Jang-Geum offers Lady Choi treatment. Lady Choi refuses but Jang-Geum states she’s the only one who knows the treatment. Geum-Young arrives and orders Jang-Geum to leave. Jang-Geum asks what she’s afraid of. Lady Choi agrees to be treated by Jang-Geum saying she has no fears. Jang-Geum remembers the death of her mother and Lady Han as she is about to poke her needle into Lady Choi but she gathers her thoughts and saves Lady Choi. Geum-Young asks Lady Choi why she agreed to Jang-Geum’s treatment. Lady Choi replies Jang-Geum wouldnt’ dare to do anything against her.
Right Prime Minister Oh scolds Min Jung-Ho for acting alone against the group’s plans. Min’s superior tries to state Min’s contribution of finding the true reason behind the diseases. At Oh’s request the king suspends Min Jung-Ho’s officer rights. Jang Duk hears about it from Da Ju Deuk and gets upset.
Min Jung-Ho visits the civilians who beg Min for help since they’re starving. Min says he’ll try to help but he has little power now. The king finds out from Jang-Duk’s superior about Min Jung-Ho’s contribution and is angry at Oh that he wanted to punish someone who should be rewarded. Min gets his power back and the citizens are given help. They offer ginseng to Min Jung-Ho as a token of appreciation. Min declines but they insist on leaving 2 sacks of ginseng, one for Min and one for Jang-Geum. Min agrees to take just a few roots. Kang Duk Gu who is with Min steals one ginseng as he leaves.
Back at nae-ee-ohn, Jang-Geum insists she was never told about the lock out but 2 other nurses testify Yuh-Ri made it clear for everyone. The head doctor states only Jang-Geum and Yuh-Ri will ever know who was the one who lied but since these events never happened before Jang-Geum arrived, Jang-Geum should be sent to hae-mi-sol (public hospital for citizen). Lady Min sang goong and Chan-Ee tell Yun-Saeng about Jang-Geum’s demotion and they’re sure Lady Choi is behind it all.
Min Jung-Ho and Doctor Jung run into Jang-Geum who packed her bags to leave. Min Jung-Ho tells Jang-Geum she doesn’t need to leave. Min Jung-Ho and Doctor Jung bring Jang-Geum back to nae-ee-ohn to announce that Jang-Geum is to stay since she is a good nurse. The head doctor replies saying it’s a matter of nae-ee-ohn but Doctor Jung says nae-ee-ohn is within Min Jung-Ho’s jurisdiction now. The other nurses wonder if there’s something going on between Min and Jang-Geum since he repeatedly helped Jang-Geum.
Yuh-Ri goes to tell Lady Choi and Geum-Young about what happened. Yun-Saeng is recognized by the king and all the servants and maids are trying to get on her good side. Yun-Saeng’s servants come to apologize to Yun-Saeng about their rude treatment toward her in the past. Yun-Saeng is about to say all is forgiven but Lady Min interrupts by scolding the maids on Yun-Saeng’s behalf.
Young-Roh arrives with present from Jae-Jo Sang Gong, that’s Lady Choi and herself. Young-Roh brings up how they grew up together and such but Yun-Saeng brushes her off and tells her to leave politely. Jang-Geum arrives with the news that Yun-Saeng has just been promoted to the title of lady sook-won. Lady Choi and Geum-Young are pissed about Yun-Saeng being the new lady sook-won, which means Geum-Young must cook for her from now on.
Geum-Young arrives with the food for Yun-Saeng. Geum-Young sees Jang-Geum and Lady Min in the room. Yun-Saeng is offended by the smell of food and shows sign of vomit. Then Yun-Saeng tells Geum-Young she can’t eat the food. Geum-Young takes the food away and brings new food. Yun-Saeng is once again offended by the smell. Geum-Young gets impatient and asks Yun-Saeng what it is that she desires to eat. Yun-Saeng replies saying something must be missing in Geum-Young’s skills and next time be sure to figure out what it is that she’s lacking. Geum-Young goes back to soo-rak-gan. Lady Choi is pissed by Yun-Saeng’ ridicule of Geum-Young. Geum-Young brings food again. Yun-Saeng takes a bite and is about to vomit again. Geum-Young swallows her pride and says she will prepare something else.
Yun-Saeng gets an official inauguration party. Lady Choi, Geum-Young and Young-Roh bows in front of Yun-Saeng. Yun-Saeng tells Lady Choi how good it would’ve been if Lady Jung was still alive to see this. Lady Choi is pissed but says nothing.
Lady Choi sees her brother, and they, together with Geum-Young, agree they must put a stop to the good things that are happening to Jang-Geum and Yun-Saeng. Nae-ee-ohn head nurse reassigns Yuh-Ri responsibility of taking care of the lady queen to Jang-Geum. Yuh-Ri is unhappy by it but the scholar says it is only right since the lady queen looks so favorably upon Jang-Geum. Yuh-Ri gets the responsibility of taking care of the newly appointed lady sook-won Yun-Saeng.
Yun-Saeng is pregnant. Yuh-Ri tells Yun-Saeng she will take great care of her so not to worry. Yun-Saeng says actually she is scared because when her mother had a difficult time giving birth to her and she never recovered since. Yuh-Ri reports to Lady Choi. Lady Choi asks Yuh-Ri if she figured out how to secretly cause Yun-Saeng’s miscarriage. Yuh-Ri says it shouldn’t be difficult. Yuh-Ri orders a special plum drink for Yun-Saeng to take everyday.
Lady Min tells Jang-Geum Yun-Saeng keeps worrying about the baby since her mother had a difficult time. Jang-Geum goes to see Yun-Saeng who tells her about her symptoms of pain. Jang-Geum discovers Yuh-Ri may be wrong in saying Yun-Saeng is suffereing from blood irregularity. Jang-Geum goes to see Doctor Shin and asks him the difference between what Yuh-Ri and her diagnose of Yun-Saeng’s problem. Then Jang-Geum asks what will happen to some one with her diagnose if they’re pregnant. Doctor Shin says it’s dangerous to both mother and child. Jang-Geum asks what will happen to that person if they take plum drink. Doctor Shin asks who dares to prescribe such dangerous drink.
Jang-Geum goes around looking for Yuh-Ri. The soo-rak-gan maid says she could be with Lady Choi. Jang-Geum heads toward Lady Choi’s corridor. Inside Lady Choi’s chamber, Yuh-Ri tells Lady Choi and Geum-Young that Yun-Saeng’s drink will eventually cause her to be paralyzed and the baby will not survive. Jang-Geum is outside and overhears this statement.