How Naksu became Naksu
Mu-deok recalls her father, a Cheonbugwan star recorder killed by the four families, and growing up hard in Danhyanggok after following Jin Mu.
S1E5 · Episode 5
26 moments · 1h 00m of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
Danhyanggok is suspiciously cozy
Expecting a barren training ground, Uk finds roast chicken, a bath and soft blankets, and Mu-deok realizes someone else lives there.
A dog, flowers and Uk's kidnapping joke
A well-trained dog greets them; Uk jokes Mu-deok lured him there to live together, she snaps, and he decides he'd rather stay anyway.
The mages' assembly votes on Uk's fate
At a Unanimous Assembly, mages who once taught Uk propose stripping his powers; Songrim accepts the royal duel instead.
Uk gives his sleeping master the bed
Finding Mu-deok passed out from carrying the luggage, Uk claims the bed as young master, then guiltily moves her there and takes the floor.
Night fight with the stranger who sensed a soul shifter
A stranger senses a great soul inside sleeping Mu-deok; Uk confronts him and their fight breaks out as Uk tells her to run.
Meet Master Lee, and the sleepwalking cover
The stranger apologizes, introduces himself as Master Lee and suggests Mu-deok sleepwalks; she and Uk bicker over the bed and deny being married.
Ju-wol guesses Danhyanggok
Dang-gu teases Yul that Mu-deok loves him; the innkeeper guesses Uk fled to Danhyanggok, stirring Yul's memory of a pet bird there.
Sizing up Master Lee: Jipsu, Ryusu, Chisu
Mu-deok and Uk watch Master Lee light a fire and dry his clothes with energy, and Uk realizes how badly last night could have gone.
Hemp Master Lee and the chaste herb tea
Uk learns he drank a pot of libido-killing chaste tea; then Master Lee says training under him means drinking more of it.
Uk's libido rant ends in an accidental Ryusu
Uk protests celibacy while Mu-deok calls it a small sacrifice, until his arm releases energy that bloodies her and she is thrilled.
The hidden plate and the King's Star
A record from the first year of King Go Sun shows the King's Star the night a baby was born, the day Do-hwa died and Uk was born.
Songrim's investigation reaches Cheonbugwan
The soul shifter was a Cheonbugwan star recorder, so Jeongjingak mages search the office and ask to see its secret room.
Chasing the corpse wagon out of Cheonbugwan
A body is smuggled out through a tunnel; the wagon is stopped, a fight breaks out, and Songrim's Spirit Plaque turns up inside.
Jin Mu's soul-shifting scheme
Jin Mu scolds a man whose soul he shifted into a powerful body, plans to move him into a eunuch next, and says it serves Her Majesty.
Mu-deok smashes Uk's peaceful life
Uk is happily cooking and fishing with Master Lee; Mu-deok attacks the scene with a knife and calls him a coward.
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.
Master Lee offers to cut Uk's energy flow
Master Lee recalls his one pupil who married and left, then offers Uk an ordinary life by cutting off his energy.
A stranger checks Mu-deok for Naksu's mark
A man who saw her at the inn by the dock tries to drag Mu-deok to Cheonbugwan and looks for a blue mark.
Filthy Mu-deok flatters the Crown Prince
Mu-deok begs the Crown Prince for rescue by insulting Uk, receives his cinnamon sachet, and gamely drinks cinnamon wine she clearly hates.
Uk calls Mu-deok a bird's egg
Looking for Mu-deok, Uk says she needs to be embraced; at a corpse in town, Master Lee explains soul shifters and pitches Hwansu.
Uk carries home his drunk master
Uk learns Mu-deok drank with the Crown Prince and finds her wasted, lamenting that this body cannot hold its liquor.
Yul and Dang-gu find drunk Mu-deok
Drunk Mu-deok drifts into a memory of an injured child and a bird call, then Yul and Dang-gu track her and Uk down in Danhyanggok.
Yul's bird memories and a round of chaste tea
Yul admits he snuck into Danhyanggok for the birds he loved, then the friends happily drink Master Lee's chaste tea.
Heo Yeom's old master breaks the barrier
Debating the Jin marriage, an elder admits he once left his master for love; then an intruder breaks the barrier and Heo Yeom greets his master.
Uk promises to take Mu-deok up the tree
At the tree with the bird's nest, Mu-deok mourns the moon she can no longer see, and Uk vows to master Chisu to take her up.
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