You mean to say the antagonist fell in love with the previous queen but spent half the show torturing the son…
You make a good point on how he could’ve considered the dowager as someone who helped “free” the queen. But still the entire event destroyed the queen’s life and drove her mad. I still think it was a bit of a misnomer for the villain to have left the dowager off when he went practically after everyone.
And it didn’t really make sense why the villain didn’t just follow in his daughters scheme to make his lovers son the king and instead went out of his way to make the prince’s life quite difficult. It could’ve been that he felt he didn’t have control over his situation and he’s obsessed with control.
To me the drama was kinda out of wack and a lot of things needed a viewer’s extra effort to justify why the plot is the way it is
Can’t believe I finished this drama cos genuinely wtf was that… he would not have given half a fuck about…
You mean to say the antagonist fell in love with the previous queen but spent half the show torturing the son of the woman he loves???? He spends half the show torturing people who had NOTHING to do with the killing of the queen but did not go after the dowager who was the literal mastermind behind the scheme??
You would think someone as vengeful and evil as him would’ve killed off the person who schemed to depose the queen but no, he let her live and she never had to feel any guilt or remorse for most of her life.
The characterisation was so poor across so many of the main cast. There’s no way someone as prideful and scheming as the dowager would’ve felt that much remorse at the end of the story. If I met someone who looked exactly like my dead wife who died so tragically, I would’ve stopped at nothing to research her background and would’ve continuously suspected that SHE WAS ACTUSLLG MY WIFE??? Idk how he stopped suspecting that after only a few times.
Can’t believe I finished this drama cos genuinely wtf was that… he would not have given half a fuck about a woman like Dalri if she didn’t look like his wife. Also kinda fked up to fall in love with someone who looks exactly like ur wife.
But ok whatever I can look past this for the sake of *romance*. What I cannot forgive is despite the ridiculous plot the romance was downright BORING. Another blasphemous thing was the plot making ZERO sense at times. Jin goo did a great job playing antagonist and he had such a good back story but it just did not align with his motives AT ALL.
The drama went on and on even though it is only 14 ep long. It felt draggy and there was barely any development in each episode. It’s literally a fusion of secret garden and moon that embraces the sun but cannot hold a candle to either in terms of plot or excitement.
The strongest eps would probably be the first and last two episodes. They were pretty interesting at least
Was super funny in the beginnning. Loved that I couldn’t predict what was going to happen because the FL does the most random things and that has the most random effect on the plot. Towards the end it got a bit slower, with less comedy and the plot leaned more towards romance and politics. Overall very enjoyable. I usually avoid LYN dramas or can never finish them, but this was fun. Plot is fresh and hilarious despite the overdone isekai premise (going into a game/show/book)
Is he really based on yeonsangun? I guess they changed his name to avoid accusations of historical revisionism.…
Yeah I’m curious too. they really only changed his name so far. personally I’m not really a fan of image cleansing tyrants. they should’ve just gone all out create a fictional tyrant than just changing a name
Why they changed the name of ML when they intended to keep the history parts?Either own it, or adjust the story…
Is he really based on yeonsangun? I guess they changed his name to avoid accusations of historical revisionism. He really was a tyrant… it’ll be hard to paint him in a sympathetic “he was just misunderstood” light
Had no expectations but this was a decent light watch. I like that there’s no “grand” evil thats evil for no reason other than to be evil. I enjoyed both the high school rom com and the supernatural shaman aspects
ok so every romance drama theres a discourse about how the male lead is always unrealistic, which i agree to a certain extend, but are they truly unrealistic or are our expectations of men just on the ground lmao
Is the storyline and characters (ending) of the novel different to the TV version?
Yes. Characters are “bigger” in the show than they are in the novel. It has some essence of the novel like the 7 lives and some lives had similar tropes to the novel, but a lot more stuff was added to create “plot” for the dram. Imo I didn’t like the show compared to the novel
K-Drama 
And it didn’t really make sense why the villain didn’t just follow in his daughters scheme to make his lovers son the king and instead went out of his way to make the prince’s life quite difficult. It could’ve been that he felt he didn’t have control over his situation and he’s obsessed with control.
To me the drama was kinda out of wack and a lot of things needed a viewer’s extra effort to justify why the plot is the way it is
You would think someone as vengeful and evil as him would’ve killed off the person who schemed to depose the queen but no, he let her live and she never had to feel any guilt or remorse for most of her life.
The characterisation was so poor across so many of the main cast. There’s no way someone as prideful and scheming as the dowager would’ve felt that much remorse at the end of the story. If I met someone who looked exactly like my dead wife who died so tragically, I would’ve stopped at nothing to research her background and would’ve continuously suspected that SHE WAS ACTUSLLG MY WIFE??? Idk how he stopped suspecting that after only a few times.
But ok whatever I can look past this for the sake of *romance*. What I cannot forgive is despite the ridiculous plot the romance was downright BORING. Another blasphemous thing was the plot making ZERO sense at times. Jin goo did a great job playing antagonist and he had such a good back story but it just did not align with his motives AT ALL.
The drama went on and on even though it is only 14 ep long. It felt draggy and there was barely any development in each episode. It’s literally a fusion of secret garden and moon that embraces the sun but cannot hold a candle to either in terms of plot or excitement.
The strongest eps would probably be the first and last two episodes. They were pretty interesting at least