Aramintai

She's very smart too, they're smart in different areas tha compliment each other.

It's like legal Epstein files.

And nobody's gonna do anything because it was customary at the time for emperors to have a shit ton of concubines.

The last memories came up when she witnessed her mentor killed in episode 22. But there were snippets here and there before, that's why she suspected ML and his father from the very beginning.

There are evil women here too. But men have more privileges to abuse here, sure.

We still have more than 10 episodes to go. And FL rememberd everything from her childhood, and reconciled with ML about it. They're determined to find the truth. The main bad already sent asssassins after her because she started coming close to the truth. Her master's beau I think also wasn't introduced just because - she's gonna find new info through her sources.
But most importantly, I think FL will stumble upon a case that will expose the main villain sooner or later. Villains tend to do lots of evil stuff, it couldn't have been contained just to that one massacre.
Have patience.
Personally, I'm having fun watching new cases and developing leads relationship. I like that they aren't playing around and are very honest characters. How ML managed reconcile with FL in ep 23 was pretty nice.

The last one about the cult babies and grandpa's revenge.

It gets better again in later episodes. But if you're looking for manly ML taking the lead, then it's not the right drama for you. ML here is like ying to FL's yang.

Nah, it's the same guy, even the beard is the same.

It's always the same with villains, they leave loose ends. Should have killed FL and ML's father back then.

Weren't you paying attention? It's the masked assassin guy, who got an eye injury and went to confess to the evil minister. It's the same guy. He even told the minister he saw FL talking to somebody in the forest.

Nice, never had a doubt.

It was the main assassin.

What, really? Are they the same episodes or did they combine them?

Yea, it's one of those dramas that get better with every new episode. The last few episodes were absolute goat, there are many cool characters, stories are gripping and quite relevant even irl today, music is catchy. I don't know what people aren't liking here.
Personally, I can't give it a 9 because of some abruptly cut scenes in the earlier episodes due to the drama being cut to 34 episodes from full 40. But it's a solid 8.5 because of everything else.

Grandpas are the goatest characters here. Also, grandpas! 😢

The world goes on, but nothing ever changes in human nature...

The most fked up thing is that they knowingly (at least some of them) did it for money to feed their families. It's like being a surrogate mother, but worse.

Kids don't become great at something, they're taught and show talent. FL's father clearly was groomed to be a general from childhood and the emperor was likely taught the art of ruling the state. So somebody assigned them roles since birth already.
Sometimes it caused lots of problems if the crown prince died and the next in line didn't know s*it about how to govern the country. That's why there were tons of replacement princes from many concubines.

Btw, it wasn't explicitly said, who's impregnating those women? Did they come to the cult already pregnant or were they impregnated by the customers or by that cult leader guy?
The customers were paying for babies, but the way they treated them didn't look like they cared one bit about their welfare, just those spiritual blessings.