I had a little question... Hong Rim fell in love with the queen or he always loved the king? '-'
I think he fell in love with the Queen. Hong Rim had been "groomed" since he was a child to love the king, just as pedophiles groom children today. Once he was allowed to have a relationship as an adult with someone of his sexual preference, he fell in love. The King gave him extravagate but impersonal gifts, the Queen give him small gifts she had made by hand, then add the fact that she had never had another lover... and she's having his baby? He was all about protecting the Queen, and when the King castrated him it drove home the fact that all he was to the King was a possession/obsession.That would make me shed a tear as I died in front of that person too.