Song Hoa Điếm nội dung phim Song Hoa Điếm The king of Goryeo Dynasty (Ju Jin-mo) has a palace guard composed of thirty six young soldiers, led by military commander Hong-lim (Zo In Sung). The King is married to Yuan Dynasty princess (Song Ji-hyo), but they do not have any children. There is constant pressure on the King both from the Yuan emperor and the Goryeo Kingdom to produce a crown prince and ensure the continuity of its royal dynasty. The King finally decides to charge his bodyguard and lover, Hong-lim, with a strange commission: make love to the Queen and beget a child. Hong-lim and the Queen are uncomfortable accepting the royal order, but they finally comply. However, their relationship does not stop at procreation, but a true love bursts into flowers between the two, and in this intimate relationship there is no place for the King. The two lovers surpass their official mission and continue to meet each other at midnight in the library. The King begins to suspect Hong-lim's infidelity, so Hong-lim who asks the Queen to stay away from him and goes to the King to beg for forgiveness. Meanwhile, the Queen attempts to kill herself by slitting her wrists but fails. The King forgives him after hearing that Hong-lim's involvement with the Queen was purely lust. He decides to overlook everything that had happened and instead sends Hong-lim away for a while to have him cool down. The night before Hong-lim's departure, the Queen's personal maid secretly informs him that the Queen wishes to meet him for one last time. She also bears news that the Queen has finally conceived. Hong-lim sneaks out of the King's bedside to meet the Queen in the library. They end up making love in the library, and the King catches them in flagrant. When the two lovers attempt to save the other by begging the King to kill me instead, the King realizes how strong their love for each other is. In a fit of jealousy, he has Hong-lim castrated and sent to prison. The queen finds a way for Hong-lim to escape with the aid of Hong-lim's dearest subordinates. Upon finding that Hong-lim has escaped, the King demands to know where he is from the Queen, who refuses to answer. In response, he kills her personal maid. The King is aware that the Queen is with child and by this time, everyone who was aware that the Queen's child was not the King's was exterminated. Meanwhile Hong-lim, upon realizing that the Queen is still in the palace and not on the run as his subordinates told him in order to quickly escape, heads towards the palace on horseback despite his subordinate's protests. He stops in his journey when he realizes how futile it would be, and returns to the refuge where his subordinates took him to but find that they have been captured. At the palace, the King tortures the subordinates to find the whereabouts of Hong-lim, and when they remain silent, beheads them. Their heads are put up in posts on the palace gates along with the Queen's personal maid. But the female head is wearing the queen's necklace in order to lead Hong-lim to believe the queen was also killed and return to enact revenge. When Hong-lim sees this, he is indeed enraged and goes to the King to kill him. An intense sword fight ensues. However, the King manages to stab Hong-lim in the shoulder, and while he is pinned, he asks Hong-lim a last question: whether or not Hong-lim had ever felt real love for the King. Hong Lim replies that he had never felt love for him. At this point, the King is shocked, giving Hong-lim time to throw a lethal stab of his own sword through the King. One of the royal guards, having watched part of the battle, now intervenes by fatally stabbing Hong-lim. The queen comes upon the scene with the guards and calls out for Hong-lim, however he turns his head from her and faces the dead king, realizing that the king had not killed her because he wished to test Hong-lim, as he faces the king it is hinted that his answer to the king's question had been false. The last few seconds of the film show a flashback to when the King showed young Hong-lim the view of the city and asked if Hong-lim wished to live together, to which the young Hong-lim replied yes. The film ends on a montage of the King and Hong-lim happily hunting together.