Thugs corner So-i and a mage steps in
Men accuse a woman called So-i of faking blindness and stealing; she cries for help, a mage fights them off and leaves her an umbrella.
So-i
Every Alchemy of Souls moment featuring So-i, in story order.
38 moments · 1h 19m
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.
A girl is marked with moles and scars to become Jin Bu-yeon
A young woman is told every mole and scar a mother would remember will be engraved on her, even with acid, so she can pass as Jin Bu-yeon.
So-i sets her sights on Seo Yul
Told Seo Yul is out of her league, the vagabond So-i muses that as Jin Bu-yeon she might have a chance with him.
Jin Mu shows So-i what happens to people who betray him
Jin Mu brings in the men So-i robbed, makes her watch their fate, and demands to know who else could expose her.
The broker who recognized So-i is silenced
So-i is spotted by the broker from Sari Village; he and the thugs end up dead, and she worries she may have to kill Mu-deok too.
So-i learns where Mu-deok lives, and a witness dies
At Chwiseonru, So-i hears Mu-deok now works for the Jang family and could recognize her; someone who knows So-i's face is killed.
So-i, posing as blind, meets Mu-deok unrecognized
Feigning blindness outside the Jang house, So-i asks Mu-deok for help with her cane and realizes Mu-deok does not know her face.
So-i is given the Jin family's blood through a worm
To open Jinyowon's door, So-i is made to take a worm fed on Cho-yeon's blood, kept alive by sorcery and ready to eat her if she runs.
So-i practises walking like a blind girl
Uk worries So-i knows who Mu-deok is; meanwhile So-i, sure everyone who knew her is dead, rehearses being blind with an umbrella for a cane.
So-i finds the Jin crest she has seen before
Jin Mu's coached 'daughter' picks up a discarded handkerchief and recognises the Jinyowon crest from something Mu-deok owned.
A girl claiming to be Bu-yeon faces the doors of Jinyowon
Ho-gyeong checks the birthmark and scar on a girl brought from Cheonbugwan, then tests her at doors only Jin blood can move, and cries out for Bu-yeon.
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 learns Mu-deok is the real Jin Bu-yeon
Ho-gyeong shows the embroidered eye mask her blind daughter always wore; So-i recognises it as the one she stole from Mu-deok.
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.
Jin Mu unveils the Danju of his secret order
Before his followers, Jin Mu presents the fake Bu-yeon as their Danju, then privately vows to shift into her body to serve his sister.
Ho-gyeong reveals the ice stone at the Unanimous Assembly
Jinyowon's leader lists Songrim's overreach, presents her daughter, and announces the ice stone has been in Jinyowon all along.
Ho-gyeong agrees to get rid of Mu-deok
The fake Bu-yeon asks to keep Mu-deok away and Ho-gyeong promises to remove her, leaving the watcher unsure what Lady Jin knows.
So-i plays dumb while the prince dismisses Mu-deok
So-i pleads blindness to the Crown Prince's questions, and the prince waves off Mu-deok as a puppy who only follows her master.
So-i returns Yul's umbrella and begs his silence
So-i sweetly asks Yul to keep their past secret; Yul sees she is a pawn to be discarded and quietly pities her.
So-i strikes a deal with the soul shifter Master Kang
The escaped soul shifter hides inside the barrier; caught, So-i bargains to lure mages to him and offers up someone she wants dead.
So-i bargains with Jin Ho-gyeong over Bu-yeon
Exposed as a fake daughter, So-i shows Jin Ho-gyeong the item Bu-yeon wore when she vanished and claims the girl is still alive.
Bu-yeon dodges So-i's soporific trap in the canal
Bu-yeon catches her tail by sensing energy, holds her breath underwater against the drug, and is helped out by an old friend of Uk's.
So-i's master exposes her past as a fake child
The Gwanju reminds So-i she was a swindler with a blood parasite, chained to his medicine, and concludes Bu-yeon is genuine.
A tavern owner warns Bu-yeon about Naksu
Browsing anti-Naksu charms, Bu-yeon is told Naksu will resent her most, and hears of the small, feisty servant girl the owner once knew.
Where Uk proposed to Naksu
Bu-yeon is told this is where Uk met and proposed to Naksu, begs to hear no more, and then sees a proposal memory herself.
Seo Yul learns a blood parasite is eating his energy
Seo Yul demands to know what is inside his body; the woman who gave him her blood admits it was a parasite, and he lets her go believing she meant to save him.
So-i bargains with Lady Jin over the real daughter
So-i asks Lady Jin to remove the blood parasite in exchange for revealing the real Jin Bu-yeon; Lady Jin refuses to hear it.
So-i tells Lady Jin who her daughter really was
So-i confronts Lady Jin about the daughter she hid and tells her to ask others whether that daughter was Naksu.
Uk and Yul cross paths as So-i lies to Lady Jin
Bu-yeon senses Yul's energy at Jinyowon; meanwhile a captive So-i names one suspect after another rather than give up her secret.
Uk distracts Lady Jin while Yul frees So-i
Uk asks Lady Jin to let him into Jinyowon as Yul and Bu-yeon find the wounded So-i, who tells Bu-yeon she only thinks she is Jin Bu-yeon.
So-i tells Yul that Naksu lives in Jin Bu-yeon
So-i reveals Lady Jin's real daughter was Mu-deok from Sari Village, saved from the lake with Naksu's soul still inside, now wearing Naksu's face.
Yul admits he knew Mu-deok was Naksu
Yul swears So-i to secrecy, even from Uk, and confesses he knew the truth about Mu-deok long ago.
So-i sees through Yul's nightmares
After another nightmare, So-i notices the keepsake Yul still holds and warns him not to kill Naksu, because he likes her.
Yul refuses help through a locked door
In pain from the parasite, Yul tells So-i that suffering is lighter than his regrets and that she has done enough for him.
So-i explains why Yul made the world bright
So-i returns to make sure Yul goes to Jinyowon, and tells her servant that seeing him once made her dark world feel clean.
So-i is captured as Yul's picnic is cut short
Cheonbugwan mages beat So-i over the missing parasite while her servant finds Yul on his trip with Bu-yeon and tells him she was taken.
Yul fights to protect So-i
Yul blocks the mages from taking So-i to Jin Mu; when the parasite is exposed, the dying So-i thanks him for making the world bright.