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like father like daughter, now i really don't…

like father like daughter, now i really don't feel sorry for what i said in the 1st ep. she a b*tch & sorry but i don't care that she is doing it cause of love or cause she refuses to be a tool, that her father uses. Yi Un called himself a coward - he might be idk, but that was the wrong thing to say to her, he should've realized that she no different then her father, she might love him but she wants the throne too. he should've told her that he isn't interested in shedding blood of innocent just to get the throne, that that wasn't who he was & he didn't want to turn into her father. who is so power hungry he doesn't care who he step on to get to his destination. maybe if he had told her this, she wouldn't' have come up with that half-assed plan. but i guess this pushed the mains together. *******************************************************************************************************************by the end of this is father & daughter aren't punished - brutally, i won't feel satisfaction at all - even if the end is a good one for the mains.

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even if minister Kim Han Cheol daughter is…

even if minister Kim Han Cheol daughter is a "good guy" & has no royalty ambitions like her father, i still stand by what i said in the previous ep. in this ep we saw how brutal her father is, how many innocent's did he murder cause he is lusting after the throne?!? so getting rid of her would be the best way to deter him, until Crown Prince Yi Gang finalized his plan. ironically his daughter is in-love with Yi Un, who's mother was also murdered by him, but she was royalty & thus Yi Un can be put on the throne. but Crown Prince Yi Gang was a direct line & was weak enough in Kim Han Cheol's eyes to not only manipulate, but get rid of when the time came. ***********************************************************************************************************now that Crown Prince Yi Gang has found his 1st love, even if he doesn't think that Dal I & his wife r one & the same, his always being around her will put a target on her back. & give Kim Han Cheol a new person to use against him - to keep him in line. so i get why he can't stay away. but he should know better

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Five Stars

Like watching a train wreck in slow motion. We all saw this coming. Still hurt to watch happen. ZQC should never have attached curing her master to a wedding proposal (in prior episode). He blurted the offer out half joking in his typical cynical manner and she pounced on it and said yes. Because BOTH those things are what she wants most in the world. How could she resist at that moment? And he should have known that. That was just dumb and immature of him to do because neither a marriage nor the life of her master are joking matters to her. And now this disaster is the result. As I've noted in earlier episodes: ZQC behaves like a 14 year old when it comes to his romantic interest in SYL. He needs to grow up and begin to act like an adult when it comes to love. In particular he needs understand that love is not possession and love requires trust and respect for the whole of the other - including what is different about the other, such as their priorities & choices. Only when he becomes mature enough is their love going to work.And later, when he ended up using the Leaf to save her, he should have told her. I don't blame FL for being furious at not being told. Though she also needs to have some perspective. She literally would not be alive to be furious if he had not used the Leaf. She also has her own immaturities, in particular her inability to see that others don't have the same weighted priorities in the world as she does and that they aren't necessarily wrong if theirs are different. In particular, she needs to accept and understand that to ZQC, _her_ life is more important than her master's life. And that he wasn't necessarily wrong for choosing her life over Su Xuan's. And she ultimately needs to examine the question that ZQC faced: Who's life would she, Su Yun Luo, choose between ZQC and someone ZQC loved more than himself, such as the latter's dear sister?

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wanna write fun 1st ep, but there were so…

wanna write fun 1st ep, but there were so many bad & sad things in it that idk if that is a fitting word. always when i watch period K-drama's i an shocked by how powerless royalty really were, unless they were a crazy emperor, they might as well be puppets that r manipulated by the ministers in power & their families. Kim Han Cheol got balls of steel, he not only imprisoned the emperor he got rid of all the women that have power & or can breed the new line. making way for his own daughter/ progeny = family to inherit the throne. & the cherry on top he not hiding what he has done & is gonna do from the men in the royal family. cause he knows they r powerless - now that is terrifying. *************************************************************but i have to say if i was Crown Prince Yi Gang i would just "get rid" of Kim Han Cheol's daughter on the wedding night. maybe that's mean of me but that would be one way to squash Kim Han Cheol dreams of obtaining the throne or at least making it harder. cause he doesn't look like the type that gives up easily... ********************************************************************regarding Dal I i get who she was & why she is where she is now - but can a personality change so much cause u loose ur memory?!? & i get that maybe Park Hong Nan knew her before (maybe was her personal maid) & is trying to keep her safe. but then shouldn't she have given her some type of heads-up, what slave traders only hand around in that city? they might end up there cause that's where their base is, but am sure they need to get their "wears" somewhere else - like from around the country. & i know that was a lie & she doesn't want anyone from her past seeing that she is still alive. but still idk it's weird plotline...

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I wish I could give this episode an 11!

This is one of the best drama episodes I have ever seen.The questioning session is absolutely brilliant. First of all, the questions being asked are intelligent, relevant questions, not some nonsensical filler that no one would ask in the same situation that only makes for melodrama as opposed to real drama tension. Second, the responses are truly creatively cunning. Fan Xiao is telling the truth, but in a way that serves him. He twists it just enough to make it seem as though he was in the right, when we all know what his intentions had been. This is a masterclass in writing. All three of the actors are excellent in this scene. It was an agonizing pleasure to watch. Rewatch value: 100!

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