The drama starts off with Chae-Ok and Sung Baek exchanging swords in a bamboo forest. Chae-Ok asks Sung Baek if he wants to kill her, and he replied, "I have already killed you." Their fighting commences, and Sung Baek managed to escape and run.
The next scene shows Sung Baek chased by the police led by Commander Jo. After being shot by an arrow,
Sung Baek falls off the horse and starts running. Commander Jo tells Sung Baek that everything is now over. Sung Baek told him that "The road you run upon is not a road.. A road that is not a road.. a road is not a road from the beginning.. one person travels on it.. then two people travel on it.. Many people travel it.. and that is how it becomes a road. In this dark world I have merely run toward a new road.
Commander Jo told him to stop this nonsense, and this would be the place where he will die. Sung Baek told him that indeed, he will die here today. But in the future many people will walk on the road that he took, and a new world will open. Even though he dies today, he will not fully die. He urges Commander Jo to hurry up and kill him. Commander Jo angrily shouts how dare he, the criminal, asks for death on his own terms. Chae-Ok steps forward and says if Sung Baek doesn't die from her sword, she would regret it for the rest of her life. Sung Baek tells here not to make any mistakes this time. Chae-Ok and Sung Baek begins to fight...
We are then taken one year before that incident (1693 a.d., 19th year of King Sook Jung of Joseon dynasty)
Chae-Ok serves tea that was prepared by Lady Jo Nan-Hee (Commander Jo's daugther) to Commander Jo and Hwang Bo Yoon. Won-Hae arrives to inform Commander Jo and Yoon about the sudden death of a townman's daughter-in-law. Won-Hae and Chae-Ok went at the scene to investigate. Chae-Ok discovers that it was a crime by one of the male slaves working at the household. After cleverly finding out the identity
of the perpetrator, Chae-Ok and Won-Hae was told by Yoon that they did a good job, but was angry at
Chae-Ok by putting herself at risk against the offender.
A polo match between the Left Police Bureau and the Right Police Bureau is commencing. During the match, the Left Police Bureau was short of players, and Won-Hae asked Chae-Ok to participate. Chae-Ok was discovered by Jo Chi-Oh, who got angry and offended that a woman is playing in the game. Chae-Ok refuses to kneel and ask for forgiveness since in her opinion, she has not done anything wrong. The Left Police Bureau and the Right Police Bureau get into a brawl, where several of Jo Chi-Oh's men got severely injured.
Back at the police station, Commander Yoon learns of the incident and prepares to bear the responsibility.
Chae-Ok, fearing that the incident will cause harm to Yoon's future, goes to see Jo Chi-Oh alone. Jo Chi-Oh
offers to let go of the incident in exchange of her life. Yoon arrives at the scene and tries to save Chae-Ok
by promising to resign, but Jo Chi-Oh refuses to sheathe his sword and offers to cut Chae-Ok's right arm instead. Chae-Ok suffers a deep cut and faints.
Yoon tends to Chae-Ok's wound and asks her if it hurts. Chae-Ok says yes in which Yoon replied that it hurts him too. Yoon tells Chae-Ok that before she became his servant, she was like a sister to him, so she shouldn't hurt him again. Chae-Ok's eyes start to produce tears and says that a slave like her cannot be his sister. The likes of her should not be an obstacle to Yoon's dreams. Yoon doesn't wish to fulfill a dream that will sacrifice Chae-Ok, and he apologized for being too harsh earlier.
At the police station, the police force has recovered conuterfeit money and Chae-Ok was instructed to deliver the counterfeits to another agency.
Chae-Ok gets on a boat with other passengers. A man carrying his sick child and his wife begs for room on the boat. Chae-Ok steps off to make room, and Jang Sung-Baek (wearing a hat that conceals his face) and his assistant, Soo-Myung, stepped off the boat as well. A government official then jumps on the boat and refuses to give up his seat, saying he has important things to do. Chae-Ok was about to use force on the government official but Jang Sung Baek stopped her, and together have devised another way of getting the official out of the boat.
Soo-myung tells Sung-Baek that he (referring to Chae-Ok) seems like a man of justice, and should be recruited by them. Sung-Baek tells her it is not a man, but a woman, leaving Soo-Myung confused.
Chae-Ok rests at a tavern where the hostess conspired with her husband, Ma Chook Ji, to steal Chae-Ok's luggage. Chae-Ok's luggage, which contains the counterfeit coins was stolen.
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