your Highness,

I am sorry, but I need to use the outhouse.

- Please be quick. - Y-Yes, Your Highness.

If that Guardian Warrior really has a twin,

then is that not a major problem?

One person is beside the Crown Prince,

but the other with the same face is involved in all these terrible incidents.

- Would they not be on the same side? - That cannot be.

Does the Guardian Warrior know that he has a twin?

If they were separated at a young age, he might not know.

That is something we can check in time.

Eunuch Go, did you not say you solved a mystery?

What is it?

It has to do with these peony petals.

Revered Goddess of Mercy...

Shim Young firmly believed up to the last moment he took his own life

that he was Min Jae Yi's secret lover.

How could such blind faith be possible?

That is what I mean. Unless he was possessed by a ghost-

He was not possessed by a ghost but was influenced by something else.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was something called opium.

I have met a merchant who said he went to the other end of the continent.

Supposedly, Western merchants brought in opium ever since the Tang Dynasty,

and you can still purchase it.

- I have heard of that. - I have heard of it, too.

If you eat it, you start to lose your mind

and you cannot even recognize your parents.

Is it something you eat?

I do not know about that.

But I heard you cannot tell if you are dead or alive if you are under the influence of opium.

If the peony flowers are similar to the opium I had heard about,

I wonder if he made Shim Young think that he was Min Jae Yi's secret lover

while he was under the influence of the peony petal fragrance.

What is causing you so much pain?

Grandfather!

My great-uncle gave me peaches.

I gave that to my Elder Hyungnim.

After he ate that peach,

the Elder Hyungnim

passed away.

Are you talking about hypnosis?

I have read in books that there are those who perform hypnosis.

What is that?

It is where one causes someone to grow confused and delusional,

plant false thoughts.

Grand Prince, you have never

given Crown Prince Ui Hyeon a peach.

Yes.

I have never given him a peach.

Crown Prince Ui Hyeon eating a peach and passing away

is also just a false rumor in the palace.

It is just a false rumor.

Now your painful memories will disappear.

All your memories of being afraid will disappear as well.

If you burn peony petals and perform hypnosis,

it is possible to control people's minds?

And Shim Young was also mind-controlled like that as well?

I have returned.

The Song family did not forget the unjust deaths and sorrow of the people of Byeokcheon.

I will take this country's throne!

I will take this country's throne.

The head shaman! The head shaman was the same.

As if she was possessed by something,

she appeared to believe she had received a prophecy about the Song family.

So he used peony petals and hypnosis

to implant false thoughts into people's minds

to make them believe it as truth.

This is our speculation without clear evidence.

But Master, your master said that

the peony petals were only used to calm people down.

Do you think he would know everything that exists in India?

I know the etiquette as a lady,

but I have a situation that I have called you,

so please do not be offended, Sergeant.

Please speak, Your Highness.

I need to ask a difficult favor of you.

You may give me your orders.

I must leave the palace with the Grand Prince tonight.

Why are you thinking of heading out of the palace at night?

The Grand Prince has a psychological trauma that the physician has been treating,

but no matter what we do, he does not get better.

So, I want to take him outside of the palace to treat him with hypnosis.

Your Highness, why are you trying to do what is prohibited by national law?

Sergeant, please do not ask me any other questions.

I did not come to this conclusion easily.

I decided this for the Grand Prince's well-being. However,

if something were to happen to the Grand Prince while we secretly left the palace,

how could I handle the consequences?

- Your Highness. - I am begging you.

You are the only one I could think of, Sergeant.

Could you please protect Grand Prince and me

tonight?

Are you all right?

Court Lady Kwon, are you all right? Court Lady Kwon!

The door over there...

No! You should not go! It is dangerous.

Court Lady Kwon.

You usually burn incense on this burner.

But I thought it was strange that there were dried flowers in it.

- Who are you? - Did you just ask who I am?

I am the one who has seen everything.

I have seen the land turn red

by the blood of the people due to the greed of rulers and aristocrats.

I have seen the despair of the people you have abandoned,

and their blood and tears.

From the nobility to lowly slaves,

is there any life that is not precious under heaven?

And yet, how could I just stand around and watch your wicked sins

of cutting off the tongues of innocent people and

declaring them as criminals and even taking away their barren land?

I dared shed blood with these holy hands,

but since peace for the people is more important than Buddhahood,

I have no regrets.

Stop making excuses and tell me your objective.

What have you done to the Grand Prince, and why did you try to harm the Princess?

I have one objective. Song Family...

Destroy Yi!

The Yi family will perish, and a true man of the Song Family will soon appear

and start a new dynasty.

It is only then that hierarchical order and social classism will disappear

and true...

utopia will...

finally...

come!

A woman frequented the Shamanist Bureau.

I think she visited whenever the head shaman came back from the temple in Gaeseong.

I could not see her face because she was wearing a veil.

This is extremely dangerous, Friend.

More than a couple of people are part of their group.

They have access to the palace and the Royal Investigation Bureau,

have contempt for the royal family,

murdered the entire family of the Governor,

and even dared to attack the Crown Prince-

by shooting an arrow at him.

We must find out who is behind them.

The head shaman's prayer site is in Gaeseong?

Why are you telling me this now?

Also, while investigating the traces of the Byeokcheon case,

we've discovered that the Byeokcheon people left for Gaeseong

after saying they were going back to their hometown.

Also, there were eyewitness accounts of some sending various goods

to Gaeseong, saying they were sending them to their hometown.

Then, are you saying that their base is in Gaeseong?

I am not sure yet,

but a lot is pointing at both Gaeseong and Byeokcheon simultaneously.

The head shaman was also from Byeokcheon.

The people who were forced out of their hometown live together in Gaeseong?

If so, would Gaeseong people not know of the village where Byeokcheon people live together?

Rumors about it would have spread already.

By chance,

what if they are living in hiding?

And that is why they are sending goods over there.

If they buy what they need on Gaeseong streets,

their base could be discovered.

Since Mt. Songak is precipitous,

it is possible to form a village in a valley and live there in hiding.

But all of this is a hypothesis.

But when we are in the dark, hypotheses are also important.

If we start from hypotheses and eliminate many of them,

we can arrive at the truth.