Shine or Go Crazy (빛나거나 미치거나)

[This is a fictional drama based on historical facts.]

[Events depicted might differ from actual events.]

* Hyungnim . Now it's ready.

[Hyungnim: Formal version of older brother or male.]

- Did you call for me? - Sit down.

I told you to end it.

Why do you still persist?

I only met with him because he is supervising

the move to the west.

He was So So the swordsman

and now you call him the supervisor?

Do you want to be with him that desperately?

Leave.

Shut down your trading company in Goryeo,

and leave.

That is the only way you

and your company can survive.

Will I drink this tea and leave this place

dead or alive?

I guess I won't be leaving this place dead.

The tea smells very good.

Where did you get that bracelet?

Geumhwasuk. One has gems filled with poison,

and the other does not yet.

Did you know that the King was poisoned?

This bracelet has absorbed the poison

with which the King was poisoned with,

This white poisonous propolis from India,

can't be found in Goryeo so easily.

The one who handles this poison

must wear Geumhwasuk.

The ones who are wearing a green Geumhwasuk

are probably just you and me.

I just got one yesterday.

What do you want to say?

Cover it up.

What?

Prince Wang So and my marriage in Gaebong.

Then I will cover up the origins of the King's poison.

Of course, you must give me the antidote too.

How about

we bury both issues forever?

You're quite clever.

Does this mean you're not afraid of death?

People will all die.

I will die,

you will die, and so will the King.

What's important…

Is not when you die.

It's how you die that's more important.

No.

It's what is in your heart when you die.

Will you die with honor that you've kept all your life?

Will you die with your deep shame,

even it's unnoticed by everyone?

I will give you one day.

Do you think

I will make such a deal

with a girl like you?

If I don't receive the antidote by tomorrow,

I will tell Prince Wang So

about who and how the King's poison was made.

Well then.

I must be going.

All of the construction for the move to the west

will begin soon.

And Prince Wang Wook, the executor,

will hold all the power over it.

I hope that you, the supervisor,

can follow the executor's orders.

You haven't gotten the King's permission yet.

I thought I told you at the meeting.

Now my orders will become royal orders.

Thus my orders concerning the move to the west

will be royal orders, Supervisor.

I wonder how you two can be so rash.

I will ask the King myself.

Don't be too surprised by the King's conditions.

Who is it?

Who's trying to kill me?

Who is it?

Hyungnim !

Hyungnim !

I'm here.

So is here, Hyungnim .

You're here, So.

Is anyone there?

There's an assassin in the palace!

Is anyone there?

Ji Mong!

Ji Mong!

Get away, you!

Get away!

Shoo!

This is the palace where the King resides!

Get away, shoo!

Hyungnim .

They've all gone.

They're all gone?

Yes.

Oh, my.

Oh, Hyungnim .

It's okay, Hyungnim .

Yes, yes.

Look, Ji Mong.

When did the King start behaving that way?

Could he

really have taken a bad turn so quickly?

His nerves took a turn for the worse a few days ago.

I think all of the poison that's been accumulating

has probably surfaced.

Right when the King got this way,

Wang Sik Ryeom took charge,

as if he was waiting for it.

We can't let him control the cabinet for too long.

We must find the antidote soon.

That's the only way, Your Highness.

Hyungnim .

Please wait one day.

What happened?

Well, I tried many times,

but this poison is so rare

that I can't find any medicinal herbs as an antidote.

You can't find any?

Didn't I tell you to make an antidote?

Are you saying it's impossible?

Yes.

And the tea that reduces his symptoms

will slowly stop being effective.

Prince Wang So is here.

Tell him to come in.

What brings you to the Hwang family's residence?

I came here since you weren't home.

Were you looking for me?

I have something to ask of you.

I'm glad you need my help.

What is it you need?

A friend I know has been poisoned.

I think it's this poison.

Please make an antidote.

How could you ask me such a thing?

Didn't you make me my medicine before?

If I'm not mistaken,

I know it's possible for you.

Please make me the antidote.

I can only handle medicinal herbs.

I don't know much about poisonous herbs.

I'll leave it up to you.

What happened with Cheong Ok?

She's the new head of Wolhyanglu.

She's carrying out my orders.

The only way you can survive

- is to become a spy for Yeo Won. - Your Highness.

Once she obtains two of the bronze mirror pieces,

she will try to get

the three remaining pieces no matter what.

You must wait until she has all five

and then take all of them at once.

Can you do it?

Yes, Your Highness.

I've asked maids who worked for the Hwang family,

but none remember a guardian warrior.

I think he worked in secret.

The antidote is impossible to make.

Then is there no other way?

Wang Sik Ryeom used the poison against the King.

But Princess Yeo Won probably provided it.

Princess Yeo Won?

- Did you receive information about that? - I did.

Was your informant the assistant head of Chunghae Trading Company?

You should trust Princess Yeo Won,

not the assistant head!

You must cut your ties with the assistant head!

Now I have all of the power, Your Highness.

The palace that will be built in the west

will be your residence.

It's all thanks to you.

You just need to persuade that woman

from Chunghae Trading Co.

Well then.

What does that woman mean to you?

She was the first to tell me about

the King being poisoned.

When I was in danger at Mujeong Temple,

she risked her life and saved me.

You've only known her a few months.

- That's too short to know a person… - It's been 5 years.

5 years.

Look, Ji Mong.

This isn't the time to talk about this.

We haven't gotten the King's antidote.

That antidote!

5 years ago.

That's when he came down from Geumgang Mountain.

- How? - Wait.

Didn't you say Chunghae Trading Co.

was originally in Gaebong?

Then

the day he disappeared in Gaebong…

It was that day?