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Yeap…same here. That’s why I was focusing more on the pictures 🤣😂

The comment in the article from the production team with these still are misleading. I think that little comment is referring to possibly the other parts of the previews (Doek-Ro revelation/him upset at her running around playing detective?). Or it could mean that his misunderstanding showed the depths of his feelings. But I was paying more attention to the pictures.

I see the Binyeo in her hair! 🥰 Uibin Seong!

That looks like the scene in the preview where she sees the object that belongs to her missing friend. Don’t want to be wrong but it looks like she was trying to get it and maybe San came by and misunderstood?

Yeah…or she hasn’t gotten to that point yet but you can see how much more confident she was after slapping Princess Hwawon and how she is currently with San. All the main characters have grown in different ways throughout the progress of the drama. I haven’t seen that in a drama for a while. Usually there may be one or two roles with character growth if any.

No, it was current Queen Dowager…San’s grandmother(edited previous comment for clarity). She was a powerful force after San’s death as Grand Queen Dowager. I thought it was odd that his grandmother became the Regent instead of his wife Queen Hyoui. However from the bit that was written about San’s Queen, she cut off any influence of her family in politics. She mainly did her duty and cared for the harem which is why her and Doek-Im got along so well; neither were politically ambitious.

Back then, it was all about increasing your clan’s influence and power. Since she couldn’t get Doek-Im, whom she knew San cared for, why not increase your clan’s influence and keep the now powerful person you think is helping your son on his side. IRL, after San’s death, his grandmother became Regent (new King was only 10) and was the one who killed off San’s remaining brother and other Hong family members. She installed her own clan members in positions and married a relative to the new King as his Queen.

San hated the monopolization of Court by a single clan and useless nobility and spent his reign trying to break that mold by allowing commoners to take the exam for government positions. Stuff that got reversed later during his son’s reign.

Bookmarked! 🥰

King’s mom is from the Hong clan, same as the Left State Councilor and Doek-Ro. The Queen Dowager is from the Kim clan so not related which is why Doek-Ro went through King’s mom to talk to Queen Dowager. Yeap, he killed off his distant uncle without batting an eye. He doesn’t care much for the rest of the Hong clan because they turned their backs on his mother i when they were in need. They didn’t explain it but most likely that distant family connection is how Doek-Ro was able to become San’s playmate.

https://youtu.be/ea3n14vZzz8 This talks about the part where San steps towards Doek-Im but is stopped by the Queen. So many little parts are symbolic in this drama. He attempted to step off the King’s path to go to where Doek-Im was meaning trying to go to her level even if for a bit but it was impossible because of the barriers as he’s King. 😭

Lol…they do look alike…especially with the beard. But the close ups help.

No…it was the Princess’ adopted son. Different person. Doek-Im’s brother works for San’s mom at her private residence.

Yeap…at first I assumed it was the Fairy Palace doing it to get their ninjas because one of the assassins wasn’t a Court Lady. But nothing else was mentioned about it.

😂🤣 Didn’t realize they were in the Bay Area.

Yeah…they never showed if Doek-Ro actually followed through with the investigation on it like he promised San because Doek-Im’s warning about the attack happened as soon as they talked. Then San got attacked by one thing after another.

I sincerely hope they give us both episodes or my crying won’t be just from the feels of the drama. 😭

🤣😂 He plays dark in these new episodes and creepy in the old episodes well.

She doesn’t know Doek-Ro took credit for what she did a when they were kids. I’m thinking that she finds out from San now as he confides in her and could use the page to correct San’s belief therefore ease his mind on deciding to actually punish Doek-Ro. But we’ll see…no novel spoilers for that since the events from when they were kids wasn’t in the novel.

It might be like when San talked to Doek-Im about what to do with traitors and she says to root them out then he got put in the position of deciding his brother’s fate. They could always play it as him talking to her about why he’s conflicted over Doek-Ro’s punishment (Doek-Ro saving his life about the banned book) and she brings out the page to show him Doek-Ro lied.

The kidnappings from earlier were not Court Ladies. They were village children whose parents thought they were being sent to be trained as Court Ladies only to find out they just went missing.
What he’s currently doing fit in with historical context because he blamed the Queen for his sister’s death via use of Court Ladies so he’s torturing Court Ladies, most likely to try and get a confession. Luckily they’ve shortened it to hopefully this one episode because he went like 4 or 5 episodes torturing people, making up crimes/framing people and killing people to cover up his own crimes in the old version.