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I also thought that at first, but she is weird. She gives me the impression that she wants to betray the emperor. But if he is her son, it doesn't make any sense. She's crazy, just like the emperor and that damn prince.

The empress dowager of Jinxiu is not the mother of the emperor, nor Xia Jing Shi's mother, right? Is that why she's plotting all over the place?

Yes, that's the one thing I don't like

I just think they want to give the impression that time changes people. And I think Jeong Hee thinks that if nothing happened until now, then she has the right to do what she did today. That's what I think. What I find absolutely useless is the plot with their old boss from the bus service.

These two are masochists!😂😂😂

Where is the actor that played Park Min Jae? He's not on the cast list.

What I don't understand is Kang Mok Ju's attitude towards the king. I know she's plotting with Grind Prince Jaesan and she's a spy planted by him. But I'm not talking about that. I mean her tone and expression when she says things like "I hope His Majesty explodes with fury!" and "I hope the king suffers". From what was said until now there's no reason for her attitude. He didn't harm her in any way for her to want some sort of revenge. She didn't say anything like that until now. Is she just jealous? But then, all the venom of her jealosy is directed towards Ji Yeong. So I don't see why is she like that. Maybe beccause of what happened when the prince saved her?

Yes,if we talk about her succes as a person with no family backing and no noble status, yes, I already know you are right. Of course what she accomplished in the drama is not real, it's a fictional story. And we have to make a distinction between fiction and reality. But that's not what I was asking. I gave Dae Jang Geum as an example, because I find it the most informative on this case. What bothered me was the male cooks attitude in this drama and this can be seen in Mr. Queen too. They say "how can a woman be allowed in the royal kitchen or to cook for the royal family", when in real life women were the ones cooking. I mean, usually it doesn't bother me that movies or dramas have historical inaccuracies. I don't mind that. But here it bothers me. Not only it's not historicaly accurate, but it's putting a wrong perception in people's minds. Why would they distort the truth with something that didn't happen, just to have an attitude like "oh, look how women were treated in those time. They weren't even allowed to step foot in the kitchen". But the reality was that they were the ones actually doing the job. Don't get me wrong, I know there were a lot things and a lot of places that women were very constricted by rules that shouldn't have existed, were belittled and treated worse than cattle, but that's not the case here. On the contrary! I'm not saying everything was wonderful, obviously. The women weren't allowed outside the palace easily. The male cooks were hired for outings, instead of them cooking, like they were doing in the palace.
What I am rambling about and what I actually mean is why would they change something good and say it was bad? The women were doing the cooking, but they say the men were the ones doing it. Instead of crying for the wolf when we think some character is a red flag, we should cry about situations like these, were women are portrayed like they weren't allowed to do something they actually did.

I thought i would get faster answers here, than searching myself for it, but I shouldn't have done that. It's true the story of Jang Geum was, like you said, pretty much impossible, but when Dae Jang Geum was filmed they respected a lot of historical things in it. And it's true she had the backing of the queen, the king and everyone else important. It's also true that high ranking jobs were mostly for men and they kept them from father to son. But the historical setting in the palace in Dae Jang Geum, what roles they had and what they were doing, that I think was mainly real. I mean based on reality. And searching for things like that(of course, not intense searching, but searching anyway) I read that women were the ones that prepared the royal meals. The men that were chefs were cooking only for royal feasts and when the king was on hunts or travelling. And thinking about it, it makes sense. The men weren't allowed in the palace overnight and the royals could have wanted food overnight, like the night snacks. So the women being the chefs makes much more sense. They were trapped in the palace since childhood and weren't allowed leave easily. They were cooking for the royal family, but there were also male chefs. So maybe in time things changed and both situations may be real. I should search some more about this, it's interesting.

I have a question. WHy do they say things like "how can we let a woman cook for the king?' or "a woman cooking the royal meal?" and things like that. And there were other kdramas with things like that, where they were saying the women were not allowed in the royal kitchen and things like that. But we jave Dae Jang Geum (or Jewel in the palace) were women were the ones that cooked for the king and the other royals. I don't understand. What is the real situation from back then actually?

He was evil from the beginning

So they will really divorce? I was hoping they wouldn't 😭😭😭

From what I understood, his mother had him without being married and, later, she died. His uncle probably adopted him, that's why he is seen in the beginning calling him and his wife father and mother. I think he wanted to revenge his mother and that's why when he is promoted he treats them like trash.

How do you do that? I want to do it, but I don't think I can from where I live

There's also another thing. In those time they thought a woman wouldn't dare to dress as a man. There were places in this world where dressing as the opposite sex could get in real legal trouble. I've seen in some kdramas that if they caught a woman dressing as a man, she would have been harshly punished. Also, just a century ago, women weren't allowed to wear pants or dress like a man in most parts of the world. We think about those times like sometime long ago, but compared to 500 years ago, 100 isn't that far ago. So, her conscripting as a soldier, was something they thought a woman wouldn't do. And I guess there were young man that seemed like women just looking at their faces then too, so it doesn't seem that far fetched.
Also, I feel like people nowadays don't see the difference between stories/fiction and reality anymore. People, have you ever read fairytales? They don't have to make sense 100%!

I saw there's a novel for this. Maybe they weren't of different heights in the original story? Maybe someone who read it can tell us. We see the height of the actors, not of characters.

Aaa, I watched it, of course I watched it. But there are so many dramas, that when I see just letters, I don't always know which one is it. I liked When I fly towards very much. It's one of my favorite chinese dramas. Thanks!

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I amat episode 28 and Chu Gui Hong is driving me up the walls. I would like to enter the screen and beat him dead. He says Nan Heng is a monster? It's true that you see in others what you are. He is the real monster. He only has hatred in his heart, He tortured Shan Hu and Yun Long for nothing. Poor boys!

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