Yes, obviously there's only few who read the story as most cannot understand the language.. but those that do, they are also the ones who complain like they cut off this scene, this scene could have been better if they included this, that etc.. I'm not sure if The Crowned Princess was a novel turn drama, but for every book adaptation, there's barely any director who follows it word by word.. they always change things here and there to shorten each scenes.. i've read that this show will only have 12 episodes. That's probably the main reason they had to cut so much scenes.. i guess we just have to take it as it is no matter how much we would like it not to end