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I'm sorry for the rant that will follow, but this steam has to go somewhere!

Those insufferable Li family members!! My Ghaad!! (ofc, excluding the few sensible ones). She saves them time and time again, shows that she has an incredible talent for the craft and for management, and yet they doubt her again, as soon as the tiniest thing comes up! Every. Single. Time!!! Like, can you grow some brain cells please?!? Or, if not, just shut up?!?
And what? "This needs a man to negotiate, so please give me the family seal"? And after what he'd done?!? The sheer audacity!!

I'm so glad, Li Zhen blew her top, at least a bit! I'm fuming just from watching!

Ok, rant's over. Now I can happily continue watching this amazing show. I always love these craft-tropes.

I assume, you're talking about the Grand Prince, Ian? However, in my original post, my theorising was actually actually about the PM. My theory was that the PM wanted Ian dead.
But I guess, after today's episode, I guess we got our answer in both regards. Not that I find the PM's motive very convincing though...

"It is your fault that I turned out this way"?!?! The lion the witch and the audacity of this b!tch!!!

Also, this was a good show with so much potential. But what is with this lukewarm resolution and where are all the answers to the open questions? Like, what happened to the PM? Who sent Truckkun after the former queen mother and why? So the PM's motive was just jealousy? Really, that's it? How did that prosecution get resolved?

I'm still in denial that it was all Lord Inpyeong's doing all by himself. Please don't let it end with such a cliché and anticlimactic resolution! 🙏
I think it would be much cooler if the PM or his father had some leverage on him and he was just their lapdog all along. I still can't think of reason why Lord Inpyeong would call Truckkun upon the former queen mother... But maybe the former PM, the current PM's fater, who was supposedly the best PM ever, had a reason? Or maybe I just wish Jo Jaeyun wouldn't be the villain for once XD

Also, I need to know why the hell the PM wanted Ian dead! If it was just because he wanted Huiju, I'm throwing my laptop! Before today's ep I was also suspecting some crap like "I wanted to abolish the monarchy/class system for you, Huiju". Not like I think the abolishment is a bad thing, but not by unnecessarily sacrificing lives...!

Ok, all these mysterious snippets that created speculations but didn't really prove anything were a fun rethorical device at the beginning. It raised the tension and got the conspiration theories going. But if they don't start giving us the missing pieces in between and start resolving the mystery in today's episode, this is not going to end well... Either we'll get an anticlimatic, clichéed resolution or a rushed ending. Which would be a shame because the initial premise had a lot of potential.

That is what I was wondering too! Like, how did that piece of paper make it out relatively unharmed, while the king died? There was definitively more going on than what we've been shown so far!

Exactly! But they could also be playing exactly on this prejudice of us... 🙈

And agreed on the PM. We know so little about him; I can't read him at all!

Maybe, but it just feels so obvious, idk...
All we've been given so far is circumstantial evidence at best. So, it could also be a red herring. It still could go either way.

She did. But she could have also said that to protect someone or she could have wrongly assumed it was her fault when it was someone else who actually dealt the decisive blow. For example, she could be thinking that the edict she burned accidentally started the fire, making her think that she "burned everything to the ground" in her fit of anger. But in fact, that small fire was put out, and instead someone else deliberately set the place on fire that same night. That would at least explain why the edict wasn't burned to ashes.
Or it could be her fault after all. I'm just saying it is too soon for me to condemn her. :)

Maybe she is... I just can't tell for now; there's still too many missing puzzle pieces. So, I'm giving her the benefit of the doubt.

That's exactly what I was thinking. My problem is, I can't think of anyone else with a motive... we'll see :)

Ok, so from the way the the servant girl seems to be a nervous wreck while watching the wedding, I'm guessing she poisened the makeup or something. The question is, who ordered her? The queen mother seems genuinely surprised. It could of course be an act, but still I feel she isn't that kind of person. Her dad, maybe? Or someone else entirely.
Same about the fire: Until they show her actively burning down the palace, I'm keeping my mind open to other possibilities, e.g it having been an accident or her protecting someone instead. For that flashback scene with Ian clearly shows she wasn't a mean person originally. To me, she comes across more like a hedgehog.

Sameee!!!

Omg thank you! Yes that was what I was looking for!

I'm going crazy trying to figure out which song Shin Yirang is paroding in the recording at the end of ep 6 😭Can someone please save me and tell me which song it is? If I'm not mistaken, it's an old classic.

I think her point wasn't about her own title. Rather she was considering the effect her illegitimate status has on her partner. She knows that marrying up with her background will implicate the social image of the person she gets married to. In the 2ML's case it might cost him his career. But grand prince Ian's social status is given by birth, he would stay a prince regardless. So, she wasn't talking about the benefits for herself, but considering the potential losses of others.

My favourite scene of today's episode: The arrow scene in his residence.
That was the aura of a queen. It's such a stark contrast to the queen mother's commanding aura that always seems to be laced with fear. Sure, it's partly naïveté due to the lack of exposure to palace intrigues that the queen mother doesn't have. But still, I love it!

What if Yian's brother liked Yirang and insisted to marry her even though he knew her family was trouble? And that's why Yian grabbed his collar, because he was angry and desperate that his brother chose a path he knew was likely to not end well for him?

Just chipping in my two cents because I'm totally with you guys regarding your other theories!

Damn, that "bed scene" and the morning after lives rent free in my head! I've lost count of how many times I've rewatched it, ahahaha

Same here.
Though in this specific case I have a tiny shred of understanding for the father. His wife literally died the the moment our poor FL arrived. It's much easier to blame someone else than himself. Which is what he's doing. He's a coward. Not that it makes it any better what he's been doing to our girl all these years, though... He can kindly get off my screen.