Taeja Cheonha, the King loves you after all

A few episodes back, the court handled a case where two fathers were arguing over a boy of about five years or so. The men argued and recounted how they fed, clothed, provided him a shelter, one offered his blood when the boy was sick.
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The shock of the discovery of his identity left Myongnong in the wake of different conflicting emotions. But out of the overwhelming and justly bitter emotions, he overcame and thought objectively throughout. He finally understood that despite of all his success to prove himself to the king, that even though he was praised and the king felt proud of him, the king somehow kept a distance. Now, he knew that his subtle jealousy of how the king would fuss about Jinmu-gung was justified.
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Ah but at the end of it all, the King is pleased to have raised such a fine son and boasted the Prince to the portrait of the late king. More than that, he tells the portrait that Myongnong being his son ends there. And like the case that the court handled several episodes back, the king claimed him as his own: 'I have two sons. But only one will wear the crown.'

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