Seven Day Queen: Episode 7

by girlfriday

That was a really long week of waiting. Why am I so torn between wanting our two lovers to reunite, and wanting them to continue their I’m-not-him-yes-you-are-no-I’m-not dance? It’s cruel and mean, but damn if it doesn’t give me butterflies. I swear it’s not just me who can’t decide though—could the universe conspire for and against two people more?

 
EPISODE 7 RECAP

Chae-kyung throws her arms around Yeok and cries into his back, insisting that he’s the prince. He can’t stop his own tears from coming, but keeps his back to her.

From down the street, Yeok’s friend Myung-hye is hit with a pang of jealousy as she spots them. She’s also the first to spot Scarface and his men, on the hunt for Yeok. Thinking fast, she screams, bringing all the attention to herself, and Yeok grabs Chae-kyung’s hand and flees just in time.

Scarface isn’t fooled for long and chases them into the woods, and his men shoot off arrows as they close in. One grazes Chae-kyung’s arm before landing in a tree, and then the next hits Yeok right in the shoulder. Ack, not again!

They manage to hide for a moment, and Yeok snaps the shaft of the arrow in his back with a painful grunt. Chae-kyung winces and asks why they’re being chased—a familiar question for them—and he gives a familiar answer: “It’s because you got involved in someone else’s affairs.”

She reaches out to check his wound, when Yeok suddenly whirls around her to fend off an oncoming attacker. He kicks and disarms one of them, and Chae-kyung picks up the sword to fight the other one. Well that’s brave.

Yeok is alarmed to see her swinging a sword, and leaps into the air to spin-kick her attacker, landing with a loud cracking noise. Whoa, did he just snap that guy’s neck? He grabs her hand and they run all the way to the river, where he finally lets go and steps away from her. But Chae-kyung won’t have that and just marches back over to him (he looks a little scared, heh), and she grabs his hand to lead the way.

She takes them into a cave, where they have a moment to breathe. Thankfully the arrow doesn’t look too deeply embedded in Yeok’s back, and he’s able to yank it out. Chae-kyung rips her skirt to use as a bandage, and he resists her help at first, but she just glares at him and gets her way.

She asks why he lied to her about not being the prince, upset about how much she yearned for him these last few days. She amends that to years, not days, asking tearfully if he knows how hard it’s been for her, and that’s without even knowing that he was alive and well all this time.

He asks sarcastically if he really seems well to her, and shakes her off as he says that he was planning to lie to her for the rest of his life if he could help it. He adds that he wouldn’t have acknowledged her at all, muttering that she’s so reckless and nosy and fearless on top of that. He shouts that every time he’s with her, he ends up in danger.

Chae-kyung’s lip quivers and her eyes fill with tears, and she asks innocently, “Did you really not miss me?” He asks her coldly what she thinks, making her cry. He’s crying too, though he manages to hide it from her.

He finally admits that he once lived by the name Lee Yeok and was the prince, until the day he was attacked by assassins on his way to exile and died. He tells her that he was shot and stabbed and he should’ve died, but by some miracle, he lived.

Chae-kyung is shocked to hear that he was attacked, and suggests going to his brother for help. He scoffs bitterly and says that was the naïve thought that once got him killed. He tells her to go ahead and ask for help if she wants him to die, and realization seems to dawn on her face.

Meanwhile, Royal Secretary Im uses all the manpower at his disposal to hunt Yeok down, using the king’s royal authority to its full extent. More and more officers spill onto the streets, and the palace gates are kept closed until the thieves are found. Yeok’s friends watch worriedly as the number of men increases, but Yeok is still nowhere to be found.

Back in the cave, Yeok notices that Chae-kyung is injured as well, but before he can mention it, she says brightly that she’s relieved that the person she’s come to like is him. She laughs at herself and admits that she was worried she’d given her heart to some weirdo.

She asks that they stay together just until sunrise, “because it’s our last.” She vows to never call his name or miss him or wait for him again after the sun rises, and declares, “The promise to wait is invalid now.”

While Yeok rests, she makes a salve out of plants and redresses his wound, and reaches out to his face. But his words about nearly dying and coming back to life flood her thoughts, and she can’t bring herself to make contact. She tamps down her tears and pulls her hand away, and as she leaves the cave, Yeok opens his eyes, having been awake all the while.

By the time Chae-kyung picks more medicinal leaves and washes the bloody bandages in the river, it’s daybreak. She’s so busy washing that she doesn’t notice a set of boots sneaking up behind her, and it’s the sound of a sword being unsheathed that finally catches her attention.

It’s too late by then, of course, because Scarface already has a sword at her throat. He asks where her male companion is, and the men drag her away. From the trees, Yeok’s friends watch in worry and wonder if they need to gather more of their team.

Myung-hye arrives and notices the leaves and bloody bandages, and realizes that Yeok is somewhere close by. The boys wonder why Chae-kyung and Scarface are heading up towards the rock cliff then.

It’s because she’s purposely leading them as far away from Yeok as possible, which Scarface doesn’t realize until they’re standing at the edge of a cliff. He slaps her and demands to know where Yeok is.

The next thing we know, someone creeps up to Yeok in the cave with ropes. He’s caught off-guard, and they manage to gag him and throw a sack over his head.

But Yeok’s kidnappers must not have been Scarface’s men, because he reports to Secretary Im that Yeok is still at large, but they’ve captured the girl who helped him escape. He shoves Chae-kyung forward, and Secretary Im chuckles to have caught Minister Shin’s precious daughter aiding a thief.

Chae-kyung is thrown in prison, and it begins to dawn on her what Yeok meant when he said that going to his brother for help nearly cost him his life. The sight of haggard prisoners frightens her, and she huddles on the ground.

Yeonsangun is shocked to hear that Chae-kyung has been imprisoned, and Secretary Im says that she spent all night with the thief and helped him evade capture.

Yeonsangun still finds it extreme to punish her like this, so Secretary Im admits that this is the thief who stole the royal tribute, fessing up to the fact that it wasn’t a flood that interfered with the last tribute. Yeonsangun wonders if Chae-kyung unwittingly helped the thief—the thief who happens to look like Yeok—without knowing what he did, though Secretary Im says they’ll have to question her to know for sure.

Yeonsangun decides to ask her for himself, and has Chae-kyung brought to him. She’s shocked to hear Yeok being referred to as a thief, and insists that he’s a merchant, and they happened to be together by chance. Yeonsangun says that all she has to do is tell him what she knows about the thief and they’ll let her go, but says she knows nothing.

He asks her again and again, knowing that she’s lying to him. Chae-kyung is unnerved but sticks to her answer. Yeonsangun’s gaze turns steely and he asks if she’s really planning to lie to him. “Is it because of Yeok?” he asks. Her stunned expression gives her away.

Yeonsangun finds it absurd that Chae-kyung would lie to protect a thief just because he resembles Yeok. But she argues that this man could have been framed, and Yeonsangun asks why on earth someone would bother to set a trap for some thief.

It continues to bother him that a mere resemblance to Yeok would spur Chae-kyung’s devotion like this, and Secretary Im suggests announcing Chae-kyung’s capture far and wide in order to lure the thief into their hands.

But Yeonsangun suddenly gets an idea and asks how the queen dowager is doing, and goes to her palace to see her laughing and smiling as she makes charms to ward off evil spirits. He seems to sense that her cheerful demeanor is an act, and his consort Nok-soo catches on that the king is beginning to suspect that his brother is alive.

Nok-soo can also tell that the queen dowager is aware of her son’s predicament, because in any other situation, she would’ve jumped at the chance to raise a stir over Minister Shin’s daughter being arrested. But the fact that she’s remained quiet indicates that she knows this would endanger Yeok. They gather that the king has put all this together as well, which would explain his angry target practice. Yeonsangun pulls his bow and arrow so taut that the string snaps and cuts his hand, and he storms off furiously.

He goes to stare at his father’s portrait, and in Yeonsangun’s eyes, the painting morphs into an image of his father declaring that Yeok will inherit the throne.

When Secretary Im and Nok-soo come up behind him, Yeonsangun asks, “The sin of killing my brother without my command, or the sin of making my dead brother return alive… which of the two is the bigger, heavier sin?” Oh. Damn.

Their jaws drop at the king’s words, and Yeonsangun tells them that the only reason he pretended not to know years ago was because it was the first time he’d ever felt free. He shakes as he says that his father’s will, and the prejudice against him for being tainted with his mother’s blood—all of that insecurity and anger had disappeared along with his brother.

But now… now all of it is coming back, he says, along with the misconception that he ordered his own brother’s death. He rattles with fury, and Secretary Im flinches when the king turns around to face him.

Yeonsangun puts a hand on his shoulder and says that he’ll leave Secretary Im in charge of this matter, but he warns that the second he no longer feels free, Secretary Im will lose everything. After the king leaves, Secretary Im tells Nok-soo that it’s kill or be killed.

To that end, Secretary Im has announcements plastered all over town, announcing that if the thief who stole the royal tribute doesn’t turn himself in, his accomplice Chae-kyung will be tried and punished for his crimes. Yeok’s buddies see the wanted posters and worry about what Yeok will do when he finds out, knowing that this is a blatant invitation for him to come out of hiding.

Yeok wakes up in a heavily guarded shed, bound and gagged. The yard is teeming with armed men, and he screams to be let out.

Chae-kyung’s parents come to see her in prison, and she apologizes for frightening them. Mom reassures her tearfully that she’ll be freed soon, and promises that Chae-kyung won’t have to get married because she can go down to the countryside and just live with Mom.

Dad says that she’ll have to take the fall for that thief if he doesn’t turn himself in to save her, and Chae-kyung’s eyes widen in alarm. She says that can’t happen, and panics at the idea that he’ll come here. She insists that he isn’t a thief, and that he saved her when she was danger.

Her father doesn’t understand why an innocent man would run, and why she would help hide him. Chae-kyung repeats Yeok’s words that you needn’t always do something wrong to be killed, and cries that she’s seen an innocent person chased and put to death. Mom asks what she intends to do then—die in his place? “Yes, I will take the punishment. I won’t ever let someone be hurt or die again because of me!” Chae-kyung cries.

Confused and frustrated, her parents question Chae-kyung’s nanny to find out what she’s been up to since she arrived in Hanyang on this last visit, and Nanny tells them about the crazy things Chae-kyung was rambling about—ghosts, beans, and the prince—and how she ran all over town looking for someone who resembled the prince. The mention of Yeok is all it really takes to alarm them.

They go straight to the palace to visit Minister Shin’s sister, the queen, and warn her to remain silent on this issue involving Chae-kyung because it could endanger her and her son. Minister Shin says that it’s no mere thief that the king is after and that Chae-kyung is trying to protect: It’s Yeok.

The queen doesn’t understand how, when she saw the queen dowager mourn his death with her own eyes. But Minister Shin argues that Yeok was cremated, against law, and Chae-kyung’s mother adds that the queen dowager doesn’t ever visit her son’s grave. It all supports the idea that she faked her son’s death.

At the same time, Deputy Commander Park alerts the queen dowager that Minister Shin’s side has caught wind of Yeok’s survival. She asks worriedly how Yeok is doing, and Myung-hye says that the Snail Brides are protecting him for now. Wait, so those are his own people holding him captive? Oh, that’s not going to end well.

The queen dowager takes out a small bottle and shows it to Myung-hye, explaining that it’s a poison she procured after hearing of Yeok’s death. She says that one dose will end her life, and orders Myung-hye to tell Yeok that the day he gets caught up in his childhood feelings and shows up to rescue Chae-kyung, his mother will take her own life. She tells them that she means it because she’d rather die than lose her son twice, and asks Myung-hye to remind Yeok that his life is not just his own.

Yeok struggles against his ropes and tries to bust through a weak part of the wall, to no avail. But then he discovers something in the corner: a couple of broken snail shells. Shocked, he looks out again at his captors, and that’s when he spots what looks like his buddy Gwang-oh behind a mask. You guys are so busted.

Yeok starts to saw away at his ropes against a wooden post, and by the time Seok-hee enters with a tray of food, it looks like Yeok has disappeared. Seok-hee panics, and that’s when Yeok gets the jump on him from behind and grabs him in a chokehold. Seok-hee just gasps and flails, trying to say that it’s him, and soon the other guys come rushing in.

They reveal their faces, and Yeok demands to know what happened to Chae-kyung. Finally Seo-no speaks up and tells him that Chae-kyung was arrested.

Yeok glares daggers at his men, and then storms past them to get on his horse. They race down to block his path, and Seok-hee cries that he’ll have to trample their dead bodies to get out of here, and lies down on the ground in protest.

The rest of the boys follow suit, but Yeok doesn’t slow down or change course, and just charges ahead. The boys all roll out of the way to avoid being turned into road-kill, and they chase after him on horseback.

Yeok races into the woods and then sends his horse ahead without him, and the Snail Brides chase after the horse, as he intended. He runs the rest of the way on foot, panicked and desperate.

Chae-kyung sits in her prison cell and takes out one of Yeok’s bloody bandages that she tucked into her sleeve, and she says to him in her thoughts, “Don’t come. You mustn’t come.”

Yeok goes straight for the gate that Scarface and his men are monitoring, and steals a hat to cover his face. It doesn’t do much to hide him from the crowd though, and one of the men spots him looking suspicious in the distance. As the man steps toward Yeok, the gate is opened and the crowd starts to rush through, and when the sea of people clears out, Yeok has seemingly vanished into thin air.

Minister Shin is met with judgmental eyes when he arrives at the assembly that day. Secretary Im announces that the king isn’t feeling well and that today’s session has been canceled, and makes a point of telling Minister Shin that everything will be taken care of once that thief is captured.

Minister Shin asks skeptically if he’s really going to such lengths to capture a simple thief, and warns Secretary Im that he’ll have to put his life on the line to catch him, or he’ll make sure Secretary Im gives up his life in payment. Deputy Commander Park listens in on their conversation, and he locks eyes with Minister Shin.

Myung-hye stomps into the pawnshop in a rage and screams at Seok-hee and Gwang-oh to get lost if they’re going to do things like this. They bristle at her tone and say that only Yeok gets to speak to them like that, but she argues that she is the one who brought Yeok back from the brink of death. How could anyone forget when you remind them once a day?

In flashback, we finally get to see how they first met five years ago. Myung-hye was traveling with her entourage when she stopped at the river for some water, and that’s when she came upon young Yeok, bloody and broken, but still alive. She narrates that he wanted to hang so dearly to his life that he was whistling with what strength he had left. Was it maybe Chae-kyung’s song?

She searched everywhere to find a corpse that resembled him, and when she finally found one, her men threw the body over a cliff and brought it back to the grandpa’s house where Yeok was recovering. He took off his own shoes and placed them on the body, and they sent it to the palace to fake his death.

In the present, Myung-hye asks how they’re supposed to throw away Yeok’s dream of becoming king “just for some girl,” adding that Gwang-oh and Seok-hee tossed aside their personal ambitions to run a pawnshop because they dreamed of a new Joseon.

Seo-no says he’ll set out to find Yeok, but he makes it clear that he’s not going to stop him—he’s going to help Yeok find a safer alternative.

Yeonsangun paints China roses over and over again, visibly agitated. He’s surprised when Minister Shin comes by with official business and doesn’t say a word about Chae-kyung, so he asks why he hasn’t come to plead for his daughter’s life.

Minister Shin says that there must be a reason that both Chae-kyung and Yeonsangun are acting this way, and he says that he trusts the king completely, because before they are king and servant, they’re family. His words seem to affect Yeonsangun, who looks emotional as he sends Minister Shin away.

Once he’s gone, Yeonsangun crumples his painting into a ball and asks angrily why his people have to suffer because of Yeok.

Outside the Euigeumbu where Chae-kyung is being held prisoner, Yeok approaches and hides behind a tree. He’s changed into a nobleman’s disguise, though where he found a fake beard in Joseon at this hour is beyond me.

He takes a step forward and then starts marching right up to the front doors, ready to walk into the trap. But before he gets there, his friends cut him off and rush him away.

Chae-kyung becomes increasingly weak and sick in her prison cell, and she finally notices the festering wound on her arm. She hurries to hide the wound when someone approaches her cell, but then her face falls when she realizes that it’s just the guard with her dinner.

She thinks to herself, “I must have gone crazy. I know you shouldn’t come, and yet I looked back, hoping. How can a person be this selfish?”

Yeok tries to shake off his friends, who hold him back with all their strength. He stills when he sees someone else racing to the entrance on horseback—it’s Yeonsangun.

Yeonsangun looks past the doors, and Yeok watches with bated breath. But Yeonsangun just stands there for a long moment and can’t bring himself to go in, and in the end he gets back on his horse and rides away.

He goes to the river where he first met Chae-kyung and smiles as he thinks of their recent encounters. Minister Shin’s words that they’re family weigh on him, and he asks his bodyguard if Chae-kyung has gotten into his heart because she resembles her father so much. You keep telling yourself that.

Back at Yeok’s hideout, Myung-hye shows him the bottle of poison his mother has vowed to take if he endangers himself again. She argues that they’ll all die, because they vowed to protect Yeok and die before he did. “Because you are our dream and our hope,” she says, which gives him pause.

Gwang-oh says there’s too much at stake for them to throw it all away now for one girl, and he argues that there’s no way that Chae-kyung will die, but Yeok will surely be killed if he turns himself in. Yeok doesn’t say a word in protest, but Seo-no seems to be the only one who sees his pain.

Yeok sits alone with his thoughts, mulling over his friends’ pleas not to throw away what they’ve worked so hard for. He reaches for Chae-kyung’s promise ring that’s hanging around his neck, and thinks back to her saying that she’d consider his promise invalid and stop waiting for him.

In her cell, Chae-kyung remembers that same vow and unties the bandage she’d tied around her arm, determined not to hope and wait for Yeok to come.

Yeok snaps the ring off of his neck and says aloud, “You promised, Shin Chae-kyung,” and throws it into a drawer. Aw, no!

Nok-soo warns Secretary Im that the king is softening to Minister Shin. She suggests that they force Yeok’s hand by putting Chae-kyung in more direct danger. She needles him about fearing Minister Shin, which fires up Secretary Im’s inferiority complex right on cue, and then she suggests that they tie Chae-kyung up in the street.

That night, Chae-kyung is joined in her cell by another young woman, who keeps her face hidden. Chae-kyung tries to engage her in conversation, asking how she ended up here, and she lifts her face to speak…

Crap, it’s Myung-hye. I don’t know whether to be happy or scared, because she could be here to rescue or assassinate, and they’re equally plausible scenarios. What are you going to dooooo?

Myung-hye pretends to be a poor peasant girl with a harsh life, and Chae-kyung listens earnestly and then gives Myung-hye her straw blanket to keep warm.

Myung-hye seems startled at the kind gesture, wondering how Chae-kyung can manage to smile at a time like this. Chae-kyung asks if she’s heard anything about the thief at large, hoping to hear that he hasn’t been captured yet.

Myung-hye asks why Chae-kyung doesn’t talk, because if she continues like this, she’ll surely die. Chae-kyung shocks her by replying, “Then he won’t have to come for me. I said I wouldn’t wait. I’m not going to wait. I cannot allow him to die again because of me.”

Seo-no hangs a sign outside the pawnshop that they’re closed for the time being, and then is confused to come inside and find Yeok casually playing a game with Gwang-oh like it’s some ordinary day. It upsets him so much that he knocks all the pieces off the board, and he asks incredulously, “Are you really not going to do anything? Were you always this cowardly and afraid?”

Yeok acts like this is normal for him, but Seo-no argues that he’s never seen Yeok be cowardly a day in his life, not when Yeok and Chae-kyung saved him all those years ago, and not when Yeok came back from the dead and sought him out. Seo-no says that he vowed to live for Yeok and live like him, and that the person who moved Yeok’s heart to live that way in the first place was Chae-kyung.

Yeok says that he’s right about all of it, and then says casually, “So what, all I had to do was die.” He tells Seo-no that he regrets all of it—listening to Chae-kyung that day and getting involved in Seo-no’s business, going up against his brother, and dying a criminal. Seo-no looks stricken at his words, and asks if Yeok really means it.

Yeok turns his eyes away, but he says that he does mean it, so Seo-no declares that there’s nothing more for him to do here and storms out. Noooo, not Seo-no too! Why do you make everyone cry?

Yeok says he warned the rest of the Snail Brides not to come near the pawnshop for the time being. Gwang-oh thinks that’s smart since Chae-kyung will mention the pawnshop when she’s questioned, and Yeok glares. They return to their game, and Yeok wonders which color stone is more advantageous to play with, and Gwang-oh says white because it’s the king, and the king can do anything.

Yeonsangun drinks and asks his bodyguard why Yeok has been hiding all these years, and why Chae-kyung is lying to him. The bodyguard suggests that Yeok may be hiding because he died a criminal, but Yeonsangun is positive that it means Yeok suspects his brother for ordering his death, and is determined to get revenge and claim the throne.

Yeonsangun hopes that it’s really just a thief who looks like Yeok, otherwise he’ll have to kill him with his own hands this time.

While Yeok contemplates the white stone and what it means to be king, Myung-hye gets up in her prison cell after Chae-kyung is asleep. In a flashback to an earlier conversation with her uncle, she said that this would only end if Yeok turned himself in… or if Chae-kyung died. Oh no.

She had the idea to make it appear as though Chae-kyung took her own life in prison, and in the present, Myung-hye creeps closer to her. In her sleep, Chae-kyung murmurs over and over, “Don’t come,” and Myung-hye notices her bloody arm and wonders how Chae-kyung endured in her condition.

But then she takes out the bottle of poison and says in an ice-cold voice that Chae-kyung will thank her, because this poison will end her pain. So much for sympathy.

From their respective places, Yeok and Yeonsangun steel themselves for the battle ahead.

 
COMMENTS

Aw man, does Myung-hye have to be evil? I guess not eeevil evil, but she sure is murderous. Despite not liking her possessive side (saving a guy’s life once doesn’t make him yours!), I was rooting for Myung-hye not to go dark side, because I actually understand her argument earlier in the episode that everyone is pinning their hopes and dreams on Yeok, and that their cause means nothing if they don’t have a king to back. It may be an unfair burden on Yeok to have all of these people putting their lives on the line for him, but it’s the truth of his position, that he can’t just go gallivanting off to be the big ol’ hero now when he has all of these people looking to him to be their new leader.

Of course, I understand all that in theory, while I spent the hour screaming at him for being a heartless jerk who abandoned his love. Because he’s supposed to be the one who’s different from his brother, the one who doesn’t throw away the people he loves just to keep his power! I’m with Seo-no on this one, and the prince and I are on a time-out until he stops pretending not to care about Chae-kyung. I know he’s lying to himself to try and distance his emotions and make the calculating move, but he has this habit of being so cruel and biting with his words when he lies, almost like he knows he has to hurt people’s feelings to break their unwavering trust in him. I would argue that his thinking is probably simpler—he’s lying to himself above all—but even knowing that, I wanted Seo-no to sock him in the face for saying that he regretted what he and Chae-kyung did to save Seo-no and his father.

It’s a good conflict, despite the setup being so familiar in almost every historical drama ever. We know Yeok wants to save Chae-kyung and that she would rather die than let him die again to save her, and the more each of them wants to sacrifice themselves for the other, the more it rips our hearts out. It helps that it’s not a senseless sacrifice, because Yeok’s identity as the prince, and therefore his life, is on the line. I know that Chae-kyung shouldn’t feel guilty over Yeok’s first brush with death, but I’m glad she was quick to understand the situation and read between the lines now, because I was concerned she’d have blind faith in Yeonsangun and do the stupid thing a second time. In youth you could chalk it up to their innocence and trust in the king, but now it would be foolish of her to tell Yeonsangun everything and trust that he wouldn’t try to kill his brother a second time. Her loyalty to Yeok in that moment makes all the difference, and I want—no, I need—Yeok to know that she would always choose him. I’m pretty sure the damn fool even knows that, deep down.

I thought it was pretty great to have all those callbacks to their childhood moments together, even as they were running for their lives (from the same assassin, no less), bickering as they always did. I just adore Chae-kyung’s unflappable optimism and how relentless she was about uncovering Yeok’s identity, and how among all the horrible things he said to her, she found a way to be happy over the fact that she wasn’t cheating on the memory of Yeok by being attracted to him. She cracks me up, and I’m sad that we’re already done with the stage of the romance where she’s torn between the two Yeoks because she’s unsure they’re the same person. It’s okay, I’ll just wait for the bickering to resume once Yeok comes to his senses and saves her. Because I’m not accepting any other scenario, and that’s that.

 
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