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Very few times and nothing to write home about. I didn't feel the passion or anything like that. The romance is a side plot here.

I have a blank text document open on my Windows toolbar. I have made it to be like a wide strip, so that it covers the middle part of the screen but leaves space on the bottom to show the subtitles. I always use this for medical dramas, and there it's perfect because you can see the eye expression of the doctors when in surgery, and read their dialogue, without seeing all the gore in the middle.
So here, whenever I saw an evil ghost coming (those are quite scary), I just clicked on the Notepad document and it covered up strategically what I didn't want to see.

Of course in those times women got married at 14-15, so you could well become a grandma at 30. This grandma is like 50 years old. Which might have been old for those times, where life expectancy wasn't much - especially in the royal palace, where everyone is trying to poison one another.

Yes, he wanted to save his mother, which is understandable. But he should have consulted with his brother first. Together they might come up with a better idea.

C-drama females are childish airheads who talk with baby voice. They trip and stumble all the time, are impulsive, prone to misunderstand, throw tantrums. But they are pure and with a heart of gold.
95% of those heroines are like that. Sick and tired of it.
With few notable exceptions, of course (an example that comes to mind is Lighter and Princess). But they are the exception that confirms the rule.

What a needlessly snarky thing to say to a fellow k-drama lover! Did you wake up on the wrong foot yourself?

That was my understanding as well.

I don't remember what exactly she told her, if it was an affair or she just started spending some time with him and liking him without actually doing something. And of course I'm too lazy to go back and check!

But did she really have an affair? We saw that in episode 13, when she finally told the man "I like you a lot" he had this look of happy surprise, as if it were the first time he heard it.

I don't think she actually cheated. She did like the guy, she was tempted, but didn't do anything concrete about it. She had prepared the divorce papers the day her husband died. Even now, for the first time she told the guy she likes him, in episode 13, but still cannot choose him (because she feels the presence of her husband)

Very bland.

I thought he was something of a childhood friend with whom she grew up together, but as they grew up of course they had to become upper and lower status, and he's madly and desperately in love with her. But there was no hint of him teaching her. Maybe, it's possible.
An illegitimate son, with the queen dowager? That's also possible. Everything is possible, it's a k-drama after all.

They will. The young one will show his noble spirit.

Naah. Why should we trust that astrologer so much?

Yes, yes, that's for sure. I mean, the writers are at fault, but the character is innocent.

That was in Knight Flower, not here. Here I didn't see any brother.

Well, he had no idea that she was his brother's betrothed. He's been liking her for quite a long time.

I also wondered about this, but when I saw it, I explained it to myself as her being so feisty that she does it instinctively, not because of training in the martial arts sense. But still it's very unrealistic. Not the only unrealistic thing in this drama.
And yes, you're right, they are trying to push the "strong FL" trope into historical dramas, where such a girl would be one in a million, but it's all we see lately. Also in Romantic Guesthouse, in Marriage Impossible, Knight Flower, Joseon Matchmaking Agency and many more.

Once a week? Most women would ask for a divorce if their husband was so negligent! LOL. Of course I know that East Asians don't have sex often, and that's also one of the many reasons why the population is dwindling.

Dramanice and Dramacool. These last 3 episode subtitles really really suck. To the point of barely being comprehensible. They must be machine translated but not by a good machine. Whereas the first seven were quite good.
However, if you just wait until tomorrow, the 19th, all the episodes will be uploaded on Viki, fully translated.