Born and raised in the Royal Palace, Princess Sook-kyung and her court lady escape from the palace to look around the city. Everything is new in the eyes of the princess as she approaches the marketplace. Knowing nothing of how the world works, the princess gets snaked when she grabs and takes a bite of the merchant’s rice cake without any money in her possession. A scholar of Seongyungwan who witnessed the scam helps her out. Through this serendipitous encounter, the prin...more

Born and raised in the Royal Palace, Princess Sook-kyung and her court lady escape from the palace to look around the city. Everything is new in the eyes of the princess as she approaches the marketplace. Knowing nothing of how the world works, the princess gets snaked when she grabs and takes a bite of the merchant’s rice cake without any money in her possession. A scholar of Seongyungwan who witnessed the scam helps her out. Through this serendipitous encounter, the princess falls in love with him and becomes bedridden due to the lovesickness. As it often happens, the scholar passes the state exams and through the arrangement of the Royal family, the two become a couple.less