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Yeah, she was his nanny

I wonder if the things Court Lady Park wanted to give San are important somehow?

He was 23 when he became king but he was regent for a year before that

He has the power of life and death over her. They're showing that his reaction to being rejected for the first time wouldn't have been reasonable.

I hope Court Lady Seo doesn't get into trouble 😭 Court Lady Jo's little club is literally committing treason

omg the plot is getting super intense

Wardrobe department is really killing it. The queen's and princess's hanboks too <3

It seems like they didn't find the ripped out pages of the banned book that Deok-im kept inside this book. I feel like the reaction would've been way worse if so. So has she moved those pages somewhere else and they're yet another ticking time bomb?

Yeongjo had actually outlawed tattooing criminals by this time. What I found interesting is the part about lovers' tattoos. Maybe another reason why San got so angry?

Whether she's allowed or not, nobody ordered her to pledge her support to San, nobody ordered her to go to the queen and ask her for help. She chose to act of her own volition because she believes in San as king. She's not some helpless damsel in distress, she's working in the name of her own political beliefs.

I think there's already been a small time skip. In ep 5, Court Lady Jo said the king was nearly 80. In this ep, he's over 80.

Yes, I don't think I've heard of any other Joseon kings being rejected.

And Deok-im's biggest decision so far, when she defied the king's order and barged into San's room to declare her support, was based on her coming to her own conclusion that San would make a good king. That was all her.

Your perception of this drama is weirdly simplistic. You speak as if Deok-im has no agency at all, which would make for incredibly uneventful show. She's shown on numerous occasions that she's not passive. That's what people on here are enjoying.

You're forgetting that he already said that he could kill her before. She was totally unfazed by his words. To get a reaction out of her, he's showing that he might actually follow through with it.

I mean, Deok-im knows her own worth. I trust her not to fall for him until he's shown some evolution.

I don't think the scene implied it was okay at all. In fact, she looked terrified. Pretty sure the point was to convey the power he has over her.

I wonder if he's going to ask her about the tattoo?

Yep, that's why most commoners didn't want their daughters to become court ladies. And it's what makes Uibin Seong unusual because she rejected Yi San, and he accepted her rejection without forcing it (the first time, anyway).

I wonder if this counts as the first of Uibin's rejections of Yi San? If so, there's going to be one more.

I'm not worried about the ending because they keep flipping the endings in the next episode. It was funny at the start of this ep, where San and Deok-im had a role reversal with him getting out of the bath like he was the one attending her haha.