Park Bo-Gum, who plays the part of Crown Prince Lee Yeong, began playing the piano when he was five and decided he wanted to be a singer/songwriter. And I can’t forget the lovely, young, noble woman who has a kind heart and is truly in love with the prince. There’s also a scheming minister who plots to have his clan take over the throne. The queen is an evil woman whose only desire is power, at all costs. There are two darling men who are new eunuch recruits at the same time Ra-On joins the palace servants. She’s a chubby-faced young woman whose love letter (from a man she’s never met) begins the whole story. There are many other characters who add to the story. He has been given secret orders to find the daughter of the man who began the failed uprising that killed hundreds of people and traumatized the King ten years earlier. Although he is aloof and keeps to himself most of the time, he and Eunuch Hong (Ra-On) live together at Repentance Hall. He is a magnificent swordsman and protects Lee Yeong with his life. Kim Byung-Yeon is the Crown Prince’s best, most trusted friend. Kim Yoon-Sung and Lee Yeong were very close as children but the relationship grew distant when Kim Yoon-Sung’s evil aunt became the queen after the death of Lee Yeong’s mother. He offers to take her away from the palace and let her live as his woman, although he is fully aware of her feelings for the Crown Prince, but she kindly turns down the offer so she can remain by her master’s side. He finally tells Ra-On he is aware of the fact that she is really a woman and does whatever he can to make sure her secret is not revealed. Kim Yoon-Sung knew the minute he met Hong Sam-Nom that he/she was really a woman but goes along with the charade for a while. She liked Lee Yeong before she even knew who he really was and finds it difficult at times to be near the future King while hiding who she really is. Although she lives in fear of her secret being discovered she does her best in the role she was assigned as the Crown Prince’s eunuch. He is aware of the fact that some of the King’s ministers are plotting against his father and Lee Yeong wants to protect the throne from getting in the hands of those treasonous men.Īlthough Hong Ra-On wants to live life as a woman she continues to disguise herself as a man out of respect and love for her mother’s wishes. Lee Yeong doesn’t really want the job of Prince Regent but agrees to the position to ease his father’s burdens. Due to an incident involving a certain group trying to overthrow the government, Lee Yeong’s father, the King, suffers from paranoia and wants his son to take over. He was raised by a kind mother who taught him how to be a king who listens to his people and uses his power to enrich their lives. It doesn’t take long for Prince Lee Yeong to fall for his new, lovable eunuch, and what’s a prince to do when he begins to have feelings for a “man”?Ĭrown Prince Lee Yeong hasn’t let authority go to his head. And just how does a girl become the Crown Prince’s eunuch? Well, fate always finds a way to match up the two lovers that are supposed to be together. To pay off a debt, Sam-Nom is given to the people who sell men to the palace to be eunuchs. However, a handsome scholar shows up instead and, through TWO cases of mistaken identity, Hong Sam-Nom and Crown Prince Lee Yeong meet, unaware of who the other is, and things go terribly (and hilariously) wrong. One fateful day she poses as one of her clients to, on his behalf, meet the girl the man is interested in. Life was difficult but she managed to survive by being a romance counselor. When she was eight years old she was separated from her mother and raised by a man she referred to as (but was not) her father. Instructed by her mother to tell the world she is male, Kim Ra-On has lived her whole life as a boy named Hong Sam-Nom. The best way for a girl to hide in plain sight is to disguise herself as a boy. I’m not a huge fan of Korean historical dramas, as you can tell by the sheer lack of them in my reviews, but I found one that was so wonderfully delicious I can’t help but shout it to the rooftops – Moonlight Drawn by Clouds!!! An excellent, excellent drama!
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