
Kiai:
9. The red sleeve
(i have NOT researched the historical aspects of the drama)
i had liked the drama a lot, (just so you know)
And i was mentally prepared to have a sad ending when the drama had shown the death of king's son, his beloved wife (our FL) on the deathbed (and her death too), and how heartbroken the king was.
i cried buckets n buckets watching that episode.
Wait a sec !
what ?
all it was a dream?
(that he witnessed while taking a nap in her lap on the porch)
(means all that my crying was in vain?)
i will not deny that i felt better to see both of them and their love (eternal) transcends time and creates a space of their own. (i am not sure it was afterlife or in the same life time, time travels back)
But this time-travel element ruined the ending for me which was otherwise supposed to be a sad (good sad) and historical and well written and well directed and romantic and a very very beautiful drama.

I don't think it was a time travel, it's an open ending and I had the theory about three possible interpretations:
1) it's historically accurate, and their reunion it's old man ML's fever dream/dream while dying
2) it's not historically accurate, she didn't die, he didn't live alone, the whole situation was his nightmare and he woke up as a young man on her lap in the garden
3) it's historically accurate and their reunion happened in the afterlife, in the their happiest moment together
I prefer the first one when I want drama and the last one when I want to sweeten the pill