Towards the 35th episode it is becoming more & more interesting. The grand councillor does have great power but the emperor & his concubine join forces to end his terror. The present Empress is bent on eliminating the concubine Ki. She orders a shaman to put a curse to kill her.
Here it resembles ‘The Sun embracing the Moon’. The shaman has a better role there. She saves the crown princess & then this princess enters the palace as a Shaman. She has some memories flooding back to her. But she has forgotten her past. The Emperor is married to the scheming empress. Ditto here.
In “Goodbye My Princess” the princess gets poisoned. Here the Concubine Ki poisons herself as a part of a scheme. She is bold, beautiful, Intelligent & has both the men in her life fall for her. She also has two children, one from each of them. The empress poses to be the mother of the first child, little knowing that the concubine Ki is the real mother.
In ” Goodbye My Princess” she marries the prince twice. After her grandfather is killed she jumps into the river of oblivion & forgets all the past memories. For political convenience she is married to the Fifth prince. But she has forgotten that he is the one she loves. The prince has also jumped in the river to save her so he also does not remember her. Yet he starts liking her more & more as he comes in her contact.
“Empress Ki” bears Wang Yoo’s child but he doesn’t know it. He is her first love, the king of Goryeo. But she is saved many a times by the Emperor & starts liking him. From fifth to third position then she decides to be by his side . She builds his confidence to stay as the Emperor. It is basically the story of her hard work & patience to rise from a tribute woman to the Empress!
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