Lovers of the Red Sky (홍천기)

(This drama is fictional and people or stories are not tied to reality.)

Give me your hand.

What do you mean? We aren't supposed to come in contact...

Let's check...

that destiny.

I can see.

I can see.

Scholar Ha.

Miss Hong?

Are you all right?

Are you...

really here?

Can you see me?

I can.

I can...

see you.

What's happening?

Scholar Ha.

Who are you?

The Demon?

Is this the divine power?

My eyes.

Scholar Ha.

Scholar Ha!

What are you doing?

Stop! I said, stop!

Miss Hong, you must leave.

No.

Scholar Ha!

Miss Hong!

- No. - Scholar Ha!

- No! - Scholar Ha!

My eyes!

Ram!

Ram!

Ram!

- What happened? - Ram!

What happened to Scholar Ha?

- Ram! - You need to leave.

No, the Demon is in him.

Your Highness, he'll fall in danger if you leave him like this.

Please let me go!

Ram wake up. Ram!

Will you keep doing this?

Your Highness, please save Ram.

Please, I beg you. I'll do anything.

Please, help him.

Over here! Is anybody there?

Ram...

Get me a doctor. An important inmate just collapsed.

Yes, Your Highness.

It's too dangerous for you to stay here. Let's go.

Your Highness, the Demon is in him.

The Demon is in there!

He'll fall in danger if we leave him here.

His life is in danger.

It said I woke it up.

You can't help him by doing this.

Don't you understand?

What should I do?

What should I do now?

What should I do?

Do I have to leave him in there...

until the day I finish painting the king's portrait?

Your Highness...

We must leave.

That ring has the power to keep your heart and mind sane...

even when you're possessed by the Demon.

The Demon devoured on the deity of balance,

but that ring was made with the remains of the deity.

Until the sealing ceremony, that ring is...

the only thing that can be used to fight against the Demon.

Scholar Ha lost his consciousness?

Yes, Your Majesty.

We had a doctor diagnose his condition.

- And? - There's nothing wrong with him.

The doctor said he'll wake up soon.

Is the Demon trying to wake up before the sealing ceremony?

Scholar Ha collapsed in prison?

That's correct, Your Highness.

What do you think?

It seems like there was a sign for the Demon to manifest again.

How can that happen while he's in prison?

But I also heard Prince Yangmyeong was there...

when Scholar Ha collapsed.

- Are you sure? - Yes.

Scholar Ha collapsed after Prince Yangmyeong...

met with him.

Did Yul make an attempt to bring the Demon out?

The sealing ceremony is soon, so he wouldn't do that.

However, there must be a reason...

why the Demon is starting to manifest more often.

We need to get Scholar Ha out of prison at any cost.

I'll go see my father as soon as the day breaks.

I'll make a personal request...

to have Scholar Ha released.

Drink some. It'll help you calm down.

I must hurry up and restore the king's portrait.

You are...

scared.

What's the reason?

I have no choice but to tell you to paint this.

But you already know you will become insane like your father.

Why have you returned to finish the king's portrait?

Because I love...

Scholar Ha.

I'd rather get locked up in that stone prison in his place.

Do you adore him so much...

that you wish to take his place?

Everything is my fault.

I shouldn't have been so ambitious.

Back in the prison, I saw the Demon in Scholar Ha...

with my own two eyes.

How did you see it?

I'm not sure how it happened,

but I saw it with my own two eyes.

He must be frightened and scared...

all by himself.

Here.

Have some tea.

It's still warm.

Your Highness,

Please help...

Scholar Ha.

Both you and Scholar Ha are...

pathetic, foolish, and impossible.

You're here risking your sanity to draw the portrait,

and Scholar Ha refuses to...

participate in the sealing ceremony...

knowing that the Demon will devour him.

You two are the same.

Look at you two.

The Demon. What on earth is that anyway?

Why must I ask you to do something so dangerous?

I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry.

It's a jade ring that my father gave to my mother.

There's none like it in the world.

I love you.

I must forget him, at least for a moment.

How dare you...

try to draw me?

Closer. Come closer.

Come to me.

Ram, I saw it. I finally saw it.

No.

Miss Hong.

Miss Hong.

- Miss Hong, you must leave. - Scholar Ha!

No!

My eyes.

No.

Cheon Gi is...

in danger.

Master Choi, we're leaving.

Well, here's the thing.

- As you know... - Where's Cheon Gi?

Father, why did you want to see me this early?

I heard what happened to Scholar Ha last night.

Did he regain consciousness?

Yes, thankfully, he woke up this morning.

What a relief.

Father.

When the sealing ceremony is over,

what will happen to Scholar Ha?

Once the sealing ceremony is over,

Scholar Ha will be free.

Then...

what will happen to the painter...

who finishes the portrait?

The painter's fate is up to the deities.

The divine painter's father...

couldn't avoid the curse.

However, painting the portrait to seal the Demon for our people...

is the heaven-sent, divine fate of the painter.

In that case, isn't what...

we're asking her to do too brutal?

Yul.

Do you remember...

the day when a fire broke out in Gyeongwon Pavilion?

I didn't know why the paint didn't burn down completely.

But I finally understand.

The portrait survived because it wished to.

Then the fate of the divine painter...

will also be decided by the portrait.

(Prince Joohyang Lee Hoo, King Seongjo's second son)

Move aside.

Prince Yangmyeong came to visit him first.

What? Yul is here?

Yul.

I'm sure you heard of the appeal of the scholars of Seonggyungwan.

(Scholars would make suggestions and appeals as a group.)

They found out the condition of the Crown Prince is...

worsening by the day, that there's no hope for him.

They suggested...

that I install a new Crown Prince...

in that appeal.

But Father, you can't give up hope on the Crown Prince just yet.

No.

The scholars aren't wrong.