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Female lead has her own plot and background story of why she was send in this state as a pawn for peace, which would be covered in the upcoming episode but still this is Male centric with female lead playing part in his life to influence his decision or his revenge.

I too feel that the main villain is not the duke Ping Jin but maybe the man in the mask who rescued zhang hai is the one plotting, also we didn't get why the teacher of Zhang hai wanted to help him in his revenge. Also the Director cut mentioned that near the end zhang hai would be in dilemma whether his revenge was right or not and would have change of heart after knowing the purpose of events happened in the past. He would focus more on stopping the war between his state and the state of the princess ( FL) who was send as a pawn.

I haven't watched the latest episodes but I think Gang cheol is going to sacrifice his body for Yun Gap and show his feelings for Yeo Ri and than Yun Gap will be probably made a villain by betraying FL after which the FL will use the tree granted by old shaman to resurrect Gang cheol again somehowafter knowing the Yun Gap betrayal or he himself will have redemption and leave the body for Gangcheol after knowing that FL has now feelings for him. At the end we will get the future predicted by the FL with gangcheol, her and their son 🤔🤔

27 episodes gone, No romance b/w Main leads only little bit lighting b/w FL and SML till now.

Most are still continuing because of their express service subscription and some like me are watching by FF as we have nothing good to watch currently 😔

Still in ep 26 SML is getting more screen time than ML, the whole episode is filled with SML getting hurt to save FL, FL caring for him/ Making a good impression infront of his mother while ML is getting jealous and wasting everyone's time his nonsense.

Also look at the tags given above it has a tag with title "betrayed by a friend and childhood friends relationship" been used for Yun Gap

She is an empowered women 😎

Looking at the pace of the drama, it seems that mingsu will know about the sibling truth around ep 27- 28, when compared to the novel.

He is his father in the novel

He is Lu Chang's father

Which one?

How can we expect romance when they are in sibling mode, also the FL herself gets shocked when she mistakenly hears the heated argument between ML and SML near the end about her past and how she was once married to the ML and he was not her real brother but someone who has feelings for her.

She misunderstood the man in her dream in blue dress with Qingzhao. Also once she got drunk and horny with Lu chang while kept calling song qingzhao name making him at loss and baffled, as he felt he had lost his love. The drama has lots of misunderstanding till the end also there are 25 episodes to go and the love triangle takes a major portion of that.

In the novel it was only known that the ML was not the sibling near the end after the ML tops the provincial exam and Song Qingzhao sends someone to know more about FL past inorder to help her in her revenge as he gets the permission of his mother to marry FL after he had confessed his feelings to the FL and waiting for her answer while spending time flirting with her.

Probably these disillusioned female writers who are living in there lulu land that all Males are born to be simp and had there whole life written around a single woman, while the FL needs to be kickass, badass,... 🥱

The love triangle tag isn't there because she never accepted Song feelings openly and only blushed and felt excited when she knew that someone has started loving her for the first time, also in the novel she only knows about Lu chang not being her brother towards the end till then she misunderstood Song Si with Lu Cheng to be the one coming in her dreams.

It's on kissasian.

The love triangle is going to be heavy in this one from the promos, and Mingsu will struggle between her newborn feelings for Song Si and his love proposal to her along with her misunderstanding him to be the man in blue dress always comming in her dream to that of illusionary feeling she feels sometimes with Lu chang. I would probably wait for more episodes before proceeding. Seems the mains relationship is going to be in the direction of kdrama-Hwarang with some 40 episodes.

I think the father is evil and knows that the FL is not his daughter but that of his wife and her lover's, that's why he send her away after her birth😕