The King's Face (왕의 얼굴)

Queen Majesty...

Prince Hasung has a face that shouldn't become a king.

Open it.

If someone with that face becomes a king

it is said that people will go through big calamities.

It is written as such in the 'Secret Book of King's Face.'

I have to get rid of 'Secret Book of King's Face' right now.

Stop!

Sire, His Highness is in danger.

Don't worry about the prince.

What are you afraid of, Father?

You're already the king! Just what are you so afraid of?

What's the big deal with the book about face reading?

Why are you killing so many people?

Are you satisfied now?

You gained what you wanted using a foolish woman's heart

and accomplished capturing traitors. Are you proud of yourself?

Ga Hee...

- Ga Hee... - I won't forgive you, sire.

Keep that arrow safe.

Someday, you will push that arrow through your heart and kill yourself

or shoot that arrow through my heart and climb to the throne...

You will have to make the decision.

That's your fate for being born with a king's face.

Starting now...

We will begin the first exam

to select physiognomy professors.

Take a careful look at the people in front

and guess their classes. That's the first assignment.

I see that the tip of his nose is low and round

so he has an eye for money.

He must touch a good amount of money.

By the look of his sunken eyes, he has a sense of responsibility

with no room for mistakes.

He must be making a living by using his skilled hands.

The distance between the forehead and the eyebrows is wide

and the center of his forehead is developed.

It is certainly a face of a writer.

I see his wide, low nose and thin lips

so he probably doesn't have flexibility.

Everyone comes from different classes, but how...

How is it that everyone's center of the forehead has a dark shadow?

Everyone's class is different, but they are all in the same situation now.

- They are... - Criminals in prison!

Take a look at their faces and guess their crimes.

That's the second assignment.

His nostrils are facing up, so he should have a rough personality.

His eyes are protruding like acorns, so he should be violent.

Someone who stares from the side without turning his head

is certainly lewd with a tendency for stealing.

He must've used violence for desiring someone else's goods

and ended up in prison.

He has wrinkles between the eyebrows that are tangled in every direction.

He has eyebrows that look messy like weeds.

He has a face that can't avoid a prison term in his middle age.

Small, unnoticeable ears.

The ones with those ears are sly and wicked, so they harm others.

But they themselves enjoy power and gain wealth.

Triangle-shaped eyes...

He even has a violent character... He must've harmed others with his power.

The crime of murder.

Small, unnoticeable ears...

Although those ears present the fate of

harming others and enjoying selfish power

but I see that his white and black parts of the eyes are clear.

So he must've cultivated his mind.

He is in prison because of his weed-like eyebrows

But the developed bone in his forehead tells me that he'd climb in government.

Goodness... the ends of his eyes are full of women.

Since he had both power and wealth

he must've coveted someone else's woman.

It's not the crime of murder. It's adultery.

Everyone, raise your heads.

Pick the one that came to the kitchen.

It looks like him.

What?

You keep trying to hide your face. You look very suspicious.

Raise your head right now!

Forgive me...

but if you'd give this lowly one a chance

I will try to find the criminal by reading faces.

What? By reading faces?

If I can't find the criminal...

I will offer my head.

You will offer your head?

It is said, 'to read my own fate, read the faces of people around me.'

I see that you have a face of climbing to a government job soon.

This means...

we will all walk out of here alive!

So, have you made any progress?

When someone has a horizontal line on the philtrum like her

it means no children.

Besides, she has a mole next to the philtrum

she had the fate of dying early.

From her eyes, nose and mouth...

there is nothing that would cover for the fate of early death.

The tip and the sides of her nose look nice

so she must've had the luck of wealth.

But her cheekbones are weak, so they can't embrace the nose.

So she has a lot of waves in her middle age.

Besides, she has a wart on her cheekbone...

so she suffers for the good of others all her life

and won't be able to avoid disaster.

By the look of the dark shadow on her cheekbone

she must've hidden a secret and faced a trouble because of it.

Her nose is concave and her cheekbone has a dark shadow with a wart...

so it is obvious that an illness is rooted deeply in her body.

Command the criminals to catch criminals?

This doesn't make sense.

Father, please appoint me as a temporary judge for an interrogation.

I will find the criminal.

Imhae, this matter deals with catching the one who attempted to murder Father!

Wouldn't it be logical to appoint an official with experience

from the Ministry of Justice?

What you are saying is...

I won't be able to carry out the job of a judge because of my stupidity?

Prince Imhae, Prince Shinsung...

What are you doing? You're sitting before Your Majesty.

By the way, we're all gathered here, but I don't see Prince Gwanghae.

He must've received the message late.

He's probably on his way here.

I was just wondering if he knows everything, so he's not coming...

Have you lost your mind?

How can you laugh in this situation?

Please forgive me.

Stop that wicked laugh right now!

I can't stop laughing...

Sire, please stop me...

Everyone, please calm down!

To be honest, all of this is a joke.

Was she poisoned?

She wasn't poisoned...

She seems to have died from a chronic illness.

Take away the body now.

Hold on.

Do you mean that you fooled everyone for the auxiliary exam?

Just wait and see.

If someone can get this right, he must be the best in reading faces.

Wouldn't you agree?

How could His Majesty fool everyone over a matter like this?

Goodness... After giving everyone a scare

it was all a joke?

[Kim Gong Ryang - Gwiin Kim's brother, Royal Finance Department]

What upsets me is...

that he plotted it with that crude Sookyong Hong.

His Majesty must be deeply into Sookyong.

So are you just going to sit back and watch as if it's someone else's fire?

Of course not.

Once the exam is over, the topic of installing the crown prince

will be brought up again.

Of course our Prince Shinsung will be installed!

What are you so worried about?

Prince Imhae fell out of the race a long time ago...

And Prince Gwanghae also...

What's the use of being called a genius in his childhood?

Now he's a playboy like no other who goes to courtesans' houses like his own.

You don't know anything.

'Patiently wait for the right time to achieve grand work later.'

Gwanghae is not flying or crying right now...

but he's just laying low until the right time.

Someday, he will open his wings and fly high.

Then...

he will grab onto my Prince Shinsung's ankle.

Keep an eye on Gwanghae.

He definitely has something.

Even if he can fool everyone...

he can't fool me.

You shouldn't leave any room for mistakes in front of Gwanghae, Brother.

Do you understand?

These half-wits...

Since they were told that one of them is the culprit...

everyone wrote down someone else's name to save his own life.

The culprit of the court lady's death is her chronic illness.

And the one who poked fun of this pitiful death is the king of Joseon.

Kim Do Chi...

Sir, he's the only one with the right answer.

The criminal is...

There was no criminal to begin with.

Isn't that right?

She wasn't poisoned. She died from an illness, right?

What? Is that true?

What is your name?

My name is Kim Do Chi.

Kim Do Chi...

Your face is on the complete opposite end from mine.

Then...

did all of us get fooled by His Majesty?

Except for this man right here?

What's wrong?

Do I have something on my face...

Stop!

You are...

So... what happened was...

Fire!

Fire!

Fire, fire!

Chase that man!

Stop right there!

This way!

'Fire!'