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"His Highness has been confined in the Eastern Palace for a month"...the plot is not moving 😴

There was no romance between the leads in the novel and the prince wasn't even the main character. This drama differs from it a lot, the ending can go either way. But it strongly gives the vibe of a cliche, good ending.

Why can't I? He's a surgeon and is a boy age wise compared to FL, not to mention her actress.

Still shouldn't count as bullying someone. The other side still sounds like bullies themselves.

I recall in part 1 he said he was so smart he skipped grades. So he's younger than her, but was her senior at college? Also, didn't she start college a bit later in life?

Please stop making offensive remarks, or I'm gonna report you. I've the right to voice my opinion as well. And it seems that unlike you I'm able to separate fictional drama from real live events. This is not a documentary about real bullying cases, it's a fictional drama inspired by them. Yes, they can bring into light whatever problematic topic they focus on, but fictional dramas' main purpose is to be entertaining with its plot, even by embellishing irl events that insipired them, if need be.
In my opinion, the romance plot was not entertaining to watch, period. There were more interesting options to have here and they were hinted at in part 1. Feel free to disagree, but in a civilized, constructive manner, the only one acting childishly here is you.

So? Why did the kids mothers sent her bribe gifts?

Was it really like that? I don't recall seeing anything about that in the drama, just some messages from the main bitch. Were we to assume it happened behind the scenes or something?

Yes, it could have been that sort of plot, why not.

That depends on how damaged said person is. Personally, at times, especially in the early episodes, FL really had a psycho vibe about her. And I've seen a video where this drama's real life inspirations were discussed. One victim was so fixated on revenge, he, like FL, went to get a specifically chosen education to be able to make a hombrew bomb to kill all of his bullies at a school reunion party. So don't speak as if "you" know the feelings of bullied victims, how messed up they may come out in adult life and how much are they willing to do to get suitably painful revenge on their bullies.
The plot of this drama could have been made way darker and it would have been more realistic than FL dealing with all her bullies cleanly, without any dirt on her hands.

You're not wrong, but feelings are not logical, the plot could have easily been written differently with those two characters in mind. Or it could have been a classic, ruinous relationship where FL gets in bed with her rival's husband on purpose - it could have been a plot where she steals her rival's family (like she actually told the main bitch she'll do in part 1).
But all in all, because it was noticable that they simply had better chemistry together, however mild it was. Main bitch's husband was even shown to have a keen, if ambiguous interest in FL. After part 1 I personally really thought there may be something coming.
FL and surgeon boy had zero chemistry compared.

1. I still don't get that part - what influence did she have? It's the mothers that have all the influence. They can complain about anything related to the teacher to easily get her fired, like, for example, an annoying drunkard relative of hers that makes scenes at the school premises and who makes annoying calls to kids parents. The teacher is far from unfireable. But I guess FL did have that will dirt on school's owner. But even so, even if FL was unfireable, her mother would not have been able to do anything at school proper, she would have been escored out forcibly. And mothers did gang up later and came to FL to complain.
I thought that maybe the main bitch told FL's mother some dirt on the other mothers so that she could blackmail them to get FL fired, but it's unclear.
4. Still don't get that part either.

If defending your girlfriend from bullies is also called bullying now and you have to apologize for it 20+ years later then the world really is out of whack.

I'm still watching part 2, but I'm really not feeling the romance between FL and the surgeon boy.
And I'm not feeling his character was necessary here at all, tbh.
Maybe it's because FL looks very old compared to the rest of her peers (which I guess can be explained with her living a tough life). And surgeon's actor not only acts like a way younger person, but actually is a way younger person. A strange choice of cast, tbh. FL's acting is on point though, I give her that.
Or maybe because FL's like a robot most of the times, dead inside. Her sole purpose in life is revenge. And she's so emotionless most of the time, she's not giving any hints or vibes she cares about the guy at all in that vein. So it's hard to believe her starting to love somebody when she clearly doesn't even love herself. And surgeon boy's love looks like puppy love more than anything.

Anyway, don't kill me, I dunno what it is, but something's not working here, there's no chemistry, romance feels shoehorned here, unnecessary. I would have rather they removed surgeon boy's character altogether and FL started a relationship with main bitch's husband - they looked more believably interested in each other.

1. What FL's trash of a mother had on school kids mothers to bribe them? Why were they giving her gifts?
2. Are there no laws or protocols in SK for disposing of bodies in public morgues after a set period of time? Morgues are not infinitely large, they can't hold many bodies, especially for so long. If bodies of homeless people, people with no families, or people like that killed girl were to keep piling up there then there'd be no space very soon. Why are they not given to public funeral houses to get buried or cremated?
And why practically nobody of hospital staff knew about that body in the freezer? Was somebody secretly paying to keep her there all those years?
3. Why spy grandma was not leaving her deadbeat drunkard husband? She was the sole breadwinner of the family, she could have ran away with her daughter and rented a flat somewhere else; could have filed a police report with her bruises as evidence to make him go to prison for domestic violence; could have gotten a forced divorce through court and could have gotten a restraining order on him. But instead she chose to stay and let herself and her daughter get beaten every day. I just don't get it. Is it something pathological or something?
4. How spy grandma's husband figured out that the main bitch killed somebody and where did he get main bitch mother's phone number? Spy grandma showed him some messages from the main bitch but there wasn't anything about murders there.

I'm still watching and I didn't get some things, can somebody please explain:

Yea, go for it. There's nothing to worry about here.

It will later be revealed that it was a misdiagnosis, but not until after she messes with ML too much for the sake of revenge to get away with it.
FL’s diagnosis, firstly, serves a serious purpose here as a wake up call to force her to reevaluate her life. And secondly, it serves a comedic purpose - her revenge on ML is hilarious.

It’s a comedy, the premise is heavy though, yea. But don’t worry, it has a very happy ending.

Exactly. It's very obvious, because we've seen it all already in other saeguks.