And when the plot thickens, the things get to be too serious!
It was to be expected after two funny and fluffy seasons that some things will have to be sorted out sooner or later and those things are not fun to sort out. So this season was very light on humour and heavy in difficult decisions!

The emperor and our novelist are finally openly in love and being lovey dovey while the entourage is rolling their eyes at all the fluff. But very quickly things start changing for the worse: the conspiracy fromented by the Dowager Empress and the PM is getting into the high gear. At the same time things keep happening to the emperor which are unexpected: the plague (COVID? Anyone?), him getting sick and week more and more often. And the reason is the FL whose unexpected presence completely changed the storyline and the emperor is quietly fading. To save him she needs to disappear.

I liked this season as much as the other two and was not much bothered by the absence of humour. I wanted to see how they were going to wrap the story up. And, frankly they did a great job! The story is basically a search for the man of your dreams and how great it would be to meet him. Our FL got to do that!

I will be repeating myself, but everything is excellent in this drama: from writing, acting, production values, music. I love the music!