QIHM is a time travel drama where a Joseon scholar Boong-do who serves the power of his queen, In-hyun, travels to the present day Korea with the help of a talisman to get help from the present (basically knowledge from history records) on saving his queen from falling out of favor of the king, his close friend, due to baseless accusations of scandals by an evil minister. He meets a modern day female actress Hee-jin who plays the role of Queen In-hyun in a drama and falls in love with her.
This particular scene is from episode 15 where Boong-do was forcibly thrown back to his own time by the entire Time mechanism as the talisman lose its power. There was already no place for him in the past as he was presumed and announced dead. There was no other way he can return to the present either, now that the talisman is useless and the head monk who made it was dead. The only way forward was to destroy the talisman and hope that everything returns back to normal in the modern day, for the sake of Hee-jin, to put her out of the pain of losing him to Time. He wrote a letter, in case he himself lose all the shared memories.
(Don't understand? Watch the drama then, I strongly encourage it. :D)
This show has one of the best explained plot for using the time travel mechanism, and broke through all competition in the race for Korean time travel dramas like Dr. Jin and Faith. It is one of my favorite romance-time travel genre dramas, ever.
“When I first came into possession of this talisman, I wanted to know what its cause and effect were. At first, I thought it was the realization of my frustrated dream. Then, I thought that its effect may have been meeting you. After that, I thought that effect could be to start anew in a different world. But now, belatedly I realize that its cause and effect is that for saving my life, I would lose everything. My future, my name, my values, my people. And you too. To gain life, one must pay a price and lose something else—that is obvious logic. That I believed I could keep one of those things was my own foolishness. How much more will I have to lose to satisfy that price? Not being able to meet you again—that such a thing is a luxury is something I have now realized.
Memories. Our memories… Losing them is the final price. I do not know what happens now. Will we forget each other? Or will we live unable to forget, forever tormented?
If I have a last wish, I want to remember you. In an aimless life, to not even have those memories would be hell. And you… and you… if you should happen to read this letter far into the future, I pray you will not realize for whom this letter is meant.”
-Boong-do, Queen In-hyun's Man
-Boong-do, Queen In-hyun's Man
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