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I don't agree. If you just want to say "Oh, you're more experienced than me", she wouldn't have said "I have a confession to make" and make such a fuss about it.
She was definitely saying she's a virgin.

I don't appreciate your condescending tone. That's not a way to conduct a conversation.

I don't agree with her being flat, but I agree that we need some follow-up delucidation about the death of the doctor's wife and whether he really physically killed her or he just said that because he felt that she died because of him. There are yet two episodes, I am waiting and I hope that we will get some answers about this.
As for why she didn't ask, it might be because she's afraid of facing the answer. And probably that information was the proverbial drop that made the cup overflow, as far as her conscience goes. Just as watching the two lovebirds made her resolve to make their path easier (not sure how).

So what? As long as it's not fantasy genre, as long as the characters are human beings and not fairies or aliens who can fly or have other superpowers, the writers cannot go wild with what they write, they have to keep a minimum of realism.
In modern dramas too. The character is in a coma for months and then wakes up, snatches off the IV from the vein (have you tried doing that? Don't try. Even when it comes off by mistake it hurts like hell and there's blood everywhere!) and off he or she goes, walking or even running. Remember "Bring it on ghost"? And "30 but 19"? But there were many other instances. It always bothers me.

Come on! We know - some of us unfortunately firsthand - that when someone is bedridden for long, muscle mass is lost at tremendous speed. You can hardly sit up without fainting (I did), let alone walk, after such a long time as the king seems to have been in sedation. But he was up and walking more or less normally?
"Prolonged immobility is harmful with rapid reductions in muscle mass, bone mineral density and impairment in other body systems evident within the first week of bed rest. Anti-gravity muscles such as leg extensors and trunk musculature are preferentially affected by the loss of mechanical loading compared to hand and upper limb musculature"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4600281/
"Disuse of skeletal muscles rapidly leads to a loss of lean muscle mass (sarcopenia) as individual muscle groups atrophy. This is accompanied by a decline in skeletal muscle strength at a rate of around 12% a week (Jiricka, 2009) or even up to 40% within the first week of immobility (Topp et al, 2002)."
https://www.nursingtimes.net/clinical-archive/orthopaedics/effects-of-bedrest-5-the-muscles-joints-and-mobility-18-03-2019/

She has been decisevely rejecting SML, not leaving an ounce of doubt. But he is delusional.

And if nothing happened at all, it could have ended in one episode and we wouldn't have a drama. What's the logic of that? Dramas exist because of obstacles to be surmounted.

Well said!

I think that was a wise choice on the part of the writers, when they saw how bland are the two actors who play the main leads. They wouldn't be able to give any passionate vibes.

You call them inconsistencies. I call them not making cardboard characters who are all good or all evil. It's the thing I like the most in this show, the fact that most main characters are multi-dimensional (except for the two main leads and the cartoonish evil Left State Councillor, whose acting was really trashy in episode 17)

Because it would be good for her career.

Okay, I am convinced. I'll watch it.

They would hardly be tagged as "rom-com" if that were the case. Usually they are categorized as "melodramas". Be as it may, I, for one, am very glad that it's not one of those. It was on my watch list, and now I am reassured that I won't have to go through heartache!

This is only true of Viki subs when they are not edited yet. Most editors do condense until they are no more than 2 lines.
But all this is in the past. Now there are no Ko-En subbers, all the translations are made by paid professionals, who make subtitles the "Netflix way" and we editors can only try to fix them a bit. If we have a Korean to do translation edit before us, we are fortunate, because this person will be able to point out inaccuracies (there are a lot, don't think these people are always perfect) and then we have to take care of style and of preserving local flavour which they do not. Not to mentiion appropriateness of language
I am editing an on-air historical drama right now and I have to change dozens of "okay" said by the princes , queen and councillors in every episode, or insults like "punk" or expressions like "hit on her". The young prince tells his brother to go "grab a drink" and so on and so forth.

East Sea is not correct either, because it only caters to Korea (and other countries on the left of Japan on the map) and doesn't make any sense for the Japanese, since it's Western sea for them. A third name should be found, something completely unrelated. Like "The rising sun sea" or "the turtle sea" or "the archipelago sea" (just anything crazy that comes out of my head, not seriously suggesting those, LOL!) I thought of "Korea-Japan sea" but then they would fight for whose name to put first.

This is an extremely sensitive issue for Koreans. It's the sea between Korea and Japan, and they've been fighting for years about how to name it, since Korea (rightly, in my opinion) thinks that it's not reasonable to give it the name Sea of Japan. On the other hand, Eastern Sea is Korean-centric, because Japan is directly to the East of Japan, so the name makes sense for them (and of course for all the other countries to the west of Japan). Whereas it wouldn't make sense for the Japanese, since for them it's Western Sea.
Do I have a solution? No, LOL. But I do see their point.

I couldn't care less. If it's a rom-com, it won't have a sad ending where everyone separates and or dies in a car crash, right?

Who cares? A rom-com that ends in marriage, what a surprise!!! (not)

But then they wouldn't have left any scope for him to redeem himself at the end, no excuse at all. Now he has an excuse, that he is deeply offended because his nearest and dearest don't consider him suitable enough for the role. Which he isn't anyway, as he's still an immature teenager. Yes, if the king regains his health, then both princes will have enough years to mature, but it's also a case of his character, he has shown to be too impulsive. His elder brother seems much wiser and more capable as a future ruler.

He's a well-meaning but immature teenager who was put in a shitty situation. In my opinion, he held his ground for a really long time, but now, as you say, he reached his breaking point. He's sort of pitiful.