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.
S2E4 · Episode 4
24 moments · 53 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
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.
Bu-yeon rages at her 'rotten husband' on the mountain
Left alone, Bu-yeon curses Uk, dares a tiger to eat her, and is met by a swarm of bugs instead before the search party arrives.
The Crown Prince and his obedient turtle
Back at the palace, the Crown Prince insists the turtle only obeys him and solemnly orders it never to flip over.
Panic on the lake: 'Naksu is here!'
A grotesque claiming to be Naksu strikes a boat on Lake Gyeongcheondaeho and swimmers flee screaming that she has returned.
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.
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.
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.
The 'Turtle Shaman' and the eunuch meet again
Bu-yeon scolds the 'eunuch' for abandoning the turtle, confides her husband left her, and he admits he took it home after all.
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.
The trap: binding Uk with a ghost
The schemer explains how a Naksu who does not exist will haunt Uk forever and split him from Jin Bu-yeon and Jinyowon.
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.
Yul shames the men mocking Bu-yeon
When his uncle's party plans to gawk at his former bride, Yul turns the joke back on them with a pointed apology.
Two foolish friends and a hidden illness
Walking her home, Yul gets lost again; Bu-yeon senses something strange in his body and he asks her to let it slide as a friend.
'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.
The Queen's banquet and Maid Kim's dress-up marathon
The Queen schedules a banquet on Naksu's day; Maid Kim gleefully makes the invited Bu-yeon try on outfit after outfit.
'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.
Dang-gu entrusts the Dragon's Tears for Cho-yeon
Dang-gu asks Maid Kim to deliver costly diamonds to Cho-yeon, fearing rejection but choosing to bite into his rice cake of destiny.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Master Lee returns with a secret about Bu-yeon
A patient demands to know what is inside his body; then Master Lee reappears after three years, saying he treated Jin Bu-yeon.
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.
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