Unfortunately, you can't change what happens in history. I just could not sit through any more senseless deaths and power-hungry schemers. I just couldn't stomach any more egomaniac emperors and rulers, schemers, and senseless sheep doing nothing. Not for 54 episodes. Frankly, when they killed off the loyal guard so early, and then one by one killed off the people who had been loyal to the prince as a child - that was it. I skipped to the final episode just to see how they tied it up. I tried hard to follow the twists and turns - but in the end, they could have told the story with one third of the number of episodes and maybe I would have toughed it out. It just dragged on and on.