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and grant him a better government job, too.

You...

Stop dreaming!

Kim Jongseo...

doesn't give a damn about people like us!

He's putting his grandson

in the position Jinhyung used to have.

We're all dead now.

If Kim Jongseo loses, we're all dead, you fool...

I must stop this. If I fail, the king is in danger, everyone is in danger...

My lord...

Minister Kim...

I see you're here.

There are important matters to discuss regarding our plans. Come with me.

Minister Kim.

You must hide.

Hide? What do you mean?

My lord!

I see you've been out, Minister.

What are you doing here at this hour?

I was passing by and dropped the cord attached to my hat

so I was wondering if you could lend me one of yours.

The hour is late.

How many people do you think will criticize you for forgetting your cord?

I have somewhere to go.

Nothing looks sillier than a man

wearing a hat without a cord, does it?

Bring us a cord.

Whenever I see your face, my lord,

I can tell you were meant to live seventy long years.

How old are you right now?

I am seventy this year.

I have a wish I would like to see come true this year.

What is this wish of yours?

I wish to become king.

Enough of your tricks!

Suyang, you bastard!

How dare you...

My lord!

The tiger hunt is over.

Suyang killed Kim Jongseo!

Suyang killed Kim Jongseo!

Suyang...

Suyang...

Suyang killed Kim Jongseo.

You must send your troops at once

and arrest Suyang.

You must act in haste, or we will be unable to prevent a coup.

Who has told you this? Who are you?

Oh, I know who you are.

The physiognomer who knows everything about someone just from a look at their face.

Kim Naekyung, the face reader. How have you been?

Han Myunghoi.

You bastards...

You did it, in the end...

Thanks in no small part to you.

You traitors!

You'll get punished by God.

You'll fall into the pits of hell!

I'll show you what hell really is.

Prime Minister Hwangbo In!

Who...?

You've lived a very long and fruitful life, Prime Minister.

You had ordered to have me banished?

Had you succeeded

I would have lost my head.

Such is the game of politics.

Either I die...

or my enemy dies.

The three Ministers

have been executed as punishment for violating the rights of the King.

Therefore I will assume the position of Prime Minister, the Minister of Civil Appointments,

the Minister of War,

and the head of the Military, in order to assist the King.

If you will stand with me,

stand to this side.

If you will not,

you will most certainly die.

At this moment

nobody can undo this atrocity.

Yet, I plead you, you must become a wise ruler

so that the people will not suffer...

I must report to the King that we have

taken care of all who violated his authority.

You may now leave.

Grand Prince Suyang killed Kim Jongseo!

The world is changing!

He's going to behead everyone who doesn't listen to him.

Government employees are being dragged out of the palace right now!

Jinhyung...

These traitors who did not follow the orders of Grand Prince Suyang

will all be beheaded!

Hurry.

Jinhyung!

Jinhyung! Jinhyung!

Jinhyung!

- Stand aside!

- Father!

Jinhyung! It's your father!

I'm here! I'm here!

Jinhyung!

Hyung!

Jinhyung!

Jinhyung!

Jinhyung!

Jinhyung!

Your Majesty!

Your Majesty! Lord Suyang...

Lord Suyang.

Lord Suyang! Lord Suyang...

Please spare his life.

My son is there. Please spare his life...

Where is your son?

That boy, there, being dragged away, is my son.

He's just an immature boy.

Please spare his life, Your Majesty...

Jinhyung, Jinhyung...

- Are you alright?

- Father?

Don't worry, Jinhyung... Don't worry.

Jinhyung!

Is this your son?

Y-Yes, it is.

I hear he didn't take my side.

He's still a boy, who doesn't know anything.

He's just a young boy.

In exchange for pardoning your son...

Would you be willing to let me pluck your eyes out?

Do it! Please,

pluck them out.

Father. Father, no! You can't!

Father!

Did you hear that?

Pluck out the eyes of that insolent man and bring them to me.

Father, no!

Forget it.

What on earth would I do with your eyeballs?

Instead, would you read my face for me?

What do you think? Will I become king?

Still unable to answer?

No, Your Majesty.

No.

You will become king, Grand Prince.

You will become a wise king

and make Joseon rich and powerful.

You will become a great king, praised by generations to come, Your Majesty!

Your Majesty!

Your Majesty...

Good. Hearing that has made me feel much better indeed.

I find myself tired. Let us stop here.

Go back home now.

Father.

I'm fine, Jinhyung. It's fine.

It's all over now.

Jinhyung.

Let's go back home, Jinhyung.

Let's go back to the countryside.

Wait, face reader.

The longer I think about it, the stranger your words feel.

You said I will become king, but I already am king.

And you call yourself a fortune teller?

You should have said it before I became king.

Now, anyone can say what you just said.

You did read my face nevertheless, so let me pay the price.

Jinhyung.

Jinhyung!

Jinhyung!

Open your eyes... No, Jinhyung, you can't...

Father... Save me...

- Father, save me...

- Jinhyung...

Save me...

Truly you deserve to die

but I am sparing your life because of everything you've done for me.

Suyang, you bastard! You bastard!

Suyang, you bastard...

Jinhyung...

I wonder if he was aware that his son would

die such an untimely death?

I wasn't aware, myself...

How have you been?

I thought that fellow used to be talkative?

After the incident,

he tried to cut off his Adam's apple and ended up losing his voice.

I didn't want to bring him here either.

But what power do I have?

How dare you? Do you know who you're--

How idyllic. I like that you can smell the sea from here.

Yet this place strikes me as somewhere old men should retire to

only after they've embraced the world.

It's a waste that someone like you

is whiling his time away here.

You must have seen the faces of every man who stood with us.

Have you recorded them yet?

You should do it.

If you write down the characteristics of men who enjoy rebelling,

wouldn't it prove useful in preparing for any future unfortunate happenings?

Do you believe there was anything special about your faces that day?

There were men with the faces of crooks,

men with the faces of bloodthirsty butchers,

men with the faces of scholars...

They were all faces you could see anywhere.

- If so...

- It's merely that...

Suyang was meant to become king.

What do you mean?

I only read people's faces. I was unable to read the changing times.

It was as if I only saw the ever-changing waves

instead of seeing the wind

when it is the wind that shapes the waves.

Isn't what you're saying that nobody would have been able to prevent our coup?

All you did was simply ride the highest wave for a moment

while we were being swept away at the lowest point.

One day, what was low will become high again.

The same way that even the highest wave will crash back down into the sea.

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