When Baek-ah asks if Su understands what the poem means, she looks at it from the surface level only, guessing that because it mentions willows and water, it must be about nature. 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.” Baek-ah begins to read for her, only to be interrupted by the arrival of Lady Hae, who finishes the poem from memory.
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Su claims that she totally does know how to read, she just conveniently forgot when she hit her head. 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 tries her best to figure the poem out one character at a time, only to bemoan the fact that she’s as good as illiterate in this time period. Is he, by chance, testing her? Su has no hope of being able to read the complex Hanja characters, and she’s severely misguided if she thinks that her slave Chae-ryung will be able to read it, which she can’t. Wook decides to give her a poem instead, instructing her to read it carefully. She realizes this belatedly and changes her answer to the much more ladylike “poems,” which gives Wook pause. He suddenly asks her whether she likes poems or songs more, but he’s surprised when she answers that she likes songs, which were more popular with commoners than poetry, which required literacy.
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He notices her staring awkwardly and smiles, telling her that it’s a poem originally penned by the famous Chinese poet Tao Yuanming, and that he’s including it in the letter he’s written for his wife (since she always sends a poem along). This requires Su to come closer to Wook at his writing desk, where she becomes transfixed with his calligraphy. 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. Wook decides that being politely dismissive is the best course of action, and goes about his work as best he can. Next thing we know, she’s asked Su to meet her in the library… only when Su enters, it’s not her cousin she sees, but Wook. Lady Hae sees the change in her husband’s expression, and looks from him to Su. He only agrees with his wife’s wish to keep Su around for as long as possible. But when Lady Hae mentions that she wants to find a good husband for Su, Wook’s face turns unreadable. His wife doesn’t miss this look from him, but only mentions how happy Su is, and how much she’s changed since her injury-for the better, in most respects. Wook watches from afar, a smile lighting his face. Su is delighted, and mixes a concoction together to create soap for both Lady Hae and the queen. Lady Hae presents Su with a host of medicinal herbs courtesy of eighth prince Wook, since she’d expressed interest in them before.
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Despite the astronomer’s arguments, So claims he can’t 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.
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What’s important is that So is counted among the princes, and it’s clear by the queen’s glare toward him that she is not happy about it.īut rather than choose to live in his designated palace quarters, So brings his things to Astronomer Choi’s tower, much to the man’s dismay. The princes, dressed ceremonially, look on as King Taejo pays his respects to the ancestral tablets of kings past. I laughed, I cried, I cursed at certain characters for being awful people. Her flailing around provides some much-needed (and honestly surprising) levity during an episode rife with confused feelings and repressed emotions. Our heroine gets put through the wringer when it comes to history this hour, and manages to be pretty darn entertaining while she’s at it. 830 SeptemMoon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo: Episode 5 by HeadsNo2