I just finished this series today and came to MDL to see who else felt as betrayed by the ending like me. This is a rant rather than review.

*****SPOILERS******* DO NOT READ BEYOND THIS IF YOU HAVE NOT WATCHED THE SERIES*******

From the beginning we know that there is a male inside the queen's body and so I was wondering how the romance aspect wàs going to play out. Kdramas are known to deliver beautifully constructed plotlines to slowly transition the viewer through the journey of romance and ensure a sweet and fair ending. This is where this drama felt like a let down.

Many parts were never addressed till the end - The king never gets to know he fell in love with a male from the future, he just sees the queen as 'a unique personality different from anyone from the Joseon era' whereas the transmigrated one knows very well he is infact slowly falling in love with a male king. He in fact progresses from absolute disregard for the king to grudging admiration and then friendship and love and finally even fine with the idea of continuing with the life in the queen's body and carrying the king's baby! And it was so sweet to see the transition and the chemistry between the leads that i was rooting for them till the end.

But then in the very last episode, when BH risks even his life to save the king, he suddenly wakes back up in his own body in modern Korea and doesn't even get to know what happened to the king. And he has to run to a bookstore to find out. Heartbreaking.

The king saying 'it feels like something is missing' - because he is yet to figure out the person he fell in love with is no more in the queen's body. He fell in love with this unique, quirky, brash and unconventional person for whom he created a whole new dictionary, but has to live the rest of the days with some other person who just looks like his lover. It's like marrying the wrong twin! Again heartbreaking.

It is sad for the queen as well. As sooner or later the king is bound to realise that the unique personality is totally gone and now this is just a conventional queen carrying his baby, who may slightly use swear words more often but can't be a match for the crazy and creative guy who lived in that body! The king is not in love with her and it feel weird to see them smiling at each other in the last episode. One doesn't realize that his lover is gone and one is hiding the fact that she is not the one the king fell in love with.

It feels like betrayal to make the viewer root for a unique ML -ML love story all thru the series only for it to be snatched away at the last minute. We don't even know the original queen, her character was not given any screen time except that she wanted to commit suicide, and was rude to her staff and had random people whipped just coz she couldn't find her identity in the palace(!) And still she gets to live with the king for the rest of the life?! While BH who risked his life to find the king (also helped him through many struggles, boosted his confidence and gave him military and political ideas, saved his banquet, saved his throne..) is just ejected from that time with no recognition, and even the king doesn't even know he was there, did all that and was gone. So unfair to both of them.

In my head SB WAS the queen in a past life and in trasmigrating to that life their personalities got intermixed and that's the reason CJ could still love the queen at the end. I would have been happy to see CJ reincarnated in modern Korea and meeting SB again..sigh! What a horribly rushed and unsatisfactory ending to this entertaining series.