Gyebaek (계백)

Your Majesty, please wake up.

I'm begging you, please wake up.

I'm begging you, please wake up.

If you leave just like that, even if I'm dead, I will hate you forever.

Your Majesty, are you awake?

Your Majesty!

How long have I been lying like this?

One and a half months.

One and a half months.

That was a really good, long sleep.

Help me to get up.

Thank you very much for waking up.

I really thank you very much for waking up.

Don't cry.

I'm sure a lot of things must have happened during this period.

= Episode 30 =-

You were looking for me?

Come here.

His Majesty has regained consciousness.

Now that you know, this is His Majesty's command.

Make sure that only you know of this matter.

Make sure you're the only one to guard His Majesty's residence from now on.

Don't let anyone go in.

I understand, Deok Sol.

Yes, that's right, everybody thought I was dead.

If Your Majesty hadn't woken up, I'd have followed you.

Didn't Gye Baek protect you?

General Gye Baek said he can't take sides.

He said he must remain neutral.

That's really unexpected.

I thought Gye Baek would return to you.

That I used a despicable trick to get you,

you must have told Gye Baek about it as well?

How did you know that I was aware of that fact?

Didn't you say it yourself?

Didn't you stop at nothing to get me? You're that king who exterminated the whole Mok clan just so you could have me.

After all that, are you going to abandon me just like that?

I have to continue living. I have to live so that I can take my revenge.

Did you hear those words?

Of course. I not only heard,

I was able to regain consciousness because you shed tears of blood.

Do you really hate me that much?

Yes, that's right.

From the time I learned the truth,

I detested you, I hated you.

You still want to take your revenge against me, right?

Yes, I want to do that.

But now it's different.

Why?

To nearly lose you after your accident. Now I realise,

everything that I have comes from you.

If I lose Your Majesty, I'll lose everything that I have too.

What do you hope to get from me?

I hope that your enemies, and mine, will disappear.

It's great that you have now regained consciousness.

Yes, whether it was in Gajamseong City or here,

the one who protected me at all times was you.

Thank you, royal consort.

I will only follow Your Majesty from now onwards.

Is there already an order to evict me from my residence?

Yes, Your Highness.

The Queen issued the order.

Why are you still dallying?

Your Majesty.

I find it difficult to have to see you, therefore it's better if you leave quickly.

Your Majesty,

You have overstepped your boundaries, please rescind your order.

What do you mean by that?

I've already spoken of this with naedu jwapyeong.

With naedu jwapyeong?

Yes, since we've a successor to the throne now,

we're sending all the concubines and the prince out of the palace.

Your servant will have a word with naedu jwapyeong again.

Furthermore, royal consort will not cause any trouble.

Please let her live quietly in the palace.

Don't say anymore, General.

I want it.

It's not the Queen's order, but it's by my own volition.

Your Majesty.

Looks like you still have your pride.

Your Majesty, I have a final request.

I will leave quietly, but please let me see His Majesty for a moment.

Fine, let's go together.

Your Highness, why are you like this?

Why? Wait and you will know.

Your Majesty, please get well.

I will also pray for Your Majesty, even though I'm no longer in the palace.

Are you still obsessed?

Do you still believe that when His Majesty wakes up, he'll recall you?

His Majesty is already on his death bed.

And also, Baekje's king will be Tae.

At that time, we'll bury you and His Majesty together.

Since His Majesty dotes on you so much, you can go and accompany him.

Of course.

Right, the son should follow his mother and also leave.

That is only natural.

Your Majesty, did you hear that?

Your Highness, I'll escort you to your private residence.

Why? Do you pity me?

I refuse your pity.

Your Highness, let me escort you.

You are no longer one of my people, you're General's follower now.

Let things be.

Your Majesty.

General, this is just like killing me.

What would a dead person need?

Please go back.

I'm sorry.

You really went to the extreme.

With your reform coming up,

do you have to sacrifice the pitiful royal consort?

That's why I said I was sorry.

What is cruel is politics.

Anyway, we can't restore things to what they were,

so you should protect Her Highness.

So pitiful. Agassi is so pitiful.

Your Majesty.

In order to implement the well-field system, we've prepared a set of family registers.

Family register?

It means a survey of the population of the land.

Is that so? Since I've given my consent, just proceed with it.

I'll abide by your order.

What's next?

Your Majesty, your servant Gye Baek requests permission to report.

We need Your Majesty's handwritten confirmation in order to proceed with our alliance with Goguryeo.

Your Majesty, did you bring your seal?

No, wait for a while.

Your Majesty, don't you want to form an alliance with Goguryeo?

That's not it, the Great General has briefed me sufficiently.

I also believe this alliance is necessary.

But after all, for an alliance between countries,

instead of the Queen's seal, isn't it better to use the country's jade seal?

Your Majesty, only His Majesty can use the country's jade seal.

Your Majesty, please withdraw your edict.

His Majesty is never going to recover.

The country's jade seal is as good as belonging to the crown prince.

Hurry up and get the jade seal.

I'm going to take this opportunity to tell the world

our Tae has become the true monarch of Baekje.

Since when

did Your Majesty and the crown prince became the masters of this country?

The master of Baekje is just me alone.

Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you.

Your Majesty. Your servants pay their respects to Your Majesty.

Your Majesty held a banquet while I was critically ill?

Your Majesty.

You must have been very happy.

The moment I died, Your Majesty's son would become the king.

Please forgive me.

My Queen!

Yes, Your Majesty.

I've forgiven you many times.

When you did something wrong, I'd think of father-in-law and let things pass.

When I was ill, it was fine that you didn't even bother about me,

but to disrupt the country's politics and claiming the Prince as the king.

How do you expect to wash away your crimes?

Your Majesty, I beg you.

Please forgive me this once.

I don't want to hear it!

I don't want to see you, leave now.

Your Majesty!

Please save me, royal consort Mok.

I will do whatever you say.

I'm begging you, royal consort Mok.

Please persuade His Majesty.

You said you wanted to bury me alive together with His Majesty, right?

Royal consort Mok.

And said further that the son should follow the mother, right?

I'm begging you. It's fine that I die,

please spare my Tae.

You choose.

Your Majesty dies together with your son,

or join a religious order with your son, become a nun and a monk, and turn over a new leaf.

For the sake of daejwapyeong, Yeon Mun Jin,

I'm giving you this one last chance.

His Majesty's recovery is a good thing,

but why did it happen right at the time when the Queen was doing that?

It could be because he wanted to seize the opportunity, and did that deliberately.

It's too late for regrets.

Although the Queen is a frivolous person,

If I'd told her first, things wouldn't have turned out this bad.

Heung Su, now is not the time for you to worry about the Queen.

We have to think about our own matters.

I won't regret what I'd done.

It's just a pity that we've missed out on our opportunity.

Look here, Heung Su.

My thinking is the same as Heung Su, hyeongnim.

We won't shift our responsibility to others for what we've done.

We did what we did for the country's sake.

Where are you going?

I'm going to see His Majesty.

To reform the Council meeting to enable the local county magistrates and common people to participate.

To change our present land system to the well-field system.

Looks like you really hoped that I'd die.

And also, Gye Baek, you wanting to form an alliance with Goguryeo.

I kept telling you not to liaise privately with Yeong Gye Somun.

Who were those supporting the Queen?

Who were those who supported the Queen in forming a government with the crown prince?

It was I, your servant.

But Your Majesty was critically ill, we had no choice in the matter.