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Just finished rewatching this after 6 years.
I remember having a Second-Male-Lead syndrome back then. But now I prefer the ML. He has a secure attachment style and his relationship with his bodyguard and the FL is very healthy.

I'm on episode 4 and I must say that this is SO EASY to watch. The episodes fly by so fast that each episode doesn't feel like it's 40-minutes long. I can't believe I let this one sit in my Plan-to-Watch list for so long. But then again, I was intimidated by the comments about business rivalry that I thought this would be too heavy and serious for me. I'm loving it so far and I'm so glad I have finally decided to watch it.

Yeah.. That's why I'm sad about it.
BTW, kindly mark your comment as spoiler so as not to give the future viewers an idea about the ending. Let's give them a surprise that they might be sad about.

Please put your comment about the ending in the "Happy or Sad Ending For You?" forum so that it doesn't get lost in the thread and so that people could still read it years from now. :)

"I have in mind the emptiness that Cheol Jong certainly feels (he loved the personality of Bong Hwan, and as he is gone the queen is not the same) and Bong Hwan's longing for the king (he def had some sort of feeling for him)."

I'm so glad to come across more people like you who understand this. Thank you for writing this comment.

Say it again louder for the people in the back! T_T
They had to end it that way because (I believe) Korea is still not ready for a BL kind of love.
It's pretty obvious that Bong Hwan was not totally happy to be back in the modern world because (I believe that) he already learned to accept his role as the Queen and developed feelings for the King and the baby. People are saying that they have developed a deep friendship that's why Bong Hwan didn't want to leave the King at a critical state and why the King felt something was missing. But it's obviously more than that!
Plus, if the King could truly love the real Queen, he would already have--long before Bong Hwan's spirit entered her body.

Please mark your comment about the ending as a spoiler. I respect your opinion. It's a good ending; I'm just not happy with it.

Please mark this as spoiler. The King did not fall in love with the OG Queen; he fell in love with Mr. Queen (a.k.a Jang Bong Hwan's spirit and personality inside the Queen's body). The King would not even give the Queen the time of day before she jumped into the lake. But the moment Jang Bong Hwan occupied her body, the King got intrigued by Mr. Queen and developed feelings for Mr. Queen. So it is sad to see that the King did not end up with the one he fell in love with.

Also, Jang Bong Hwan was beginning to get comfortable in a female's body and he seemed to have started accepting his role as a woman in that lifetime. So him leaving the people he learned to love in Joseon to go back to the future is pretty disappointing.

For real. I watched this in 2016 and I still remember crying myself to sleep after watching this drama. Then when I woke up, I cried again. I basically cried the entire day after finishing WFKBJ. :'(

Thank you for leaving this comment here. I dropped this drama a long time ago and was thinking of picking it up again after finishing Mr. Queen. But I guess I would have to look for other series to watch. Thank you for helping me save a lot of time!

I'm still sad about the ending, to be honest. I'm grieving the death of a good story. I can't say that I regret watching it because I definitely had a lot of fun. But I definitely regret watching past the first 20 minutes of the last episode.

By all means, watch it. It's very fun and entertaining. I thoroughly enjoyed it up until the first 20 minutes of the last episode. After that, everything just felt empty and sad.

By all means, watch it. It's very fun and entertaining. I thoroughly enjoyed it up until the first 20 minutes of the last episode. After that, everything just felt empty and sad.

Exactly! Completely lost my interest 20 minutes into the final episode. It really did feel empty and sad.

Sad ending, for me. The King felt and even verbally said "something is missing" after Bong Hwan returned to the future. He is still in love with the Queen but he could sense that something is different with her. The Queen is happy that the King is in love with her. But to me, she seems like an imposter who is benefiting from the love that the King has developed for Mr. Queen and his personality. If Jang Bong Hwan's spirit didn't enter Kim So Yong's body, there's NO way the King would fall in love with the Queen. AT ALL.

Sad ending, for me. The King felt and verbally said "something is missing" after Bong Hwan returned to the future. He was still in love with the Queen but he could sense that something was different with her. The Queen is happy that the King is in love with her. But to me, she seems like an imposter who is benefiting from the love that the King has developed for Mr. Queen and his personality.

He was in a vegetative state so it wouldn't be surprising if he actually died and stayed in Joseon with the King. Cheoljong fell in love with Bong Hwan's character, not with So Yong's. So it really is a sad ending.

Technically a happy ending, but it was not the ending that I wanted to see.
I completely lost interest 20 minutes into the final episode.
Everything was fun and interesting until then.
I caught myself shedding a tear (of sadness) towards the end because of how empty I felt.
It's a sad ending for me.

I'm on episode 4.
At first, the idea of a man in a queen's body was fascinating and hilarious to me. But now that I see more scenes of the king and the queen together, I'm starting to wish that Mr. Queen is actually a woman (on the inside).

I did not. I still think it's a waste of time. I do watch some clips that pop up on my social media every now and then. But I cannot commit 11 hours of my life to this--at least not at this moment.