
OOOooooh this chapter is interesting!! I'm glad we get to see a side to Il that isn't wholly good. We can see that the corrupt priest are influencing his mindset and making him crazy when it comes to the Red Dragon's descendants. I've never believed that Il killed Suwon's mother or father, but now that I've read this chapter I'm a little doubtful.
One of the things I really like about this story is that no one is wholly good or wholly bad, there's always a morally grey area.
We have seen the worst of Suwon, but now are starting to see the lead up to his actions and can see him as neither good nor bad, but as a person.
King Il has always been tragic, but I had believed him to be good, if a bit blind to his country's needs. Now we're starting to see maybe he too was corrupt.
I'm glad I stayed with this story, it has been my favourite since I discovered it six years back, but the chapters after they headed back to the Capital made me bored and anxious, and I had started to doubt the direction of this. I'm glad I stayed, and I'm sorry to have doubted the author! I'm really liking the direction of this new story arc!

I've read a couple of these "oh no~! we're squashed together in this narrow coffin almost touching~~" scenes before and normally I'm a huge fan, but normally in those coffin scenes the coffin is empty. I just can't get over the fact that these two are having all this UST RIGHT on top of a cold corpse. The cold corpse of their first love/elder brother.
Don't know about you guys, but that just SCREAMS sex appeal /s
Okay I have a theory that's probably not anywhere near true but I'm going to say it!
I think the Duke/General (uncle to the Crowned Prince) is the one who actually murdered the crown princes' mother/second empress.
I have nothing to back up this theory other than his dirty personality, however I think he may have killed her because he wanted more power within the Palace and because she was the second empress and her son was the second prince they weren't as powerful. I also believe maybe him and his sister may have had conflicting political views that made him sabotage her.
So he kills her, pins it on the young first prince, makes his nephew the new crowned prince and then gets more political influence. With the mother out of the way he is also the main person to raise the second prince and may have (definitely) forced his agenda down the second princes throat. We already have seen that he has hit/abused the Crowned Prince when he doesn't act as the General plans, so I can totally see the Crowned Prince being a pawn in the Generals plan.
I AM LITERALLY THINKING THE SAME THINGGGG!