Our wayward storyteller Choo Young-woo (Oasis) has rolled into town in JTBC’s latest teaser, setting off his chapter in The Tale of Lady Ok where romance begins to bud with our heroine Im Ji-yeon (The Killing Vote).
Although she was born a lowly slave named Goodeok (Im Ji-yeon), she seized on fate’s chance to conceal her past and took on the identity of the privileged Lady Ok Tae-young. But it is of course a risky deceit, putting her life on the line should she get caught. Tae-young is thus caught off guard when the teaser begins with Cheon Seung-hwi (Choo Young-woo) recognizing her from the old days in Hanyang, greeting her familiarly by her real name.
A gushing fan then introduces us to our hero, describing Seung-hwi as a renown storyteller whose fame and popularity has risen up to the heavens themselves. A curious Sung Dong-il (Han River Police) asks if there’s someone in Seung-hwi’s heart. And the sequence makes it clear that “the woman” Seung-hwi refers to is Tae-young as we watch him come to her rescue time and time again.
Worried and feeling guilty, Tae-young pleads with Seung-hwi to stop risking his life for her. However, Seung-hwi, in turn, tells her not to say such things and the teaser closes with his confession that, “If someday I’m caught, I may not be able to escape death. But I’m not afraid of dying either. These few days that I spent together with you were the happiest days of my life.”
With production for the fictional sageuk led by PD Jin Hyuk (Sisyphus: The Myth, Legend of the Blue Sea) and writer Park Ji-sook (Uncle), JTBC’s The Tale of Lady Ok will be premiering next week on November 30.
