Moon is shining brightly in the dark sky. Bobby the ghost saw the queen is playing gujin in a lake house with her son, crown prince Noel. He ran to the lake house to eavesdrop on their conversation.
Crown Prince Noel is telling the queen about the wonderful trip he had in Donghua. She missed King Jamal, and she did not pay any attention to the crown prince. Tears rolling down to her cheek.
She stroked the face of her son and she revealed to him that King Jamal is his biological father. Crown Prince Noel laughed.
"Mother, please do not joke about something like this."
She shook her head and confirmed that it was the truth. He was silent, shocked and dazed
She confirmed that this is the truth. Crown prince Noel turns speechless.
Bobby gasped in shock. He flew to the chamber of Prince Liam quickly to inform them about what he just heard from the queen.
Prince Liam and Olena were too shocked to speak. They could not sleep well. Tossing and turning on their bed. Prince Liam can not accept the fact that the Shilla throne will be ascended by the crown prince after he finds out the crown prince does not belong to the royal lineage.
When the sun rises at dawn, Prince Liam and Olena visit the research institute. He noticed Princess Mona was teasing Mori.
He does not want the princess to get involved, since the truth might hurt her feelings. "Princess Mona, would you kindly help me to get more donations from the queen mother?" He smiled.
Princess Mona frowned, she just arrived to meet Mori but was told to go back to the palace. Mori knew Prince Liam had something to inform them, he persuaded Princess Mona to help them. Princess Mona could not refuse Mori's request. She smiled and walked towards her palanquin. Instructed the servants to bring her back to the palace.
Prince Liam grabbed Mori's arm and looked at him. He asked, "Mori, do you know if there is any method we can verify the paternity."
Mori nodded and clarified a test method. "We can conduct a blood test to verify the paternity. The parent and children drop their blood into a bowl of water to see if the blood merged. If the blood merges, they are blood-related. If the blood does not merge, then they are not blood-related."
Prince Liam revealed to the team members that crown prince Noel's biological father is King Jamal, the king of Donghua. They turned speechless and shocked.
Olena said, "We must spread the news and make sure the King finds out about this. The king must depose the crown prince. The crown prince is brutal and he does not belong to the royal lineage. And he is the future king of Shilla!"
They prepared a lot of papers, and they wrote on the papers, "King George is not the real father to Crown Prince Noel." They made a lot of copies.
In the middle of the night when everyone is sleeping, they attach the papers to every notice board in the town.
Yoona, Sora, and Leah bounce around the roof in the village to throw the papers down, distributing them in every street in town.
In the morning when the commoners flocked the market, they got shocked. Rumours began to spread across the country.
The courtiers began to gossip about this. Soon, the queen and the crown prince found out someone is spreading the rumour. Queen Aliyah became furious, but the crown prince has nothing to say. He still can't believe it and broke down in tears.
During the court meeting, ministers are pestering the king to investigate this issue. King George does not know what to say, does not know what to do. Confused, angry, shocked escalated in him.
Olena strode forward to give a suggestion. King George nodded to give her permission to speak. "I believe everyone wants to know the truth. We can conduct blood tests to check if Crown Prince Noel belongs to Shilla's royal lineage."
Ministers agreed. "How can we conduct the blood test?"
Olena explained, "Father and son can drop their blood on a bowl of water. If the blood merges, they are blood-related. If the blood does not merge, they are not blood-related."
"We need to conduct the test to suppress angry citizens."
Crown Prince Noel detest the idea. He disagreed with Prince Liam. He voices out, "We must punish anyone who slanders and defame me. Otherwise, they will not stop. It doesn't matter if they know the truth."
King George agreed with both his sons. He seeks opinion from the ministers.
The Minister of Defense spoke out, "Both of the princes have a good idea. First, reveal the truth by conducting a blood test, and if anyone continues to slander the crown prince, we will impose severe punishment on them."
King George asked to conduct the blood test right away. Olena summoned Mori.
Mori came forward with a bowl of water. He requested King George and Crown Prince Noel to move forward. Using a needle to prick on their fingers, their finger started to bleed. He instructed them to drop the blood on the bowl. King George dropped his blood into the bowl, Crown Prince Noel dropped his blood into the bowl. Their blood does not merge.
Crown prince Noel said, "This test may not be right."
Olena knew that Crown Prince Noel is getting worried and she knew that she will pass the paternity test because the blood in Prince Liam belongs to the royal lineage.
Olena said, "Mori, I would like a blood test with my father."
Olena and King George dropped their blood into another bowl. The blood merged.
Everyone became speechless, they dared not speak.
King George threw the bowl, he got angry. Everyone knelt, pleading with the king to calm down. The crown prince shed a tear.
King George announced to strip their title and requested them to leave the capital, exile themselves anywhere they wish to go. He summons Princess Mona. The king requested Mori to conduct a blood test for him and Princess Mona.
Princess Mona arrived at the court, trembled. She has never seen her father so angry.
Mori pricked the needle on Princess Mona's finger and the king's finger. The result revealed that Princess Mona is indeed the biological daughter of the king.
Princess Mona collapsed when she found out the king deposed her mother and her brother. The queen refused to fight back, even though she could. She wanted to go to Donghua country to stay with King Jamal, the man she truly loves.
King George became upset after he knew the truth. He instructed his palace guards to kill the queen and the crown prince while they were on their journey. However, the mission fails because the queen has several elite bodyguards. The queen was guessing it was the king who sent the assassin. She became furious and instructed her bodyguards to kill the king.
Bobby, who was spying on the Queen, quickly informed Prince Liam about the queen instructing her bodyguard to kill the king.
Prince Liam ran towards the main palace to inform the king. He brought him to a secret hideout and set a trap in the king's chamber.
In the middle of the night, when everyone is sleeping.
The bodyguard barged into the king's chamber. He felt dizzy and fainted on the floor. Prince Liam burnt some incense that will put someone to sleep. The royal guards arrested the bodyguard and put him into a prison cell.
Master Woon took a sword to pierce into the bodyguard's veins to destroy his martial art and weaken him. Olena approached the bodyguard. The bodyguard woke up in pain, pleading for mercy.
"Please pardon me. When I was a child, the queen's clan kidnapped me. I am not the only one, but many other children. They abused, beaten us if we refused to obey them. The queen's gang held our parents."
The bodyguard continued to speak, "I'm not afraid to die, but please save my parents who are working for the Queen's family."
Olena promised him that she will look into this. She began to worry that the queen would send more killers to kill the bodyguard. She instructed Yoona to take him to a secret hideout. Physician Lai is staying in the secret hideout as well.
The deposed queen and the deposed crown prince continued their journey to Donghua. On the way, deposed crown prince Noel was drowned with sorrow but deposed queen Aliyah is smiling and looking forward to meeting up with King Jamal again.
In the study room of the king, Olena meets the king to inform him about the bodyguard. He wanted to reveal to the king the queen's crimes. King George summons the bodyguard.
The bodyguard arrives, pays his respect to the king, and kneels before the king.
King George says, "Now tell me everything that you know and list out the ministers who are working with the queen."
The bodyguard tells the king, "The queen has a poppy plantation and some other poisonous herbs at the border of the country. That's where they were producing some kind of drug. They drugged our parents, will give us the painkiller if we obey the queen or our parents will be in extreme pain."
The king stared at the bodyguard with brooding eyes and said, "continue..."
The bodyguard reveals more, "The previous queen, a few bodyguards raped her. It was an instruction by the queen. She committed suicide because she could not bear the humiliation."
King George's heart pounds in anger to learn the truth behind the death of Queen Maria. Olena's face turns woeful.
King George in a sullen face, "Who are the ministers that are backing the queen?"
The bodyguard says, "The minister of defence is the major supporter of the queen. Chief counsellor, censor-in-chief, the junior ministers of every district."