Kim Jung Han comes to gisaeng house and brings so many
beautiful things, jade, accessories, silk, etc. He asks Jin Yi to marry him.
Jin Yi looks troubled, it’s the third time he asks the same thing. She says in
lower voice, “sorry.” Jin Yi looks at him, as if to make him understand. Jung
Han looks sad and disappointed, he looks down and turns around, but Jin Yi
stops him from going.
“Sorry, Lord Kim. Let me entertain you first.”
Jin Yi takes him to her room and asks what he would like to
do.
“Are you always playing with me all the time? Do you never
love sincerely?” Jung Han asks, his eyes filled with tears.
“My Lord.”
Then Jung Han recites a poem, still distraught by the
rejection.
“Sky never is blue
As blue filled my heart
How you care for one
If you don’t have heart”
Hwang Jin Yi doesn’t answer but instead playing gayageum.
Her music is uplifting but she can’t hide she’s sorry to Kim Jung Han.
While Dong Soo is busy training with Yeo Woon.
Today they learn archery. Despite the heavy rain, they still train hard. Both
look happy while training. Yeo Woon teases Dong Soo if he still misses Jin Yi
on a day like today. Dong Soo shyly answers yes. But the teacher knows they’re
talking about Jin Yi and tells them to be quiet.
Yoon Bok comes to Dong Soo after the training, offers to
accompany him to gisaeng house. Dong Soo is deadly tired from rigorous training
so he refuses Yoon Bok’s offer. Instead, he whispers to Yoon Bok to send his
best wishes to Jin Yi. Yoon Bok reluctanly agrees and sets off to meets
gisaeng.
He goes to his favorite gisaeng, and well sort-of lover
Jeong Hyang. He wants to draw her tonight. Before he meets Jeong Hyang, he
hears Jin Yi’s gayageum from her room. He thinks she must entertain a man then.
Yoon-bok and Jeong-hyang are meeting at the kisaeng house at the same time as the
music on Jin Yi’s room suddenly stops. Jeong-hyang plays the gayageum for him
for a bit, and then Yoon-bok spreads out her sketch, and asks him for a favour.
“Please enter this painting. Show me everything. Everything
that is concealed underneath your clothes. Your heart, your spirit, your
constancy, and…Concealed underneath all of that, your music.”
So, Jeong-hyang’s taking off her clothes, and Yoon-bok’s
observing her. Yoon Bok touches every inch of her and draws. He draws very fast
and very good. He’s a bit hesitant to make eye contacts with her but she keeps
looking at him, as if she’s amused by this man, who never sleeps with her but
draws her numerous times. After drawing her, Yoon Bok puts on Jeong Hyang’s
clothes, while she keeps staring at him, making him nervous.
Jin Yi praises Jung Han’s poem at last, then recites her
imagination. She says if she’s born from noble she could be his wife, writing
poems and maybe have 3-4 children. Jung Han looks with sad eyes.
“My Lord, our fate is like this. Even if I give you my heart
and marry you, I think I won’t be able to do it voluntarily.”
“Then will you give your heart tonight?’
Jin Yi doesn't answer. Jung Han removes her top and she
doesn't stop him. Jung Han advances closer to her. Jin Yi lies on the floor
only in undergown. Jung Han moves closer to kiss her, she doesn’t refuse it and
kisses him back. They share tender kiss and sleep together that night.
In the morning Jung Han prepares to leave. Jin Yi says
sorry again for rejecting him. He doesn't upset, instead he wishes her well. He
then bids farewell and along the roads he plays sad melodies through his bamboo
flute. His heart is scattered.
Yoon Bok sees them from afar. He hurriedly heads back to
palace to meet Dong Soo.
“Hyung, do you know she’s with other man last night?”
“What’s up bro? Who is she?”
“Jin Yi, I mean, she sleeps with other man. I think he’s
Minister of Arts.”
Dong Soo is surprised, his heart still can’t take the
reality. He’s lost on his own thought. Yoon Bok snaps him out of his own world.
“Aigoo, I know you’ll be heartbroken. Take it easy, it’s
just her job,” Yoon Bok says.
“Yoon Bok-ah, now tell me how I could see her again. I need
to see her today!” Dong Soo begs him.
“Too bad, it’s Dano Festival, you won’t be able to meet her.”
(*Dano Festival happens once each year, where the women take
baths and wash hair on the river and men not allowed to come nearby)
Dong Soo throws tantrum to Yoon Bok. Life isn’t fair to him,
he thinks. But Yoon Bok then gets a great idea. He tells Dong Soo and they can’t
stop giggling the whole time. Yeo Woon comes by and asks what are they doing. But
they keep silent and don’t tell anything to Yeo Woon. Yeo Woon just sighs at
the two boys, saying they must think about something pervy. They just bust out
laughing.
Dong Soo and Yoon Bok goes to a river nearby. They chooses a
high cliff, a pretty good spot to hide. They sees Jin Yi and her friends come
to the river just now. Dong Soo wants to see her more clearly, but Yoon Bok
holds him. In the warm sunlight, Jin Yi dances beautifully with her friends. She
looks genuinely happy.
While Yoon Bok is more interested to see Jeong Hyang who
play swings. Yoon Bok starts to draw the sketch. He draws the river, the women
who wash their hair and of course the gisaeng who play swings. He also draw two
peeping tom there. He smiles devilishly at his own painting.
Dong Soo takes a look at his painting, impressed with him.
It’s really beautiful and colorful painting. Each stroke is very carefully done
and the brushes doesn’t come out too strong or too weak. It’s really good. But then
he spots two peeping toms drawing and asks who they are.
“Who else but us!”
“But why you draw them as Buddhist monks?”
“If I draw them as royal painter and warrior, we’ll be done.”
Dong Soo is satisfied with the answer, Yoon Bok is right
they’ll get heavy punishment if it’s known. But then Dong Soo asks again why he
doesn’t draw Jin Yi’s dance. Yoon Bok gives him naughty smile and runs away.
Dong Soo chases him right away and they playfully tease each other.
Jin Yi goes back to gisaeng house after taking a bath on the
river. Before she enters the gate, she wonders where Dong Soo is for few days. She
wonders if she should wait for him.
Meanwhile Dong Soo also thinks about Jin
Yi. Although he only sees her from afar today, but he’s quite satisfied. He
then daydreams about him and Jin Yi. He imagines them getting married and go to
remote island where they don’t need to think about others. They can ride horse
along the beach, play with water, and if night comes they can just search for a
cave as nightstay. And then maybe then, they can enjoy each other company and
love each other forever. He smiles like a loon because of the sweet dreams. But then he realizes it's just a dream and gets upset. He feels cheated by his own dream.
Yoon Bok submits his painting to Dohwaseo and names it “Scenery
of Dano Day”. His teacher, Kim Hong Do, thinks the painting is good enough and
approves it. The paintings that day are then submitted to King Jeongjo himself.
Upon seeing Yoon Bok’s painting, Jeongjo is mad. He wants to punish him
severely. They make announcement that the punishment is by cutting Yoon Bok’s
hand. He’s terrified.
***
To be continued....
Writer/creator: kanz
Pictures credit: as tagged, to owner.
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