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Initially glad to see him, she reaches out for comfort and assistance, hoping some of their original feelings remain.
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Hwa-yeon discovers her former lover, Kwon-yoo, working in the castle among the eunuchs. When Hwa-yeon's father, a royal court minister, attempts to prove that the previous king died from poisonous assassination, he and all of the ministers disloyal to the queen mother are arrested for treason. Hwa-yeon is moved to a closely watched, humble residence, where she is under surveillance constantly. The king dies of a mysterious illness, and the former concubine sits her son, Prince Sung-won, on the throne as a puppet king, naming herself Regent and Queen Mother and taking firm control over the royal court. In a private conversation, Sung-won gifts a hair stick to Hwa-yeon as a present and confession of his feelings. Sung-won comes back from traveling to see the King upon hearing of his ill-health. Hwa-yeon agrees to enter the palace in exchange for saving Kwon-yoo's life.įive years later, Hwa-yeon has become the Queen from giving birth to a son. When her father ( Ahn Suk-hwan) must send her to the royal palace as a concubine for the king, the two lovers try to elope but are caught after their first night together.
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Indifferent to his mother's plans, the timid prince falls in love at first sight with Hwa-yeon ( Jo Yeo-jeong), an aristocrat's daughter, who has already found love with Kwon-yoo ( Kim Min-jun), a low-born commoner. She schemes to replace him on the throne with her submissive young son Sung-won ( Kim Dong-wook). Set during the early Joseon Dynasty, the film begins with a concubine of the previous king (Park Ji-young) in a precarious position of having no blood ties to her step son, the current childless, widow king ( Jung Chan).