I get it, show. Another episode, another push for MooYeon as daddy.

Even though the letter of MooYeon might have sounded romantic to some viewers (and seemed to echo the same anxiety as the Crown Princess’ hidden letter), I wanted to whack him on the head.

This was his goodbye note.

I was not able to see you for I had to leave urgently. I am now returning the bracelet you once gave me. It has protected me this far, and now it will do the same for you. I wish you give birth to a healthy child who takes after you. That is my only wish for you.

If he was indeed the baby’s father, then their romance sordid liaison would boil down to this: he got a girl pregnant, the wife of the Crown Prince, and daughter of the man who murdered his dad and hunted his sister, AND he was going to abandon this girl with just a freaking talisman of a bracelet to protect her and their unborn child.

That jerk didn’t even wish his baby’s mother happiness and peace in the future. He only wished her a healthy baby who’d resemble her. — well, I assumed that he wanted the baby to look like HER because if the baby looked like the REAL father, then her secret was out.

If MooYoon was truly the outstanding and righteous brother that HongShim idolized as a kid, I expected more from him than this. If he was the father of the Crown Princess’ baby, then he behaved irresponsibly.

To me, the better alternative is to have anybody but MooYoon be the father.  (hahaha. You could tell that I’m a NeverMooYoon-er.)

This is how I would write the computer code for this kdrama:

If (baby_father=MooYoung)
Run other_dad_scenario.exe

Lol.

I admit that I originally wanted it to be that Moon-face Mayor (ha!) to provide his character RELEVANCE and legitimacy in this whole story. But then I decided that Minister Jung wouldn’t be such a bad idea if only as payback for his denigration of bastards.

However now I want that brother of Lee Yul, Prince SeoYoon, as the father of the baby. Gross and incestuous as it may sound, he’s been the only one who CONSISTENTLY showed care and attention for the Crown Princess and her well-being. If the baby was going to have a daddy, it might as well be the one who WANTED to protect the baby and the mother.

See? This thing was pathetic.

“Why does everyone leave me? Why?”

The question that bugged me because I don’t get what she meant by “everyone.” MooYeon was the only person who left her against her will, so what was she wailing about?

Sure, the CP Lee Yul left but she wanted him dead. Her father was missing but she was probably relieved that she wasn’t living under his thumb anymore; there was no love lost between the two of them. And that assassin surely didn’t leave her; he died precisely because he wouldn’t leave even when she told him to go.

To me, it would be better if there was another person who had left her in a lurch with the baby, and MooYoon was simply guarding her secret. This scenario would redeem MooYoon and make him more honorable in my eyes.

Then I also remembered that red bracelet of MooYoon. Twice, we had a brief glance of it in Episode 10, like a foreshadowing.

WD: Who am I?
MY: You are already dead. You have already died in everyone’s memory. So do not try to know. When your existence is revealed, countless people will be killed.
WD: Why is that?

Then, MooYoon lunged after him and WD easily took him down. As he lay on the ground, he clenched his fist. The bracelet was there to see.

MooYoon was willing to kill the prince, his beloved sister’s husband, to save “countless” of lives.” But what did he mean by countless of people? Surely, he must be exaggerating his numbers because I could only count three who were sure to die: the Crown Princess, the unborn baby, and the Minister Kim. The other ministers were only minor co-conspirators.

To me, unless MooYoon meant that 1) there were more people involved in the Crown Prince’s attempted murder and 2) their unmasking could destabilize the monarchy (like if the little goody-two shoes Prince SeoYoo was part of this, haha), he had no business and no right telling the Crown Prince that he was better off dead.

To me, it’s simply incongruous that he would sacrifice his sister’s happiness with her beloved husband WonDeuk in order that his adulterous lover (if they were indeed lovers) would continue to live as the Crown Princess. He would be negating everything he’d done in his life to protect HongShim.  I interpreted his goodbye note to the Crown Princess as someone relieving himself of the pleasure burden of her company. I don’t read any regrets in his goodbye.