He's a true Hufflepuff lol all this time I thought he was a Slytherin, and they go and show me he values loyalty above all and is loyal to a fault with others. The man knew the whole damn time Prime Minister was in love with HuiJu, possibly left high school thinking they were gonna get married since the asshole was her friend, and Lee Ahn had zero chances.

And despite all that, despite knowing he was obsessed with his fianceé and then wife, he still trusted the bastard. He really thought there was no way that he, a politician, could be corrupted and act sneakily to serve his own purposes.

I understood something about Lee Ahn, I didn't think I would on the second-to-last episode: how naive he was in thinking people would really be bound by the system they were born in. Because he was. But Huiju certainly wasn't; she refused. And Queen Mother fought so hard to stay in a place she had given up so much for, even sacrificing her child, but she "bought" her way in. Lee Ahn trusted Jongwoo would act like a righteous Prime Minister (as if that even exists). But Lee Ahn was caged by the boundaries the Crown had set for him, and those his father and his brother had left him in. I always thought the best ending was abolishing the monarchy, because our Prince was never really himself or happy in it.

I loved that Huiju was the first to stop trusting PM. As a businesswoman who made her own way into the world, and had always been judged as an illegitimate daughter, a "mistake", deals in numbers and facts. One argument with PM after a terrible incident and too many coincidences and her trust in her friend crumbled at once.

But Lee Ahn really believed Prime Minister was going to act honorably, in accordance with his position. It is naive, but it's also kinda heartbreaking, because he truly saw him as a friend who would act rightfully, without letting emotions or desires cloud his judgment. So sad, and the only thing left for me to say, is that I wish they had explored their friendship more. That first scene they shared in ep 1 did have me believing for a moment they were friends, but then they never followed up on it.

also it’s so freaking refreshing that iso straight up went ahead and talked to fadime to figure out a solution instead of hiding, planning and beating around the bush. he chose fadime’s life over anything else and the parallel is right there to not notice.

oruc has repeatedly put his family over anything else despite the harm it might cause. he was ready to throw adil in jail for years just to get him out of the way to ‘protect’ his family while adil should just accept what his family has done. heck he literally saw adil esme grieving over an empty grave and said nothing like ??? oruc wishes he was half the man that iso is. that man has actually progressed from ep 3 to 13. while we have oruc still crying and lamenting about how he’s such a bad guy victim mentality (while being weird af and moralising towards esme and eleni both!).