Yeo-Ri walks into the palace. She finds a well in The Haunted Palace Episode 2. There’s a person calling her in the well. Yeo-Ri runs to the well. But she sees a scary water ghost.
Episode 2
The witch Yeo-Ri goes to the palace after she was invited by her first love Yoon Gab. Yoon Gab is killed and he becomes a ghost. The evil dragon Gangcheori catches the chance to possess Yoon Gab. But he falls off the cliff with Yeo-Ri.
Yeo-Ri wakes up. She finds out that she’s in the palace. The one who saved them were the bodyguards of the king. The doctor replies to the king that Yoon Gab cannot recover because the guy was hurt badly. Yeo-Ri is told that Yoon Gab was hurt by sword. She realizes that Gangcheori didn’t kill Yoon Gab.
The king asks the doctor to try his best to save Yoon Gab. He wants to know the mastermind of the assassination. The killer is Sang-Chung. He doesn’t believe it after knowing Yoon Gab is alive. He asks his follower to take the guy’s life before he wakes up.
The follower sneaks into the palace. He tries to kill Yoon Gab when he falls asleep. But Gangcheori wakes up suddenly. He kicks the killer out. The killer attacks Gangcheori with his sword then. Gangcheori blocks it with just one finger.
The maid hears the sound. The killer flees. The doctor finds out that Yoon Gab woke up so fast. He’s surprised. Gangcheori cannot get used to a mortal’s body. He keeps scratching his wounds. He’s hungry. The maid brings a bowl of porridge to him. He tastes it and he feels the beautiful when he ascended. He learns that the human sense of taste is so marvelous. He enjoys the porridge under the moon. The doctor thinks Yoon Gab lost his memories.
Yoon Gab gets angry after he tasted the porridge. What he ate was like wax. But humans could taste delicious food. He hears the ghost’s complaint from the palace. Yeo-Ri hears the voice as well. The voice calls her. It seems that he’s Yoon Gab’s soul.
She follows the voice and she finds a well. She tries to save the person. But she finds out that the one who’s in the well isn’t Yoon Gab. The water ghost Ok-Im drags Yeo-Ri into the well. Yeo-Ri tries to struggle. But she cannot resist because she lost the stone.
Gangcheori appears before Yeo-Ri is killed. He pulls her when she keeps falling. The water ghost tangles him with her long hair. He beats the water ghost back and she saves Yeo-Ri. It’s weird that he has feelings for Yeo-Ri because the human’s eyes. He thinks she’s pretty.
Yeo-Ri spits out a mouthful of water and she wakes up. She still worries about Yoon Gab’s soul. She believes the water ghost summoned her with Yoon Gab’s soul for a reason. She thinks Yoon Gab’s soul is in the palace. She wants to meet with the water ghost again for finding Yoon Gab’s soul. But Gangcheori goes against it.
Yeo-Ri is just a mortal without the magical stone. She’s not the rival of the ghost. There’s a cry from the ghost when Yeo-Ri and Gangcheori have an argument. Gangcheori knows it’s very dangerous. He tries to take Yeo-Ri away. But he passes out because he cannot bear the human’s body.
The next day, Yeo-Ri is taken to the palace. She plans to get glasses for the king. But the king takes out a pair of glasses. She finds out that the glasses were made by another magical stone. He tells her that he doesn’t need extra glasses. She’s shocked. But she needs to stay in the palace. She wants to ask the water ghost about the whereabouts of Yoon Gab’s soul. She recommends the new sunglasses to the king. She stays in the palace successfully.
Yeo-Ri wonders why Yoon Gab told a lie to her since the king doesn’t need glasses. She runs into Queen Park when she walks around the palace. She finds out that the queen is giving off the stench of evil ghosts. The queen learns that Yeo-Ri is the glasses craftswoman Yoon Gab recommended. She realizes something. She doesn’t punish Yeo-Ri for breaking into the backyard.
Yeo-Ri is told that the well is in the queen’s backyard. She leaves the backyard and she hears the maids talking about Yoon Gab. Yoon Gab got into the hot pot and he was mad. What the maid said is right. Gangcheori is standing on the rooftop. He plans to jump off the rooftop.
Yeo-Ri goes to the house. She sees Yoon Gab’s mother Young-Geum talking with the doctor. The doctor reveals Yoon Gab was taken to the brothel. Because he heard there’s a lot of delicious food. Gangcheori enjoys the food and he thinks he’s at a festival. The colleagues cannot afford it. They try to leave.
Young-Geum and Yeo-Ri show up. Young-Geum pinches her son’s ear. She drags him out of the brothel. Gangcheori doesn’t know her identity. He tries to deal with the person. But she worries about her son and she hugs him. She thinks he will bring trouble again.
Young-Geum mistakes Gangcheori for her son. She takes him home. Yeo-Ri has a talk with Young-Geum. They’re from the same neighborhood. Young-Geum remembers the divination of Yeo-Ri’s grandma. Yoon Gab was a week old. Yeo-Ri’s grandma told Young-Geum that the child won’t live past 30.
Young-Geum feels relieved after her son survived from the disaster. She thinks Yeo-Ri saved her son. Yeo-Ri cannot tell Young-Geum the truth that her son is dead. She sets up an offering table and she prays for the dead Yoon Gab. She remembers the past of them.
Yeo-Ri was considered ominous in the village. Only Yoon Gab helped her and he took her side. Little Yoon Gab thought the disaster in the village wasn’t brought by Gangcheori. Yeo-Ri shouldn’t take the blame. He invited her to leave with him. It seems that he doesn’t change his feelings for her.
Yeo-Ri mistook that Yoon Gab’s soul would go back to his mother. Gangcheori shows up. He tells Yeo-Ri that Yoon Gab is dead. He persuades her not to waste her time. He asks her to obey him. She’s still stubborn. She’s known he’s trapped in Yoon Gab’s body. He did something ridiculous for running away from the body. She reaches out her hand and she touches his chest.
She thinks what she touched was Yoon Gab’s warm body. Gangcheori knows her plan. She wants to find Yoon Gab’s soul and put it back into the body. She admits that her lover’s body is in front of her. But the soul inside the body is someone else. She cannot accept it. Gangcheori listens to Yeo-Ri confessing her feelings to Yoon Gab. He’s sad. He was stunned by her innocence when he saw her thirteen years ago.
The next day, the king asks the eunuch Eung-Soon to take Yoon Gab back to the palace. Gangcheori is sleeping. Yeo-Ri takes off the cover. She asks him not to use Yoon Gab’s body to do something capricious. She senses something unusual from his words. It seems that he knew why Yoon Gab took her to the palace.
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Gangcheori refuses to leak it. Yeo-Ri swears to find the truth on her own. He worries about her. He has to put on the official uniform. He returns to the palace with the eunuch. Yeo-Ri goes to the backyard. She ties the rope in the gazebo. She begins to cast a spell.
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She fishes out the dish and she opens it. The water ghost appears. Yeo-Ri asks her where Yoon Gab’s soul is. The water ghost reminds Yeo-Ri that she will die if she sees Yoon Gab. Because Yoon Gab was devoured by the Ghost King. Meanwhile, Queen Dowager hires a shaman to cast a spell. The young prince struggles in pain in the bed. Because the prince is possessed by the Ghost King.