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Yea, fighting scenes were hard on her here, I've read she has some old back trauma. Though she plowed through them seemingly flawlessly on screen.

I liked this drama a lot too. FL nailed her role here and support cast was also strong.
I love detective dramas and it was right up my alley. The seven cases may not all have been super interesting, but there were some truly dark and thought provoking ones. And I disagree what some people said that some of them made no sense, they just weren't paying attention and didn't want to use their brains to realize what this drama's about.
And while criminals for the most part weren't some crime geniuses, there were some pretty elaborately staged crimes here. And most importantly, the tragic stories behind them were the main point. And how the leads were investigating them was smart and believable, considering the limited technologies of that era.
The main plot of FL seeking revenge was also nicely paced and gradually unveiled, with all its interconnected characters, to a satisfactory conclusion. The only unnecessary thing there was that potential season 2 teaser.

Seeing comments of people dropping the drama just makes me feel annoyed. Everyone seemingly are coming here looking for yet another soap rom-com. And while this drama isn't one, there's a cute believable romance here too, which is based on gradually gained mutual respect and trust, not some cheesy cliches in which the leads are usually thrown into to force them into liking each other.
But again, it's a detective drama with a very clear message and dark tones, you just gotta pay attention.

It's a teaser for possible season 2.

It's not a rom-com or a soap, so if you don't like historical detective dramas about revenge and injustice, then shouldn't have bothered.

It's not bad writing, you just didn't get it. Even when it's basically in the intro song - there is no justice to be had in the palace. It's all about injustice, forgiven sins, influential covering for their influential buddies and revenge of the helpless. FL here is also torn between being a law enforcer and her empathy for the wronged.

Ok, you lost me at OST being horrible. There are very beautiful songs here.
Started looking like a hate rant from a person with attention span of a goldfish, instead of a proper review.

Man, nobody's gonna read your walls of text.
And if you think FL won't be able to deal with some lame ass assassins, then you haven't been paying attention. Also that arrogant brat CP better be worried himself. If he kills consort Shu, FL will kick his butt for revenge just like she did the chancellor's.

Yea, I've finished it too and it was mostly doodoo 🤣. Fkn cringefest in the first half from FL, and in the second half from the bad guys. Her evil brother also had a very punchable face, I couldn't take any of his antics seriously.
If the secondary couple is more natural and interesting to watch than the main one, there's a fundamental problem with the drama. That they took their sweet time with this army soap is also a problem, this plot could have been comfortably finished with 8 less episodes.

She regains the last of her memories in episode 22. That she somehow knows ML is obvious from episode 1, but what she remembers is tied to her memories, so revelataions are gradual.

No, she's a kind hearted woman who's not involved.

Yea, figures. I wasn't holding my breath to begin with, it looked like some greedy far cry to gauge interest.

FL's family was killed by the right chancellor who plotted her father's murder, because her father got wind of his embezzlement schemes.
The ML protagonist was there that night and saved FL with his father, it's also because of her he went to study astronomy. His father forbade him from telling anyone about their involvement because they were afraid that their family would be killed as well.

Afaik, the novel was more of an inspiration than 1:1. Even characters backgrounds were different there, not to mention the plot. They've already changed too much here, so I guess somebody can try writing another script. Or they can scrape at the bottom of the barrel and extrapolate from the novel's barely touched political sub-plot.

More likely because showrunners were weary of the old rebirth/reincarnation plots ban. Damn right, I'm sick if these too, lol. Too bad they seemingly come crawling out again lately.

If anything like this happens I ain't watching. Too many shitty sequels like that as an example to care.
It's either same actors and continue the story, or go home and count your money.

It's hasn't fizzled out, just finish it already. And it was nice to have it. They could have settled on friendship, but with romance dramas always have an extra emotional level to exploit and every showrunner and their momma knows it. And also, it's more logical that way that both leads would follow each other wherever, FL really wanted to leave that shit ass palace by the end. If they were just friends, ML probably would have stayed at his work as an astronomer.

Ok, but are we getting season 2 with these numbers?

There is, but not the main focus.

There is no second novel. Meaning somebody’s gotta write a good script from scratch. Maybe they can scrape some political story out of the first novel, as it was used more as an inspiration than 1:1 adaptation. Characters' backstories there were different and there was more politicking and dynasty wars bs. Can shoehorn this to CP wanting to depose his father, for example. But that would change the tone of the drama. Personally, I get bored with politics, I like investigations and mysteries more.

And if they change the leads nobody’s gonna watch it, I bet. It was more FL’s personal story than just some sort of historical procedural where you can swap detectives every season. And with that teaser they gotta return to resolve this.

Or it won’t. Many dramas have teasers that lead nowhere. And I’ve read this actress doesn’t want to do any more dramas with hard fighting scenes after this one, she’s got some old back injury and it was pain.