Captivating the King Episode 10 Recap and Review: Hee-soo’s Plan Fails and Causes Chaos in the Palace
Captivating the King Episode 10 Recap and Review: Famous director, Jo Nam-gook known for his top hit series The Good Detective is back with a historical romance drama with a spoonful of twists and turns, Starring top-notch actors like Jo Jung-suk, Shin Sae-kyeong, and Lee Shin-young, Captivating the King (세작, 매혹된 자들) has all the fun and spice in it to make the viewers sit back and watch throughout. Both Netflix and TV are distributing the series, meaning its potential is global.
The three main roles are done by Jo Jung-suk as Lee In, Shin Sae-kyeong as Kang Hee-soo/ Kang Mong-woo and Lee Shin-young as Kim Myung-ha. Jo Jung-suk’s previous hit was Hospital Playlist (2020 – 2021), Shin Sae-kyeong’s last venture was Run On (2020 – 2021) and Lee Shin-young was last seen in CEO-dol Mart (2023).
– Captivating the King Episode 10 Review Contains Spoilers –
Captivating the King Plot
Lee In is a prince with a caring older brother, King Lee Sun. Pledging loyalty to his brother, Lee In is taken hostage by the Qing Dynasty. Unfortunately, King Lee Sun misinterprets this loyalty as betrayal, leading to a strained relationship. Lee In suffers emotionally due to his brother’s resentment.
During his time as a hostage, Lee In encounters an unknown baduk player who captivates him with her skills. Eventually, circumstances unfold, and Lee In ascends to the throne as the king. Despite holding a powerful position, he grapples with internal sadness and vulnerability.
Kang Hee-soo, previously known as a skilled but unknown baduk player, crosses paths with Prince Lee In and falls in love with him. However, fate takes a twist as she becomes a spy with a mission for revenge. Her journey involves approaching King Lee In, adding complexities to their intertwined destinies.
Captivating the King Episode 10 Recap
The game starts and ends in a tie which usually happens very rarely. This result startles everyone and thankfully, Mong-woo is saved. Later, the Qing personnel speaks alone with the King and tells about the Qing dynasty’s Prince Rui wanting to marry the young Joseon princess (daughter of the late king). This startles the King and he asks what would happen if they decline the offer. The Qing personnel says that it would start a war.
The news spreads like fire and during a meeting, all the court officials share their thoughts. The King agrees to marry the princess to Prince Rui. The princess begs on her knees to let her stay here but the King says that he can’t grant her request as he is in a position to do what has to be done. This shatters her heart and she leaves. The thought of the King agreeing shocks and surprises the Principal director, who shares his joy with the Queen Dowager.
He also says there are chances of a substitution, so he wants to arrange a prior meeting with the princess so the Qing envoy will know the real princess’ face. Meanwhile, Hee-soo plans to substitute the princess with one of her maids who can go as a spy to the Qing dynasty and learn of Prince Rui’s plans. She starts working out the plan as well, without telling about it to the King.
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As planned, when the Qing envoy comes, he sees the face of the maid dressed as the princess and leaves. As the maid looks quite similar to the princess and is of the same age, he feels happy for his Prince getting a young girl. On the day of leaving, one of the senior maids notices that the young maid is missing while the princess is leaving. When she sees the young maid running she follows her, not knowing that it is the real princess escaping.
Somehow the princess escapes form her sight however she reports the incident to the Principal Director and he decides to stop the palanquin and see the face of the princess one last time. Myung-ha learns about it and warns Mong-woo/Hee-soo. A helpless Hee-soo panics and wonders what to do.
The principal director stops the palanquin and demands the princess remove her veil. As he expected, he catches the substitute red handed. Back at the King’s baduk house, he receives a call stating the principal director immediately wants to meet. Hee-soo stops him right at the moment to confess her sins and the episode closes.
Captivating the King Episode 10 Review
Agh, it’s so irritating to see the principal director at this point. In fact he is the maternal uncle of the King yet he doesn’t really want to understand his nephew’s feelings but rather selfishly thinks of only his actions. From the start he wanted Lee In to ascend the throne so he can make him work as per his wishes. However the King very well knows that his uncle would have been the man who poisoned his elder brother and keeps him at bay.
Honestly, if only the principal director shuts his mouth, the King can literally make Mong-woo leave the Joseon dynasty and remove the disguise, so as Hee-soo, she can wed him because she’s the daughter of Sang-hoon. Yes, Sang-hoon was sent to the Qing dynasty for being the initiator of the spy move but the King and almost everyone knows that it was carried out through the orders of the late King. Hence they might allow Lee In to wed her. However, fate has other plans that it wants to make things messy for the King so he’ll be stuck between family, country and his love.
Amidst all this chaos, four people are planning their big fat revenge story including Hee-soo. No idea how things are going to turn out as we’re almost close to the end of the series. Hopefully the next six episodes will turn out good as the ones we saw until now.
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