Ron Does Stuff

A lot of things happened in the previous episode and only some of it involved the honestly not-as-exciting romance between the leads. We find out that the queen isn’t who she says he is! Naksu has been manipulated into killing innocent people! Jang Wook finds out that Jin Mu is behind the soul shifters!

Let’s dive into this new episode!

Just like they planned to do in the previous episode, the mages of Songrim are working on making the petrified body of the soul shifter speak. Seo Yool, however, is thinking about how the mages could instead think of a way of turning these soul shifters human again. He brings up the magical hailstone, but Park Jin tells him that that kind of magic is forbidden.

In Jin Mu’s lair, we also get a hint as to why he ended up killing Bu-yeon — who could possibly be Mu-deok, the girl whose body Naksu is in — because it seems like she was calling on the power of the skies to take back the magical hailstone. But it isn’t explored further as we go back to the constellation room, where Naksu has unwittingly called down lightning from the sky because she dipped her hand in the room’s magical water.

Jang Wook and Naksu are in a bind now, because Jin Mu will of course go to the room to check out what happened, but the lightning strike has temporarily blinded Naksu and Jang Wook doesn’t know his way around the place. So Jang Wook uses the couple jade that called over the crown prince in the last episode with “a fluttering heart!” I AM DECEASED.

This is really something Jang Wook needs because Jin Mu has just given his men orders to kill him and Naksu if they fight back. Jin Mu calls out for him, figuring out that they were hiding and had not gotten out, and Jang Wook goes out to face him.

Of course, Jang Wook doesn’t have the strength or the skill to fight him, and I am pleasantly surprised that the tactic he goes with is outwitting Jin Mu, telling him about how the two jade pieces brings its bearers together and now the crown prince is on his way. Even better, he convinces Jin Mu that he left the jade piece he had in his possession in the body of the soul shifter that Naksu got rid of.

Of course, the jade isn’t on the body, and by the time Jin Mu figures this out the crown prince has already arrived and Jang Wook has told him everything. The show also gives us a little tease about the identity of Naksu/Mu-deok/Bu-yeon, because with an eye scarf on, Jin Mu seems to think that she is Bu-yeon. EIther way, how will Jin Mu wiggle his way out of this one?

Back in the Jang household, Master Lee reveals that Naksu’s father was actually the best friend of Jang Wook’s father, and that Jang Wook’s father has been gone for decades supposedly looking for Naksu. Master Lee subtly implies that Naksu is Mu-deok, but head maidservant Kim isn’t picking up what he’s putting down.

Back at Jin Mu’s lair, things aren’t looking good for Jin Mu as the crown prince has summoned Park Jin to investigate Jang Wook’s claims. Fortunately for him and unfortunately for the heroes, Jin Mu calls in his trump card, the queen, who brings the soul shifter eunuch with her alive and well. Of course, because she has the magical hailstone, she can do this!

But let it not be said that the mages of Songrim aren’t quick-thinking. Without any evidence to back his claims, Jang Wook “admits” to lying, which Park Jin then turns around to asking for access to Jin Mu’s lair under the pretense of fixing the constellation basin that the bolt of lightning damaged.

Jin Mu tries to get Jang Wook to stay in his lair instead, under the guise of discipline, but Naksu goes into entertaining dramatics that gets him out of there with no trouble. With everybody out of Jin Mu’s lair now, the crown prince makes some pretty astute observations. First, Jang Wook isn’t skilled enough to have called down lightning to damage the basin. Second, he notices that Jin Mu is gripping his sword pretty tightly.

Outside the lair, Park Jin tells Jang Wook that he knows he isn’t lying, and that seeing the eunuch alive again finally confirms their suspicion that Jin Mu has the magical hailstone. In the lair, the queen and Jin Mu interrogate the eunuch, wondering who exactly called down the lightning bolt since Jang Wook doesn’t have the skill to do it. The eunuch has no idea either, so the queen and Jin Mu think that Jang Wook might just be hiding his true skill. And then we get a great scene of the queen drawing out the magical hailstone from the eunuch’s body with magic!

Then we get a scene where Naksu sorta says I love you back so let’s skip that and go back to the crown prince, who is piecing things together. If Jin Mu didn’t do anything wrong, why did he have a sword with him? And if Jang Wook was the culprit, why was he unarmed?

Meanwhile, Jang Wook is “punished” by being sent back home, where he ends up going fishing with Master Lee since the fishing trip is actually a lesson on how to master Chisu. Sof course now he’s raring to ~fish~.

Less enthusiastic is the Jin matriarch, who has been approached by Park Jin to aid in finding the soul shifters hidden in the four families. Because of her deal with Jin Mu, the matriarch refuses, and Park Jin straight up says that she’s only doing this because of that. Which, predicatably, does not go over well with the matriarch. While the adults are fighting, Dang-gu and Chu-yeon are being all cute and couple-y and having chemistry.

While that is going on, Seo-i is going through the worst job orientation as Jin Mu paints a mole behind her ear and carves a scar on her arm so that she more closely resembles Bu-yeon. The show then shows those exact same physical traits on Mu-deok’s body, confirming that Mu-deok is Bu-yeon!

Seo Yool and Dang-gu are also in Jin Mu’s lair, ostensibly to oversee the repair of the constellation basin but are there to scope out the situation. Behind a secret panel, Seo-i looks wistfully at Seo Yool and girl I don’t blame you. She knows he’s out of his league as Seo-i, but once she’s Bu-yeon she’ll “have a chance” with this hottie.

Back in the Jang household, head maidservant Kim is holding a memorial service for Naksu and her father, which finally gives Naksu the opportuity to mourn everything she’s lost up until this point. Seo Yool catches her and has this internal dialogue of how he can’t muster up the courage to tell her that he knows who she is.

Seo Yool also tells Jang Wook that he’s leaving Songrim and will be headed back to his home and that she intends to take someone with him, which he assumes is going to be Naksu. But he doesn’t have time to worry about that as he has to go back to Songrim to fight his last duel. Which turns out to be Seo Yool.