Aramintai

Wdym? She did expose the villain after poisoning the nobles. She wasn't allowed to kill him back then, but it still had an effect - he was dismissed and lost his allies, they all scattered like rats. Then she spied and played along with that ex-army guy who was in cohoots with the Crown Prince to use their schemes against them to take the villain down completely. He got played and had no choice but to bum rush the palace. After that she was allowed to kill him legally by the emperor's decree. I'd say justice was served.

Very underrated.

Had to drop it. The actress is cute and plays her role well, and there are some funny scenes. But the plot is draggy and dumb af. ML also has a dorky face, couldn't get over it. For isekai lovers only.

Overhyped. It's just a 7. Too much boring back and forth between the protagonists and the police, slow mulling things over and wasting too much time on side characters' stories. Should have been 10 episodes tops to keep it tight and suspensful.

1. Episode 28.
2. Episode 29 - beginning of episode 34. The breakup wasn't dumb, there was a big argument.
3. No.
4. Yes.
5. There's cute romance here, but it's not the main focus. But it influenced FL's decisions in the end by a lot.
6. Depends on what you want. There are a few kissing scenes here, but the romance is more of a slow burn based on trust, instead of getting sudden hots for each other.

Yes, but not the main focus.

Read my spoiler answer above.

Yea, and FL got reprimanded for covering for her friend and even dismissed from duty for a time. But the emperor himself decided to forgive the sins of that princess, because he wanted to marry her off for political benefits and to save his family's reputation. So he covered everything up on top of it. There was no justice there from any side and that first case sets the whole theme of this drama.
FL's reckless methods and struggle to uphold the law impassionately are part of her character and will have an inevitable culmination in the final episodes. Though the foreshadowing is in the very first episode - her mentor said that her heart does not lie in serving in the Investigation Bureau. And she herself stated in the intro that she used her position to seek her family's murderer, it wasn't her life's goal to stay working there. That palace is a shithole cage and FL will leave it with ML in the end.

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.