Set in an alternate 21st-century reality where
Korea possesses a royal family, since 1945 to present, this show revolves around
the lives of the Crown Prince (Hwangtaeja) Yi Shin, and his new bride,
Chae-kyeong. The depicted royal family in the show is modelled after the last
royal family of Korea, which in reality reigned until the start of the Japanese
Occupation in 1910 and was not reinstated after Japanese surrender in Second
World War, 1945.
The series starts off with the news that the
King, Shin's father, is very ill. With the grim outlook on the King's health,
the royal family scrambles to find a wife for Shin, so as to allow him to take
over the royal throne if the situation requires. Despite being in love with
another girl, the ambitious and talented ballerina Hyo-rin whom Shin initially
proposed to (she rejects him to pursue her ballet dreams), Shin eventually
marries a commoner to whom he was betrothed by his late grandfather in an old
agreement with the girl's grandfather. Shin marries the headstrong yet lovable
Chae-kyeong after Hyo-rin's rejection. Despite initially feeling nothing for
Chae-kyeong, love eventually blossoms between the couple.
In the meantime, however, matters are further
complicated with the return of Yi Yul and his mother Lady Hwa-Young, who was
once the Crown Princess (Bingoong) before the death of her husband, the late
Crown Prince, older brother of the current King. Yul and his mother were chased
out of the palace some time after the death of his father, and it is later
revealed that this was due to the King's discovery of an affair between Yul's
mother and the current King who was his father's younger brother. Yul's mother
had returned with a sinister motive in mind; to restore her son back to the
throne, which would have been his eventually, if his father had not died. A
series of events befall the palace with the schemes Yul's mother carries out,
and is further intensified by the various scandals involving the royal family,
which are inclusive of the Shin's continuing relationship with his old flame
Hyo-rin, and the budding love Yul develops for Chae-kyeong, his cousin's
new-found bride.
Region : 0
Dialogue: Korean, Mandarin
Subtitles: English & Chinese
Complete series
Discs: 9
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