For the past hour, the Crown Prince had been holding onto Da-hye's arm. She liked it, but it was starting to annoy her as well. He was holding on so tightly.

"The hour is up. We must leave." Yul said.

"I am not going. I must find her." Uk said.

"This place is too big and deep. The four of us cannot find her here." The Crown Prince said.

"You only came here for a tour, so you may go ahead and leave." Uk told the Crown Prince. "How did you see an illusion of Mu-deok?"

"I do not know where it came from." Yul said. "But... she said I kept longing for her."

"She said something similar to me too." Da-hye said. "She said I kept thinking of her."

"That is right." The Crown Prince said. "She said that to me too." Wait, why was the Crown Prince thinking about her? "That she came because I thought of her." The Crown Prince said.

"So her illusion come to see you if you think about her?" Uk asked.

"That is so creepy." Da-hye said.

"I guess you did not see it." The Crown Prince told Uk. "She visited the three of us, but she did not visit you even though you are her owner."

"Why in the world were you thinking of Mu-deok?" Uk asked.

The Crown Prince hesitated. "I was drinking cinnamon and ginger wine." 

Da-hye looked at the Crown Prince suspiciously. Why did he hesitate? What was the real reason that he was thinking of Mu-deok? Da-hye was angry but jealous at the same time. 

"Were you the one who got her drunk and made her reek of cinnamon?" Uk asked.

He got Mu-deok drunk? Did he have feelings for her or something?!

"That is correct." The Crown Prince smiled. "I also gave her a sachet that day. The smell of cinnamon probably came from the sachet."

That made Da-hye angry, she pushed the Crown Prince's hand away from her arm. He did not even notice. Or at least that is what she thought.

The Crown Prince noticed that Da-hye moved his hand away from her. But, he pretended not to notice. Had he made her upset by talking about another woman?

"Oh, you mean the sachet that she hung by the outhouse to get rid of flies?" Uk asked. Da-hye could not help but laugh at Uk's comment.

"By the outhouse?" The Crown Prince asked, he was offended.

"Thank you, Your Royal Highness. It really helped shoo away the flies." Uk said happily. He was really petty.

"Da-hye, what were you doing when you saw her illusion?" Uk asked.

"I was trying on dresses." Da-hye said. "I saw one that I thought would look nice on her, then I saw her standing behind me. It was really creepy." Da-hye explained. She didn't say the full story as she didn't want to reveal Mu-deok's identity or let Uk know that she knew Mu-deok was Naksu. But, then Da-hye remembered her mirror had broken after Mu-deok's illusion disappeared. "The mirror. My mirror broke." Da-hye said.

"My mirror broke as well." Yul said.

"So did the one in my room." The Crown Prince said. "Did it come from the mirror?"

"A mirror?" Uk said.  There was a mirror where the Crown Prince had tried to touch the relic.

"Could this be it?" Yul asked. Uk's reflection started moving by itself.

"That is not you. It is fake." Yul said. "It is an illusion." Uk's reflection started smiling creepily.

"She must have gotten sucked into the mirror." Da-hye said.

Yul, Da-hye and the Crown Prince told the Jinyowon leader where Mu-deok was.

"She is trapped inside the mirror?" Lady Jin asked.

"Yes." Yul said. "We cannot see what is inside, but we are sure she is in there."

"She was sucked into the mirror of thought." Lady Jin explained.

"The Mirror of Thought?" The Crown Prince asked.

"It is a relic that creates illusions. It uses other mirrors to show illusions of this that people think about." Lady Jin explained. "She knows no spell, so she probably got sucked inside while she was in front of it."

"We need to get Mu-deok out of the mirror." Yul said. "Our spells will not work because the energy in there is too strong. Please take the Mirror of Thought out of Jinyowon."

"That cannot be done." Lady Jin said.  "That relic swallowed a human. It is too dangerous to take it outside."

"I order you as the Crown Prince." The Crown Prince said. "Take out the Mirror of Thought."

Lady Jin smiled. "The Unanimous Assembly has granted us a plaque to protect Jinyowon from a situation like this." Lady Jin explained. "I cannot take it out even if it is the King's orders."

"Uk will not leave...without Mu-deok." Da-hye said.

"Then he will have to stay inside." Lady Jin responded. "Once the over is over, I am going to seal this door."

"Mother." Jin Cho-yeon held something in her hand. "I found the yin-and-yang jade. Mu-deok must not have stolen it." Cho-yeon said.  "Now that I found the jade, please take out the mirror of Thought and get Mu-deok out of there. Young Master Jang will die if he gets locked inside."

"Stay out of this." Lady Jin said. "Once the agreed time is over, I shall seal the door." 

Lady Jin would not budge. And Uk was not going to leave without Mu-deok.

"The time is up. Cho-yeon, seal that door." Lady Jin said.

"Mother." Cho-yeon said.

"Do it now." Lady Jin said.

"Please wait." The leader arrived with Maidservant Kim. "I would like to go inside. If the relic can't be brought outside, I will go in there myself and get her out of the Mirror of Thought."

"How can I trust a high-level mage to set foot in there?" Lady Jin asked.

"Trust me." The leader said. "I will not touch any other artifacts."

"I am not sure if I can." Lady Jin said.  "My trust was once broken by a Songrim mage."

"Have you ever allowed a Songrim mage to enter Jinyowon?" The leader asked.

"If you want to save Jang Uk, you will have to ask mages from Jeongjingak to drag him out of there." Lady Jin told the leader.

"My lord." Maidservant Kim said. "We are running out of time." 

"Yul, I want you to go in there and bring Uk out." The leader told Yul. But, just then, the door opened. Uk was carrying Mu-deok on his back.

"Young Master. Mu-deok." Maidservant Kim ran towards him "Are you all right?"

"Yes, I am fine." Uk said.

"Is Mu-deok all right as well?" Dang-gu asked. 

"Of course." Uk said.

--

Mu-deok had her eyes covered. Maidservant Kim was helping her walk.

"Mu-deok, are you all right?" Dang-gu asked.

"What are you doing here, Young Master Park?" Mu-deok asked.

"Da-hye and I came because we were worried." Dang-gu explained.

"Young Lady Park, you're here as well?" Mu-deok asked.

"Yes." Da-hye said.

"I see you have hurt your eyes." Yul said.

"Young Master Seo, you came as well?" Mu-deok asked.

"You should get treated at Sejukwon. I will take you there right now." Yul responded.

"The palace is near, so she can go there." The Crown Prince said. 

"Your Royal Highness? Your are here too?" Mu-deok asked.

"I will take you to the royal clinic." The Crown Prince said.

Why did he care so much about Mu-deok?

"That is not necessary." Maidservant Kim said. "She was blinded by the light. She did not get hurt." Maidservant Kim looked at Mu-deok. "I know you did not plan any of this, but they came here for you. So you should apologize and thank them."

"I apologize for troubling you." Mu-deok apologized. "Thank you all."

Now, this really was Mu-deok. Da-hye could tell she was the real Mu-deok by her cuteness and her mannerisms. 

𝗢𝗵 𝗺𝘆𝘆. 𝗗𝗮-𝗵𝘆𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘀𝗼 𝗷𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿. 𝗜 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗲𝗻𝗷𝗼𝘆𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻. 𝗜𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘀𝗼 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗻𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲. 𝗔𝗻𝘆𝘄𝗮𝘆, 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿? (𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝘆 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗶𝘁.)