EPISODE 4
The Queen Dowager summon Concubine Seo Hwa to her quarter.
Court Lady Kim
Your Highness, Concubine Park is here. (from the outside)
Queen Dowager
(stern)
Let her in. (from inside)
Concubine Park Seo Hwa
(walks in)
Concubine Park Seo Hwa
(she bows deeply)
Concubine Park Seo Hwa
Seo Hwa humbly greets your highness.
Queen Dowager
(Her sharp eyes lingered on her)
Queen Dowager
(coldly)
Sit down
Concubine Park Seo Hwa
(gently sat in front of her)
Queen Dowager
I thought you were much wiser than this.
Queen Dowager
But i never knew you are this foolish.
Concubine Park Seo Hwa
(kept quiet)
Queen Dowager
You should have left with your father and live a free life outside the palace.
Queen Dowager
But instead you chose to follow his majesty's stupidity.
Concubine Park Seo Hwa
(still quiet)
Queen Dowager
I have known you since you were a mere child running about with his majesty and i won't deny that i took fancy of you.
Queen Dowager
(stares intently at her)
Queen Dowager
But you are not up to the standard to stand by him.
Concubine Park Seo Hwa
(finally speaks)
Concubine Park Seo Hwa
Why? Was it because i am from an obscure branch?
Queen Dowager
Yes.. A woman from a low background like yours has no right to sit beside the throne.
Concubine Park Seo Hwa
I cannot deny my origins, Your highness. But neither can i reject the path his majesty has chosen for me.
Queen Dowager
Ha ha ha ha
A path you said? A path that might put your life in danger?
Queen Dowager
Do you think the palace is where rats and dogs could come in as they like?
Queen Dowager
Do you understand the danger you would be putting yourself into and his majesty?
Concubine Park Seo Hwa
(softly)
I do understand, Your highness. Yet i cannot turn aside his majesty's will. I can only serve him faithfully.
Queen Dowager
(leaned closer, her tone dropping into warning)
Queen Dowager
Faithfulness alone will not protect you here. The palace is a nest of knives, Seo Hwa.
Queen Dowager
Affection may have brought you in but power decides who stays.
Queen Dowager
If you want to keep your head in this palace, don't do anything at all.
Concubine Park Seo Hwa
(silence in reply)
Queen Dowager
You may leave
Concubine Park Seo Hwa
(bows lowly)
Yes, Your Majesty.
Concubine Park Seo Hwa
(she left)
The door was closed after her exit
Court Lady Kim
(walks in to her)
Queen Dowager
That child does not know where she has walked into. She should have stayed away from here.
Court Lady Kim
Your Highness, You seems to really care about her.
Queen Dowager
(scowled)
Care about her? Me? I am just telling her the reality.
Court Lady Kim
(slightly laugh)
Queen Dowager
If not because of her late mother, I wouldn't even look at her not to mention allowing her to visit the palace in the first place.
Queen Dowager
(sighs heavily)
Queen Dowager
Well, I am the cause of all this. If i hadn't allow her to come to the palace because of my friendship with her late mother, His majesty wouldn't have met her nor love her.
Queen Dowager
(turns to her court lady)
Queen Dowager
Find someone to watch over her.
Court Lady Kim
Yes, your highness.
Queen Dowager
(to the air)
Queen Dowager
This is what i could do for your daughter, Ha Won - ah.
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