Ok I thought long and hard about what I should say about this show. This was a well written and acted show, this was more about the court ladies point of views and how emotions and love can form over time when caring for one's master, not only that it showed a very human side to ay ruler both the king and the crown prince. this show, had many points of views tying in all into one story about love, honor, loyalty, betrayal. As a court lady I am sure they all love and are devoted to their king or prince, etc. and that loyalty can turn into love even knowing that there might not be a future in getting that love in return and the FL, understood this that is why she was happy to love and serve him as a court lady instead of as a woman, she felt her way of protecting him was to stay a servant, while in his heart he felt his way of protecting her was to have her as his woman. The most human side was watching the king dealing with the effects of dementia, how heart breaking it was to see this. Now for the last episode many have commented off of it how it seemed like it didn't go but in all fact it did so I will give my take on the last episode. Mostly when we all watch we wanna know what happened to him afterwards well the last episode gave us that it showed how he went on after he lost the woman he loved. Now remember when he is laying down and he wakes up in the past laying on her lap it was a dream within a dream, and it was his last dream before he died. He felt that at that very moment if he would have done thing different, he might not have lost his wife and child and it had haunted him or I am sure he had question himself if I could have done anything different. so when he woke up and it replayed again this time, he remembered this is a dream and he turned with tears in his eyes because he realized it was already to late but in his last moments, he was able to change in so he could spend eternity with her in death. If you listen to what he says he says this is the last time when will be able to see this tree bloom because neither one of them will be alive to see it again. the ending was him dying but being able to be with her. As adults I am sure we all lay in bed at night and replay our days and how we could have done something different to change the outcome of situations even knowing that it is already too late you still replay scenarios. That is kinda what he was doing right before he died. I hope this helped or made a bit of sense to some, if not idk you have your own mind to think about how to see the ending. Which to me the writers were awesome to do this because it leaves it up to the viewers interpretation on how to see the ending...