Amazing what conversation can do!

But it would have been nice it we could have seen more of why Shu Mu and Fu Rou are now on the same page with one another again. There's a hint there were some evening shenanigans (with her adjusting her hat when she appears in the morning), but can we have our leads *talk* to one another like adults. More time was spent on the conversation between the Crown Prince and King Han, which was good to see. It would have been better if the conversation had happened an episode or so earlier, instead of potentially taking away from the leads.But that's one of the problems of this series. We start with a romantic comedy featuring two charming and attractive people who are fun to watch. Then they're torn apart, which to be expected, but the series began to center on palace intrigue and not our leads. Now, in the home stretch, there's a certain rushed feeling because all those intrigue threads need to be tied up, and we need to get our leads back together, along with our secondary couple. Suddenly, it feels like there's no time.

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