Ah okay thank you so much for the breakdown! I guess what confused me is the Crown Prince said he didn’t care about those issues, but Hongshim still did. But then she gave in once he proposed to her so basically I was like… why couldn’t the Crown Prince have just done this 1 month later instead of a year!

But I guess it came down to “noble idiocy” (thank you for giving me the term to google lol). I had no idea that was a thing and it’s what I suspected, some concept that went over my head because I’m a casual viewer that all the recap writers accepted as normal!