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I think that too. In real world she didn't really have any family or friends, so when she became close with those from the script it was logical that she couldn't let anything bad happen to them.

It's like Mr. Song told the FL at one point—you can't wake someone who's only pretending to be asleep. This guy was probably beyond saving from the very beginning—the way he immediately and without hesitation turned his back on the prince as a child shows that his character probably wasn't good at all.
In my opinion, his noble demeanor was just a mask he wore for so long that he himself believed he actually was that kind of person. But when suddenly the man he hated and abandoned long ago began to show himself as a better person, Gui Hong's entire personality crumbled.
It reminds me a bit of what happened to Chu Chu in "Lost Romance."

This drama was really good and funny.
I love how the ML, who was supposed to be cunning and evil, is revealed to be sensitive and kind over time, while the FL actually spends most of the series being cunning and really cruel.

I was blown away by Liu Yu Ning's acting during the scene where, after receiving a terrible number of beatings for the Treacherous Moon affair, he went to the FL to beg her to forgive him. His facial expression was incredible – a bit like that of a wronged child, it was truly heartbreaking.

And the ending was great – at least until the scene with the writer and the post-credits scene.
The earlier ending was perfect; if they had to go in a different direction, they could have at least give us more than two minutes of it :/

Fortunately he gets his own chance for love at the end. It's kind of amazing how from being ridiculous and annoying he became sweet and such likable character by the end (and I loved his weird laugh xD ).

I quite liked this drama, but I definitely preferred the version with time travel and parallel worlds to what ultimately turned out to be the secret here.

Also there were far too many hair and makeup stuff and far too little time was devoted to the Light Lab and The Lighthouse program, making the series' main plot point feel clumsy and poorly executed.

That is so great! <3

I'm really glad I didn't let the negative comments here influence either to watch it or not, because it turned out I really enjoyed this drama.

I also watched this after Genie and both dramas were pretty good.

It started off really well, the drama was charming and funny, but somewhere along the way something went wrong and it became really boring.
Besides, why was it even mentioned at the very beginning that someone from Tae Mu's family was responsible for his parents accident if that subject was never mentioned again (in fact, it was shown that it was actually just an accident, not some evil plot to take over the company or something)?

And also what were they even thinking when they decided to hold a cooking competition when there was LITERALLY NOT ONE objective person to judge? Like - how they thought it would work?

And also this little wink to the audience when genie appeared in costume from "The Heirs" :D

I was pleasantly surprised by that too! When the genie suddenly appeared before FL, I thought that would be it – another annoyingly rushed ending to an Asian drama without any explanation, but here creators really wrapped everything up nicely.

She did know villains, it was literally said in first or second episode, when she first met them -both the prince and kings concubine/wife. And for me it didn't make sense that she didn't warn the king about who the traitors were, especially in the last episodes when their relationship was close and likely he would have believed her.

For me it was definitely visible that she's much older than him. It didn't bother me that much, but it was very noticeable.

I think the hype was caused mostly because this title is available on Netflix, so even people who don't usually watch dramas could see it.

Also - there were torches, she could just took one and hit him with it, set him on fire, get one of those pots she used pieces of to get free and hit him with it too - literally anything other then throwing herself to certain death, that was so ridiculous in my opinion.

In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with using a historical figure, as long as it's clear from the get-go that the story is fictional. A similar tactic was used in "Scartet Heart-Ryeo," except that it was done exactly in reverse—a good and wise king was initially falsely portrayed as a tyrant, to be transformed by FL into the person we actually know from history. Licentia poetica allows that kind of approach.

The drama as a whole was okay, although (unfavorable) comparisons to "Mr. Queen" were inevitable.

But I was really irritated by the lack of any information regarding the king's transition to the future. We can guess that he somehow used a page from that book, but when did he actually come to the future? From the way he spoke and the fact that he still didn't know even basic words/items like butter, we can deduce that he had transferred very recently (probably within this month when FL returned to her time), but how did he manage to adapt so quickly? 500 years is a long time; everything in the present should be overwhelming for him. Besides, where did he get the money? The suit, the new hairstyle, the fact that he somehow had to know how to use the internet, because how else would he have located his beloved's place of work?
There are a lot of unanswered questions here, and his explanation that it's a "secret" was quite annoying in my opinion, as if the creators of the drama were too lazy or disrespectful towards the audience that they didn't even bother to show it properly.

Oh, so it was just that chocolatier was shy, introvertic or something like that? So I actually didn't miss anything important about him :D
Thank you very much for your explanation :)

Seriously? Ok, then I'm completely lost about both guys xD