I'm so glad you're enjoying it 🙏
I'm enjoying watching this again too, it brings back so many memories and good feelings of watching it the first time~
And yeah, the relationships at the time were really mixed up.
It was okay to marry like a half-sibling or a cousin at the moment, because it was a sign of great power and the bloodline would continue to be "pure" as well.
And especially if you didn't find someone suitable at the time.
It was messed up, but that's just the way things worked back then.
And I love to see the 4th Prince's heart melt too!
I don't blame him for becoming cynical and cold after everything he's gone through...
(His mother is one of my most... not liked characters in kdramas)
But it's nice to see Soo break his defences little by little~
Oh, and if you didn't notice, when Chae Ryung and Soo were about to leave after the whipping,
the 9th Prince looked at Chae Ryung a bit longer than usual~
I won't say anything more about that.
I love the 9th Prince's actor by the way, he was in one of my favorite longer dramas "Home For Summer",
and he just melted my heart in that.