12.01.14【英文】转贴英文翻译The Moon That Embraces the Sun

Cast of characters:
YI HWON李暄 (Kim Soo Hyun/Yeo Jin Goo) is the young, 23 year old king. He has a queen (hand-selected by his grandmother), but they have not yet consummated their marriage. His royal power is always at the constant threat from his powerful father-in-law. Hwon ascended to the throne at the age of 19 by outsmarting his grandmother.
HEO YEONWOO许烟雨/WOL月 (Han Ga In/Kim Yoo Jung) is the daughter of a nobleman. Although women were discouraged from receiving education, no one could stop her love for learning growing up and she was encouraged by her loving brother who doted on her. And thus, she became more well-read than any Sungkyunkwan scholar. She is two years younger than Hwon, and is currently 21 years old.
HEO YEOM 许炎 (the adult role has yet to be cast, although Kim Jung Hoon is rumored to have received an offer; the younger version will be played by Siwan, a member of the idol group Ze:A) is Yeonwoo’s older brother. He is a genius who passed the state civil exam (ranking first, of course) at the young age of 16, and at 17, he was assigned to be the teacher to the crown prince (Hwon), who is just a year younger than himself. His beauty is described to make even grown men speechless.
PRINCE YANGMYEONG 阳明君(The latest report is that Jung Il Woo is likely to be cast, but not yet confirmed; Lee Min Ho, not to be confused with the same-name actor of Boys Over Flowers and City Hunter’s fame, will play the younger version) is Yi Hwon’s older brother, born of a different mother.
PRINCESS MINHWA 盿花公主 (Jin Ji Hee) is the spoiled younger sister of Hwon. She falls in love with Yeom at first sight, and she eventually ends up marrying him.
WOON 金济云 is Hwon’s trusted personal guard, whose swordsmanship is second to none. Among the swordsmen in all of Joseon, there is no one who does not know of Woon. His full name is actually Kim Jewoon, but due to his name and as the king’s personal guards are called a woon-geom, Hwon simply calls him Woon. Twenty-three years old, over 180 cm tall, and oh yes, did I mention he is beautiful? And not only is he an excellent swordsman but he also possesses the high intellect capable of passing the state civil exam… if only it is not for his one “flaw” that he was born to a concubine woman of a nobleman.
SEOL 雪is Yeonwoo/Wol’s maidservant.

Chapter 1.
One autumn evening, Yi Hwon, and his personal guard, Woon, find refuge from the rain under a tall tree. Hwon is dressed in disguise wearing a yangban’s (nobleman) attire. Woon looks undeniably like a warrior, his long hair tied in a braid and two large swords fastened to his back and to his side.


The two men are at a distant from the nearest village, and the rain does not look like it will stop anytime soon. Suddenly, Hwon spots a little cottage at the foot of the mountain and announces that they should seek refuge there until the rain passes. Without waiting for Woon to answer, Hwon quickly walks towards the house as if under a spell and Woon has no choice but to follow. Once they arrive at the entrance, Woon pauses at seeing a pole protruding high above the gate and advises Hwon against going inside – the house belongs to a shaman’s.

Just then, a woman (who we later learn to be named Seol) opens the door. “Reveal yourself!”
“I’m speechless. In what kind of a situation does a guest ask the homeowner to reveal herself? Isn’t that for me to ask?”
“For what reason does a woman possess a sword?”
“It’s amazing. How did you know I possessed a sword? As expected… Ah! That’s not what I meant to say. Ahem! Milady asks me to invite you inside.”
“I said why do you have a sword in your possession!” Woon remains persistent. “In this secluded place, just two women live alone. So shouldn’t we at least have a sword on us? What foolish question. Anyway, will you not come inside?”

This gives Hwon the perfect excuse to impose himself and quickly enter inside. Seol leads the guests to an empty room. The room is filled with the scent of an orchid, and on the floor lies a small table with some liquor and appetizers. And next to it is a brazier warmly greeting the guests, as if they were expected. But otherwise, the room is no different from any ordinary room and does not have any characteristic to indicate that it belongs to a shaman. In fact, the room looks to belong to a man- a scholar – for the bookshelf is stacked with classics like Reflections on the Five Classics and Queries on the Great Learning.

Upon hearing this woman whom Seol call “Milady” enter the adjoining room, Hwon returns to his seat on the floor. The adjoining room is separated by a divider, and Hwon can only make out the form of a graceful woman on the other side. Her hair is braided and tied with a daengi (ribbon), indicating that she is still unmarried.

Hwon becomes curious of the lady’s appearance, and asks her to reveal her face. But when she merely responds by requesting him to have a drink, Hwon orders Woon to remove the divider. In one swoop of Woon’s blade, the divider that separates the two rooms falls to the floor. And as if Woon’s sharp blade has also cut across the rain clouds in the sky, the moonlight pours into the room and fills it.

Hwon once again gets taken by surprise by the woman’s extreme beauty, but he masks his surprise with anger.
“No matter how lowly the guest may be, it is the homeowner’s duty to show himself and greet the guest when he enters his home. Why do you not heed my command?”
“Though my social status is of the lowest of lows, I am also a woman as determined by the heavens. Thus, I failed to think of my duty as a homeowner and only thought of my duty as a woman (to keep her distance from men).”

“You follow those rules though you are not of the nobility?”
“But I have never heard of a law that forbids a lowly person from following the rules of a lady.”
Hwon laughs as he grabs the bottle of alcohol. He has never encountered a woman like her before who did not shirk back from expressing her thoughts so respectfully but so confidently to the king. Hwon pours a drink for Woon, but Woon does not look at the glass and only looks to the floor to indicate that he cannot drink while on duty to guard the king.
Seeing this, the lady speaks: “How very undutiful. You do not know who I am or what is in this drink, and yet you refuse the drink? Will you guard His Majesty with your sword alone?”
At her words, Woon has no choice but to have a drink. He turns his head away from Hwon as he drinks (as is the custom in Korea), and in the process, Woon’s eyes meet the woman’s. Hwon asks the woman how she knew that he was the king.