Bu-yeon defies her mother before the Unanimous Assembly
Uk and Bu-yeon announce their marriage; Lady Jin calls it a lie and the Assembly threatens Uk, who vows to take her anyway.
Jang Uk's Best Moments
Every Alchemy of Souls moment featuring Jang Uk, in story order. Played by Lee Jae-wook.
376 moments · 14h 31m · by Favseen
Moments 271–300 of 376
- 271
- 272
Uk produces a 'witness': the baby
Asked to prove the marriage, Uk claims Bu-yeon is with child, stunning the Assembly and dodging the physician's check.
- 273
Bu-yeon walks out with her 'husband' as friends gape
Bu-yeon tells her sister her groom has come for her; Dang-gu and Cho-yeon are stunned and the Assembly settles for Uk as son-in-law.
- 274
Bu-yeon relights the Jinyowon lantern
Toying with the relic, Bu-yeon turns the lantern back on and a memory flashes; Uk tells her regaining memories will return her powers.
- 275
'Do you want us to make a baby?' and Uk's cold condition
Bu-yeon frets over the fake pregnancy, admits she hoped Uk came for her, and he offers help only if she drops that hope.
- 276
The tracking thread: Bu-yeon refuses to go home
Her mother pulls the thread sewn into her flesh; Bu-yeon endures the pain and begs Maid Kim not to send her back.
- 277
Uk storms Jinyowon in the night to end the thread
As Lady Jin keeps calling her daughter back, Uk confronts her: his wife cannot sleep. By dawn Bu-yeon's pain is gone.
- 278
Maid Kim begs Uk to destroy the red bird egg
Uk tells Maid Kim to marry; she asks him to throw away the egg and the jade tied to a dead girl. He keeps them to know she is gone.
- 279
Wedding noodles and a confrontation about Mu-deok
Over noodles from Mu-deok's recipe, Uk's physician friend accuses him of wanting to die and tells him to truly mourn her.
- 280
Uk races to the jade's call and finds Bu-yeon
Uk rushes out when the jade calls; Bu-yeon greets him with a regained memory that the two of them have long liked each other.
- 281
The jade's memory is not Bu-yeon's
Bu-yeon proves she saw the egg-choosing memory, then realizes it belongs to the blue jade's owner; Uk admits he is disappointed.
- 282
Uk makes Bu-yeon a window to his dead love
The stone tower collapses again; Uk presses the jade on Bu-yeon to learn his lost love's last feelings, and she bitterly gives up hope.
- 283
Uk and Yul reunite at Jeongjingak
Yul worries over Uk's cold, ice-stone-haunted life; Uk teases him with a hug until Dang-gu barges in with a breakfast summons.
- 284
Leave-it-to-luck rice cakes
Dang-gu's uncle serves a honey-or-fish-sauce rice cake game with a lesson on destiny, before news breaks of Naksu's rumored return.
- 285
The King orders Uk to hunt Naksu
Uk calls the grotesque a fiction, but Jin Mu argues people will think he still cares for Naksu, and Uk vows to catch her himself.
- 286
'Go home and protect your wife'
Uk hides at Jeongjingak; his physician friend teases him that Bu-yeon toppled the tower, and Maid Kim invites herself to stay.
- 287
'You look pretty. I mean, the outfit does.'
Uk compliments then corrects himself, fusses over her nails, and asks Bu-yeon to show the banquet she is his wife.
- 288
Fireworks for the bride, then a deadly twist
Bu-yeon brushes off Yun-ok as fireworks are announced in her honor, but in the back garden she is told the banquet was bait.
- 289
Uk lays 'Naksu' to rest
The plan with Bu-yeon is revealed; Uk chases down the soul shifter and publicly declares Naksu gone for good.
- 290
Uk finally mourns Mu-deok at the cliff
At the cliff Uk relives his vows to his master Mu-deok and her confession, and admits he could not cry for her.
- 291
Jang Uk wakes beside his bride and draws a line
Uk wakes to find her beside him; she claims credit for chasing off the wraiths so he could sleep, and he lets her stay on her side of a line.
- 292
Uk and Yul finally talk about Naksu
Yul admits Naksu haunts his dreams out of guilt; Uk takes the responsibility on himself, then they bicker over who must eat Park Jin's dumplings.
- 293
Bu-yeon goes missing after taking in the cold
The household finds Bu-yeon gone and ill; Maid Kim scolds Uk for knowing nothing about her, and he realizes she absorbed the wraiths' cold for him.
- 294
Uk finds Bu-yeon gossiping at the market
Bu-yeon haggles for a fan and watches a couple brawl over an affair; Uk tracks her down, tells her to say when she is sick, and mocks her bargain.
- 295
Jang Uk turns a palace apology into a taunt
Uk tells Bu-yeon to look lovestruck while he flaunts her to the Queen, rejects her plea to shift her soul, and warns her never to touch his wife again.
- 296
Uk warms the turtle's water and the Crown Prince overthinks it
Uk warms the cold water for the Crown Prince's turtle; hearing of it, the Crown Prince spirals into imagining what Uk meant by the gesture.
- 297
Bu-yeon's promise and Uk's cruel reply
Bu-yeon thanks Uk and promises to stay by his side, but taking his hand stirs a memory and he accuses her of offering herself as a substitute.
- 298
The chicken and the dog
Uk tests holding Maid Kim's hand, gets scolded for upsetting Bu-yeon, and offers a clumsy apology about chickens, pheasants and dogs.
- 299
Master Lee returns to Uk's stone towers
Master Lee reunites with Uk among the towers for slain soul shifters and learns Jin Bu-yeon tried to rebuild one; he reveals he once saved her.
- 300
Lady Jin begs Bu-yeon to come home
Bu-yeon tells her mother she is regaining her powers and refuses to leave Uk; Lady Jin sees she is in love and demands Uk come apologize.