The Haunted Palace is a ghost drama. It’s starred by Yook Sung-Jae and Bona. There’s a scary ghost the eight-legged ghost who stays in the palace. He possessed the prince and he had an evil plan. The king didn’t sense the ghost but he worried about his son. So he sent Yoon Gab to go to look for the outstanding witch. Yoon Gab remembered Yeo-Ri. He knew she’s the right person.
He found her and he invited her to go to the palace with him. He told her a lie to her that he wants her to make glasses for the king. But he was killed before he entered the palace. Yeo-Ri decided to stay in the palace in episode 2. Because she wanted to save her first love. But she was almost killed by the water ghost. She knows her first love was eaten by the eight-legged ghost in episode 3.
Did Yoon Gab Use Yeo-Ri?
Yeo-Ri begins to pray after knowing the eight-legged ghost ate her lover’s soul. The prince vomits black blood. The black blood is Yoon Gab’s soul. Yoon Gab flees from the eight-legged ghost. But he’s caught soon. Yeo-Ri worries about her lover. She tries to save him. But she’s stopped by Gangcheori. He knows she’s not the ghost’s rival. This is why he went against it when she tries to get into the palace because he knows the eight-legged ghost is in the palace.
Yeo-Ri is told that Yoon Gab used her for the righteousness in his heart. She doesn’t believe that the guy would do that. She has a fight with Gangcheori. Young-Geum shows up. She’s going to go to wash Yoon Gab’s clothes. Yeo-Ri takes over the clothes. She finds the long life rope from the clothes. She remembers she gave the rope to him before they split up. She wished the rope to protect him. But he’s dead. He promised to pick her up. But he’s dead. She cries and she thinks the long life rope doesn’t work at all. Gangcheori sees her crying. He doesn’t expect that he bought the trouble to her.
Yeo-Ri Takes Revenge for Water Ghost
The next day, he finds out that she’s at home. He throws a fit to Young-Geum. He worries that the silly girl went to look for the eight-legged ghost. The eunuch visits Yeo-Ri with the glasses. He asks her to fix the king’s glasses. It’s what she wants. Because she needs the glasses that were made by the magical stone.
Yeo-Ri and Water Ghost have a deal. She finds Prince Yeongin who’s playing football. She learns that he’s Water Ghost’s enemy. She puts a jar on the ground and she puts Water Ghost’s hair into the jar full of water. Prince Yeongin sees the maid who jumped into the well and took her life. He’s surprised and he walks to her. But she disappears. He sees a jar.
He’s interested in the jar. He’s close to the jar for looking a look at it. But he’s dragged into the jar by Water Ghost. Water Ghost questions him why he did it to her. She was a maid and she was bullied by the prince. She thought she doesn’t have a hope. So she killed herself.
Water Ghost asks the prince to die with her. Yeo-Ri breaks the jar when the prince struggles. He’s saved. But she sees his looks of his death. Water Ghost thanks Yeo-Ri for taking revenge for her. She tells her to go to look for the prince’s clothes. Yeo-Ri reminds Water Ghost that she will be an evil ghost who cannot be reincarnated if she continues to hurt people.
Water Ghost looked scary in episode 2. She almost killed Yeo-Ri. It seems that she did it for a reason. She knew the girl is a witch and she wanted to take revenge on the prince. Only Yeo-Ri can help her. She knew the witch wants to save her lover. So she leaked some information about Yoon Gab. Water Ghost was a poor girl. She came to the palace and she served the king. But the evil prince had feelings for her. He forced her to sleep with him. He didn’t plan to marry her because he’s a beast. She was an innocent and she lost her chastity. She couldn’t live in the palace and she didn’t have face to go home. She had to end her life.
Water Ghost began to kill people after she was dead. She was full of hate. Fortunately, Yeo-Ri takes revenge for her. But she doesn’t kill the prince. Water Ghost is happy with it after the prince had a hard time. She repays Yeo-Ri.
Yoon Gab and Yi Sung Become Enemies
Gangcheori is looking for Yeo-Ri when she’s with Water Ghost. The eunuch complains that Yeo-Ri always leaves. He threatens to give the girl a lesson. Gangcheori is furious to beat the eunuch. Yeo-Ri comes back. He smells the ghost smell from her body. He suspects that she went to see the eight-legged ghost. She denies it and she checks his ankle. She worries about his injury. He’s shy after knowing she cares for him. He wants to take her home. But she speaks aloud. It draws the eunuch who’s looking for Yoon Gab. The eunuch asks Yoon Gab to go to see the king with him.
The king summons Sang-Chung to his palace. He knows Sang-Chung was the one who assassinated Yoon Gab in the woods. He called Yoon Gab for testifying against Sang-Chung. But Gangcheori is drawn by the snacks outside. He’s not polite to the king after he walked into the palace.
The king asks Yoon Gab to recall the assassination. Gangcheori remembers Sang-Chung was the one who killed Yoon Gab. But he told a lie to the king that he doesn’t remember it. The king is disappointed but he doesn’t give up. He lifts Yoon Gab’s clothes and the scar is exposed. He thinks the scar wasn’t made by ordinary bandit. He intends to ask Sang-Chung to look into it.
Sang-Chung leaves the palace. The king takes out a plan about abolition of slavery. Gangcheori scolds the king. He thinks he’s naive. Because hierarchy is human nature. The Yoon Gab makes the king feel uneasy. Because Yoon Gab cried after he read the king’s proposal. He wished to get an equal world as a lowly son. The king learns that Yoon Gab is changed. He asks the eunuch to watch Yoon Gab.
Yoon Gab and the king Yi Sung were friends. The king sent Yoon Gab to go to look the witch who can heal the prince. But Yoon Gab was attacked by Sang-Chung. The king summons Sang-Chung to his palace. He wishes Yoon Gab to testify against the bad guy. But Yoon Gab uses a trick to refuse it.
The king doesn’t know Yoon Gab is controlled by Gangcheori. The real Yoon Gab is dead. Gangcheori hates the King because the king got Yeo-Ri involved the trouble. The king does know it. He still thinks Yoon Gab will take his side when he takes out his plan. The plan is very good. It makes the young people like Yoon Gab wants to follow the king. But Gangcheori is a dragon. He’s not interested in it.
Yi Sung Is Possessed by Eight-Legged Ghost
Yeo-Ri goes to the forest. She takes away the prince’s clothes. She leaves the palace and she begins to cast a spell. She plans to let Yoon Gab’s soul leave the eight-legged ghost. The eight-legged ghost comes to the woods. Yeo-Ri tells a lie to him that she wants to serve him with her body.
Yoon Gab needs to leave the ghost if Yeo-Ri wants to save him. The ghost is satisfied with her body. He dances with her. She tries to touch the rope. But he sees through her trick. He approaches her. She tries to go to get the glasses. But he gets her under him. He takes the stone and he tries to hit her.
Fortunately, Gangcheori arrives. He saves Yeo-Ri. He catches the eight-legged ghost. But the king shoots Gangcheori. Yeo-Ri tells the king not to break into the rope area. She persuades him that they do it for saving the prince. But he doesn’t believe it.
Gangcheori kidnaps the prince with the knife. The king has to ask the followers to wait for his order. Yeo-Ri puts the glasses on the prince’s body. She casts a spell. The spell works. The prince vomits the black blood. The blood scar on his face disappears.
The eight-legged ghost leaves the prince’s body. Unfortunately, the rope Yeo-Ri set up is burned by the bodyguard. The eight-legged ghost flees from the formation. The king pulls out his sword with murder intention. It seems that he becomes the new vessel of eight-legged ghost without the protection of the magical stone.
Yeo-Ri gets the prince’s clothes after she helped Water Ghost. The clothes are the key to draw the eight-legged ghost. Yeo-Ri set up the formation. The ghost comes. The plan is perfect. But Yeo-Ri cannot deal with the ghost alone. She didn’t invite Gangcheori to take part in the mission. Because she doesn’t trust him. Gangcheori comes before the witch is killed.
They team up. It seems that the evil ghost will be killed. But the king shows up because he suspected that Yeo-Ri and Yoon Gab will hurt his son. The eight-legged ghost possesses the king in the end. Yeo-Ri came to the palace but her lover was killed. He was alive as a soul. The soul was eaten by the eight-legged ghost.
Yeo-Ri wants to know the truth why Yoon Gab took her to the palace. She doesn’t believe that he would do that, according to their relationship. This is why she tries her best to save his soul. But she makes the terrible result.
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The king is the ruler of the nation. He cannot imagine what will happen in the palace. We see the king walking to the two when he carries a sword. Will they be killed? I worry about the lead roles very much. I also worry about the palace. The king is controlled by the eight-legged ghost. The palace will be a hell. It depends on the ghost’s decision.
The prince and Yoon Gab are saved. Will they help Yeo-Ri and Gangcheori? We aren’t sure about it. The prince is young. He doesn’t have abilities to do that. But his mother Queen Park can do the job. Yeo-Ri sees the future that Prince Yeongin was killed in a brutal way. His mouth is stuffed with rice. He deserves the death. But we don’t wish him to be killed in such a way. The prince’s ending is so awful. Will others survive in the palace?