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Reading through the comments here, and I could easily be wrong on this, it sounds as though how well you like the ending depends on how many time-travel/h/h in alternate-reality (game, novel, movie) shows you watch. I watch quite a few and actually just recently finished one before picking up BAYM. For me, the last two episodes were too serious, too much blood and death, to really fit with the quirkiness and comedic nature of what came before. It just felt awkward that after so much heaviness, they went with a light, happy ending (which I definitely wanted for our leads) that pulled them out of the story we had been part of for twelve episodes. Usually, these shows do a better job of transitioning back to comedy or keeping the comedy throughout. This one just felt disjointed. Just my .02 of course.

I didn't like this ending at all. As others have mentioned, having exact duplicates of all the cooks in the present time is too weird. It was like they were trying to merge her past and present lives into one, so we would feel like she hadn't really lost her friends/life from the Joseon era. But these people weren't time travelers, didn't have the friendship with her that those folks did and living in the modern era would have meant personality changes. It makes no real sense. Im Song Jae deserved a better reincarnation than as a fake Michelin chef. He was a true friend to his highness., whatever his faults. This story wasn't cohesive for me. We begin with a comedy that is rather silly and slowly devolve into a dark drama. Added to that, I fell in love with the life she had in Joseon, the people she met there and the way she was righting a great historical wrong. Having his highness join her in the present doesn't recreate that. It would be a new life and a new way of being together. I get tired of people pretending the past was just like the present, so moving back and forth would be easy. I wish they had left her in the Joseon era, and his majesty would have gone on to have a long, great reign.

I'm loving this drama, but maybe I wasn't in the headspace for this episode because I was irritated with the king's little road trip. And I get not wanting to leave the palace with a lot of fanfare, but why couldn't they take horses to begin with? Or have met up with a group of soldiers and horses out of town? And handpicked doesn't mean the chef leaves and handpicks them. She couldn't trust Gil Geum with that portion of the task? Just a it too much . . . silly. . for me this time around.

Not over a man. Kang is there as a spy, she needs the position for political reasons. She doesn't care about the king. Up through episode 5 all the FL is doing is staying alive in a weird situation. Literally nothing to do with fighting for a guy

Yes, eventually.

I didn't hate the FL, she was a bit dim but had a good heart. It was, however, ridiculous how everyone fell in love with her, especially the guy towards the end. No way he's involving himself like that.

Favorite drama of 2025 so far. Wish they would have spent less time on villain view point and more on a longer ending. I'm also curious if Zhang Pu [Qiao Yue's advisor] was actually working for someone else or just bad at his job. He gave the worst advise and seemed determined to destroy Yanzouh.

Thanks! I will check that out.

Thank you! I've seen the Double, wll have to look at The Story of Kunning Palace.

I've seen that one. Love Luo Yun Xi!

Looking for recommends on more like this one. I think there are posts way, way down that include some, but I couldn't find them. I've watched Love Like the Galaxy, Blossom and The Glory. (Lots of others but those are the most recent like this one. )Other recommendations very welcome.

Nephew per epiode 34 English translation.

Thanks. I almost never start a drama before it is finished but somehow, this one lured me in. Now I'm impatient!

I'm showing 31 episodes on Viki. Are more coming?

Does he have anything coming up? He made Miss Night and Day for me!

LOL, I'm not quite that violent. . I'd just say she was the wrong girl for him and make sure he avoided her.

I really disliked the fifth sister (the one constantly beating people). I just didn't get the humour in her at all.

I just started this (on episode four and am so glad to hear that others are struggling to tell the female leads apart. With the exception of the fifth and second sister, the others seem oddly similar.

I've watched three fourths of this and would totally agree it is Cosplay rather than history. The realities of court life is non-existent and so many of the scenes are just purely silly. It is fun but far from realistic in any manner.

I understand your point, but I find myself frustrated with her. For example, in episode 15, she is told the boulder can stop the river only for a moment. Eventually, the water flows together again behind it. The strength of one person is far too small against the vast currents of history. The indication is that one is too small to change the fate of many. My first thought was that lots of boulders make a dam, and a dam changes a river's course. Her first thought is, "So everything is preordained. Nothing can truly be changed after all." Later, when making the soup, Song Mo mentions how surprise ingredients make it new. So, in that brief afternoon, she is told the two elements that would inspire change - numbers and surprises. She didn't pick up on it either time. I am only on episode 15, so she might figure it out sometime soon. But for right now, from my perspective, she's missing out on some big clues.