SweetStarlight

At first when I saw the rating, thought it might be too low for a kdrama! (7.3 currently)
Now that I have finished it, I understand it!
The drama lost itself midway, instead of story going to its peak, it went downhill!
The ending was.... ridiculous!

The only good thing about this drama was the people at the market.

I know about that guy, actually found out about him in another kdrama few years back. I don't know if the down votes happened then as well or not since that drama end up being average itself. (I'm not happy that he is still given roles, yet I don't skip the drama if I find the story interesting enough.)

As for the other point, I don't know about the original work and I'm not planning to read it. I do understand that fans of the original work could be angry about the changes.
though since I didn't start it for romance, I didn't really care if there is any romance. the ML's life is so messy I don't think they have enough episodes to fix and cover everything and give the romance a chance without rushing it.

upon seeing the negative comments, I tried watching the first 2 episodes to judge it by myself, and I find it okay!
I don't know what the fuss is about but it is so far not as bad as people make it to be!

Started okay but turned into a mess filled with idiocy...
not bad for a one time watch but it had so many flaws.. both in acting, make-up and too many things happened in so little time!

This was dragging and it was boring, so much that I had to skip bits by bits to get through till the end!
The acting isn't good and cgi is mediocre...
The chemistry between the leads was lacking.. almost none..

That young couple were so superficially happy that felt like I'm being spoon fed about 'what a good marriage should be like'!
to be honest most of the drama feels like women rights propaganda in your face.

The husband and the girl next door were so despicable!
Both of them were consistent in being trash till the end!
WHY TF HE FORGAVE HER??? I'm speechless... what do you mean 'I'm waiting for you at home'??? she wouldn't be in tears if her plan worked!
not everyone deserves forgiveness.

Their affair was so sloppy that I'm amazed nobody had found out earlier!

They stretched the drama for too long! they either should've cut out all the extra repetitive shenanigans and reduced the runtime to 10minutes instead of 15minutes!

Thank you for the reply.
I skip this then, I'm afraid it would be too much for me.

I was planning to watch this, but I'm seeing talks of explicit violence in it.. how much is the violence on scale of 1 to 10?
Is it in all episodes or a single episode? Is it graphic?

I like both leads but neither of them were consistent in their acting here. sometimes they could show so much emotions just through their eyes and expressions and sometimes they were too stiff.

This is one of those dramas that from the get go you'd know sad ending is inevitable.

They tried to make it as happy as it gets by the time jump, but it wasn't practical...
(they had announced her dead, and I don't think an emperor can marry a girl with a made up identity)
so they should've just passed by each other and left even then.

loved the ost! the fight scenes were amazing! the cgi was mostly good except some cartoon-ish instances.

yeah, I get what you mean.
sometimes even I doubted why things were like how they were, since she knew he was undercover, and was kinda involved in the situation, I expected more transparency from ML as well.

I don't know, maybe it was just miscommunications, they didn't have actual conversations much.

I agree that initially ML was absolutely a suspect himself but they didn't discuss the aunt even after she was told that he was undercover, that's the part I meant when I said team up with ML.
now that i think about it, I find it odd that he didn't take the initiative to talk about it as well.

when she cornered Elena, what did she think she could do?? nothing! just talking.. I was hoping she would work along with ML to bring her down but no, she had to go solo on that!!!
As much as I liked the ML and he was the reason I didn't drop, he was so sloppy with his mission, I'm surprised he wasn't found out earlier...
anyways the bad guys were too cartoonish and dumb for my taste.

It was okay, first half was better, it started dragging a bit later on.
FL was so useless... I don't need a badass fl but at least grow some brains! It felt like she was losing all the remaining brain cells she had as drama went on!

If you like the actress it might help you get through to the end, otherwise it's not worth the time.
cgi is bad, editing is sloppy, ending was meh...

As much as I dislike sad endings, sometimes it's inevitable outcome of events and the characters' choices.
They should've just ended it at the sacrifice. the movie set at the end was very unnecessary.