Lovers of the Red Sky (홍천기)

Lovers of the Red Sky

Kim Yoo Jung, Ahn Hyo Seob

Gong Myung, Kwak Si Yang

Lovers of the Red Sky

The characters and settings of this drama are fictionalized and have no connection to historical facts.

Go.

Open the palanquin door.

Yes, Your Highness.

Supervisor Ha.

What are you all doing?

- Hurry and bring a cloth. - Yes, Your Highness.

Are you all right?

I am all right.

Give that to me.

That will do.

Back away now.

The bleeding has stopped.

Why did you do this?

I was trying to catch the rat who had snuck onto the palanquin.

Will you swing an ax to catch a rat?

Are you expecting an apology?

I am Il Wol Seong.

- So? - I ask that you trust me now.

I learned that a true king rules with sincerity.

Listen well.

You have lived as Supervisor Ha of Seomungwan as well as Il Wol Seong.

If I say that I trust you now, would you believe it?

It would be difficult for you to trust me at first.

But I have already sworn my loyalty to you as Il Wol Seong.

What are you afraid of?

I am not afraid of anything.

No.

Now, Your Highness has nothing to be afraid of.

So, do not be hasty and keep calm.

I shall trust you, Il Wol Seong.

You will die after the sealing ritual, after all.

All right, Supervisor Ha.

No. Il Wol Seong.

You have sworn to give Ma Wang to me,

so I shall begin to trust you.

Let us go now.

Yes, Your Highness.

Your Highness will find out soon.

What true fear is.

How weak and sick it makes a man.

Let us go.

Get moving.

Episode 13: Sealing Ritual

- Hey. - Stop that.

Over there. Look.

I wonder if his hand is all right.

Because of me again…

The sealing ritual will happen.

How do you know that?

Because Grand Prince Juhyang is overseeing the sealing ritual.

Pardon?

Not Grand Prince Yangmyeong, but Grand Prince Juhyang?

Yes.

And I will not seal Ma Wang in the royal portrait.

What do you mean?

Ma Wang will be transferred to Grand Prince Juhyang.

He has been preparing for a long time to accept Ma Wang.

To accept Ma Wang…

I cannot believe it.

If there was such a method,

we would not have prepared the sealing ritual so tediously with such difficulty.

If I were you, I would trust His Majesty and Grand Prince Yangmyeong.

Then you think I should do as they say,

when they are obsessed with sealing the Ma Wang, whether you become mad or not?

Scholar Sir.

If it is for my sake, please reconsider it.

Have you forgotten how Grand Prince Juhyang tried to kill my father at Maejukheon?

He is a terrifying man.

I have already thought enough in the cell.

Do not think that this decision is only for your sake.

If he truly does that,

I think it will be more dangerous...

What should I do…

You will stay here for the time being.

Tell me if there is anything you need.

- Yes, Your Highness. - And...

I must ask you a favor as Il Wol Seong.

Please ask anything.

I must find a divine item.

A divine item?

A person intending to accept Ma Wang must possess that divine item.

It is a ring that the abdicated King Yeongjong always wore.

A ring?

It is a divine item to help maintain consciousness even when Ma Wang manifests.

It means I can control...

Ma Wang's power with my will.

But why would you ask me to seek it?

When the abdicated King sealed Ma Wang, he left it at the Taoist Bureau

and the last person who had it

was the head of the Taoist Bureau's, Lord Ha Seong Jin.

Your father.

Could that divine item be, by chance…

It is the one and only jade ring that my father gave to my mother when he was alive.

Let us make certain.

This fate.

Can you see me?

I do see you.

The ring that allowed me to see the maiden in front of Ma Wang.

Can you find it for me?

Il Wol Seong is known as Wolseongdang's master.

There is nothing he does not know in all the land, and

he is a source of information who knows everything.

If you submit a question in the Wolseongdang question box-

- Enough. - What comes after is more interesting.

If you submit the question, he gives an answer, right?

How did you know that?

My goodness...

Supervisor Ha has worked at the palace as an astronomer all his life.

How could he have two identities?

How?

Ma Wang, Supervisor Ha, and Il Wol Seong.

There is something among them.

Is there a way to change the Scholar's mind?

Is there something that I do not know?

What is he thinking?

So you mean that the royal portrait is the only way to manifest Ma Wang?

Yes, Your Highness. That is so.

Only with the divine painter's royal portrait

will the conjuration of the 25th Constellation Sword have an effect.

That is the only way to summon Ma Wang.

Then...

it seems difficult to summon Ma Wang before the sealing ritual, Your Highness.

Even when Supervisor Ha is right in front of our eyes…

We have waited 19 years.

We must only wait a few more days.

Have you asked Supervisor Ha the whereabouts of the divine item?

I did.

But he seemed not to know.

What happens if we postpone the sealing ritual until we find the divine item?

That will not do.

The divine item has been missing for 19 years

since Lord Ha Seong Jin's death.

You know that it cannot be found in one or two days.

Even if Ma Wang is not sealed,

it will take over more of the host's body.

Supervisor Ha and Ma Wang will become one soon.

When that happens, the sealing ritual and the invocatory rite will be of no use.

Thus, once the date for the sealing ritual is set, you must hurry.

you must hurry.

Scholar Sir!

Ma Wang?

Is this the power of a divine item?

I found my eyes.

Don't come closer.

Ha Ram!

Get away from my son.

What are these memories?

The spirit of Ma Wang?

Royal Father.

It may be difficult now

to seal Ma Wang in the royal portrait...

as you wish.

Hyeong-nim is…

Juhyang hyeong-nim is...

trying to accept Ma Wang into his body.

What should I do, Royal Father?

If the sealing ritual occurs as it is now,

the thing that you wanted to avoid the most…

the bloodshed...

in this nation could occur.

Truly an extraordinary work.

I can feel Royal Grandfather's spirit.

I did not like the color of the red sulfide,

so I was on my way back from the paint storage.

Are you not tired?

I am all right.

But...

I heard His Majesty has collapsed.

Is Your Highness all right?

I am fine.

Do not worry. The sealing ritual will take place as planned.

But now that Royal Father fell ill,

my brother, Grand Prince Juhyang, is to take over the sealing ritual.

Is Grand Prince Juhyang truly trying to accept Ma Wang?

How did you…

Then would it not harm the Scholar?

Where did you hear such a thing?

I heard it from the Scholar on his way to Grand Prince Juhyang's place.

I told you not to meet him until the royal portrait is finished.

Forgive me.

Then...

is the royal portrait not needed for the sealing ritual anymore?

No.

Ma Wang can only be summoned from Supervisor Ha with the royal portrait.

I suspect Hyeong-nim is preparing to accept Ma Wang

into his body in time for then.

If that happens,

what happens to the Scholar?

I do not know.

But no matter what Hyeong-nim plans to do,

I will certainly seal Ma Wang in the royal portrait.

The only thing we can do now is to do our best in our given task.

Then I shall complete the royal portrait without fail.

Your Highness must certainly...

succeed in the sealing ritual.