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Late 2026 (if post production happens quickly) or 2027 (likely). Tencent/WeTV

Truly. Its really bad, but till now what the technology is, at least what is being shown, its detectable at least in dramas, but no one can predict the future with development in technology.
Its worse that these actors are being forced to accept this because they already have contracts. Like people like Cheng Lei or Zeng Shunxi and most of them are part of Iqiyi's talent agency. Iqiyi even declared Cheng Lei as its global brand ambassador. I think these things are even stopping these actors from denying it outrightly.
I mean who is mad enough to sign something that can easily replace them.

Even if its of the same day, her killing him is something I don't believe. If this was the truth they would have not have shown that to us in episode 2. Like they have created a mystery around the past of SFL and ML, ML's parents, the king, so why would they suddenly tell the reason behind his death so early.

A lot of potential truly. But at least one of them is truly evil I think, and even if that's not the case, Queen Mother having a relationship with the Prime Minister of the country!! Scandalous but very interesting!
But Steve Noh's character clearly likes FL, and Seung yeon may or may not like ML, so it does seem far stretched.

One thing- there is no proof Queen lit the fire. In the second episode they showed us her burning the paper and throwing it away. The next scene was the Queen standing in front of the residence with a distressed face, and her dead husband being brought out. That small piece of paper being able to lit the entire residence is weird to me. There is also no proof that both those two incidents happened on the same day. It was shown consecutively though.
I don't think Queen killed him. Either she told her father about her husband wanting to abdicate or some one else altogether(plot twist).

It gets better from ep 3 honestly. But if you find ML's acting bad, then maybe this isn't for you. Because its not him acting bad, he is a boring guy, with a cold personality, so except in front of his secretary, and maybe later in front of FL, he will act like that.

Yes it will be detectable. They even gave an example of it by showing scenes from How Dare You and Pursuit of Jade respectively. It was so bad, we have our actors who did the same thing, why show that, uhh!
But I hope they don't reach to that position, Chinese audience have been calling them out, so either they don't move forward with this plan, or the censor board intervenes and finally does something appropriate against this.

Now that's a baby king. For sure he loves to eat those things. Royal kitchen hiring staff to make fast food for him is the only explanation I can think of. Lol.

True. Same. But I think its more because they have not shown him playing the role of PM, most of the times he is shown as a friend in a casual manner so. Even ML when he is with FL, or his secretary or alone, is such a baby. The king is actually a baby. But atleast the guys are handsome and look good, that's enough for me. Lol.

On a side note- They should let SML do something as the PM to convey his role better.

Its Jin MU, from the noble family, grandfather of the king. He might have hired top chefs to make them in his house and then bring it to his grandson.

There is no one mentioned except him. So I kind of think he is the top dude. The drama kinds of showcased or tried to showcase that SML and ML are the ones who lead the country, at least I got that feeling.

True that hahaha!

Yes but I have my doubts regarding that cause I clearly remember SFL seeing her son getting scared and remembering her timid husband, that kinds of showcases that's his son. But then it would be a big plot twist, if they just show they have similar characteristics.

ohh yeah jae gyeong is the name of that girl.

The woman who was introduced to Yi An, by his sister law is Dayoung (if I am getting the name correct). She is the same person who is friends with FL's sister in law, the girl at the table who even mocked FL's sister in law for marrying for love. Same girl.

Umm, yeah kind of. But actually standing up would be not getting controlled by the family of his Queen, and taking decision, doing stuff what he wants to. This sounds like he cannot take the pressure anymore and hence abdicating the throne. But yes this is also refusal to the Queen, so maybe something between the two.
But again its mysterious. This is a constitutional monarchy where the actual power resides with the elected leader, so I don't understand as such power of the monarchy except ceremonial. There was a scene between ML and his brother, on his wedding day, where ML told him that he gave him a chance. Now what's that about is the thing that is important. Someone made a theory saying maybe ML's brother was gay, and ML was telling him not to go ahead with the forced marriage, or maybe he loved some commoner, and ML told him to marry her, but our timid king couldn't. Because seeing the nature of ML, it doesn't seem ML asked him to leave the throne for him.

He was powerless puppet for sure. Nope didn't seem to me he tried to stand up. He on the other hand gave up. Was about to abdicate the throne and in this case it would go to his brother. He then got killed. Now who would actually benefit from the death is another topic, is it his own in laws who need another powerless puppet, through natural succession possible only by the death of the previous king. I mean a 8 year old baby is easier to control, or if there is any plot twist and its not them but others.
Okay I had a theory about Min Family (SML's family) doing it, but maybe its far stretched.

Okay this portion is not clear. I have thought about this too, I have same questions. But I think either its a loophole in the drama, or its something they are going to explore later, maybe FL truly doesn't know and it will create problems later. If the characters mentioned it, like FL's sister in law, then I am sure they would clear this. We have to wait for that.

Quarter 2

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