tbh the show is not to bad i'd give it a 7.5/10
the first 10 eps are really good and caught my attention by just the first ep but after that, it drastically changes and i constantly wanted to drop the show. the female lead was just awful in my opinion, i couldn't stand her anymore. she was being a massive hypocrite at times and just super extra.
alot of unnecessary scenes, lots of plot holes here and there. and i found the whole brothers love triangle extremely unnecessary, the story was not that sad as everyone exxagerates its to be, maybe its bc i didnt feel connected with the characters but it started killing off most of the characters for literally no reason?? like the story was trying so hard to seem sad.
again the female lead personality was not that interesting at all, and she caused most of the conflicts in story, only if she had just communicated more with the male lead and tried not to intervene so much in the chaos happening in goryeo.
the story was wayy to unrealistic for me to be sad, the storyline started getting choppy and messy and the characters personalities sometimes made no sense, like it keeps changing for no reason. one character would do evil deeds and then a few eps later they are changed and all nice.
Although i will say the premise of the show is rlly good and i enjoyed the romance. The ending was actually was not that bad, because it was bound to happen. i think the ending was perfect for the show.
Overall it was an enjoyable show to me and it managed to keep me interested throughout all the episodes, yes there were alot of flaws but it's still a good show in my opinion there are way worst kdramas than this. I can see myself reccomending this to someone to watch.
not bad, its an okay show