Scarlet Heart Ryeo Kissasian3/24/2021
Queen Sinmyeongsunseong, who wasnt doing her best in hiding her dismay in not receiving a gift, tries to act nonchalant when Su gives her a box of soap.Her flailing around provides some much-needed (and honestly surprising) levity during an episode rife with confused feelings and repressed emotions.
Whats important is that So is counted among the princes, and its clear by the queens glare toward him that she is not happy about it. Despite the astronomers arguments, So claims he cant see the sky from his room the way he can here in the tower, and smiles at the thought of what Su said about being able to see the stars in Goryeo. Su is delighted, and mixes a concoction together to create soap for both Lady Hae and the queen. But when Lady Hae mentions that she wants to find a good husband for Su, Wooks face turns unreadable. He only agrees with his wifes wish to keep Su around for as long as possible. Next thing we know, shes asked Su to meet her in the library only when Su enters, its not her cousin she sees, but Wook. Unfortunately, Su is too awkward to just ignore, so he has to speak up in order to guide her to the ink she was supposed to fetch for her cousin. He notices her staring awkwardly and smiles, telling her that its a poem originally penned by the famous Chinese poet Tao Yuanming, and that hes including it in the letter hes written for his wife (since she always sends a poem along). She realizes this belatedly and changes her answer to the much more ladylike poems, which gives Wook pause. Is he, by chance, testing her Su has no hope of being able to read the complex Hanja characters, and shes severely misguided if she thinks that her slave Chae-ryung will be able to read it, which she cant. After spending a moment cooing over how the characters are written as handsomely as their writer, she falls back into her illiterate lamentations, which thirteenth prince Baek-ah overhears. Su claims that she totally does know how to read, she just conveniently forgot when she hit her head. Baek-ah begins to read for her, only to be interrupted by the arrival of Lady Hae, who finishes the poem from memory. The poem is by Liu Yuxi, entitled Song of Bamboo Branch, and one of the lines is, Hark and I hear on the river, songs from my love, my beau. His expression grows grave when she innocently reveals that Wook gave the poem to her. Instead of answering, she only asks Baek-ah to finish a drawing he was preparing for her. Or rather, she doesnt want to acknowledge that theres another meaning to it, and tries to convince herself to think of Wook in non-romantic ways. Wook admires the wonder in her eyes as she takes in all the sights, smiling. Queen Sinjeong shares her desire to get medicine for her daughter-in-law from one of the concubines, which Queen Sinmyeongsunseong sneers atthe concubine is nothing more than a court lady, and she certainly is no doctor. Queen Sinjeong is happy to see them, especially Su, but Queen Sinmyeongsunseong only knows Su from the bruise she gave the tenth prince, Eun.
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