#soosoo

I wanted to point out an interesting parallelism between Hae Soo and Wang So because I never saw someone noticing it (these two parallel each other a lot of times through the series, this is why it's so tragic they don't end up togegher in the end because the world was against them).

Well when Hae Soo kneels in front of the palace to plead the king to have mercy on Lady Oh, and Baek-Ah reprimands her to not being so stubborn, because all of that is useless and it will only make the king angry and Lady Oh's sacrifice unworthy, and Hae Soo replies with: "better than doing nothing".

Well I see a mirror on Wang So's attitude in the palace to make Hae Soo remain by his side in the last episodes. He knows very well that giving titles as royal concubine would be useless but still it's better than doing nothing. He would never forgive himself if he wouldn't be stubborn and doing even the most useless thing in order to not leave Hae Soo because it would be a failure for him (Wang So has a lot of abandonment issues and to leave Hae Soo means fail her to him). That's why him not giving up looks a bit extreme and blind because as Hae Soo's prayers would just make the king angry, Wang So's stubbornness would only make Hae Soo more sad. Both can't give up on their beloved ones no matter the costs, but they parallel each other on different timeline.

And this is why audience failed to understand Hae Soo and had (unfair) grudge against her, because in our eyes she gave up on Wang So unlike him who couldn’t let her go and had stubborn hope on their love until Wook's sneaky confession, but they didn’t act on opposite sides as it seems, she HAD to make Wang So letting go on her not because she didn’t love him anymore or considered him a monster but in the order to save her daughter from the palace. That was the main reason on their miscommunication issue.

I just wanted the authors to make Hae Soo's struggle more explicit and sensible because before episode 20 (when we as viewers actually know she was pregnant and wanted the protect her unborn child) the storytelling just told us she had a double standard on Wang So's crimes meanwhile she forgave everyone else.

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