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'The King: Eternal Monarch' Episode 14: Tae-eul gets stabbed while waiting for Lee Gon to return from past

'The King: Eternal Monarch' Episode 14 sees Tae-eul and Lee Gon part suddenly due to an emergency and this time, the separation lasts heartbreakingly long
PUBLISHED JUN 5, 2020
Lee Min-ho and Kim Go-eun (SBS)
Lee Min-ho and Kim Go-eun (SBS)

'The King: Eternal Monarch' Episode 14 addresses a few important questions for which we now clearly have answers. Beginning with Lee Gon's condition, Jo-yeong finds Lee Gon on time to ensure that he can take the king to a hospital while Tae-eul is out of town investigating the death of Prime Minister Koo Seo-ryeong's look-alike in the Republic of Korea. She finds a doctor who can help an unregistered patient, but when she tries to meet Lee Gon, he doesn't let her for security reasons. 

Meanwhile, Lee Lim has also realized that it was Lee Gon who had traveled to the past to save himself as a child. When he realizes this, the sound of a flute note rings true, and that is also probably what wakes Lee Gon awake from his anesthetic stupor because the first thing Lee Gon tells Jo-yeong in Korea is to keep Tae-eul safe while he goes back to the past to save himself. The sound of the flute hints that it is time for Lee Gon to step into the past and armed with half of the flute, Lee Gon steps into the Nomansland. At the same time, so does Lee Lim, from the other world and for the first time both Lee Lim and Lee Gon are on different parts of the Nomansland together and this acts as the impetus for both Lee Lim and Lee Gon to travel back in time to the moment that the two of want to save themselves the most. Lee Lim decides to try to save his younger foolish self and tries to convince him to kill the crown prince instead of the king. 

Lee Lim and Lee Gon running to enter the past in 'The King: Eternal Monarch' episode 14. (SBS)

However, younger Lee Lim is ruled by greed and stabs himself (from the future) which leads to a lot of information missing from Lee Lim's grasp. For instance, the fact that the man shooting at him when he attempts to get his hands on Manpasikjeok is Lee Gon from the future is not something that the Lee Lim in the past was made aware of. All because he was impatient and did not give his future self time to even give him key information about his future. This also brings to focus how much life changes for Lee Gon after this time travel stint while Lee Lim's life will continue as if on a loop.

Lee Gon realizes that Court Lady Noh had known all this while about the possibility of traveling through time because she is the only one who sees his face the night that he saved his past self. Lee Gon also realizes that Prince Buyeong's son betrayed the royal family by letting Lee Lim escape and this earns him a gunshot to the knee caps. Lee Lim, as expected, finds Lee Gon and his family's alter-ego on the Republic of Korea and kills them after coincidentally finding the entrance to the other world with the piece of Manpasikjeok that he now holds after killing his brother and attempting to kill his nephew.

Lee Gon as a child in 'The King: Eternal Monarch' episode 14. (SBS)

Lee Lim unsurprisingly tries to remove them from the equation in the Republic of Korea and successfully manages to erase both their sons and when Lee Gon, who gets stuck in the past after trying to save himself, calls in to report to the police that his alter-ego's family might be in danger, he is still too late. At this moment, he also realizes that the axel of time can only be crossed if the Manpasikjeok is whole. Like when Lee Lim and Lee Gon were both on Nomansland. Otherwise, Lee Gon realizes that he would have to move through time laterally and it is almost two decades that he must cross before he can meet Tae-eul as himself and be warmly welcomed. He needs to spend four months in the Nomansland to equate for the passing of almost two decades before he wants to come out and meet people. 

It is also this that pushes Lee Gon to watch Tae-eul grow up from when she was a child to a young woman, not by staying by her side by visiting her now and then. Every time, Tae-eul misses Lee Gon in the present, she recalls a moment from the past when she had met him. This is a result of Lee Gon intentionally changing the present resulting in a change in the fire as well. This might seem weird initially, but the idea is to comfort Tae-eul in 2020 by giving her memories that she can fall back on his absence. As Lee Gon continues to pass time and Tae-eul continues to wait patiently, Luna reappears after having poisoned Lee Gon. This time around, Luna keeps the promise that she made Tae-eul. Now that the two of them have met, she attempts to kill Tae-eul and stabs her in the gut. To inflict more main, Luna even twists the knife and tells Tae-eul she should have stayed away from her from the beginning. 

A still of Tae-eul in 'The King: Eternal Monarch' episode 14. (SBS)

The episode had already revealed by then that the only thing Luna wants out of this deal with Lee Lim is to hold the Manpasikjeok for herself to cure her terminal disease. She has no intention of making things easier or difficult for Lee Lim, but if getting her hands on Manpasikjeok depended on Lee Gon's death, she will stab again with no hesitancy. She did, after all, manage to poison Lee Gon.  So in the end, Tae-eul is struck down while waiting for Lee Gon and when he does return, she might not be lucid and the chances of the two of them parting again are high. 

'The King: Eternal Monarch' is originally aired in South Korea on SBS at 10 pm on Fridays and Saturdays. The show can be streamed on Netflix in the US. 

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