"Subtitles provided by MBC" "It was a place of mystery." "A place none dared approach." "It had long been a dwelling place of guardian spirits." "The Garden of the Moon where their sad tale began." "What's that?" "A human?" "Yes." "I want to be a man." "Wake up." "Men are on their way here searching for her." "You know who's leading them?" "Dam Pyongjun, that's who." "Dam Pyongjun?" "There are rare humans with powers that rival our own." "Dam Pyongjun is one of them." "He's not some riff-raff that we can frighten off." "Send her away." "This "love" stuff, it's temporary insanity, that's all." "Found it." "Search the area." "Sir." "Ahem." "Pardon me." "Yes?" "I really should go." "Why?" "You know I'm the daughter of a traitor." "And now I'm a runaway slave." "And?" "The men that are searching for me will look all over the mountain." "That will put you in danger." "And?" "You saved me." "I wouldn't put you at risk." "So I should go." "They're no danger to me." "Or to you, when you're with me." "But..." "Shush." "I brought you food from the forest." "Want to see?" "Which do you prefer?" "This?" "Or this?" "Ah, well..." "This is good." "Hold on." "Eat to your heart's content." "Go on." "Not enough?" "Want more?" "Hold on." "No, not at all." "This is fine." "Thank you." "Beautiful." "Truly beautiful." "The true beauty is in your smile." "How long have you lived here?" "So long that I've lost count." "No family?" "None." "I've been alone." "For a long time." "I have a younger brother." "And a maid named Dam that's been like a sister to me." "They're the only family I have." "Where are they now?" "My brother and I split up when we were being chased." "Dam took my place in the courtesan house so I could escape." "Every day I worry about them." "Yet all I can do is stay here with you." "Would it help to hear about them?" "Would that make you smile?" "Why are you so good to me?" "I would do anything for you." "My heart is yours." "What?" "Take down the body?" "It's been four days since you hung him." "If you will allow us to dispose of the body..." "Another four days." "Maybe more." "I could tell the ignoramuses I rule "No, no, no" a hundred times." "It wouldn't be as effective as a rotting corpse." "You were friends with Lord Yun." "He was his son." "Now he's a runaway slave." "What made you so hard?" "And you?" "Why are you so eager to help the boy?" "Could it be you were Lord Yun's accomplice?" "I would never..." "Then keep quiet and tend to your courtesan house." "Before I decide you helped Sohwa escape." "My lord, my lord." "What now?" "The body, the one hanging outside the gate..." "It's gone." "What?" "There you are." "Did you hear about my brother?" "Or Dam?" "How are they?" "Are they all right?" "Well?" "It's bad news." "Is that it?" "They're both safe now." "Both of them?" "So you can relax now." "Stay with me and forget about leaving." "I'll look after you now." "So..." "Thank you." "So much." "I can live at last." "I can breathe at last." "Sorry." "I'm afraid I got carried away." "Marry me?" "I'm the daughter of a traitor." "Marry me?" "I'm a runaway slave." "Marry me." "Is this some kind of joke?" "I'm serious." " You're going to marry her?" " Yes." "We've got to find a way." "We need the Book of the Nine." "It's been a while." "It was somewhere around here..." "Here?" "Here...?" "You should've kept it at a safe place if it's important to me." "Who knew you'd want to be a human?" "Truth be told, I still don't get it." "Of course you don't." "You haven't spent the last one thousand years alone." "Trust me." "Eternity is a long time." "A mortal life is a beautiful thing." "Yeah but with your body, your looks forget a thousand, I'd live ten thousand years alone, no problem." "Easy to say." "You have any idea how boring that is?" "Does she know about you?" "No." "You're not going to tell her?" "I'll be a man before she finds out." "Oh, no, I'm against it." "Loving a mortal woman isn't without pain." "That's why I'm a hermit." "Women are nothin' but trouble." "Especially for you." " Oh, here it is." " Wh-where?" "What do you know?" "How to find the Gu Family Book." "What does it say?" "No one has ever actually seen it." "Why not?" "Because no one ever wanted to be a human before." "In other words..." "It's difficult to become a man?" "Right." "Difficult." "The end." "Keep reading." "To find the Book of the Nine takes one hundred days." "One hundred?" "During which time there are three conditions." "Three..." "One, no killing for one hundred days." "Help me!" "Help me!" "Two, help anyone that asks for it." "Did you set that trap?" "Gimme my stuff." "You old..!" "Three, you cannot reveal your true nature to humans." "Well?" "Tough, huh?" "Very." "That's that then." "Get on with your life." "But if I observe those conditions for one hundred days the Book of the Nine will appear to me?" "If you observe the hundred days of ablutions the Covenant of Hwanung will appear in the book." "The Covenant..?" "But all things have their price." "If you break any of the conditions you'll never have another chance to be a man and you'll be a demon for a thousand years." "A demon?" "Me?" "That's why no one has seen the Book of the Nine." "The chances of success are nil." "Still want to try it?" "Time to write another chapter." "Hwanung made the bear Ungnyo a woman." "And I will be a man." "Thanks." "You've helped a lot." "Wolyong." "I'm asking you as a friend, reconsider." "You may end up getting hurt." "It's the first time I've felt like this in a thousand years." "I would have to wait another thousand for a woman like her." "See you in one hundred days." "A demon for a thousand years." "It doesn't seem to have been here long." "I suspect the missing body is buried here." "She survived." "She's alive." "It doesn't make sense." "She's not strong enough to have carried the body." "Darling." "Don't forget." "Your lunch." "I forgot again." "Thanks." "What's that for?" "Collecting herbs." "Not alone." "We'll go together when I get back." "Don't fuss." "I've been there three months now." "I can walk the paths with my eyes closed." "Three months, three years, it's still dangerous." "I won't have it." "Here." "I'm fine." "I really am." "Mind me now." "You're not ready yet." "Enjoy your lunch, darling." "I'll be home for supper, don't worry." "Wives make fools of us all." "Sojong." "You're here." "Whew, this hundred days stuff is tough, huh?" "Your color is off." "No meat for three months will do that." "Ten days to go?" "Eleven exactly." "At least you made it this far." "So far so good." "But I won't deny a nice tasty rabbit leg doesn't sound good." "It's worth it for a woman like that." "Look at this lunch." "Who needs meet?" "She's still pretty awful." "You've been living off of this for three months?" "You get used to it." "Love is a powerful thing." "All right, spit it out." "What brings you here?" "Well?" "I found it." "A way around the conditions." "I've been reading up." "A hundred year hawthorn." "You only have eleven days." "But just in case." "What's that?" "You're giving up?" "We've searched the mountain for three months." "Not a trace of the nine-tailed fox." "And no reported sightings." "It's meaningless to keep searching." "I'll decide what is or isn't meaningless." "I'm a slave hunter." "Your personal vendetta is not my only case." "If you'll excuse me." "My lord, it's me." "Enter." "We found her." "We have word they found the girl Sohwa." "Hear that?" "She's alive." "Three months in the mountains." "She must have had help." "Bandits or a fox, either way you have to catch them." "Wouldn't you say?" "Sohwa, I'm back." "Sohwa." "This way." "Over there." " Get her!" " After her!" "Get her!" "Help me." "Please, Wolyong." "Wolyong." "That way." "You, this way." "It's all right." "You're safe." "Let's go home." "Quite a trick." "Making a bush grow out of thin air." "What are you exactly?" "A man?" "Or something else?" "I don't want to fight you." "You're that certain of victory?" "My wife and I haven't done anything." "Why are you picking on innocent people?" "If she's not a runaway, you'll have my apology." "Well?" "Will you come quietly?" "I said will you come with us?" "Well?" "Whoa, whoa." "The captain's signal." "Take your places." "Sir." "I can't." "I can't go any further." "Just a little more." "I'm sorry, Wolyong." "I should have listened to you." "Now you're in trouble too." "I'm so sorry." "Trust me." "I'll protect you, whatever happens." "Just a little further." "Wolyong!" "Wolyong!" "Wolyong..." "That's her?" "Definitely." "The runaway Yun Sohwa." "Arrest her." "Sir." "No." "No!" "Don't you dare." "She's mine." "Well?" "Arrest her!" "Wolyong, Wolyong!" "Wolyong!" "Wolyong!" " Wolyong..." " Sohwa..." "Wolyong!" "Absolutely no killing." "Wolyong!" "She's calling me." "You cannot reveal your true nature to humans." "Wolyong..." "Well?" "Attack!" "Unhand my woman." "No." "No." "Stay back." "No!" "Get back." "Get back!" "Don't be afraid." "It's me, Wolyong." "Wolyong?" "It's really you?" "I'm sorry you saw me like this." "Is it... really you?" "Yes." "It's really me." "I'm sorry." "I'm so sorry." "No." "No, it can't be him." "It can't be." " You all right?" " Sir." " Stay with us." " Sir." "You sent word to Lord Jo?" "Yes, sir." "Replacements will be here within the hour." "Good." "Identify yourself." "Wolyong." "I knew it." "I thought you'd lose it." "Wolyong." "Wake up." "Come on." "Wolyong, here." "Wolyong!" "You awake?" "So-Sohwa..?" "She's not here." "Find her." "She was so scared." "Still worried about her?" "Please." "Come on." "Here." "Don't forget the hawthorn dagger." "When the moment comes, use it." "Understand?" "Worthless." "Costing your maid her life." "Leaving your brother to die." "And you hiding out in the mountains?" "What's that?" "Maid?" "Who cost whose life?" "Didn't you know?" "The maid that helped you escape hanged herself." "And your brother, well, we hanged him ourselves." "No." "They're both safe now." "They can't be dead." "Trust me." "I saw him on the gallows." "Tsk-tsk-tsk." "To think he'd be alive if only you'd been more cooperative." "Tsk-tsk-tsk." "No." "They can't be dead." "They can't be." "She can lead you to the nine-tailed fox." "After you kill him dispose of her." "Yun..." "Dam..." "How..." "How did you find me?" "Humans can't see this place." "How...?" "Sohwa." "How could you..?" "You led them here?" "You betrayed me?" "And you?" "How could you lie to me?" "Dam is dead." "Yun is dead." "How could you tell me they were safe?" "I didn't want to hurt you" " So..." " Not quite." "For a nine-tailed fox to win a woman he must lie, deceive, seduce." "Isn't that so?" "Believe me, that wasn't it." "Then why did you hide who you are?" "Why did you pretend to be human?" "I had no idea." "I trusted you." "Everything you said." "Everything you did." "Everything..." "Sohwa." "What are you waiting for?" "Kill the animal." "I know how to prevent you turning into a demon." "How?" "If the woman you're doing this for sees what you are and loves you despite everything you're safe." "But if she betrays you stab her in the heart with this." "You won't turn into a demon." "You'll be the same guardian spirit you've always been." "If it comes to that, use the dagger." "You have to kill her to save yourself, understand?" "Fire!" "Sohwa!" "Why?" "I loved you. ...despite everything." "Why...?" "Well?" "Take his head." "Wolyong." "Well done." "I'll leave the rest to you." "Move out." "Wolyong." "Wolyong." "Wolyong." "Wolyong." "Wolyong..." "What happened?" "Wolyong?" "What happened to him?" "No." "No!" "Wolyong!" "Wolyong!" "How could you do this?" "He was the guardian of this mountain." "He never harmed a soul." "He cost me half my men." "And did he start it?" "Did he?" "All he wanted was to be a normal man." "To grow old with his wife." "He did everything out of love for you." "Don't you see?" "In eleven days he'd have been human." "Just eleven more days." "Wolyong." "Wolyong..." "Wolyong..." "No." "I can't..." "I can't be..." "Captain Dam says it's finished." "Let's see what you got." "Go away." "Leave me alone!" "See what I said?" "She tried to drink lye." "Willful..." "You think you'd accept your fate by now." "What fate?" "To be a courtesan?" "The wife of a spirit?" "The mother of a monster?" "I refuse." "That's a fate I refuse to accept." "Help me." "Help me kill this monster before it's born." "You've taken poison, you've jumped from high places." "Yet still the baby has managed to survive." "That baby won't die before you do." "Then kill me." "I'd rather die!" "The man that brought you asked me not to." "As a favor." "Get her some warm soup." "Yes, madame." "Sohwa." "Why?" "I loved you." "Despite everything." "Why...?" "Wolyong." "I'm sorry, Wolyong." "I don't know what else to do." "Forgive me." "I'm sorry, Wolyong." "My baby." "He's not a monster." "My baby isn't a monster." "He wasn't a monster." "My baby." "Chonwa, water." "That's good." "It must be hard, not drinking wine." "Wait." "What was that?" "Sir?" "What was what?" "It sounds like a baby." "I don't hear anything." "No, it's definitely a baby." "One moment." "It's a baby." "What's it doing here?" "Who knows?" "There, over there." "What the..?" "A baby?" "It looks like a newborn." "What kind of person would abandon a baby to the river?" "Good question." "Many happy returns." "A blessed day indeed." "Who are you?" "Sojong." "Let's have a look." "I've learned a thing or two, convening with nature and such." "If you rear this child as your own, you will be truly blessed." "Lord Pak is a lucky man." "Blessings wash up at his feet." "I'll start this off with a fine name." "We found him in the river." "How about Kangchi?" "River "Kang," Found "Chi."" ""Kangchi."" "We'll name him after Choe here." "Choe Kangchi." "Gentlemen, I'm not even married." "Choe Kangchi, a fine name." "What do you say, Lord Pak?" "It was a place of mystery." "A place none dared approach." "So ends the sad tale of Gu Wolyong and Sohwa." "And so a new tale begins, the legend of..." "Kangchi." "Choe Kangchi." "Let him be surrounded by decent and loving people." "Choe Kangchi!" "Fate often brings people together, whatever they do." "Isn't fate up to the heavens?" "If it can't be avoided, why bother?" "Don't worry." "I'll look after you." "Suppose I don't try to avoid it?" "Since it's no use anyway." "Subtitles provided by MBC"