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Yea. It was a very major plot point, so they def gonna insert something very similar here.

I was thinking over why I still can't get into the romance part of this drama. Like, at all. And after seeing ML getting angry after he learned that FL ordered the kidnappers herself, I'm thinking it's because of lack trust. And it's not just that ML can't trust FL yet. I, as the audience, can't trust FL as well.

She looks like she means well, but she lies like she breathes. It's even unclear whether she lies knowingly, or whether she's confused because of her messed up mind. She plots nefarious multi-layered plans, but at the same time is cheerfully going around with an innocent smile.

It all makes everything she does look fake and untrustworthy. I think until everything is revealed about that mountain mystery and her condition in front of ML, and she faces what had really happened, I just won't be able to get invested in their relationship.

I feel kinda sorry for ML here, he looks like he likes her already, but with FL it's just so unclear atm. Especially considering there's also guilt over that decree and plain gratitude for getting her off that mountain that are involved.

Of course maybe I'm overthinking it and FL actress's just acting kinda fakey, but I somehow doubt it. Looks very deliberate.

So, FL's father was responsible for the missing edict? He took it from FL's mother?
Also, what sort of military man would entrust such an important document to a defensless woman? Was she supposed to deliver it in secret? Missing information again, but FL's father is practically confirmed trash. Is he on her "straw doll" list too, lol?

Afaik, there's not gonna be a poisoning here according to the novel, just him worrying about FL.

I can't find anything to sympathize with here. He could have gone a lot of different ways about his life's goal, but chose the worst. As soon as a character kills innocents while having other options, I'm no longer interested in any justifications. Just plain unlikable all around.

He totally is delulu about FL.
And you can understand it or not, it doesn't change the fact that he totally is obsessing over revenge and power in an evil way.
These things make him an unfixable trash. He doesn't look like he's gonna learn and desist. It seems like it's been a trait since childhood.
There's like no single positive trait about the guy.
So none of what I wrote is untrue.

Also, what 4 people? You mean 3 other marquis's cronies in parallel to the fat guy? Those were killed on the emperor's orders by ML's men. And they were about to shoot that fat guy as well, but FL beat them to it.

FL's gonna get into another falling from a cliff accident and be missing for a while. He'll worry about her too much while searching for her and his hair will turn grey.

They've shown that he'd do anything and trample over anybody to become emperor. And then he'd do whatever he wants and take whatever and whomever he wants. There's no moral compass in this guy, he's just an evil obsessive wreck.
Just to differentiate, if he was the main character, would you still be rooting for him? Knowing he kills innocent people, like that investigator official, for his revenge? There's a line you just don't cross and he's already done so.

I agree about the old villains. Blank faced or angry most of the time. Not enough moustache twirling nefariousness. Actors could be doing better.
SML is just trash, he was written like that, the actor can't do much here.

Sigh, that SML character is unfixable. Even with his backstory revealed, they still managed to make him look like obsessive delulu trash, lol. Obsessing over FL, obsessing over his taken away inheritance. I told ya'll he can't be allowed to become emperor by any means, it was obv straight away. Hopefully they gonna off him in the end, the guy's incorrigible.
And SFL needs to divorce that trash, unless she ruins her life by trying to fix him.

Prob nothing else to watch. It's been a drought lately.

Yea, main problem here is they talk a lot about things they gonna do and not doing much. Lots of empty yapping in general.

-Where's FL's Joseon era villain arc? We were only shown her maidservant arc and only 2 episodes left.
-Where's FL's career growth in ML's company? She did like 1 commercial total.
-Where are any noticable improvements in FL's life? She still lives on the roof, wandering aimlessly and seemingly forgetting all about that goal to become successfull and independent.

I think writers just got lost in the romance sauce, forgetting about what they were trying to say in the earlier episodes.

It doesn't really get better. At this point I even think FL's previous drama about an actor and a journalist was way better, and that one too had problems, lol.

I now only expect 1 or 2 decent ones per year. Quality went down by a lot since around 2022.

Man, this went down the drain fast. Such a bait and switch with promo trailers. The leads aren't villains, they didn't show anything about FL's life as a powerful concubine doing these supposed villainous things to get that reputation. Lots of dumb, immature stuff fluffed up by not always funny bickering dialogues. SML, SFL, aunts, grandpa - crazy trash, delulu trash, boring trash wasting screen time. Only FL's rival and FL's manager are more or less interesting to watch.
What's going on with FL's soul? She gonna go back to the past? They gonna do Mr. Queen ending or Alchemy of Souls P2? I honestly dont' really care anymore...

Thankfully last week next week. When are we finally gonna get a kdrama with a good plot that is not a misleading trainwreck?

The guy's delulu to the bone. With conviction. It's gonna be very hard to get rid of him, he probably will have to die and nothing of value'd be lost, lol.

She's gonna tell us in the next episode. Looks like some scholars were escorting SML back to the city from the mountain and died because of him.

Episode 9.

FL hired assassins to kidnap herself. Then FL's helper captain guy was supposed to defend her against them.
FL's stepsister hired an assassin to kidnap FL. Those two are spectacular clumsy losers.
SML and his guards were stalking FL to kidnap her on false pretenses.
🤣

It's a tiny libation gesture.