Lizzy

A great story! LOTS of skinship, decent kisses and good emotional intimacy. The leads had great chemistry and talent for acting. My complaints about the show are mostly about how the lying / secrets ultimately came to a head. You start off seeing the ML as a ruthless guy, blatantly using the FL’s amnesia for his own agenda (he doesn’t coerce her to sex or anything though, quite the opposite). Then you start watching him catch the feels and damn, you understand why it became so difficult for him to just be honest with her. You really felt his inner turmoil, but the hole he dug for himself was already miles deep. I also understood him to a degree, with his desire to retreat to this fairytale away from the palace drama / scheming. Unfortunately… then it just dragged. He kept digging this pit of lies, pressured his friends to keep his deception a secret, and missed so many opportunities to just rip the bandaid off and come clean. Then it gets really uncomfortable and annoying when she recovers her memories, realizes that he’s been lying to her, and then decides to keep all of that a secret from him for a plan to take revenge on him. So it all culminates to a wonderful scene where they part ways… And then I became a little bit disappointed with how they handled his groveling / pursuit of her until they reunite. I wish there was a little more angst and less humor during these episodes. I wanted a bit more begging on his part, more sadness and more of a heartfelt (maybe even tearful) and remorseful apology. We did get a few good scenes, and he does apologize eventually, but I wish we saw more of the remorse from him.

Other things- man, I wish we got more of our leads battling together! The scene we did get was AMAZING, but I wish we had more teamwork badassery with the leads.

In other comments - the new empress was an AMAZING character. She may have been my favorite. Loved her relationship with the emperor.

So yeah- great show!