. While the series primarily focuses on the love story between Princess Pyeonggang and On Dal, it features a powerful "mother-in-law" figure—On Dal's adoptive mother, . The Shadow of Protective Strength
The night she began to speak was the sort of late autumn evening that smelled of cold laundry and the last oranges in the fruit bowl. We had kept to our rooms—my husband at his desk, the radio murmuring the world into the thin house—when my mother-in-law appeared by the kitchen door as if she had always been there. The moon washed her face and she said, simply, I have been keeping names. mother in law who opens up when the moon rises 2021
But she is an insomniac, a trait I didn't discover until those long nights. And I, prone to anxiety-induced sleeplessness, often found myself wandering into the kitchen for water at the same time she did. We had kept to our rooms—my husband at
, such as their midnight confession or the morning after the Supermoon? And I, prone to anxiety-induced sleeplessness, often found
" (released on Hulu in 2021), where a mother and her son hide a "terrifying secret" that is revealed during the full moon.
Not to herself. To the moon.