Jovana Du:

5. That damn contract
Like... Why?!??!? Why they created an evidence for their scheme?? Isn't even like they can use the contract as a proof of somithing because it would do more bad than good for them if the contract became public... We had already one broke up, I don't think we'll have another. But I foreseen problemns coming from the contract. Maybe the spy is going to find it?

Yeah I think the Queen will get her hands on it and the PM will corroborate that it's true. It will seem like it's going to make it so they have to break up, but then HJ will make some grand gesture to prove that they are actually in love now

itwillneverbefar:

T0P:

Ian’s mother died in a car accident involving a white truck. The rules of kdrama dictate, if the accident involves a white truck, it’s homicide. So does the white truck rule hold true for perfect crown? And, if so, who killed the former Queen and why?

OMG this is my favorite, I had no idea there was a color guide to the truck of doom!

Here are my theories/predictions:
- The King committed suicide after writing the abdication edict, the Queen burned his room down to hide the evidence.
- In a twist, Jin Mu isn't actually the villain either (the Queen's father) or is working with someone else
- HJ's father is the one who cut her breaks and has been trying to sabotage the marriage, and maybe even killed I-ANs mother because of his own corrupt political ties
- After all the truth of the murders and corruption that has plagued the royal family for decades comes out, I-AN will abolish the monarchy, and him an HJ will just live as reg people

I think that abolish the monarchy would be a good end, but what I-An can do for living? Like, the only thing he has ever done was living as a Roya. And even the premise of the drama is that the only thing he has is the title (an almost empity title). Maybe he's going to reduce the influence of the monarchy... And I don't see the sense to make a drama with a monarchy in the 21 century just to abolish it, is like to create a problem that didn't need to exist

It makes a lot of sense! She was the one chasing him all the time... But what I think that is fun is that he was the one that liked her first but she was the one chasing him and convincing him they should be together.

Even thought he liked her, he was willing to bring her in the mess that the Royal Family is because he knew it would be dangerous. I really love I-An personality ❤️ (Huiju too hahah)

krispy007:

Athens:

Okay my 3 cents on the things that will happen at some point


1) FML and ML will divorce at some point (maybe in the end, where we will get the stupid cliche of them separated)
2) ML will change the law to allow FML to work when married to him
3) He will also change the law and impose a "minimum age"" to someone to be a king. This will allow his nephew to have a normal life before things start to get chaotic. And he will be the king at this time.

Don't think any divorce drama would be necessary, as they seem to be falling in love with each other more as episodes go by.

Agree with point 2 and 3, Ian changing the law in school seems like a foreshadowing, that he will again change the law for FML.

I also don't think it is necessary. But 9 out of 10 times I see this type of plot, the couple get divorced at some point. I would hope this Kdrama could be the exception.

My thoughts as of today (ep 8):

• The queen didn't deliberately kill her husband, the former king. When she told her father that she "burned everything to the ground", she looked scared and and in panic, not like someone who came back from cold-blooded premediated murder. Most likely she either thought the fire was her fault or she is protecting someone. When in fact, it was someone else or it was purely an accident. For example, she could be thinking that the edict she burned accidentally started the fire, making her think that she "burned everything to the ground" in her fit of anger. But in fact, that small fire was put out, and instead someone else deliberately set the place on fire that same night. That would also explain why the edict wasn't burned to ashes. Or maybe the former king killed himself and she's concealing that.

• My next suspect is her father. But that just feels so obvious. Yes, he may have done some shady things, but they come across as mostly reactionary to protect his daughter and grandchild rather a proactive villain with a hidden agenda.

So then, who else could it be?

• One of the aides? I doubt it since we're starting a love arc there and this drama isn't that dark.

• Huiju's sister-in-law? The way she got of the car in front of the hospital today and the look she gave then, combined with the BGM ticked my radar off. At first, she seems like a harmless barbie-character. But she has her husband in the palm of her hand and she effortlessly navigates interactions with the palace and its members. There is an uncanny commanding note in her actions. So what if her innocent demeanour is all just an act? But why? To get the Castle Group heir to marry her? For what reason? If she is that calculating, she'd likely look down on commoners too. Then again, it could simply be because she comes from a family close to the crown (her father was the former Minister of Justice, a commendable man apparently).

• PM Min Jeong U? Or maybe his family? Honestly, I can't read him at all.

• As for palace staff, Areum seems too timid to be the mastermind. My guess is, she is either a witness or a forced intermediary. The buttler? Only if he has another identity that gives him a motive. But I hope not, I like him...

My biggest question mark in all my theories is the motive. Why would the queen mother or her father kill I-an? Just "he overshadows the king" seems too weak of a reason. Plus they had no reason to kill the former king's mother. Or, why would the former king commit suicide? He seemed scared rather than suicidal; he said abdicating would be better than dying. As for Huiju's sister-in-law, the PM, their families, or a palace staff, why would they need to kill I-an's mother, I-an, or threaten the former king into abdication? In fact, why would someone threaten the former king to abdicate in favour of I-an only to now poison him when he is the regent?

What if Aide Choi is the villain?

But it he is, that's totally heartbreaking for Prince I-An!

There's only 4 episode left. I hope they will have a proper ending not an open quick ending just to have an ending

I hope they will be able to wrap all issue. It will be disappointing if they will end it with a lot of loose end!

Or they can have second book since it's only 12 episode!

Some questions:

1. In the character list there is a Queen Dowager Yim Seon Hwa. Does anybody know who she is?

2. I-An and his brother had the same mother? In the scene Huiji is learning about the Royal family death it shows only I-An mourning his mother.

3. In the first episode, the first thing the Queen did when she saw the fire was to blame and slap I-An. Why her first instinct was to blame him? And I-An didn't locked schooled with his brother's death, his first reaction was to look after the baby King. Did he knew the baby King could be in danger? That's why he always stayed by the side of the baby King?

4. I don't understand, if the king wanted to abdicated because he thought someday would kill him, why would he transfer the danger to I-An and wound wanted him to be harmed. The two brothers relationship looked strange since the fight during the marriage.

And some considerations:

1. If all the deaths in the palace are connected, the true culprit can't be the Queen, their aides or the sister in law because they would be too young to kill the previous Queen. And also pretty young to plan the death of the two previous Kings.

2. It would be rushed as we only have 4 episodes left, but I don't think the real culprit has appeared yet.

3. Huiji's father probably knows something. His first instinct when their relationship was confirmed was to send someone to the Palace so he could keep an eye on the situation. And he def knew the palace was dangerous and didn't want her to enter there.

Now, my unhinged theory hahaha

• For the age of the children actors, Huiji's mother left her with the father more or less around the same time of I-An's mother death. Somehow Huiji's mother is connected with the accident, maybe she worked in the palace and saw something. She probable left Huiji there to protect her.

• The Queen's famille plays dirty but I don't think the are criminals and assassins. They probably just know that there are some dangerous people around the palace and they are trying to protect their power and stay alife.

• Taking this in consideration, my bet for now is that the culprit is someone of a second or illégitime branch of the Royal Family that are targeting the Royal family with the objective to recover the Royal power.

From @Jovana Du

• For the age of the children actors, Huiji's mother left her with the father more or less around the same time of I-An's mother death. Somehow Huiji's mother is connected with the accident, maybe she worked in the palace and saw something. She probable left Huiji there to protect her.

I think this is an interesting theory I haven’t seen anyone else mention. It still bothers me that there has been zero discussion about Huiju’s mother. HJ hasn’t mentioned her at all, not even in passing. It makes me wonder if they’re saving the mother, or her backstory, for the last few episodes, as some plot twist. Then, it would makes sense if she was involved with the palace somehow, and they’re saving the reveal for the end.

I saw a tiktok video of the translated last edict/will the former King wrote. Referring to Ian, he wrote “The one who can be entrusted with…” “The true…” “My own flesh and blood….” This whole time I have assumed that the current boy king is the former king’s biological son because the drama has telegraphed that assumption. They have the same timid personality. The Queen Dowager has made statements about the former king’s weak bloodline. But, now the translation of the will is making me reconsider. Or maybe, the former king just understood that neither he nor his son had the disposition to be king.