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The Hong sisters wrote 12 dramas before AoS (I count Aos part 1 and 2 as one drama). Out of those, only 3 had sad endings (Hotel Luna, A Korean Odyssey and Hong Gil Dong) and one drama had an infuriating ending (Big). So 2/3 had a happy end.
I really want a happy ending, but I would take a sad ending over an ending like Big (that would be Jang Uk ending up with the real Bu Yeon after Naksu's soul disappears ...).

Thank you very much. :)

The shaman only managed to trick her because the queen wanted the shaman to shift her soul with a younger and more beautiful woman. But the shaman shifted her own soul with the queen's instead. So IMO the queen already did go through with it for all intents and purposes.

I see. Thank you both for the answer.

The biggest plot hole so far is that the queen can stay in the shaman's body without any side effects (if you don't count her whining about being old and ugly) while everyone else that steals a body runs wild. Did I miss an explanation for this?

Most of their dramas have happy endings though (Master's Sun, The Greatest Love, Gf is a Gumiho, etc.). Let's just hope they learned from their 2 most recent dramas that open endings are not the way to go, and they returned to form for this one.

In the webtoon SH's "accident" happens sometime at the end of the last year of middle school. Si Eun gets expelled and then starts high school at a different school, rather than being transferred in the middle of the year like in the drama. But less than a year has passed, as Si Eun is still currently in the first year of high school.

The webtoon is not finished yet. But so far (chapter 222) he has not woken up.

I agree. This drama could be one of the greatest if someone went and made a version where they cut out 80% of SML and witchy ajumma scheming scenes.

The preview scene for episode 12 is out and it's Gwang Nam and JiHo talking to each other. Yay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3KBnU9EQ4E

To me, it seemed that she thought the ML (Ji-Ho) was the one who was kissing her and that is why she kissed back. Right before the kiss she is alone talking with JH and then she closes her eyes telling JH that she wants to be kissed. And she has her eyes closed the whole kiss. Not sure how she would have been able to realize that it was SML coming back out of nowhere and kissing her.

This show really knows how to do cliffhangers right. LOL

Both interpretations are possible. But I took it as him saying she was not his mother even before the shift which would explain why he is so unaffected by it.
Also he compares it to Uk's father not being his biological father. And as no one knows about the former king doing soul shifting he must be referring to the rumor that Uk's mom was unfaithful.

He said it in this episode when talking to Uk - that the queen is not his biological mother.

I think the Crown Prince meant that the real Queen is not his mother, as in he is the son of a concubine that the queen "adopted" because she could not have sons. This often happens in Asian historical dramas. And the relationship between the queen and the adopted son is usually very formal and not at all motherly. So he is not really emotionally affected if she was replaced or killed...

Episode 10 ❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎

There are still parts missing. Like what happened with him after she commited suicide, and why did he ask for his memories to be locked before becoming a grim reaper. Also where do they stand now: they both have their memories and obviously still like each other but will they act on it ...

Im Joo Hwan as the main lead? Yes, please.
He was so great in Ugly Alert, but since then he seems to have been stuck in the second lead role.

Seems like he signed with a new agency and is returning to acting after recovering from a panic disorder (after receiving treatment at a hospital) .
https://biz.chosun.com/entertainment/enter_general/2022/04/14/2BQSVAI53JSKZYP6T2JSBJB7R4/

I am really looking forward to seeing him in a kdrama again. He was great in Sunny Again Tomorrow.

Yeah, but I am not really sure how they are going to manage to make 16 episodes out of the middle school plot . There is going to be a lot of filler.