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.
S2E3 · Episode 3
24 moments · 54 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
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.
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.
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.
'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.
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.
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.
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.
Bu-yeon reads the energy of Uk's friends
Meeting Master Heo and Dang-gu, Bu-yeon owns up to the fake pregnancy, sizes up their energy and sniffs out eavesdroppers.
Maid Kim and Master Heo's racing hearts
Discussing Uk's push for her to wed, Maid Kim and her suitor admit their longing in a tender embrace.
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 learns Uk destroyed the tracking thread
Walking her home, Dang-gu lets slip that Uk broke into Jinyowon to destroy the thread while telling her only to endure.
The stone towers of the Dark Forest
Bu-yeon finds the towers Uk raises for each soul shifter he kills; one collapses, revealing a stone that stirs a memory.
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.
Two foolish friends lost in Gaema Village
Uk's childhood friend gets them lost and insists he is smart; Bu-yeon prefers a handsome fool, then asks about a blue-eyed soul shifter.
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.
The Queen rages over her withering body
Gifted fresh flowers, the Queen explodes about shriveling in a body not her own and eyes a young court lady's.
A plot to summon Naksu's soul against Uk
Schemers plan to separate the priestess from Uk by raising Naksu's soul near her death anniversary and remarrying Bu-yeon.
Bu-yeon talks a disguised 'eunuch' into saving a turtle
At a shady cosmetics shop Bu-yeon senses ominous energy and guilts a royal posing as a eunuch into buying a turtle.
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.
Waiting up for Uk, Bu-yeon recovers a memory
Bu-yeon waits to thank Uk for the thread and a memory of a master's promise and order surfaces.
Yun-ok needles Bu-yeon over Uk's absence
Young Lady Heo reveals Uk has been staying away at Jeongjingak and hints Bu-yeon is the reason.
Yun-ok tells Bu-yeon whose jade she holds
Heading to see Uk, Bu-yeon spars with Yun-ok and Sun-i, learns the blue jade is Naksu's and is dared to call him with it.
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.
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