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00:00The story begins with Danby, a high school senior in her final year.
00:04She's just a few days away from taking her university entrance exams,
00:07but the problem is, she's terrible at math.
00:10She always falls asleep during math class,
00:12which annoys the teacher so much that one day he calls her to the board.
00:16But as usual, she can't solve anything.
00:19Frustrated, he scolds her in front of everyone.
00:21When she returns home, she ignores her studies
00:24and spends her time playing with her phone and listening to music.
00:26Her mom watches her, annoyed, and tells her that if she solved math problems
00:31the same way she memorizes lyrics, she'd already be a genius.
00:35She jokes that Danby must have inherited her math struggles from her father,
00:39who was also bad at it, and that no university would accept her like this.
00:44What bothers Danby most is when her mom changes the TV channel
00:48to one of those historical dramas she always watches.
00:51Danby gives up and leaves the room, heading to her best friend's house.
00:54Her friend reminds her once again that this is her last shot at getting into college.
00:59If she fails now, she'll have no future, nowhere to go.
01:03The next morning, Danby wakes up late and runs out,
01:06already behind schedule for the big exam.
01:08Her mom encourages her as she leaves,
01:11telling her to give it her best so she can get into a good school.
01:14Danby is nervous, especially about the math section,
01:17but she tries to study on the bus until she reaches the exam center.
01:21She jumps off the bus and runs, but forgets her umbrella.
01:25As she approaches the exam building, fear takes over.
01:28She isn't ready.
01:29She starts panicking, thinking about running away
01:32instead of facing the possibility of failing.
01:35She sits under the pouring rain, heart sinking,
01:38silently wishing she could just disappear.
01:40There's a shallow puddle in front of her formed by the rain.
01:44She steps closer to it, and suddenly, something strange happens.
01:47She notices a group of people dressed in unusual clothes,
01:51all gathered and praying for rain.
01:53They say it hasn't rained in three years,
01:56and people are dying from the drought.
01:58Suddenly, Danby finds herself falling into the puddle,
02:01and begins to drown.
02:02But instead of dying, she re-emerges,
02:05in the same spot, but somehow in a different world.
02:08She's confused and starts asking the people around her
02:12if they're filming a historical drama or something.
02:14The king, seeing her strange behavior,
02:17becomes terrified and yells, asking if she's a demon.
02:21She nervously says,
02:23No, I'm just a high school student.
02:24But the way she says it sounds like
02:26some kind of magical incantation to them,
02:29which only increases their fear.
02:31Suddenly, guards surround her with swords drawn.
02:34When she realizes the swords are real,
02:36she panics and improvises, saying,
02:39I know why I'm here.
02:40Please, God, send the rain.
02:42The people repeat her words like a prayer.
02:44But the moment they all lift their heads again,
02:47she's vanished.
02:48She had already run off and kept going
02:50until she reached a place filled with ceremonial clothes.
02:53She disguises herself as one of the temple priests
02:55and sneaks into a gathering with the king.
02:58During the meeting,
02:59the king suddenly announces
03:00that they must stop relying on superstitions,
03:03and instead study science and mathematics
03:05to solve the problems in their kingdom.
03:07But the chief priest objects,
03:10saying this is dangerous nonsense,
03:12that math is just another superstition,
03:14and it's impossible to understand nature through equations.
03:18He claims the real reason for the drought
03:20is that the heavens are angry with the king,
03:22and that the only way to bring rain
03:24is for the king to perform a sacred ritual with the queen.
03:27Danby secretly slips out of the meeting
03:29and goes to look for her phone,
03:31but she gets caught again.
03:32While she waits for the king to arrive,
03:34she starts thinking maybe she can escape
03:37once it finally rains.
03:38But the king shocks her by saying
03:40that it hasn't rained in three years,
03:42and honestly, he doesn't like her.
03:44He declares that she should be executed immediately.
03:47She panics and begs,
03:49Please, wait!
03:50I'm just a student from the future,
03:52and I came here by accident.
03:54She tries to convince him
03:55that she knows a lot about history,
03:57and when that doesn't work,
03:58she quickly adds that she's also brilliant at math.
04:02Intrigued, the king postpones the execution
04:04and tells her to prove it.
04:05He gives her a Pythagorean theorem problem to solve.
04:08At first, she's confused
04:10and says she can't even understand what's written,
04:12but when she realizes it's the Pythagorean theorem,
04:15she solves it quickly.
04:16The king is amazed.
04:18He says his own scholars usually take three days
04:20to solve such a problem.
04:22From that moment on,
04:23everyone starts treating Danby as Gossam,
04:26a male scholar.
04:27The king gives her a mission,
04:29teach math to the people.
04:31If she succeeds, he'll let her return home.
04:34But he's the first student,
04:35and she's shocked to discover
04:37he doesn't even know how to count.
04:38She patiently begins teaching him
04:40from the very basics,
04:42numbers, addition, and subtraction,
04:44all the way up to multiplication.
04:46Eventually, they prepare for a math contest
04:49against a rival city musician.
04:51If Danby loses, she'll be punished.
04:53She boldly challenges the king
04:55and even hits him in frustration
04:57when he gets things wrong.
04:58The guards rush in,
05:00ready to kill her for touching the king,
05:02but he stops them and laughs it off.
05:04They hide all the math papers
05:05whenever the queen visits,
05:06pretending to be practicing music instead.
05:09One day, the king notices Danby is starving
05:11and invites her to eat with him,
05:13but she doesn't like the food
05:14and takes him to the kitchen.
05:15Using ingredients from her bag,
05:17she makes him some delicious instant noodles.
05:20He loves them, even though they're spicy.
05:22When she offers him water,
05:24he refuses, saying he likes the heat.
05:26The next morning,
05:27the entire palace hears him screaming.
05:29When Danby checks on him,
05:31she sees he's put a protective talisman on his ear,
05:34thinking she cursed him.
05:35She rolls her eyes and says,
05:37Look, superstar.
05:38It was just noodles, not black magic.
05:40There was no magic or spell.
05:42It was just the chili hitting his stomach too hard.
05:45When she told him that, he asked,
05:47What's a stomach anyway?
05:48So Danby sat down and explained to him
05:51what the stomach is,
05:52what intestines are,
05:54and even about the heart,
05:55and how if he puts his hand on his chest,
05:57he'll feel it beating.
05:59But he said,
05:59I don't feel anything.
06:01She smiled and said,
06:02It's okay.
06:03One day,
06:04when you're with someone you love,
06:06you'll feel it on your own.
06:07He was amazed at how much knowledge she had.
06:10He started seeing her as a brilliant scholar,
06:12so he asked her to teach
06:13all the royal scholars of Joseon,
06:15not just math,
06:16but everything from science to agriculture.
06:19That night,
06:20he offered her a tangerine,
06:21and she casually said,
06:23Thanks, without ceremony.
06:24But he got very upset.
06:26You're a Joseon wanderer.
06:27You should have saved that fruit
06:29for three days at least.
06:30You don't appreciate blessings.
06:32She laughed and said,
06:33It's just a tangerine.
06:35Don't be so dramatic.
06:36Later,
06:37the two of them went out to play ball
06:38in the palace courtyard,
06:40and she got him to run
06:41for the first time in years.
06:43The next day,
06:44the king sat with his future bride
06:46and told her that he would be served
06:47a magical love potion that night in his stew,
06:50and after that,
06:51they'd be married immediately.
06:53But fate had other plans.
06:55That bowl ended up in Danby's hands.
06:58She started behaving very strangely,
07:00and ended up falling asleep in the palace.
07:03When she woke up,
07:04she kept apologizing to the king,
07:06but he simply told her,
07:08Nothing happened, Ghosem.
07:09Forget it.
07:10They went for a walk outside,
07:12and he told her that if she could achieve her mission,
07:15she would earn a high rank in the council
07:17and even be gifted a royal horse.
07:19But she said,
07:20I don't want anything.
07:21I'm going back to my world
07:22as soon as the rain falls.
07:24The king replied,
07:25Then from now on,
07:26don't treat me like a king.
07:27We're equals, man to man.
07:29But the next day,
07:30disaster struck.
07:32Danby was arrested and accused of mocking the king.
07:34They tied her by the limbs,
07:36preparing to torture her.
07:37But the king stepped in and explained to the priests
07:40that this young scholar had valuable knowledge.
07:42One priest, however,
07:44seized the opportunity and said,
07:46Fine.
07:46Then I must test him myself.
07:48He has two weeks.
07:49If it doesn't rain by then,
07:51we'll execute him.
07:52Danby didn't give up.
07:54She kept studying,
07:55calculating everything,
07:56and the palace musician helped her build a rainfall gauge.
08:00Then, without warning,
08:01rain began to pour from the sky.
08:04Danby was overwhelmed with joy,
08:06but the king suddenly remembered what she said,
08:08that she would leave once it rained.
08:10He ran to the house where she was staying
08:12and found her crying in front of the rain gauge,
08:15overwhelmed with emotion.
08:17He told her,
08:18You need to escape right now.
08:20I've been preparing for this.
08:21A ship headed for Ming is waiting for you.
08:23But she shook her head.
08:25I've spent my whole life running away.
08:27I only ended up here
08:28because I was trying to escape my world.
08:31At that moment,
08:32the palace musician,
08:33who had secretly been working with the high priest,
08:36arrived.
08:37The priest had ordered him to kill the scholar,
08:39believing Danby might truly be from the future.
08:42The musician told the priest,
08:44If that's true,
08:45then he's even more dangerous.
08:47We must get rid of him.
08:49The musician took Danby and put her on a horse,
08:51galloping through the woods
08:52until they reached a forest.
08:54There, he told her,
08:55I've known for a while that you're a girl,
08:58but I'm a decent man.
08:59Your secret is safe with me.
09:01She explained that it wasn't intentional.
09:03The job she landed was offered to a boy
09:06and she had no choice but to take it.
09:08Meanwhile, back in the palace,
09:10the high priest tried to convince the king
09:12that everything Danby had taught them
09:14must be destroyed,
09:15especially the new written language she was developing.
09:18They had to stick to tradition
09:20and eliminate the boy's influence,
09:22but the king couldn't accept that.
09:23He left the palace on horseback,
09:25searching for her.
09:26Elsewhere in the forest,
09:28the guards finally caught up to Danby and the musician.
09:31He let her escape and stood in their way,
09:33fighting them off until the queen herself appeared,
09:35her feet bleeding.
09:37She had run all the way there,
09:39desperately searching for them.
09:40Danby kept walking along the road
09:42until she reached a fork and didn't know where to go.
09:45Then she remembered something the king once said,
09:47that the sun is Joseon's clock.
09:50So she followed the sunlight until she reached the sea.
09:53And there, the king was already waiting for her.
09:56That night, they sat side by side watching the stars.
09:59She told him,
09:59in the future, we don't see stars like this,
10:03only the brightest ones.
10:04He replied,
10:05look now,
10:06the only stars you're seeing are the ones you choose to see.
10:10But if you stop and look closely,
10:12you'll start to see more.
10:13Those stars were always there.
10:15They just didn't appear until you decided to see them.
10:18The eyes see what the heart wants.
10:20After a quiet pause,
10:21the king confessed that he loved her.
10:24He said he wanted to create a new, easier language
10:26so common people could learn,
10:28not just the nobles.
10:29She suddenly remembered something,
10:31pulled out her money from the future,
10:33and saw his face printed on the currency.
10:35That's when she realized,
10:37he really would succeed.
10:38When the king returned to the palace,
10:40he announced he would begin paying salaries
10:43to those who serve the people well.
10:45The high priest surprisingly agreed,
10:47saying that anyone who benefits the people
10:49should be rewarded.
10:50What do you think of Gosam?
10:52He asked.
10:53But no one else in the court agreed.
10:55They believed Gosam should be banished
10:57or even executed.
10:58Still, Danby continued to secretly teach the king
11:01everything, math, writing, and reasoning,
11:04without the priests knowing.
11:05One day, while walking through the palace,
11:08she found the queen hiding and eating in secret.
11:11They had forbidden her from eating too much,
11:13so she wouldn't gain weight and ruin her appearance.
11:16Danby offered her one of her instant noodle cups.
11:19The queen accepted it,
11:20and as they ate, they started chatting.
11:22From that moment on, they became friends.
11:25A few days later,
11:26the queen approached the king
11:27and told him she knew everything.
11:29She had already informed the queen mother too,
11:31because the girl, Danby,
11:33was supposed to be one of his concubines.
11:35Suddenly, Danby found herself being prepared
11:38for something she didn't understand.
11:40The palace maids were dressing her up
11:42and applying makeup.
11:44She had no clue what was going on,
11:46until she realized they were preparing her
11:48for the midday rest with the king
11:50and that she was to become his first woman.
11:53The moment she understood what was happening,
11:55she panicked and ran away
11:56from the mad people around her.
11:58One of the headmaids quickly informed the king
12:00that she had escaped on her way to the palace.
12:03The king went out to search for her
12:04and eventually found her,
12:06but he grabbed her by the arm
12:07and pulled her into a room.
12:09Danby screamed, protesting,
12:11You said we'd stay just friends.
12:13I'm only 19.
12:14The king chuckled and replied,
12:1619?
12:17That means you've got at least
12:18three years of adulthood.
12:20You're not a kid anymore.
12:21Besides, I've known you were a girl
12:23for a while now.
12:24I haven't touched you, have I?
12:26But tonight, you need to stay here.
12:28Everyone's watching.
12:29Don't worry, I'm not going to eat you alive.
12:31The truth is, my mother's extremely stubborn
12:33and no one can persuade her easily.
12:35The next morning, Danby went to speak with the musician.
12:38He asked her,
12:39Are you sure you want to go back to the future?
12:41But she didn't answer.
12:43She was torn and her heart was full of doubt.
12:45She just walked off and sat alone.
12:48After a while, the queen came
12:49and told her someone wanted to see her.
12:51When Danby entered the palace,
12:53she found herself face to face with the queen mother,
12:56who looked exactly like her real mother.
12:58She completely broke down in tears
13:00and no one understood what had triggered her crying.
13:04That night, she went to see
13:05the new astronomical system of Joseon,
13:08one she had personally helped create.
13:10It would help the kingdom
13:11accurately track the days and months.
13:14The king then invited her
13:15to come see something else he'd been working on.
13:17He had developed a new alphabet
13:19made up of 28 letters,
13:21meant to simplify reading and writing
13:22so that everyone in Joseon,
13:24not just the scholars, could learn.
13:26As they walked into the middle of the great hall,
13:29he asked her to sit in the ceremonial chair.
13:32Then, he placed the royal hairpin on her head,
13:35a symbol of marriage,
13:36and asked her to stay with him forever.
13:38Danby started crying and told him,
13:40I can't.
13:41I promised myself I'd go back once the rain comes.
13:44My mother is waiting for me and she trusts me.
13:47The king gently replied,
13:49Then go see her and come back.
13:51Let's live here together.
13:52But she refused again.
13:53He lost his patience and said angrily,
13:56You're right.
13:57The future is better than this Joseon,
13:59full of sickness and disease.
14:01Do whatever you want.
14:03Then he stormed off, heartbroken.
14:05She remained in the hall, standing still.
14:08When suddenly, she was struck on the head
14:10and knocked unconscious.
14:11Someone stabbed her with a sword,
14:13and the entire building was set on fire.
14:16When the king heard what happened,
14:18he risked his life and ran through the flames
14:20to rescue her.
14:21The next day, he summoned his assistant and said,
14:24The ancient text disappeared last night.
14:27He accused the high priest of stealing it.
14:29The king grabbed the priest's hand and said,
14:32Did no one teach you to erase all evidence
14:34after committing a crime like this?
14:36Then he turned to Danby and asked,
14:38Was this the voice you heard?
14:40She nodded.
14:41It turned out that the book in her bag
14:43had shielded her from the stab.
14:44The king, furious, confronted the priest.
14:47You knew what he meant to me.
14:49Why did you do this?
14:50The priest answered coldly,
14:52Because if that new language spreads,
14:54young people will start thinking freely.
14:57It'll create chaos.
14:58It will destroy the kingdom.
15:00I'm not afraid of dying.
15:02I'm afraid of the disorder that will ruin the future.
15:05The king replied,
15:06Even if you try to stop it,
15:08I will build this system of writing for the people.
15:10I want to be someone who makes their dreams possible.
15:13Why should we fear a future we won't even live to see?
15:17A world we know nothing about?
15:19But the priest wasn't moved.
15:20He fell to his knees and said,
15:22Please, execute me and end this.
15:25Soon the sky turned gray and rain began to fall,
15:28just lightly at first.
15:30Danby went around the palace,
15:31saying goodbye to her friends one last time before leaving.
15:34The king asked if he could walk with her to the farthest point.
15:38They walked side by side until they reached the seashore.
15:41There, Danby stepped into the same pond she had once fallen into
15:45and allowed herself to sink again, just like before.
15:49Moments later, she emerged again, back in her own world.
15:52She looked around and realized that only a few seconds had passed.
15:56There was still time to make it to the exam.
15:58She ran as fast as she could toward the test hall
16:00and saw her teacher waiting.
16:02The entrance exam had just started.
16:04She rushed to her seat and took the test.
16:06Later that day, she returned home and found her mother waiting for her.
16:09She ran into her arms, holding her tightly.
16:12Everything about Danby had changed.
16:14Her behavior, her perspective.
16:16Everything had shifted after her journey.
16:18She had learned to value the people and things around her more deeply.
16:22Months passed.
16:23One day, as she walked out of school,
16:25the sky opened up and rain began to fall again.
16:29Suddenly, someone placed an umbrella over her head.
16:32She looked up and saw a face strikingly familiar.
16:35He looked exactly like the king of Joseon.
16:38But he simply smiled and said,
16:40We met a long time ago.
16:41On the bus.
16:42You dropped your umbrella.
16:43And that's where the story ends.
16:45If you've made it to the end,
16:47let us know what you thought in the comments.
16:49And tell us what you'd like us to summarize in the next video.
16:52Thanks for watching.
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