Rookie Historian Goo Hae-Ryung (신입사관 구해령)

Officer Min, please.

Are you addicted to being in the center of attention?

Come on. Let's please let this one slide.

Don't get involved and wreak havoc.

Get ready.

- I need you to go to Daejojeon. - Hey!

I beg your pardon? Daejojeon?

That is His Majesty's bedchamber.

Officer Min. The female historians have never entered the bedchamber yet.

First, we should ask permission...

Since when did we, historians, need permission to do our job?

The Second State Councillor is there.

You must enter the chamber

no matter what.

So?

Why did you request an audience with me this time?

Any progress in tracking down

the remnants of Seoraewon?

Since disappearing in Pyongan Province,

they have completely fallen off the face of the earth.

However,

I have found out who the mastermind behind them is.

What did you say?

Tell me at once.

Who has the audacity to gather traitors in my kingdom?

It is the Queen Dowager.

We have confirmed that her chief lady-in-waiting met with Mo-hwa.

Apparently, they exchanged letters.

After all, your speculations proved to be right.

The Queen Dowager and her retinue

have been in league with the remnants of Seoraewon.

Due to Her Majesty's connection to this matter,

I cannot make any rash decisions.

I will follow your orders, Your Majesty.

Hello, sir.

I am a female historian.

I am here to record His Majesty's meeting. Please let His Majesty know.

How dare a female historian set foot in here.

Leave at once!

I heard the Second State Councillor is having an audience with the King.

- I must enter the chamber... - What are you waiting for?

What are you doing?

Let go. I'm a historian too.

What is all this ruckus about?

It is nothing, Your Majesty.

Drag her out at once.

Okay, I understand. I said I can walk out of here on my own.

Let go. Gosh!

You must enter the chamber

no matter what.

Then I will proceed accordingly, Your Majesty.

Your Majesty.

I'd like to ask you a question.

Is there anything about Prince Dowon

that you are hiding from me?

Who's there?

You brazen wench! I clearly told you to leave.

How dare you eavesdrop on His Majesty's conversation?

Step aside.

What did you write down?

I asked you what you wrote down!

This is a sachaek.

Therefore, I cannot tell you.

What did you say?

Officer Min!

Officer Min!

Officer Min!

Officer Min!

Officer Min!

Officer Min.

What did you just say?

Who is where?

What happened?

Apprentice Goo.

She has been dragged to the Royal Investigation Bureau

for disobeying a royal order.

What do you mean? Why did they take her?

What kind of royal order did she disobey? How? And why?

I don't know yet.

Your Highness, please calm down first.

I will go and find out the details.

No.

My royal robe.

- Bring my royal robe. - Your royal robe?

Yes. I shall go have an audience with Father. Hurry.

Please don't get yourself in trouble.

What will you do if you get to see His Majesty?

I must try everything in my power.

I can't just sit back and do nothing.

You must stay out of this.

You have no grounds for getting involved.

I have no grounds?

I can tell him that...

Tell him what? "I am head over heels for that lady, Father.

Please forgive her just this once."

Will you whine like that?

Your Highness, you are well aware of how His Majesty is.

When someone gets on the wrong side of him,

he never changes his opinion of that person

no matter how hard you try to shed light on the truth.

Even if you step in now,

it won't help Apprentice Goo at all.

It'll further ignite His Majesty's wrath, if anything.

Please don't worry too much.

Apprentice Goo is a historian after all. Nothing will happen to her.

She will be released soon. I'm sure of it.

Can you guarantee it though?

If anything bad

happens to Hae-ryung...

The criminal, Goo Hae-ryung, shall drink the poison!

Poison isn't enough.

She should be beheaded.

Let's just get it over with, okay?

I can't just wait here.

I shall get on my knees and beg.

You can't go, Your Highness.

You absolutely mustn't get involved, Your Highness.

If you keep this up, you'll get in trouble too.

Let go before I get mad at you.

I ought to go and save Hae-ryung.

Gosh, please worry about yourself first.

Why are you just standing there?

Hurry up and nail down the doors or something.

- Yes, sir! - Yes, sir!

- Your Highness, you cannot leave. - I won't go easy on you anymore.

No, please!

Your Highness!

Lord Min.

I heard the Office of Royal Decrees' female historian

was put behind bars at the Royal Investigation Bureau today.

That is correct.

She wasn't even willing to back down in front of His Majesty.

She reminded me of you when you were young.

She is a lot like you.

What a daring young lady.

You knew?

It is all my fault for I coddled her as I felt bad

that she had to grow up without her parents.

Please help her.

She is my only family.

She was caught while eavesdropping on the King's conversation.

There is nothing I can do to help her.

All we can do is wait for His Majesty to change his mind.

Lord Min.

You fool!

I clearly told you to just let it slide.

Why must you be so bullheaded for your own good

and cause all this trouble? Shouldn't you know better by now?

It is not Officer Min's fault, sir.

It is our duty as historians to sit in on the King's meetings with his subjects.

That's not what she did. She practically spied on the King.

She's one fearless girl.

How dare she eavesdrop at Daejojeon?

Then what about the historian, Min In-saeng?

The historian during the reign of King Taejong.

He eavesdropped through the doors

and even from behind the folding screens.

That is why he is still highly respected as a historian to this day.

Why are you calling Apprentice Goo a spy?

I completely agree. Apprentice Goo simply did her duty as a historian.

His Majesty should have allowed her

to sit in on the meeting in the first place.

Hey, Clerk Heo. You and your mouth...

- Watch your mouth! - Everything I said is true.

I really don't think we should let this slide.

All of you shouldn't let your guard down either.

The first time is the hardest.

Who knows which one of us will get arrested next time?

Hey!

Even so, we're legitimate historians.

We are too.

We passed the civil service exam as well.

I'm sorry.

So what's our plan?

Will we protest against the King and demand her release?

It is time we filed an ultimate petition.

I will go bring an axe!

Hey, calm down.

He always talks about an axe...

Stay put.

In any case, it is true that Apprentice Goo disobeyed the royal order.

If we side with her now, it won't end with just her being exiled.

All of us could be reprimanded, sir.

But we can't just sit back and do nothing about it.

A historian was arrested, which is unprecedented.

I've made my decision.

What? After much consideration,

did you decide to make Officer Min come up with the final decision once again?

No, you punk!

As historians, we ought to...

MBC E21 'Rookie Historian Goo Hae Ryung' -♥ Ruo Xi ♥-

Why aren't the historians here yet?

Chancellor, go bring the historians at once.

Yes, Your Majesty.

Chancellor.

Lads, what are you doing here?

You've kept His Majesty waiting for 15 minutes. Come in.

We'd like to go in, of course. But what should we do?

We've completely run out of paper at the Office of Royal Decrees.

We cannot go in empty-handed.