Noble Lady Lie

And still it kept your full attention. You gave precious time, 16 times 1 hour and fifteen minutes, to the series.

Half way episode 14, I couldn´t help to take a peek at the ending. Somewhat puzzled I decided to do some research. Knowing nothing about Korean culture, I was aware all this time that I misunderstood, a sense that I was missing out on something essential. I felt a need to do some research, and thanks to a commentator on Reddit, I stumbled upon the Korean concepts of Han and Jeong. With these Korean concepts of sadness with hope and love in mind, the series becomes much more than a visually attractive fantasy-like lovestory drama. In other words: it makes sense-

The original Korean drama The Goblin. It has 16 episodes during 1 hr and abt 20 minutes. So that would translate to 32 C-drama eps of abt 40 minutes. Curious if and when this comes out

I think she loved both men, in different ways.

Thanks @Arthur Morgan, just finished ep 51, and I found the alternative ending.

I just read on a review about a dvd set of Empress Ki 2013 series that the creators of Empress Ki made two endings. I citate `...This set has the alternate ending that was rebroadcast after the first broadcast. The initial ending was ok, but this was better as it kept with the theme of "protecting" others´. I am curious where to find the alternative ending´. Who knows more? (please use spoiler)

Watching episode 41 now. Since I started watching Empress Ki, I have not been bored one second. Not one time did I hesitate to continue till the end. It reminds me how important a good story and good acting is. Enjoying it.

thanks, that makes sense

MOGHULS OF INDIA, not Mongols

Yuan dynastyis lead by Mongols

I found this one for The Wandering Princess 1960 https://archive.org/details/onna.bakari.no.yoru-1961-kinuyo-tanaka_202203

yes, a Japanese tv show 2003, it s mentioned in wiki (pujie), but link doesnt work anymore

Pathe Thuis

A 2022 C-drama with Victoria Song has the same title

Both seem the same television series Empress Ki (2013-2014), with FL actress Ha Ji Won

yes, watching everything again with the good subs.

mgtv mango has restricted area.

You have to wait for decent subs, that is until Viki has it (today), and it´s not for free.

I was puzzled by the status of Li Youzhen translated as ´county lord´. She could be a county princess, as some commenters here write. It could mean that she or her family is distantly (?')related to the ruling king or emperor.

Most of us suspected it´s a bad translation from the beginning, when the maid called MuDan `my wife´, and his en her were mixed up, and many obvious things, that don´t match your common sense, or are not in line with what you see. That´s how you know something is off with the translations, usually these bad subs are not done by a human bi-langual (native) speaker, but done with a machine without the necessary correction by people who know the languages. The best translations put cultural and historical explanations between brackets for the international audience, and they also translate the texts we see on screen, like letters, entrance signs etc.