Did she become King's official wife or a concubine?
Most likely she became his wife. Note in the post-credit scene the museum tour guide said, "This artifact (the shoes) was found in a royal tomb. It is thought to have belonged to the Grand Prince's wife."
Correct me if I'm wrong but concubines in the Joseon era were generally not entombed within the main royal tombs (which were reserved for kings, queens and crown princes). they were buried separate from the king but still within the royal burial grounds.
Will Ji Soo ever get the girl? He's always playing second fiddle and/or third wheel to someone else and I really want to see his character have a happy ending :(
I was flip-table angry when I watched the last episode for the first time, but after watching it a few more times…
Nice one, @ChineseDramaFan, and it totally makes sense!
After all, at one point during the finale Liu Yikang did tell Prince Jing Ling that in the future he would have to depend on his sixth brother to help share the emperor's burden more (that alone is a hint, I suppose, of his desire to leave everything behind).
It took him three years to see those reforms implemented, and all the while he was working towards the day that he can leave the court and its politics and live happily ever after with his Xia Nu :)
Despite the last episode which seems to indicate Li Ge has died by drinking the poisonous wine herself, and all…
I was flip-table angry when I watched the last episode for the first time, but after watching it a few more times to look for clues and relying on my barely-passable Chinese I, too, came to the same conclusion.
The fact that he goes to their hide-away place and eats dinner seems too...well, elaborate, to be wishful thinking from Liu Yikang's end.
One more thing to add to the whole mystery: towards the end when he went to hang the wind chime to the pear blossom tree, he said, "kuai le" (快了), which I assume he meant 'soon'...soon for what, exactly?
Correct me if I'm wrong but concubines in the Joseon era were generally not entombed within the main royal tombs (which were reserved for kings, queens and crown princes). they were buried separate from the king but still within the royal burial grounds.
After all, at one point during the finale Liu Yikang did tell Prince Jing Ling that in the future he would have to depend on his sixth brother to help share the emperor's burden more (that alone is a hint, I suppose, of his desire to leave everything behind).
It took him three years to see those reforms implemented, and all the while he was working towards the day that he can leave the court and its politics and live happily ever after with his Xia Nu :)
The fact that he goes to their hide-away place and eats dinner seems too...well, elaborate, to be wishful thinking from Liu Yikang's end.
One more thing to add to the whole mystery: towards the end when he went to hang the wind chime to the pear blossom tree, he said, "kuai le" (快了), which I assume he meant 'soon'...soon for what, exactly?