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.]

H-Hyungnim, what is the matter?

That bitch...

She planned this all along.

What is your name?

- My name is Yeon Hee. - Oh, Yeon Hee...

- What is your name? - It is Yeon Hee.

Lift your head.

Tonight, would you be willing to change your fate?

While I saw you entering earlier,

I thought it would be a waste for someone with your face to remain a lowly courtesan.

Do you know who is coming to this house tonight?

The King himself will visit

the house of Jo Won Bo in Buwon-gun of Seongju.

It's a place where I am inviting the revered King,

so I cannot have a lowly courtesan enter his presence.

Thus...

I will...

introduce you as a daughter of our family line.

From now on, you are a daughter of the Jo family of Seongju,

Soo Young.

Inside my womb...

I am carrying the King's child.

That bitch...

That bitch dared to...

You...

You bitch!

What do you think it is?

Is it not the egg of an animal?

It looks like the egg of a fish.

What are you doing?

If it's from the Queen, we need it as evidence-

Forgive me for my rudeness, Your Highness.

This is the egg of a fish called Mooyyanghyeolmok.

- Mooyyanghyeolmok... - It is a fish from Byeokcheon.

Some adults prayed to that fish, saying it lived for a thousand years.

There were strange stories about that fish.

One was that the fish ate human blood,

and another was if anyone eats that fish's eggs

would go mad.

Then, to fulfill the ghost's letter that they sent to you...

You will wander through all the land mad,

and disappear alone while lost in a confusing world

It's such a relief that we were able to stop it before anything happened.

That fish is still alive.

When I stopped by the Queen's Palace not too long ago, I saw that redfish there.

Welcome.

- What is this, Uncle? - Tell me.

How is it that your name is in the letter of complaint written by the Byeokcheon people?

Ten years ago, that day...

did you come to kill me?

That is right. I had gone there to kill you.

You deserve to die in the worst way possible.

So I had gone to end your life in front of the King.

However...

I suppose you needed to save Song's child that was in your womb?

Don't you dare speak of the Grand Prince with your dirty lips!

Did you plan to expose what happened in Byeokcheon

after the Grand Prince rose to the throne?

You cannot stop me.

If the King finds out about all of this,

the Grand Prince will not be able to retain his life.

Will you tell the King that you deceitfully offered up to the King, a lowly courtesan,

and a woman of the Song family

as a daughter of the Jo family of Seongju?

Also, once the King finds out the wicked things you have done

to the people of Byeokcheon ten years ago,

you will not be able to retain your life as well.

Until the Grand Prince rises to the throne,

you also cannot reveal what happened in Byeokcheon.

You cannot have the Grand Prince rise to the throne as a son of Song.

I know where the people of Byeokcheon are living together.

They are at Naean Village in Mt. Songak.

I will catch and kill them all.

Just like ten years ago,

once I come back after shutting up those animals,

I will consider what I should do about you and that child of Song.

Before you do that,

I will end your life!

You!

Court Lady Kwon, Court Lady Kwon!

Do you think I let Court Lady Kwon alone?

She deceived me all these years

and had delivered my words to you...

I am not the only one who found out about Naean Village.

Since the deposed Crown Prince went to Naean Village, I cannot let him live.

If the deposed Crown Prince comes back to the Palace alive,

not only would you and the Grand Prince's life be at risk,

it would be difficult to retain my own life.

You know what this uncle has desired for so long.

It does not matter if it is the child of Song.

The Grand Prince must become the Foundation of the Nation

and rise to the throne.

You must become the Queen Mother and the Great Dowager Queen.

That is how...

I would become the king who is above the king.

It was true what the Governor of Gaeseong wrote in his coded message.

This is an anonymous letter that the Queen gave to my son.

[Eunuch Go Soon Dol of the Eastern Palace is Min Jae Yi, the daughter of Gaeseong's governor.]

Also, this is a treaty document that my son received from the Right State Minister.

It is corroborative evidence of Right State Minister Jo Won Bo

asked the Sergeant to assassinate the Crown Prince.

I, Jo Won Bo of Buwon-gun in Seongju, promise the Sergeant Han Seong On

the reinstatement of Left State Minister Han Joong Eon in return for

killing the deposed Crown Prince Yi Hwan and eliminating future trouble.

Immediately go out and gather useful people.

Anyone who is good with a bow and sword.

Anyone who does not hesitate to slaughter an animal that gets in the way.

I will capture all those lowly creatures

- and butcher them! - Yes!

Jo Dae Cheon and Jo Jeong Soo, who went out with me to Byeokcheon ten years ago

will be at the Capital Defense Unit and the Royal Defense Unit.

Go and tell them that I am looking for them.

Yes, sir.

Since we are doing this without the King's command,

they will have to put their life on the line.

Tell them I will compensate them generously.

- Your Highness... - Do not speak.

Your Highness, you must not abandon your people.

You must not abandon them.

Hyun...

My Hyun...

is in the hand of that man Jo Won Bo...

You must stop the Right State Minister.

Do not become like him.

We came so far away...

that it is too late...

to go back to our hometown.

Court Lady Kwon...

Court Lady Kwon!

Court Lady Kwon...

Court Lady Kwon...

There was so much water in Byeokcheon that all you had to do was dig for a well.

I know.

But the people of Naean Village lived like this for ten years.

It's the pretty scholars!

They must have seen the pinwheel letter.

Hey, hurry! Come over here!

Seeing the traces of people, we must almost be at Naean Village.

Your Highness, how about we wait until the full moon, as Tae Kang's twin said?

There are still three days left before the full moon.

How could we wait until then?

Every second is important right now.

Stop! Who are you lot?

Have you betrayed your hometown people?

You are putting your hometown people in danger in the end!

Hyungnim, you are trying to do it your way,

and I am trying to do it my way to protect our hometown people.

Throw away your swords.

I cannot do that.

Make them throw their swords away first.

It is my command.

Throw away your swords.

I came to save you all.

I know you are not bandits

and you are not rebels who set up a new country.

I am...

the Crown Prince of Joseon.

You should speak more accurately.

You are not the Crown Prince but a deposed Crown Prince.

- Crown Prince? - You've already been deposed.

Take them away.

What do you mean by that?

A pinwheel letter?

Besides that, what does it mean that the tall, handsome scholar was the Crown Prince?

An invader has appeared!

An invader has appeared!

Wait, he is...

Although Byeokcheon is my hometown,

I know nothing about that place.

Your Highness.

Put down your sickles and hoes. He is the Crown Prince.

How could the Crown Prince...

They are invaders.

We cannot let anyone who knows about Naean Village live.

We will not let a single person survive.

Before the rooster crows in the morning, we will cut their throats.

Stop!

Stop right there!

They walked in on their own accord.

I am sure they did not come to harm us. They even threw away their swords.

That is right. We saw them throw away their swords.

I heard him saying in the mountain that they came to save us.

For the people of Byeokcheon to go home, that man must disappear.

That man must disappear, and a new Crown Prince must rise to the throne

for the people of Byeokcheon to return home.

I came to hear the stories of injustice you faced.

Please tell me what happened ten years ago in Byeokcheon.

If we tell you, will you believe us?

I know you were not bandits.

I also know that you are not rebels.

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

I used to work in the palace.

Let us at least have a conversation.

While I was a eunuch, the Crown Prince brought in Byeokcheon people

to find out about what happened ten years ago.

That is true. I heard he opposed the King when we got kicked out.

However, did he not kick you out in the end?

But he still did not discriminate against and hate us for coming from Byeokcheon.

That is right. He knew we were orphans from Byeokcheon,