Mailyn

Firstly, there are five to six years between the two seasons, secondly, she was made up to look like a young, naive, provincial commoner in the first one. In this season she is older, has better makeup and, her hair is now off her forehead, Have a look at her in Chase the Truth with the same ML.

I have watched it four or five times and although I like the second series, I don't think that it is equal to the first. (I may revise my opinion after completion.)

Accents have nothing to do with whether you know a language or not. After listening to a foreign language for a long time one can pick out a change in accent if it is a very noticeable one. I don't understand Korean but I know when a character starts speaking in dialect and then switches back again.

@ Ximena: I would like to know why you think this but first, have you seen season 1? If you have not, I wonder if you would think the same were you to watch it. I am not saying that it can not be him, but if it is, his motive has to be very strong for him to risk hurting Chu Chu.

Yes, I can understand the wish to carry out her mother's wishes - that is not overly sentimental and just honours her mother. Did she actually have memories of her sister (given that she was taken away as a baby) and if she did, did she grow up loving her or just grow up being in love with the idea of loving her)? Either way, such emoting on the part of the FL is not characteristic.

Glory in Shadows? They should have called it 'Stability Ensures Peace' (after the sign written above the door).

This actress always plays 'villain' roles.

Could we not have seen the part where the ML and sister found out which one was the real sister, too? Also, I know that this is a budget drama, but the wedding had very few extras, making it look very unlike a state wedding - and it looked as if it was taking place in a farm yard!

What was that ending?!

Fair enough. I think that an objection on the grounds of morality (in this case) is reasonable. What I disagree with is people who say that something IS 'wrong' just because it is illegal in their own country. (Having an opinion that it should or should not be so is a different thing.)

Thank you.
I made a mistake. Although only vertical dramas can have 60 episodes nowadays (since the 40 episode limit for main dramas), I meant 60 'minutes' but recent dramas don't have episodes that long, either, because of the 45 min limit - unless those rules have changed. Either way, somebody on here made a mistake, too.

Doesn't 60 episodes (nowadays) mean a vertical format drama?

Yes.

皇上 [ huángshang,] - 1. the emperor; 2. Your Majesty; His Majesty (when directed to an emperor) (Sounds like hwungsha) You will not hear the 'ng' pronounced very often as Mandarin 'n' and 'ng' are nasal - almost like 'enfant' (child) pronounced onfo (short vowel as in not) in French. The word which sounds like 'ho' if used with 'ye' could be 侯爷 [hóuye] Lord Marquis or His Lordship the Marquis. Another 'ho' sound you'll hear is 太后 [tàihòu] - empress dowager.
P.S. There are many words for emperor but one does not hear them as often. For example, in Song Dynasty dramas one might hear 官家 [guānjiā] - The Imperial Household / The Master of the State where 'guan' means official and 'jia' means house / family.

Okay. Thanks.

He has another drama coming up soon doesn't he?

I understand what you are saying (and I would not have written the ending this way) but it was his choice. That was the whole point of this drama.

The one good outcome is that the sisters have started to pull away from their grandmother to do what they want to do. As the FL takes over (and the grandmother's power wanes) she can change some of the rules for the better.

They could have at least shown snippets of the Duke’s family drama at intervals throughout the series as teasers leading up to the final arc, which would have made it feel more integrated rather than disconnected from the main narrative.

Male lead was not spineless - nor was the scholar. And some of the other suitors definitely were not submissive - unless they were pretending to be. The cousin though - Ugh! Was he even a man?