Big_Red_1011

You would send the lady doctor over there too, wouldn’t you? 🤣

In all honesty, now 2ML probably regrets saving her. He’s as annoyed with her as this comments section 🤣

I find her behavior realistic (this happens in real life too), so I have sympathy towards her, but there is no one in the comments section who supports her decisions. She’s extremely disliked here (even though I personally view her as more a tragic character).

Based on what others said, it’s a happy ending for ML+FL (they even have a kid together) and I believe ML becomes the emperor.

Not very effective trope when it comes to this character. At least in other dramas (like Flourished Peony), it was interesting to watch a bad character with a sad backstory, here it’s just making me put his scenes on 2x speed 🙄

Ugh… 19 & 20 weren’t an improvement. They really are trying to make us feel sorry for a very evil 2ML? 🙄

The writers were doing well in 1-16. In 17-20 they made some very questionable choices for the purposes of moving the story along (letting newlyweds leave, disobeying the emperor for no reason, FL not telling ML about the bad guy immediately, trying to make us care about 2ML, and so on).

Very interesting to see it go up. Hopefully, it’s from people catching up on early episodes because personally I found episodes 17-20 to not have as good of writing as 1-16.

We don’t know if they will change it from the source novel, but she doesn’t have a happy ending in the book.

His sister? No, as of Ep. 20 he doesn’t.

I’m starting to have more & more questions for the writers — are they seriously trying to make us care for 2ML and to feel sorry for him? The man committed (or planned to commit) so many horrible things and we are expected to care about what happens with him? Very questionable 🤨

Being subtle is NOT a requirement for this character. Everything is so exaggerated (on purpose, of course) 😁🤣

(1) I agree that it was just a plot point to move the story along, but it’d been better if they escaped without being caught by ML. But he did catch them, fought them and then… just let them go… (2) Yes, he has a lot of resentment (and I agree with your reasoning) but a smart hero would have shown up. He MUST show up eventually and it’d been better to show up sooner.
Anyway, let’s hope writers do a bit better in the rest of the episodes :)

The Empresses are clearly trying to position their sons to be future emperors. 2ML may like that but I have hope for ML’s brother — he seems nice so far.

She’s very delusional but — at the same time — this is something that happens in the real life too.

No one expects the princess to have a happy ending at this point 🙄 I’m very glad we can adjust playback speed in the app — started to watch all of her scenes and/or 2ML scenes at 1.5x 😬

Ah, hadn’t seen the previews until you mentioned them now. Thanks! 😊

Honestly, his decisions in Ep. 17 & 18 make him look not very smart. Letting the newlyweds escape is bad in multiple ways and ignoring imperial decree for no good reason is dumb (doctors were there; he wasn’t needed). Kind of disappointed in screenwriters because of this 🙁

As soon as she decided to escape with him, we all put our bets on a bad ending for her.

FL lost to ML during the tournament, so — in the drama — she’s slightly weaker originally. Now, of course, she’s way, way weaker in her current condition.