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The Princess Royal is probably the closest we could get to this but don’t tell the censors 🫣

A bit confused — FL in the drama isn’t a commoner, she’s part of a renowned military family. I didn’t read the novel, but her motivations are pretty clear to me 🤷‍♂️

Another review that makes no sense and is full of factual errors. To beginf withh, FL didn’t lose to ML (how? where?) and it was obviously much easier to become a widow of ML’s older brother because FL+brother were a couple as far as everyone was concerned.

Sigh. Trying to answer questions in comments the best I can. This reminds me of Moonlit Reunion which got hit hard by haters and dropped below 8 (up to 8.2 now thankfully). Antis need to get a life 🙄

Okay, do we know who is organizing the downvoting campaign? This drama is most definitely not 7.6. It started as 8.1-8.2 here but has gone down to 7.9 and now 7.6 even though the show has been quite good so far and there were no weird/disappointing episodes that would have made rankings go down.

Haha, what did Victoria do to you in 2009? 😉
All jokes aside, she’s being doing dramas for a long time and is pretty good here so far. You just have to have the right expectations — this is a revenge drama (for both ML & FL) where leads slowly develop feelings for each other. It’s not dramas like “When Destiny Brings the Demon” or “Love in the Cloud” where leads have crazy chemistry almost from the start.

Victoria Song has been a lead in a lot of C-dramas. Similalry, Krystal Jung has been in many K-dramas but not always as a lead.

In the book her character is supposed to be pretty good and helpful to the FL. But who knows how they will change things in the drama.

Haha, totally agree. So often the dramas are completely different. The Immortal Ascension was pretty close to the source book but it’s an exception (and, even then, it was closer to donghua based on the book).

It’s good through 7 episodes. Will it continue to stay like this for all 40 episodes? No one knows 😳

It’s good so far (7.9 is likely some sort of downvoting that can’t really be explained). But it’s hard to predict what will happen over the course of all 40 episodes. One thing for sure, it’s going to take some time for heroes to develop romantic feelings for each other. They both have much bigger concerns like revenge and finding traitors (they will unite over those pursuits).

There’s no second life in the drama. MDL summary is taken from the novel not the drama. From what novel readers have said, drama is looking quite different plot-wise, so we can’t even reliably guess as to what will happen.

Yes, both things are true. The company is in serious trouble because of debt they took to build a fake plant in Texas and ML & FL will break up for a little bit (half an episode or an episode) as is common. Thankfully, it’s a 12-episode drama so they will be together again soon

In the U.S., it’s Wednesdays, I believe.

ML is trying to prevent the ex from getting his grubby hands on the FL 😁

Rule Number 1 — do not trust K-drama trailers 🫣 They often misrepresent scenes (like voiceover is from Scene A but video is from Scene B) or show things not from the next episode but from later episodes.

It speeds things up and makes it a 12-episode drama instead of 16-episode drama 😁 But I get your point — not really her place to say all those things. Still, it kind of brought them together quicker :)

Yes, that’s what many here suspect

It’s not really instant love or enemies-to-lovers because of the plot and things that occur in the very beginning (don’t want to spoil anything). Both heroes have bigger fish to fry, so to speak. Think of it as a revenge drama where heroes will eventually come together united by common goals.

Pretty sure even Duke of Ning knew she was bluffing but he couldn’t take any chances his family could lose face.