Scarlet Heart: Ryeo (달의 연인 - 보보경심 려)

Scarlet Heart

This drama is a fiction

based on history

Episode 5

Why here?

Why would you stay here instead of

the lavish Princes' Quarters?

This is my space. It's mine!

It's the King's Palace.

How can you think this is yours?

No, it's not that./- Good.

This is trespassing.

Do you think

you can do anything you want?

I can't see the sky from my room.

Nor the stars only Goryeo has.

The stars only we have?

Is there such thing?

Mung beans, dahurica, bletilla,

monk's hood, cucumber, spikenard,

samnaeja, lemongrass, basil.

There's bangpung gobun, too.

My husband sent them.

The prince?

l was wondering what you could do

and he mentioned you like herbs.

So,

what will you do with all this?

Bathing salts.

I'll make you some.

It smells nice.

Could Myung be right?

Will the empress like this?

She will.

Goryeo people love bathing salts.

It's so pretty.

Nice and round.

Yes, you are right.

I've n e v e r s e e n h e r s o h a PP Y

She's excited

to make it for the empress.

She didn't say

but I'm sure she felt frustrated.

She remembers something she can do.

It's a relief.

Soo has grown up

since she was injured.

Sometimes she sounds mature.

Sometimes she acts her age.

I considered sending her home

a few times.

Now I'm glad I did not.

I want to

find her a good husband.

I'd like to keep her close

and see her smile.

Yes.

I also

feel that way.

A little more...

I wish to write home.

Grind the ink for me.

Come to the study after dinner.

Myung, it's me.

Myung asked me to grind her ink.

She had a bad cough and went to bed.

She asked me to write the letter.

I see.

The inkstone

is over here./- Right.

It's Tao Yen Ming's poem.

You've read it before?/- Yes.

Whenever my wife writes a letter

she includes a poem.

What about you?

Pardon?

Do you prefer Tang or modern poems?

Tang... poems or modern poems?

Modern poems, of course.

Really?

I'm surprised.

A noble lady who likes common poems.

He didn't mean modern songs?

He meant Goryeo poems, you idiot.

No, no.

I prefer poems to common songs.

Then

I'll give this poem to you.

I just wanted to.

Read it carefully.

Thank you.

Chae Ryung./- Yes, miss.

Come here.

Someone gave me this.

You see,

since I hurt my head

I forgot how to read.

What?

Before I learn how to read again

can you read this to me?

I can't read.

I can barely recognise my name.

Sorry, miss.

Yang...

Yang ryu chung chung gang su pyung.

I can read the characters

but I don't know what they mean.

What can I do,

now that I'm illiterate?

His writing is as pretty as

he is handsome.

I wish I knew what it meant.

I'd love to read this.

I want to read it, read it, read it,

I want to read it, read it.

Why didn't I

pay more attention in school?

What are you doing?

My goodness.

Are you illiterate?/- No.

Well...

I can read.

I forgot the letters

when I got hurt.

Hand it over./- It's fine.

I'll read it to you.

Don't./- Let's see.

The willows are green

and the water is still.

By the water...

You're...

The sun shines from the east

and it rains in the west.

I thought nothing was clear

but clarity does exist.

It's a lovely poem.

It's by Tang poet Liu Yu Si.

Do you know what it means?

The willows are green.

It's about a beautiful landscape.

Isn't it?

You couldn't have

written it yourself.

Who gave it to you?

The 8th prince gave it to me

for me to study from.

Are you sure you can't read?

Are you pretending?

I'm not.

Why would I pretend to be stupid?

He gave you a nice poem.

Return the favour one day.

We'll go to the Palace tomorrow.

Be prepared./- The Palace?

I'm going to the Palace?/- Yes.

We'll take the soap you made.

Okay. I'll be well prepared.

Has he lost his mind?

It's a poem about the landscape.

It's about love.

You change a letter in

the last phrase to show it.

You must know that.

When you got married, I...

It can't be.

You knew?

You already knew

how Wook felt.

Didn't you?

Baek Ah.

Please complete the painting

before the day is over.

Myung.

The willows green, the water calm.

A man sings happily.

I thought nothing was clear

but it exists?

No.

Forget it.

What more could a poem mean?

It's not that.

Stop thinking about him in that way.

The prince is just...

A landlord.

He's my landlord.

I must control my heart.

My heart is mine.

He's my landlord, landlord...

You rarely visit Damiwon.

What's the occasion?

Wook, his wife and

her cousin will visit.

Myung isn't well.

She needs Court Lady Oh's tea.

Why does everyone value her so?

She's not even a physician.

Prince Jung has grown up well.

I heard you hired a tutor.

The Royal Scholar is already 70.

Jung needs to learn