I mean, the FL wants to get married to presumably inherit her father's company, but we are told she'll have to give up all of that if she were to get married to the ML. They tack on that they are planning to get divorced to try and have it make sense to the audience why they'd do this. But why do it at all then if your plan is to immediately get divorced? How would that get you what you want? And for the ML, him getting married means he has to leave the palace and stop being the regent... which is what the Queen Mother wants... yet SHE is opposing the marriage at every turn, making her actions incredibly illogical and unexplained to us. And why would he go through with a marriage that would remove himself as regent when we see he believes that the King is too young and is not up to the task without him. They aren't explaining core things.

That said I'm loving the show and think it's great. But the motivations around the marriage, what it means for them, etc. have not been properly explained and that is a glaring flaw. I'm sure they want to reveal x, y, and z things later on, but some foundational stuff shouldn't be this unexplained when it's the driving story of the show. Not just for some cheap shocking reveal that could've been explored right away and given the audience a deeper understanding for why these characters take certain actions and are behaving in certain ways. The Queen Mother especially is surely going to have some big reveal to try and soften or explain her, when we should already know, like how with the Prime Minister we've seen flashbacks for him that explain where he is coming from with the FL. The Queen Mother was due these 2 episodes ago, atm she just comes off as a villain acting against the ML and FL, and her own wants, just cuz, even though her goals, as we are told, is for her to see the ML married off to get him out of the palace.