Because the screenwriter choose to follow this theory, for the sake of the dramatisation and fictional adaptation of these historical events, I guess. Historians consider they were only four brothers and King Gogukcheon was the eldest, so naturally succeeded his father.
Instead of using wikipedia as a source, anybody can easily find transcriptions of the "Samguk sagi" (an historical record of the Three Kingdoms of Korea: Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla, written in the 12th century), which is the primary and only sources about characters and events of that time.
But as they changed many things, and invented even more, the drama is quite far from being close to the actual History. It's a very liberal and fictionalised adaptation of these events and historical characters,