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Ever wondered what would happen if someone from our time suddenly found themselves in ancient Korea? This hilarious and heartwarming story follows a seemingly ordinary girl who accidentally gets transported back centuries! Initially struggling to adapt, she quickly realizes her modern knowledge gives her a unique edge.

Watch as she navigates courtly intrigue, introduces groundbreaking ideas – from basic sanitation to surprisingly effective farming techniques! But it's not all smooth sailing; she faces skepticism, political maneuvering, and the challenge of concealing her true origins. Her journey is filled with unexpected friendships, budding romance, and a whole lot of cultural clashes.

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00:00The story begins with Danby, a high school senior in her final year.
00:04She's just a few days away from taking her university entrance exams,
00:07but the problem is, she's terrible at math.
00:10She always falls asleep during math class,
00:12which annoys the teacher so much that one day he calls her to the board.
00:16But as usual, she can't solve anything.
00:19Frustrated, he scolds her in front of everyone.
00:22When she returns home, she ignores her studies
00:24and spends her time playing with her phone and listening to music.
00:27Her mom watches her, annoyed, and tells her that if she solved math problems
00:31the same way she memorizes lyrics, she'd already be a genius.
00:35She jokes that Danby must have inherited her math struggles from her father,
00:39who was also bad at it, and that no university would accept her like this.
00:44What bothers Danby most is when her mom changes the TV channel
00:48to one of those historical dramas she always watches.
00:51Danby gives up and leaves the room, heading to her best friend's house.
00:55Her friend reminds her once again that this is her last shot at getting into college.
00:59If she fails now, she'll have no future, nowhere to go.
01:03The next morning, Danby wakes up late and runs out,
01:06already behind schedule for the big exam.
01:09Her mom encourages her as she leaves,
01:11telling her to give it her best so she can get into a good school.
01:14Danby is nervous, especially about the math section,
01:17but she tries to study on the bus until she reaches the exam center.
01:21She jumps off the bus and runs, but forgets her umbrella.
01:25As she approaches the exam building, fear takes over.
01:28She isn't ready.
01:30She starts panicking, thinking about running away
01:32instead of facing the possibility of failing.
01:35She sits under the pouring rain, heart sinking,
01:38silently wishing she could just disappear.
01:41There's a shallow puddle in front of her formed by the rain.
01:44She steps closer to it, and suddenly, something strange happens.
01:48She notices a group of people dressed in unusual clothes,
01:51all gathered and praying for rain.
01:54They say it hasn't rained in three years,
01:56and people are dying from the drought.
01:58Suddenly, Danby finds herself falling into the puddle
02:01and begins to drown.
02:02But instead of dying, she re-emerges,
02:05in the same spot, but somehow in a different world.
02:09She's confused and starts asking the people around her
02:12if they're filming a historical drama or something.
02:14The king, seeing her strange behavior,
02:17becomes terrified and yells, asking if she's a demon.
02:21She nervously says,
02:23No, I'm just a high school student.
02:25But the way she says it sounds like some kind of
02:27magical incantation to them, which only increases their fear.
02:31Suddenly, guards surround her with swords drawn.
02:34When she realizes the swords are real,
02:37she panics and improvises, saying,
02:39I know why I'm here.
02:40Please, God, send the rain.
02:42The people repeat her words like a prayer,
02:45but the moment they all lift their heads again,
02:47she's vanished.
02:48She had already run off and kept going
02:50until she reached a place filled with ceremonial clothes.
02:53She disguises herself as one of the temple priests
02:56and sneaks into a gathering with the king.
02:58During the meeting, the king suddenly announces
03:00that they must stop relying on superstitions
03:03and instead study science and mathematics
03:06to solve the problems in their kingdom.
03:08But the chief priest objects, saying this is dangerous nonsense,
03:13that math is just another superstition
03:14and it's impossible to understand nature through equations.
03:18He claims the real reason for the drought
03:20is that the heavens are angry with the king
03:22and that the only way to bring rain
03:24is for the king to perform a sacred ritual with the queen.
03:27Danby secretly slips out of the meeting
03:29and goes to look for her phone, but she gets caught again.
03:32While she waits for the king to arrive,
03:34she starts thinking maybe she can escape once it finally rains.
03:39But the king shocks her by saying
03:40that it hasn't rained in three years
03:42and honestly, he doesn't like her.
03:45He declares that she should be executed immediately.
03:48She panics and begs,
03:49please wait, I'm just a student from the future
03:52and I came here by accident.
03:54She tries to convince him that she knows a lot about history
03:57and when that doesn't work,
03:59she quickly adds that she's also brilliant at math.
04:01Intrigued, the king postpones the execution
04:04and tells her to prove it.
04:06He gives her a Pythagorean theorem problem to solve.
04:09At first, she's confused
04:10and says she can't even understand what's written.
04:12But when she realizes it's the Pythagorean theorem,
04:15she solves it quickly.
04:17The king is amazed.
04:18He says his own scholars usually take three days
04:21to solve such a problem.
04:22From that moment on,
04:23everyone starts treating Danby as Gossam, a male scholar.
04:28The king gives her a mission,
04:29teach math to the people.
04:31If she succeeds, he'll let her return home.
04:34But he's the first student
04:35and she's shocked to discover
04:37he doesn't even know how to count.
04:39She patiently begins teaching him from the very basics,
04:42numbers, addition and subtraction,
04:44all the way up to multiplication.
04:47Eventually, they prepare for a math contest
04:49against a rival city musician.
04:51If Danby loses, she'll be punished.
04:53She boldly challenges the king
04:55and even hits him in frustration
04:57when he gets things wrong.
04:58The guards rush in, ready to kill her for touching the king,
05:02but he stops them and laughs it off.
05:04They hide all the math papers whenever the queen visits,
05:07pretending to be practicing music instead.
05:09One day, the king notices Danby is starving
05:11and invites her to eat with him,
05:13but she doesn't like the food and takes him to the kitchen.
05:16Using ingredients from her bag,
05:18she makes him some delicious instant noodles.
05:20He loves them, even though they're spicy.
05:23When she offers him water, he refuses,
05:25saying he likes the heat.
05:26The next morning, the entire palace hears him screaming.
05:30When Danby checks on him,
05:31she sees he's put a protective talisman on his ear,
05:34thinking she cursed him.
05:35She rolls her eyes and says,
05:37Look, superstar, it was just noodles, not black magic.
05:40There was no magic or spell.
05:42It was just the chili hitting his stomach too hard.
05:45When she told him that, he asked,
05:47What's a stomach anyway?
05:49So Danby sat down and explained to him what the stomach is,
05:52what intestines are,
05:54and even about the heart,
05:55and how if he puts his hand on his chest,
05:57he'll feel it beating.
05:59But he said,
06:00I don't feel anything.
06:01She smiled and said,
06:02It's okay.
06:03One day, when you're with someone you love,
06:06you'll feel it on your own.
06:07He was amazed at how much knowledge she had.
06:10He started seeing her as a brilliant scholar,
06:12so he asked her to teach all the royal scholars of Joseon,
06:15not just math,
06:17but everything from science to agriculture.
06:19That night, he offered her a tangerine,
06:21and she casually said,
06:23Thanks, without ceremony.
06:25But he got very upset.
06:26You're a Joseon wanderer.
06:28You should have saved that fruit for three days at least.
06:30You don't appreciate blessings.
06:32She laughed and said,
06:33It's just a tangerine.
06:35Don't be so dramatic.
06:37Later, the two of them went out to play ball in the palace courtyard,
06:40and she got him to run for the first time in years.
06:43The next day,
06:44the king sat with his future bride
06:46and told her that he would be served a magical love potion that night in his stew,
06:51and after that,
06:51they'd be married immediately.
06:54But fate had other plans.
06:55That bowl ended up in Danby's hands.
06:58She started behaving very strangely,
07:01and ended up falling asleep in the palace.
07:03When she woke up,
07:04she kept apologizing to the king,
07:06but he simply told her,
07:08Nothing happened, Gossam.
07:10Forget it.
07:10They went for a walk outside,
07:13and he told her that if she could achieve her mission,
07:15she would earn a high rank in the council
07:17and even be gifted a royal horse.
07:19But she said,
07:20I don't want anything.
07:21I'm going back to my world as soon as the rain falls.
07:24The king replied,
07:25Then from now on,
07:26don't treat me like a king.
07:27We're equals,
07:28man to man.
07:29But the next day,
07:30disaster struck.
07:32Danby was arrested and accused of mocking the king.
07:35They tied her by the limbs,
07:36preparing to torture her.
07:38But the king stepped in
07:39and explained to the priests
07:40that this young scholar had valuable knowledge.
07:43One priest, however,
07:44seized the opportunity and said,
07:46Fine.
07:47Then I must test him myself.
07:48He has two weeks.
07:50If it doesn't rain by then,
07:51we'll execute him.
07:53Danby didn't give up.
07:54She kept studying,
07:55calculating everything,
07:57and the palace musician
07:58helped her build a rainfall gauge.
08:00Then, without warning,
08:02rain began to pour from the sky.
08:04Danby was overwhelmed with joy.
08:06But the king suddenly remembered what she said.
08:09That she would leave once it rained.
08:11He ran to the house where she was staying
08:13and found her crying in front of the rain gauge,
08:15overwhelmed with emotion.
08:17He told her,
08:18You need to escape right now.
08:20I've been preparing for this.
08:22A ship headed for Ming is waiting for you.
08:24But she shook her head.
08:25I've spent my whole life running away.
08:28I only ended up here
08:29because I was trying to escape my world.
08:31At that moment,
08:32the palace musician,
08:33who had secretly been working with the high priest,
08:36arrived.
08:37The priest had ordered him to kill the scholar,
08:40believing Danby might truly be from the future.
08:43The musician told the priest,
08:45If that's true,
08:46then he's even more dangerous.
08:47We must get rid of him.
08:49The musician took Danby and put her on a horse,
08:51galloping through the woods
08:52until they reached a forest.
08:54There, he told her,
08:55I've known for a while that you're a girl.
08:58But I'm a decent man.
08:59Your secret is safe with me.
09:02She explained that it wasn't intentional.
09:04The job she landed was offered to a boy,
09:06and she had no choice but to take it.
09:08Meanwhile, back in the palace,
09:10the high priest tried to convince the king
09:12that everything Danby had taught them
09:14must be destroyed,
09:16especially the new written language
09:18she was developing.
09:19They had to stick to tradition
09:20and eliminate the boy's influence,
09:22but the king couldn't accept that.
09:24He left the palace on horseback,
09:26searching for her.
09:27Elsewhere in the forest,
09:28the guards finally caught up
09:29to Danby and the musician.
09:31He let her escape and stood in their way,
09:33fighting them off
09:34until the queen herself appeared,
09:36her feet bleeding.
09:37She had run all the way there,
09:39desperately searching for them.
09:41Danby kept walking along the road
09:42until she reached a fork
09:44and didn't know where to go.
09:45Then she remembered something
09:46the king once said,
09:48that the sun is Joseon's clock.
09:50So she followed the sunlight
09:51until she reached the sea,
09:53and there the king
09:54was already waiting for her.
09:56That night they sat side by side
09:58watching the stars.
09:59She told him,
10:00in the future,
10:01we don't see stars like this.
10:03Only the brightest ones.
10:05He replied,
10:05look now,
10:06the only stars you're seeing
10:08are the ones you choose to see.
10:10But if you stop and look closely,
10:12you'll start to see more.
10:13Those stars were always there.
10:15They just didn't appear
10:16until you decided to see them.
10:18The eyes see what the heart wants.
10:20After a quiet pause,
10:22the king confessed that he loved her.
10:23He said he wanted to create
10:25a new, easier language
10:26so common people could learn,
10:28not just the nobles.
10:30She suddenly remembered something,
10:31pulled out her money from the future,
10:33and saw his face printed on the currency.
10:35That's when she realized
10:37he really would succeed.
10:39When the king returned to the palace,
10:41he announced he would begin paying salaries
10:43to those who serve the people well.
10:45The high priest surprisingly agreed,
10:47saying that anyone who benefits the people
10:49should be rewarded.
10:51What do you think of Gosam?
10:52He asked, but no one else in the court agreed.
10:55They believed Gosam should be banished
10:57or even executed.
10:58Still, Danby continued to secretly
11:00teach the king everything,
11:02math, writing, and reasoning,
11:04without the priests knowing.
11:06One day, while walking through the palace,
11:08she found the queen hiding and eating in secret.
11:11They had forbidden her from eating too much,
11:13so she wouldn't gain weight
11:14and ruin her appearance.
11:16Danby offered her
11:17one of her instant noodle cups.
11:19The queen accepted it,
11:20and as they ate,
11:21they started chatting.
11:22From that moment on,
11:23they became friends.
11:25A few days later,
11:26the queen approached the king
11:27and told him she knew everything.
11:29She had already informed the queen mother too,
11:32because the girl, Danby,
11:33was supposed to be one of his concubines.
11:36Suddenly, Danby found herself being prepared
11:38for something she didn't understand.
11:41The palace maids were dressing her up
11:43and applying makeup.
11:44She had no clue what was going on,
11:46until she realized they were preparing her
11:48for the midday rest with the king,
11:50and that she was to become his first woman.
11:53The moment she understood what was happening,
11:55she panicked and ran away
11:57from the mad people around her.
11:59One of the headmaids quickly informed the king
12:01that she had escaped on her way to the palace.
12:03The king went out to search for her
12:04and eventually found her,
12:06but he grabbed her by the arm
12:07and pulled her into a room.
12:09Danby screamed, protesting,
12:11You said we'd stay just friends.
12:13I'm only 19.
12:15The king chuckled and replied,
12:1619?
12:17That means you've got at least
12:19three years of adulthood.
12:20You're not a kid anymore.
12:22Besides, I've known you were a girl
12:23for a while now.
12:24I haven't touched you, have I?
12:26But tonight, you need to stay here.
12:28Everyone's watching.
12:29Don't worry, I'm not going to eat you alive.
12:31The truth is, my mother's extremely stubborn,
12:33and no one can persuade her easily.
12:36The next morning, Danby went to speak
12:37with the musician.
12:38He asked her,
12:39Are you sure you want to go back to the future?
12:42But she didn't answer.
12:43She was torn,
12:44and her heart was full of doubt.
12:45She just walked off and sat alone.
12:48After a while, the queen came
12:50and told her someone wanted to see her.
12:52When Danby entered the palace,
12:53she found herself face to face
12:55with the queen mother,
12:56who looked exactly like her real mother.
12:59She completely broke down in tears,
13:01and no one understood
13:02what had triggered her crying.
13:04That night, she went to see
13:05the new astronomical system of Joseon,
13:08one she had personally helped create.
13:10It would help the kingdom
13:11accurately track the days and months.
13:14The king then invited her
13:15to come see something else
13:16he'd been working on.
13:17He had developed a new alphabet
13:19made up of 28 letters,
13:21meant to simplify reading and writing
13:23so that everyone in Joseon,
13:25not just the scholars,
13:26could learn.
13:27As they walked into the middle
13:28of the great hall,
13:29he asked her to sit
13:30in the ceremonial chair.
13:32Then, he placed the royal hairpin
13:34on her head,
13:35a symbol of marriage,
13:36and asked her to stay with him forever.
13:39Danby started crying and told him,
13:41I can't.
13:42I promised myself
13:43I'd go back once the rain comes.
13:45My mother is waiting for me,
13:46and she trusts me.
13:47The king gently replied,
13:49Then go see her,
13:50and come back.
13:51Let's live here together.
13:53But she refused again.
13:54He lost his patience
13:55and said angrily,
13:56You're right.
13:57The future is better
13:58than this Joseon,
14:00full of sickness and disease.
14:02Do whatever you want.
14:03Then he stormed off,
14:04heartbroken.
14:05She remained in the hall,
14:07standing still.
14:08When suddenly,
14:09she was struck on the head
14:10and knocked unconscious.
14:12Someone stabbed her with a sword,
14:13and the entire building
14:15was set on fire.
14:16When the king heard what happened,
14:18he risked his life
14:19and ran through the flames
14:20to rescue her.
14:21The next day,
14:22he summoned his assistant
14:23and said,
14:24The ancient text
14:25disappeared last night.
14:27He accused the high priest
14:28of stealing it.
14:29The king grabbed the priest's hand
14:31and said,
14:32Did no one teach you
14:33to erase all evidence
14:34after committing a crime like this?
14:36Then he turned to Danby
14:37and asked,
14:38Was this the voice you heard?
14:40She nodded.
14:41It turned out
14:42that the book in her bag
14:43had shielded her from the stab.
14:45The king, furious,
14:46confronted the priest.
14:47You knew what he meant to me.
14:49Why did you do this?
14:51The priest answered coldly,
14:52Because if that new language spreads,
14:55young people will start
14:56thinking freely.
14:57It'll create chaos.
14:58It will destroy the kingdom.
15:00I'm not afraid of dying.
15:02I'm afraid of the disorder
15:03that will ruin the future.
15:05The king replied,
15:06Even if you try to stop it,
15:08I will build this system
15:09of writing for the people.
15:11I want to be someone
15:12who makes their dreams possible.
15:14Why should we fear a future
15:15we won't even live to see?
15:17A world we know nothing about?
15:19But the priest wasn't moved.
15:21He fell to his knees and said,
15:22Please, execute me and end this.
15:25Soon the sky turned gray
15:26and rain began to fall,
15:28just lightly at first.
15:30Danby went around the palace,
15:31saying goodbye to her friends
15:33one last time before leaving.
15:35The king asked if he could walk with her
15:37to the farthest point.
15:38They walked side by side
15:40until they reached the seashore.
15:42There, Danby stepped into the same pond
15:44she had once fallen into
15:45and allowed herself to sink again,
15:47just like before.
15:49Moments later, she emerged again,
15:51back in her own world.
15:52She looked around and realized
15:54that only a few seconds had passed.
15:56There was still time
15:57to make it to the exam.
15:58She ran as fast as she could
16:00toward the test hall
16:00and saw her teacher waiting.
16:02The entrance exam had just started.
16:04She rushed to her seat
16:05and took the test.
16:07Later that day,
16:07she returned home
16:08and found her mother waiting for her.
16:10She ran into her arms,
16:11holding her tightly.
16:12Everything about Danby had changed,
16:14her behavior, her perspective.
16:16Everything had shifted
16:17after her journey.
16:18She had learned to value the people
16:20and things around her more deeply.
16:22Months passed.
16:24One day,
16:24as she walked out of school,
16:26the sky opened up
16:27and rain began to fall again.
16:29Suddenly,
16:30someone placed an umbrella
16:31over her head.
16:32She looked up
16:33and saw a face
16:34strikingly familiar.
16:35He looked exactly
16:36like the King of Joseon,
16:38but he simply smiled and said,
16:40we met a long time ago
16:41on the bus.
16:42You dropped your umbrella
16:43and that's where the story ends.
16:46If you've made it to the end,
16:47let us know what you thought
16:48in the comments
16:49and tell us what you'd like us
16:50to summarize in the next video.
16:52Thanks for watching.

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