Jang Hee Jae agrees to help Cheon Soo to find Dong Yi if he works for him. Jang Hee Jae is spooked when he hears that investigators are looking for Cheon Soo. Cheon Soo and Dong Yi run around looking for each other and they finally met. Then, the delegates from Qing have arrived but it's revealed that there are Joseon smugglers in the party. The smugglers are working with Jang Hee Jae and they are prepared to financially support Namin if they can smuggle freely into Joseon. Oh Tae Seok agrees to their demands and he needs to stop the investigations into the smugglers. Dong Yi meanwhile keeps thinking about the paper with Chinese characters on it which is later discovered as a code. Then, she sneaks into the guest house to take the things that she needs and runs away while chasing by the Qing guards. She then rushes over to a man. Then she realizes that the man is the King. 

Dong Yi is given three days to find the truth about the Joseon smuggler. She discovers that he staged his own death and the suicide note is not written by him. Then, Chief Seo heads to the nearest port to stop the smuggler from leaving Joseon. Cheon Soo who is given the task of taking smuggler, Kim Yoon Dal to the port, drops him there and watches the police arrest him. Oh Tae Seok is in charge of the investigation decides that smuggler Kim must be punished by death. Jang Ok Jeong sees the King chatting with Dong Yi and she asks him if he has feelings for Dong Yi. He denies it and plans a surprise banquet in Jang Ok Jeong's garden to announce that he will make Jang Ok Jeong his concubine.