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.]

Are these dried peonies?

What is that smell?

Did my mother burn them?

Did I...

see the peonies

in the kitchen, then?

Try to remember what happened that day soon.

You must remember what happened that day.

You can do it.

What is the memory that I am missing?

Something that I overlooked...

A minor thing that I have forgotten...

Sister...

That is right!

Young had come!

Was everything she told me a lie?

On the day an arrow flew at me at the military training hunting grounds,

I met Min Jae Yi.

- Was the one who shot the arrow at me - That was not mine.

really Min Jae Yi?

The celebratory message at the hunting grounds was trickery.

Is it not strange how she knew right away the deception of the celebratory message?

Without a secret letter from you,

how could I know what was written in that letter from a ghost?

Is Min Jae Yi on the same side as the one who sent the secret letter?

No.

She is not.

None of that makes sense.

Even if the ones who sent the secret letter and Min Jae Yi are on the same side,

there is no reason for her to kill her own family.

Still,

I cannot keep her by my side.

Bring Soon Dol here immediately.

Pardon? Why Go Soon Dol...

Bring him over.

Bring that man in front of me right now.

Do you not hear my order?

Bring Go Soon Dol to me right now!

Young had visited me in the kitchen that day.

If I tell His Highness,

His Highness may find the answer!

He comes running toward his own death.

Why are you doing this?

What is the matter? Please let go of me as we walk!

Let go...

Your Highness, your Guardian Warrior is here.

Your Highness, I have brought him here per your order.

Leave the room, Kang.

And tell the other palace workers to go out as well.

Yes, I will do as you ordered.

Your Highness, what is the matter-

Did you exchange this with that man as a token of love?

No.

This is not a token of love.

He was sad that I was going far away for marriage,

so it was a token of being sworn siblings-

There was nothing false with the records.

Your words were false.

All of it was false.

I will not believe

anything that comes out of your mouth.

Your Highness...

how could you do this to me...

Did you not say you believed me?

Read it for yourself.

It is a letter you should read.

My beloved Jae Yi.

I am sorry that I could not run away with you and get married.

I am also sorry for betraying your trust.

There is nothing that made me

feel happier and hurt me more

than the love you gave me.

The love that I could not give you here, I will repay in heaven.

I love you as much as you love me.

Repay me in heaven?

Your Highness, how did this letter come to me?

This is not true!

Your Highness, this is not true!

Your Highness, you must believe me.

How could Young do this to me...

Shut your mouth!

It is the last word left behind by a man before ending his life.

It is a last will.

How could there be any lies

in the last will, left behind by a man

who hung himself in the house of the woman he loved?

Tell me.

Explain yourself.

From what to what was a lie?

The secret letter would have also been a lie.

The arrow shot at me, and the defiled celebratory message at the military training hunt...

Are they all not your doing?

That is not true!

- Your Highness, that's not true. I- - I will not listen to you!

What good will it do me to keep listening to your lies?

It is all useless.

Whether it is true or not that you tried to elope with your secret lover and murdered your family,

it has nothing to do with me now.

- Your Highness... - Listen!

Is nobody out there?

Is nobody out there?

What is the matter? Why is everyone outside-

I asked if there was nobody out there!

Did you call us, Your Highness...

Drag Go Soon Dol out immediately.

Your Highness...

Please listen to what I have to say just once!

Do not dare to step foot into the Eastern Palace ever again.

It is not true.

It is not true, Your Highness!

You must believe me, Your Highness!

Please listen to me just once!

Your Highness...

Your Highness!

Geez.

Serves you right.

Someone who entered the Eastern Palace so easily

was bound to get cut at a moment's notice!

Do not dare to step foot in the Eastern Palace again!

Gosh!

For today, leave the palace and sleep in your private residence,

and go to the Eunuch's Bureau outside of the palace tomorrow morning.

I will let them know.

I am sorry...

For what reason did His Highness take his will?

Since when was His Highness chasing after that incident?

But Sir, there is one more thing.

Supposedly, the Lady's servant girl also disappeared.

I believe she may have run away with the Lady.

Her name is Ga Ram,

and she is Jang Chi Soo's cousin.

Find her.

We must at least find that servant girl.

Yes.

Right.

Where is your home?

It is in Han Bat Village.

You should go home earlier next time.

Is there any way to contact Eunuch Go...

There is no way for us to contact him first.

Are you worried about him?

Did I not tell you?

Eunuch Go is not that hurt.

Yes.

It appears that you are still concerned for him.

It appears I have grown fond of him already.

A new wanted poster seems to be up.

You should not take one down again, Teacher!

Why? What does it say?

That is why I said you need to learn to read!

Since you cannot read notices like these,

you would not even know what is happening in the world. Is that not frustrating?

Gosh, all right. I will learn.

So what does it say?

But this face looks very familiar.

It appears one of the servant girls from the Governor of Gaeseong's house disappeared

and there is an order for her capture and return.

[Capture and return order - Returning a runaway slave or servant back to their master]

Supposedly, it is a servant girl named Jang Ga Ram.

Wait...

Upon closer look, she looks like you a bit.

How do we look anything alike?

I am a man.

Are you upset because I said you look like a woman?

Maiden Jae Yi's whereabouts are still unknown,

but it appears that case

was closed with the Maiden Jae Yi as the culprit.

In Joseon, the crime of killing your family carries the heaviest penalty.

I guess her home will soon be destroyed.

What do you mean by that?

It is when the house of someone who killed one's family or committed treason is destroyed,

and a hole is dug there and made into a pond.

The remaining servants would become government servants.

So I wonder why she ran away...

By chance, do you think that servant girl

is with Maiden Jae Yi?

If she is not alone, but together...

then it may have been easier for them to live in hiding, depending on each other.

- Do you not think so, my student? - Yes...

Well...

what happens to the servant who runs away?

Since she broke the law, she would be punished.

A runaway servant is punished by branding.

For male servants, they are branded with 'male servant' on the left cheek,

and for female servants, they are branded with 'female servant' on the right cheek,

so that they would never dare run away again-

Why are you being like this?

Seeing how your face is so pale...

How could there be such a terrible punishment?

That is true.

I mean, I think that it is terrible as well.

Gosh.

What can we do?

That is what the national law says.

Young.

How could you die...

And a suicide at that...

Why did Young...

leave such a suicide note?