Aramintai

No, you mess up the sequence of events.
-Papa Jin is Bu-Yeon's real father, he got played by Jin Mu.
-Jang Kang got his hands on shaman's alchemy of souls book. He started studying it.
-Something went wrong with the baby in mama Jin's womb. She knew about the stories of the ice stone returning people from death. So she went and asked Jang Kang to help her revive her baby with it, since he's a powerful mage. Then she retrieved the ice stone from Jin vault.
-After helping her Jang Kang didn't return her the ice stone. And she couldn't snitch on him, because a) it was supposed to be destroyed; b) she asked him to do a forbidden sorcery to revive her daughter.
-Jang Kang further studied the ice stone, made new soul ejectors, etc. At around this point the late king got wind of his knowledge of the alchemy of souls.
-The late king duped Jang Kang and while soul shifted in his body slept with his wife.
You know the rest. And Jang Kang and mama Jin were not lovers, don't be ridiculous here.

Current king is late king's nephew, afaik. So yeah, if late king's son were to appear he would be the first in line to the throne. That's what Jang Kang was afraid of for Uk - a power struggle for the throne.

Look below, people aready discussed it. Papa Jin was fooled by Jin Mu, who played on his insecurities. Papa Jin is Bu-Yeon's real father.

I just had a funny thought. Wedding, assassin..."Red wedding" incoming? 🤣🤣😅🤔
I know it's not gory and graphical as GoT, but still, sounds too familiar.

He's not her father, he was mislead by Jin Mu.

He's not her father, he was mislead by Jin Mu.

Jin clan is full of dumbasses, it runs in the family, just accept it. 🤣

Third time's a charm?

Yes, he was easily fooled by Jin Mu, because it was said he was an insecure man.

Yea, well said. But some people just don't get it.

You really thought that even after seeing all those lying and misleading previews? And knowing there's part 2 and og Naksu incoming?
You're so gullible. 🤣

Nope. Jang Kang is not Bu-Yeon's father, if that's what you're implying. Papa Jin got duped by Jin Mu to assume that.

I think the ice stone auto protected Bu-Yeon from harm that way by teleporting her inside a tornado to another place. It was already floating towards her when mama Jin tried to kill her, meaning Bu-Yeon had innate control over it. I'd bet if Bu-Yeon took control over her body she could have dispersed the barrier but since it was Naksu again, she had no means to do it properly, she could only absorb it and kill everybody inside because of magic overflow, which she thankfully refused to do.

I dunno, they showed Naksu's body on the pyre up close - it was her, unless it was an illusion. Also, at that time Jin Mu had no reason to keep her body, on the contrary, he wanted her to be really dead and made extra sure she has no body to return to.

It's gonna be upsetting for me for sure.

They are back to square one, but they are content with it since they got each other now and it's more important than power to them. They came a long way, grew as characters and are no longer the same people they were in the beginning.

It may as well have been an ending, until they decided it's not enough and 10 more episodes are needed.

No, nobody forgot Naksu, it's just that people got attached to JSM's/Mu-Deok's face already, because they've seen her for whole 20(!) episodes straight being an excellent lead. It's not a book where you imagine whatever, it's a TV show you watch with your eyes after all, you get attached to actors faces playing their characters.

Yea, he was the biggest fool and mess maker of Daeho. R.I.P. I guess?

Yea, I felt good about the leads decision, it was beautiful. They were back at square one, both with no powers but they were content because they now have each other. They both changed and grew so much, they're no longer those people they were in the beginning.