The First Night With The Duke~Movie Review Part 2

7 days ago

Hi people! I promised to continue my review of The First Night with the Duke.
If you’re reading this for the first time, you can check out part one of this review.
I don’t think I have to go over the plot again right?
Right! So we begin with…

Episode 7
Yeah, the answer I had been earnestly waiting for finally arrived. Cha Soen Cheak finally said she liked Yi Beon.
You needed to see him glowing like someone who has just been handed a kingdom.
And out of the blue, a new guy comes onto the scene. His name is Yi Gyu. (Forgive my manners, but this guy is all shades of ugly and annoying) Looking all polite but had daggers hiding under his sleeves. I think he also had a crush on Cha Seon Chaek. Then there is Yi-beon’s best friend who is secretly crushing on Eun-ae. Ahh..so many love polygons.

So we go over to Episode 8
The father of Cha Seon Chaek says “No way” and crashes the romance. Very annoying. Saying things like old alliances, blah blah. Here I saw a lot of political mess piling up. Yi-Beon’s enemies increased in numbers and the vibe between the lovebirds became so tense.

When I got to Episode 9, tragedy struck.
Cha Seon Cheak got kidnapped. Nobody knew her whereabouts except for the fact that she received a letter in Yi-beon’s handwriting. Yi-Beon himself went into hero mode. He gave no heed to the rules or the king’s orders but engaged the Royal army in search of his beloved. Meanwhile, Hwa-seon (the suspect in everyone’s eyes) starts digging for the real kidnapper.

This Episode 10 is full of so many complete events happening all at once.
Cha Seon Cheak is found. The perpetrator of the kidnapping kills the messenger she assigned to carry out the job.
His body turns up in a well. Everyone started assuming that it’s Hwa-seon’s handwork as she has always been an enemy of Cha Seon Chaek.
Yi-Beon’s rage could level a building. People started losing trust and started picking sides. It was in this state, that the drama hit its darkest point.

The movie wrapped up with Episodes 11–12
Yi-Beon was asked to go to war as part of political schemes. A few days later, word comes back that he’s dead. Cha Seon-chaek is wrecked emotionally even when she verbally says she doesn’t believe the rumors.
But there was a plot twist, magic showed up(because obviously, I don’t think there was any other way out)
It turns out she and her modern-world self have swapped bodies. So time had to stop for her to rewrite the ending of the story on her Laptop, after she found herself back in her room in the modern world. After rewriting the story, Yi-Beon returns alive, the bad guys eat dust, and they finally got married.
The final scenes showed that they had given birth to six kids and were still head over heels for each other.

Meanwhile, back in the modern world… I see the laptop show a new notification of a new story which makes me think that maybe there is gonna be a season 2.
Which I may not want to watch since I feel like there is nothing more to show.
And like I said in my previous post, I’m giving this movie a 10/10.