In the palace, Navier walks to Sovieshu in The Remarried Empress episode 1. He notices that she doesn’t wear her ring. They walk to the hall. The gate opens. Navier and Sovieshu sleep in the tent. She strokes his hair. She gets up from bed. She needs to go to review the speech for New Year Festival. But he keeps her. He offers to write the speech that his empress is pregnant. The royal family welcomes a new life.
Navier walks in the woods. She sees a deer. She approaches her. She discovers that she has a baby. The deer sees Navier. She runs away. In the tent, Navier is praying. Sovieshu wants to know what she thinks that pardon his uncle. He mentions people complain that he shouldn’t keep imprisoning the member of the royal family. She says the guy tried to usurp the throne after the late emperor passed away. If they release the guy, he will threaten the imperial authority again.
He thinks nobody dares to covet the imperial throne if they have children. She hugs him. He offers to go hunting together.
The next day, Navier and Sovieshu walk into the barrier. He brings up the first time that they went hunting. Her archery skills were better than his. He thanks her for hunting less than him. She tells him that she won’t let him win.
Sovieshu leads his people to hunt in the forest. The slave falls into a hole. He sees a dead deer. He’s scared to run away. Navier’s slave is attacked by someone. Navier tries to shoot the boar. But he steps on the bell. He’s eaten by the monster. Navier shoots the monster. Sovieshu receives the danger signal. He goes to look for the empress.
Navier and her people run in the forest when they’re chased by the monster. She asks the bodyguard to guard Emperor’s hunting ground. She will lead the monster away. She sees a bird while she does it. She rides her horse out of the barrier. The monster is blocked by the barrier.
In the forest, Rashta is caught by three guys. Sovieshu shows up. Rashta asks him to save her. He kills two guys. The guy who survives runs away. The bodyguard joins Sovieshu. He reports that Empress is safe. Sovieshu asks the bodyguard to report it to Empress that it’s assassin. The bodyguard rides away. Sovieshu asks Rashta who is she? She tells him her name. She mistakes him for the lord. He laughs. He throws his clothes to her.
Navier’s wound is dressed in the tent. Sovieshu comes back. She goes to pick up her husband. She brings up that she heard that he encountered some assassins. She asks him was he hurt? She worries about him very much. He heard that she encountered a beast. She’s fine. He asks her to go back to the palace. The knights are hunting down the remaining member. She shouldn’t let anyone know about the assassins.
Navier returns to the palace with Eliza. The doctor tells her that she was very lucky that her muscle wasn’t hurt. The next day, she learns that Emperor doesn’t come back. Verdi figures the guy spent quite a bit of time to search the assassin. Navier tells Verdi and Laura Tallital that Emperor doesn’t want anyone to know what happened on the hunting ground. Eliza reports it to Navier that Albani arrived. Albani is going to begin the plan to save her father.
Navier asks Eliza not to neglect Albani. Because Albani is a member of the royal family. Navier drinks tea with Albani and the ladies. She doesn’t want Emperor to have any worry because of Albani. Eliza whispers in Navier’s ear that Emperor returned to the palace.
Knight Commander takes the assassin into the prison. He blames him for pulling out his sword in front of Emperor. The assassin says he can do anything as long as Knight Commander forgives him. But Knight Commander asks the assassin to confess who is the mastermind.
Rashta is taken out of the prison. She finds out that she’s in a room with a bathtub. In Navier’s room, Navier remembers Emperor wanted a child. Eliza tells Navier that it’s time to go to sleep. Navier wants to know if the knights figure who is the mastermind. Eliza wants to send someone to go to ask around. Navier rejects it. Because she will receive the message tomorrow.
Albani returns home. She complains it to her son that that woman is very sneaky. People in high society become Empress’s followers. She should have killed the woman 15 years ago. Her cleverness made the city gate fall, and Sovieshu broke in. Everyone was busy in winning her over. The Empress didn’t bat an eye. She enjoyed it.
He tells her that those guys should have flattered her. The masters of the palace should be her and his father. She thinks they should take back the Titles and Estates.
The next day, Laura Tallital reports it to Empress that Emperor picked a woman home. Eliza thinks the woman is the assassin. Laura disagrees. She says the woman was trapped, and Emperor saved her. Emperor likes the woman very much. He let the maids take bath for her. She was beautiful and cute after she took off her dirty clothes.
It flashes back. Rashta wears maid’s clothes. She’s taken to see Emperor. She worries about it after he took care of her. He takes a look at her. He asks the doctor to heal her.
At present, Verdi is surprised that Emperor summoned the royal doctor for a woman of unknown origin. Laura tells Verdi that Emperor was smitten with the woman. Eliza asks Laura to shut up. But Verdi thinks they should take care of it as soon as possible. Emperor has never been interested in other women, except Empress. He promises he wouldn’t take a concubine.
Eliza drives Laura and Verdi out of Empress’s room. Verdi worries that Emperor let the woman enter his bedroom. She asks Laura did they sleep? Eliza comforts Empress that Emperor wouldn’t do something that crosses the line. But it makes sense that the maids’ concerns. She thinks she should have a talk with Emperor to know his plans. Empress summons Minister of Finance. They need to talk about the budge of New Year Festival.
In the garden, Eliza gives some money to Laura. She asks her to go to look into what happened after Emperor came back from the hunting ground. The next day, Marquess Lante reports it to Emperor that the assassin is a slave hunter. He broke into the hunting ground by mistake while he hunted the woman. There was a slave trader’s territory nearby the hunting ground. According to what the assassin said, the woman had a high bounty.
Emperor wants to meet the assassin in person after the interrogation ends. He will decide his fate. Marquess Lante reminds Emperor that he needs to have dinner with Empress tonight.
Empress goes out alone. She runs into the bird again. She touches her, and she thinks she’s beautiful. She finds a letter from her. Prince tells Empress that their encounter is a fate. Emperor walks into the room when Rashta is eating. He asks her about her leg. She says her leg is recovering because of him. He checks her wound. He asks her how did she end up in such a situation? He figures she made a mistake to her master. He won’t punish her. He just wants to know her more.
Empress writes back to Prince. She wishes he will reach the fate he’s chasing. Rashta tells Emperor that she didn’t make any mistake. She fled because she was dying. She was afraid of Lord’s whipping. She wanted to survive. She knows she will be driven out of the palace after her leg recovers. Someone like her shouldn’t stay in the palace.
She gets on her knees to him. She begs him not to send her back to Lord’s place. She will be beaten to death if she goes back to the place. He helps her up. He wipes off her tears. He kisses her. He promises her that he won’t let her endure the pain again. Empress releases the bird at the city gate.