The Four Seasons of Daeho arrive
Mu-deok learns of the four famed young heirs of the Jin, Park, Seo and Jang families, and quietly swears they will all die.
Jin Cho-yeon
Every Alchemy of Souls moment featuring Jin Cho-yeon, in story order. Played by ARIN.
67 moments · 2h 22m
Cho-yeon arrives with Gwigu to hunt a soul shifter
Everyone in Songrim is gathered and locked in while Jin Cho-yeon brings Gwigu, the Jin family's ghost dog that sniffs out sorcery.
Uk and Cho-yeon, awkward exes
The Four Seasons are together again for the first time since Uk and Cho-yeon called off their wedding, and it shows.
Uk breaks the Jin family heirloom
Gwigu turns up, Uk tells Mu-deok to run, and Cho-yeon finds her family's heirloom pottery smashed in his hands.
Cho-yeon's mother forbids Uk as a son-in-law
Cho-yeon hopes Uk can join the family now; her mother refuses and tells her she must take her late sister's place guarding Jinyowon.
Three friends each have an excuse to visit Uk
On the way to see Uk, the friends tease each other over their reasons for coming, from fishing plans to medicine to nitpicking.
Uk's sword arm runs wild against the Crown Prince
Uk unsheathes his father's sword but cannot control his arm; a binding bracelet stops him, and the Prince dares the four heirs to fight him together.
Uk locked up for insulting the royal family
Cho-yeon brags that Uk beat the Crown Prince, but the leader hears Uk threatened the Prince and orders him locked up as dangerous.
A marriage to save Uk: the Jin family offer
Cho-yeon's mother offers to block the King's order with the Jin family plaque, if Uk marries Cho-yeon; Cho-yeon says she still wants him.
Cho-yeon plans her wedding and gets the jade
Cho-yeon asks for her missing sister Bu-yeon's room, is refused, and is promised the yin-and-yang jade for wedding rings.
Cho-yeon's love perfume and a borrowed hand
Cho-yeon nearly wastes Jinyowon's love perfume on her letter to Uk, and Dang-gu reluctantly lends his hand for ring sizing.
Cho-yeon hears how much Uk adores Mu-deok
At Chwiseonru shopping for wedding rings, Cho-yeon's jade breaks and the staff gossip that Uk carried drunk Mu-deok on his back.
Cho-yeon makes Mu-deok carry the broken jade
Cho-yeon orders her future maid to carry an already broken stone; Mu-deok refuses, then spots a dangerous man and grabs it after all.
Prince and Yul both arrive at Jinyowon hunting for Mu-deok
The Crown Prince is told the maid broke the yin-and-yang jade meant for the wedding rings and fled, then Yul turns up looking for her too.
Jang Uk apologizes, then demands Jinyowon's door be opened
Uk takes responsibility for his maid before Jinyowon's leader, wins permission to search for her himself, and asks to enter the relic vault.
Uk, Yul and the Crown Prince volunteer to enter Jinyowon
Warned the vault's relics can trap anyone forever, Yul and the Crown Prince insist on going in with Uk, and are given one hour.
Mu-deok exposes Cho-yeon as the one who broke the jade
Locked up, Mu-deok rattles Cho-yeon with a superstition about broken jade, then accuses her of framing the maid; Cho-yeon threatens to sell her.
Mu-deok trapped in the Mirror of Longing, and Jinyowon refuses
The broken mirrors lead them to the Mirror of Longing. Its leader refuses even a royal order to move it and vows to seal the door on Uk.
Cho-yeon confesses to the jade, the mirror and the locked door
Cho-yeon claims the broken jade, the damaged mirror and the sealed door as her own doing, and the family agrees to keep it quiet.
Dang-gu fake-engages himself to Cho-yeon to save her face
When gossip says Cho-yeon is marrying, Dang-gu lets the girls believe it is him, offering to take the blame for a breakup later.
Jang Uk vs. the Crown Prince: the duel won with Tansu
Cho-yeon begs her mother to stop it, Uk defends as coached, an order goes out to smash the water crocks, and Uk ends the match with Tansu.
Cho-yeon's father brings home a girl who might be Bu-yeon
Master Jin returns from a southern island with an orphan of the right age, but Jinyowon's door gives its verdict and Ho-gyeong sends her away.
A staged breakup gets postponed for a magic show
An engaged pair plan a public fight to end their engagement, but she wants to see a magic show first, so they delay the breakup.
Dang-gu admits his fake engagement was real
Cho-yeon thanks Dang-gu for playing her fiance; he says his feelings were sincere and he was ready to give up being Songrim's heir.
Jin Mu dangles hope while So-i prepares to play Bu-yeon
Jin Mu tells Ho-gyeong a drowned girl may be Bu-yeon; nearby So-i studies her future family and decides to look more pitiful.
Cho-yeon's father braids her hair as her mother waits for Bu-yeon
Jin Ho-gyeong rages over the room kept for her lost daughter, while Cho-yeon's father gives her an early birthday gift and braids her hair.
Mu-deok catches Cho-yeon buying magic show tickets from a scalper
At the inn Mu-deok runs into Jin Cho-yeon, who begs her to keep quiet; Mu-deok needles her about lying, then they spot Songrim's leader.
Mu-deok blackmails Cho-yeon into being her witness
Framed for murder, Mu-deok begs Cho-yeon to vouch for her; when Cho-yeon refuses, Mu-deok threatens to ask her mother instead.
Mu-deok wanders into Bu-yeon's room at Jinyowon
Lady Jin plans a vase for her blind daughter's room; she finds Mu-deok inside and furiously throws her out.
Mu-deok learns Lady Jin's lost daughter was blind
Told the room belonged to a daughter thought drowned, Mu-deok learns she was blind and wonders if that is why she felt something.
Cho-yeon testifies for Mu-deok in front of Dang-gu
Cho-yeon tells Park Jin she saw Mu-deok at the inn, insisting it was her first visit, and suspicion shifts to the swindler So-i.
Jin Ho-gyeong storms Songrim and calls Master Lee a thief
Jinyowon's leader demands Gwigu back, accuses Master Lee of stealing it, and kills the dog that housed the relic to protect her daughter.
Cho-yeon confesses to using a Lovers' Charm
Asked why Gwigu attacked her, Cho-yeon admits she used a love charm; Gwigu is gone for good and her mother turns on her.
Dang-gu takes Cho-yeon's hand in front of both families
Ho-gyeong rejects a match and eyes the Crown Prince for Cho-yeon; Cho-yeon refuses, Dang-gu declares himself, and both get thrown out.
The runaway couple's awkward 'get a room' moment
Cast out with nowhere to go, Dang-gu suggests an inn and panics over how it sounds, until Maidservant Kim comes looking for Uk.
Dang-gu and Cho-yeon each secretly regret running away
Over tea, both runaways privately admit they were swept up in the moment and want to go home, each afraid of hurting the other.
Cho-yeon the impossible houseguest
Cho-yeon rejects dish after dish as too greasy, salty or sweet until the staff notice she is just as fussy as Uk.
Cho-yeon talks about her lost sister
Cho-yeon tells Mu-deok her blind sister was their mother's pride, gifted enough to trap souls, and insists she is still alive.
Dang-gu and Cho-yeon refuse to sign the separation pledge
Offered a way home if they swear never to meet again, the couple admit they had doubts but cannot give each other up.
Cho-yeon spots a familiar scar on Mu-deok
Tending Mu-deok after a fall, Cho-yeon notices an old scar in the very place her sister was cut as a child.
So-i is welcomed home as the lost Bu-yeon
Ho-gyeong embraces her 'daughter' and Cho-yeon meets her 'sister'; So-i spots Mu-deok, wonders if she should have killed her, and weeps in Bu-yeon's room.
So-i turns Cho-yeon against Mu-deok
The fake Bu-yeon claims Mu-deok's energy is dark, then asks Jin Mu if the real daughter is dead and resolves to keep the secret.
Dang-gu stalls, then tells Cho-yeon the truth
Sent to fetch the book, Dang-gu fakes hunger to buy time, then tells Cho-yeon her returned sister is So-i.
Dang-gu and Cho-yeon tease each other at the Gaema apothecary
Tracking the queen's eunuch to an apothecary, Dang-gu jokes their old love charm worked, then Cho-yeon spots her own father there.
Cho-yeon overhears her father's secret about the Queen
Cho-yeon walks in as her father vows to kill the Queen once his sister changes bodies, and demands to know whose soul is in the Queen.
Her brother's last act for his sister, and Cho-yeon's cries
Jin Mu abandons the shaman, her brother tells her to flee with the last Soul Ejector, and Cho-yeon screams for her father.
Dang-gu and Cho-yeon, husband and wife
In their wedding clothes, Dang-gu and Cho-yeon tenderly call each other husband and wife before slipping off to see her father.
Mu-deok runs wild in Sejukwon on the wedding day
Under Jin Mu's control, Mu-deok attacks Cho-yeon's father at Sejukwon; Dang-gu fails to stop her and Cho-yeon weeps over her father.
Jin Mu names Mu-deok as Naksu before all of Songrim
Jin Mu arrives claiming to hunt the soul shifter Naksu; news comes of the killing, and Cho-yeon confirms the assassin is Mu-deok.
Jin Ho-gyeong orders Naksu brought back alive
Cho-yeon vows to kill her father's killer, but Jin Ho-gyeong insists Naksu be captured alive to learn whose body she is in.
Jin Cho-yeon turns away Songrim's leader at Jinyowon's gate
Asked to let Songrim hunt a soul shifter inside, Cho-yeon refuses and blames him for her father's death, denying him any apology.
Jang Uk hides from Cho-yeon and helps the prisoner escape
After her sister checks on her, Jang Uk embeds more steps in the wall for Bu-yeon, saying they are guilty of the same crime.
Jinyowon's secret: Bu-yeon's body and an arranged marriage
Cho-yeon learns of a sudden wedding and questions who her sister really is; their mother tells Bu-yeon she will wed but never leave her room.
Drunk Park Dang-gu mourns Jin Cho-yeon's wedding
Jinyowon lets Songrim think Cho-yeon is the bride, and a drunken Dang-gu wails his love for her as he is tucked in.
Jang Uk comes for Bu-yeon on her wedding night
As the bride arrives at the groom's house and hope fades, Jang Uk appears and Bu-yeon leaves with him, calling him her husband.
Seo Yul tells a weeping Dang-gu the bride is not Cho-yeon
Suspected of stealing the bride, a tearful Dang-gu learns from Seo Yul that the secret wedding was for Jin Bu-yeon, not Cho-yeon.
Lady Jin storms Songrim hunting the stolen bride
Jin Ho-gyeong accuses Park Dang-gu of kidnapping the bride, and Cho-yeon is forced to admit her sister Bu-yeon is alive.
Wanted posters for Bu-yeon and the Queen's fury over the match
Songrim spreads Bu-yeon's portrait across Daeho, while the Queen rages that her cousin planned to marry into the family she blames for her body.
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.
Dang-gu recognizes his first love's dress
Dang-gu realizes Bu-yeon wore Madam Do-hwa's dress, earning a jealous jab from Cho-yeon before he insists his heart races for her.
Bu-yeon stands up for her sister at the Queen's banquet
Introductions at the banquet; when the Queen moves to send Cho-yeon away, Bu-yeon offers to leave in her place.
The attack at the banquet and the Gwiseo trick
Under the fireworks a soul shifter kills 'Bu-yeon', but she walks in alive: it was Gwiseo, Jinyowon's nail-eating white mouse.
A returned gift reveals a kept lovers' charm
Expecting rejection after three years, she trembles, until he shows he kept the lovers' charm all along and she puts on the diamonds for him.
Master Heo's parasite-removal plan
Heo Yeom lays out a water wick, Yul's energy and the fire bird's power, and explains why Cho-yeon's blood is the key.
Could Cho-yeon be pregnant? Bu-yeon steps in
A warning about pregnancy sends Dang-gu into a panic; Bu-yeon volunteers and flatly insists there is no chance for her and Uk.
Bu-yeon takes the Jinyowon Plaque to face Jin Mu
When Lady Jin sends for the plaque, Bu-yeon pulls rank on Cho-yeon to go herself, remembering Jin Mu as the man who trained and killed her.
Jin Mu storms Jinyowon for the fire bird's egg
The Assembly's mages force their way in; Jin Mu drains Jin Ho-gyeong until Cho-yeon opens the door, and Jinyowon starts to collapse.