Jang-Geum and Min Jung Ho are brought in front of Jeju-Island officers. The identity of Min is revealed and the soldiers release Min’s bondages at once. Min asks for permission to oversee the matter of Jang-Geum but they refuse since it’s her 4th time running away. The Jeju Island medicine lady arrives.
Min comes to the kitchen looking for Jang-Geum and the two step outside to talk. Jang-Geum asks how he came here and when Jang-Geum asks if he demoted himself just to be here he changes the topic.
Jang-Geum watches as the Jang Duk sells herbal medicine and afterwards scolds the her for cheating. Jang Duk asks how Jang Geum knows she shortchanged the buyer and Jang Geum says she tasted the medicine ball and shows that she can decipher ingredients by taste. Jang Duk is impressed but scolds her for being nosy and puts Jang-Geum to work instead. At night Jang-Geum overhears Jang Duk teasing with a male officer and shakes her head in disapproval of the medicine lady. Back in her sleeping corridor, Jang-Geum tears up as she remembers her last exchange with Hang Sang Gong in which Han asks Jang-Geum to live.