The Moon Embracing the Sun

January 4, 2012

A political conspiracy by the Queen Dowager and the Yoon family results in the king's beloved half-brother being wrongfully executed for treason.

January 5, 2012

Yeom Heo, an accomplished young scholar and Yeon-woo's older brother, distinguishes himself after passing the state exam, drawing him deeper into palace politics.

January 11, 2012

A royal shaman senses something unusual about two young children and is ordered to investigate the fortunes of the future queen's childhood friends.

January 12, 2012

Buoyed by a prophecy from the royal shaman, the Yoon family moves to install Bo-kyung as queen instead of Yeon-woo.

January 18, 2012

Yeon-woo begins training at the detached palace to prepare for her role as crown princess, as Prince Hwon wishes her well.

January 19, 2012

Two conspirators secretly exhume Yeon-woo's grave in the dead of night and rescue her from her coffin — but she has lost her memory.

January 25, 2012

A Buddhist monk warns the amnesiac Yeon-woo, now living under a new identity, to be wary of strangers.

January 26, 2012

Now known as Shaman Wol, the amnesiac Yeon-woo is bound and transported toward the capital against her will.

February 1, 2012

King Hwon, shaken awake by Wol's presence, furiously demands to know who sent her.

February 2, 2012

Hwon summons the royal physician to treat Wol as his own confusion about her true identity deepens.

February 8, 2012

Half-brother Yang-myung intervenes to stop Wol from approaching the king's private chambers.

February 9, 2012

As Hwon and Wol grow closer, Yang-myung steps aside, while Daehyung grows suspicious of the king's secretive travels.

February 15, 2012

Hwon collapses from a mysterious illness before a planned encounter with Bo-kyung, throwing the palace into crisis as she plots revenge for her humiliation.

February 16, 2012

Wol is banished to a low-class clinic marked as a criminal, while Hwon suffers a political defeat at court.

February 22, 2012

Yeon-woo's memories finally return, and she presses her old friend Seol for the truth about the night she was ritually declared dead.

February 23, 2012

Bo-kyung spirals into panic, suspecting that Shaman Wol may in fact be Yeon-woo, returned from the dead.

February 29, 2012

With the truth of Wol's identity finally uncovered, Hwon finds her at the clinic and embraces her.

March 1, 2012

Hwon learns that Princess Minhwa may be connected to the murder of the former crown princess, and begins piecing the conspiracy together.

March 14, 2012

As dueling rumors spread through the capital — one accusing the king of harboring a shaman, the other accusing the Yoon clan of murder — the political crisis comes to a head.

March 15, 2012

On the day of the royal Kang-mu hunt, Hwon finds himself surrounded by Daehyung's army as the final conspiracy unravels.