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, he has the sword. Please excuse my rudeness.

Permission to strike this man?

Put away your sword.

Did you not hear my order?

I clearly saw your face at my house in Gaeseong.

Seriously, this guy!

Your Highness.

What does he mean, Gaeseong?

Then...

this guy is...

Until I call you again, go back and wait for me.

But, Your Highness, how could you let such an evil girl-

Did I not tell you to go and wait for me?

Do as I have commanded you.

Yes, Your Highness.

How could you be so rash?

Are you confusing your memories?

I am not confused. My memories are clear.

Your Highness, I have told you this before as well.

It is clear that he killed the herald you sent on the way to my house.

He was also among the ones who spread the Song Family Destroy Yi red papers on the streets.

I definitely saw him,

and I remember clearly.

I know because we ended up fighting while I was chasing him.

Even though he was wearing a mask, it was his face-

It was definitely his eyes, Your Highness.

Think about it.

He is also the one who can move freely about the Eastern Palace.

The one who shot the arrow at you a year ago

would have been possible because it was him.

Not only the Eastern Palace,

but he can also freely enter the royal hunting grounds.

Not only that,

but the arrow that flew at you during the military training hunt must also be his.

Nobody would have thought that he was suspicious,

since he is someone who should be there.

He probably shot an arrow at you and then ran off.

Are not the arrows and quiver

also, the same ones used by military officers at the military training hunt?

Perhaps the one who delivered the amur viper and the dagger to the head shaman

was also him.

Soon, the door to the new world will open. Now, complete god's message.

The one who set fire to the oyat tree was probably him, too.

He would have entered the prison where the head shaman was held

saying it was your orders, Your Highness.

Tomorrow, you should go to the the prison of the Royal Investigation Bureau-

Did not the officers guarding the prison of the Royal Investigation Bureau already die?

Even if my memories may be in a bad state because of the shock of losing my family,

I remember his face clearly.

It is impossible.

Please...

Please believe what I say, Your Highness.

On the day that your family was murdered,

Tae Kang was at the Eastern Palace all day.

Tae Kang is innocent.

I am proof of Tae Kang's innocence.

Gaeseong is more than a day's travel from here.

To think that bastard was the murderer from Gaeseong, Min Jae Yi...

Since when did His Highness know about this?

His Highness knew ever since he first saw him at the military training hunt.

That his identity was not Jang Chi Soo, but he was Min Jae Yi.

The fact that he gave him the private room

was because he was a woman.

How could one person be in both Hanyang and Gaesong simultaneously?

There is no way...

Are you sure you are not mistaken?

Also, you may think that Tae Kang was among the ones

who spread the red papers on the streets,

but he was with me at that moment.

If it is as you say, then do you mean that Tae Kang set fire to the oyat tree,

and then suddenly teleported to the streets?

But the face behind that mask was definitely the Guardian Warrior.

It was definitely his face!

I know very well that you tried hard to remember something

from your confused memories.

However,

Tae Kang is not the culprit.

First, calm yourself down, and take the day off tomorrow.

Also,

try to think about it again.

This is an order.

Did you bring work to do again?

Does that pub pay well for your services?

It is pretty, right?

Gosh, how could they wear clothes like this every day?

I guess which family you are born into is really important.

If you want to wear it, try it on.

Gosh...

Forget it.

Your Highness.

Are you awake?

Come inside.

Your Highness, I do not see Eunuch Go.

Did you, by chance, give a separate order to Eunuch Go?

I gave Eunuch Go a special errand last night.

I see, Your Highness.

That is right. The Guardian Warrior stayed by His Highness' side that day.

His Highness had a royal education assessment that day,

so he was standing by his side, keeping watch.

Did he stay in the Eastern Palace after the royal education assessment was over?

After the royal education assessment was over, he stayed in the Eastern Palace with us.

But why do you ask about that day?

And about the Guardian Warrior in particular?

There was something I needed to look into.

Do not worry about it.

Am I just mistaken about this?

No, there is no way my memories are wrong.

I was the herald to give Your Highness' wedding gifts to the governor of Gaeseong?

I was the assassin who spread the red papers?

How could you trust and keep by your side a girl who speaks such nonsense?

She is a criminal who is on the run after killing her own family.

She is not a criminal. She is my master's daughter.

If people find out that you let such a wicked girl into the Eastern Palace as a eunuch,

how will you be safe?

Your Highness, it is not too late to oust that girl.

Did she not go through such terrible things?

Give her some time.

And what is the secret letter that she spoke of?

- Your Highness... - It appears her memories are a bit confused.

Do not worry about it anymore.

Also, since I trust you, you do not need to be shaken.

Thus, look into the source of Park Han Soo's money.

Where did you go...

by yourself?

I was not able to see the assassin's face properly.

He was wearing a mask.

No, Lady.

My master told me that he met the Guardian Warrior on the streets wearing a disguise.

That was probably because of His Highness' secret mission.

But what was more strange was that he acted like he had met my master for the first time.

But what happened to your memories?

Is it not strange that someone as bright as you would have

your memories messed up, even if you did receive a lot of shock?

Apart from the Guardian Warrior's face, do you remember anything else?

On the day of that incident, there was an incense of peony petals in the corner of the kitchen.

Pardon?

The incense of peony petals was in our Gaeseong house as well?

How could something that was in the head shaman's place also be in our Gaeseong house?

That day,

I was tasting the soup in the kitchen when Young came.

Do you remember what you talked about?

He was probably sad that he would not see me anymore since I was going far away for marriage.

He grabbed my hand for a moment, too.

Pardon? Your hand, Lady?

Well, I guess it wasn't really my hand,

but he touched my bracelet.

Your bracelet-

Bracelet...

That bracelet that Young Master Shim Young gifted you that others are saying

was a token of love?

Ga Ram, did Young have white hair?

Have you ever seen him get white hair?

I have not.

Young Master is too young to get white hair.

The autopsy report for Young said he had white hair.

Pardon?

How could that be?

When you last saw the Young Master,

did he have white hair, Lady?

No. He did not have white hair.

He did not...

What has happened to me?

Why are my memories messed up?

Oh, no!

Did you wash it clean?

There were only ashes and flower petals inside.

Was it something valuable?

No.

Oh, the handsome scholar is here.

Aigoo, Friend.

They washed this clean.

Gosh, how diligent they are...

How come you came here by yourself? What about the little handsome scholar?

Did he not come here by any chance?

Oh, the little handsome scholar...

He went all the way over there with my student.

Are you really going to buy that?

I will get this one.

Oh, Scholar!

- Have you been well? - Yes.

I am sorry, but we will buy this next time.

We will see you again next time.

Okay...

Pardon?

How do you know of a place like this?

It was my late Hyungnim's favorite place.

He would often bring me along here.

What do you see?

Seeing how there is smoke coming from each house, are they not cooking right now?

Even the children out playing in fields know to go home

when they see the smoke coming from the chimneys.

Then,

what do you think about the child of that house?

Since no smoke rises from the chimney of that house, even when it is evening,

how would the child of that house know when to go home?

And even if he goes home,

would he not starve?

My hyungnim would often come here

and look upon the people's houses