“Knight Flower” is at its midway mark, and we’ve received each the central thriller and the romance heating up quick! Park Soo Ho (Lee Jong Won) is fairly sure that he is aware of precisely who the masked vigilante do-gooder working throughout the town is, and he’s alternately fascinated and exasperated by her. Jo Yeo Hwa (Honey Lee) has no concept that her cowl’s been blown and continues to marvel why a somewhat annoying officer with unforgettable abs retains popping up wherever she is. This week’s thriller brings them collectively to collaborate on one other case. But little do they know that the central gamers maintain their destiny of their palms.

Here are these predominant gamers:

Warning: spoilers for episodes 5-6 under.

1. The widow

Oh Nan Kyeong (Seo Yi Sook), the spouse of the Minister of Finance Yeom Heung Jib (Kim Hyung Muk), has dealt along with her husband’s philandering and corruption for many years, bearing all of it with a affected person smile. But when he strikes her for the umpteenth time, she lastly loses it. The subsequent morning, Minister Yeom is discovered lifeless, and Soo Ho is introduced in to analyze. Yeo Hwa, who’s visiting along with her mother-in-law Yoo Geum Ok (Kim Mi Kyung) to supply her condolences, realizes that one thing’s incorrect when accusations of homicide get thrown round.

Soo Ho additionally suspects foul play. There are distinctive sores in Minister Yeom’s mouth, and Soo Ho smells one thing floral there. Yet, the coroner guidelines that the assault was blunt power to the top throughout an assault the place Minister Yeom tripped and hit his head on the sting of his trunk. Nan Kyeong is decided that nobody ought to discover out that she’s accountable, so she’s taken nice pains to feign sorrow. And when a possible suspect emerges, she jumps proper on it, uncaring that she’s dooming an harmless man to demise. Little does she know that she’s additionally dooming an harmless lady.

2. The suspect

Lady Baek (Choi Yu Hwa), the widowed daughter-in-law of Geum Ok’s nemesis, the spouse of the Minister of Personnel, has been touted as a paragon of advantage within the earlier episodes. Poor Yeo Hwa has been held as much as her in each manner, which is why she’s so stunned to identify Lady Baek and a servant from Minister Yeom’s family, Yong Deok (Lee Kang Min), in an embrace. She retains the widow’s secret however is left between a rock and a tough place when Yong Deok is accused of Minister Yeom’s homicide. Nan Kyeong fortunately condemns the person, hanging him, and accusing the ring within the man’s possession to have belonged to her late husband. In actuality, it was a token of affection from Lady Baek. Yeo Hwa can’t communicate up with out destroying the opposite lady’s status.

Nan Kyeong’s selfishness has a number of penalties. Yong Deok is imprisoned, crushed inside an inch of his life, and sentenced to demise, and Lady Baek is locked up at dwelling by her mother-in-law, who additionally acknowledged the ring and doesn’t need her daughter-in-law to deliver disgrace to the household. Instead, she’d favor to starve her till she dies. The indisputable fact that it was a suitable follow for households to starve their widowed daughter-in-laws to demise in a supposed act of piety to observe their husbands is proof of how horribly girls have been handled all through historical past. Determined to rescue each of them, Yeo Hwa will get concerned and breaks Lady Baek out, taking her to Myungdo Inn and offering her with all she wants to begin a brand new life. But Lady Baek refuses to go away with out her lover.

Yeo Hwa can’t fathom why anybody would threat their life for a person however goes in for the rescue towards Soo Ho’s orders.

3. The father-in-law

Yeo Hwa’s father-in-law Seok Ji Sang (Kim Sang Joong) has been a background participant to date. He comes off as this genial, caring outdated man, however the masks slipped final week when it was revealed that he was behind corrupt human trafficking service provider Kang Pil Jik (Jo Jae Yoon). It slips additional this week when Ji Sang digs into the homicide of Minister Yeom. It’s clear that he isn’t behind it and equally clear that he suspects Nan Kyeong, right down to understanding her homicide weapon. But he lets it go, ready to ship an harmless man to demise to cowl the whole lot up. Which is why he’s so perturbed when Yong Deok goes lacking earlier than execution.

Soo Ho has had it with Yeo Hwa interfering with police issues and tries to maintain her out of it, not resulting from any patriarchal nonsense however as a result of he is aware of precisely how a lot she has to lose. If she’s caught, she’d be made a pariah, probably executed for doing good. He doesn’t need to see that occur. But Yeo Hwa doesn’t need to see Yong Deok die. Soo Ho and Yeo Hwa’s loyal maid Yeon Sun (Park Se Hyun) can’t perceive why she doesn’t see that her life issues too. But Yeo Hwa’s solely pleasure in life comes from serving to others stay theirs. She doesn’t see her freedom as a chance. So off she goes in disguise to jail to offer Yong Deok a laxative. A health care provider’s been bribed to inform the jail guards that he has the plague as soon as the person begins taking pictures out of each ends, so Yong Deok will probably be taken out of jail and discarded, whereupon Yeo Hwa and her crew will rescue him and get him again to his girl.

The plan is inches from failing when a guard orders Yeo Hwa to drop her veil, however Soo Ho races in to the rescue. It’s additional proof in his eyes that Yeo Hwa can’t preserve this up with out issues going incorrect. So he lastly provides the reality to her. He is aware of who she is.

4. The lackey

Yeo Hwa flees earlier than the dialog can get too private however asks him to satisfy her on the Myungdo Inn the subsequent evening. She’s up all evening pondering what to do such that this man doesn’t reveal her id. She’s unaware that she’s already made a horrible enemy in Kang Pil Jik. He’s no mere service provider. The man is Ji Sang’s lackey and Nan Kyeong’s half-brother from her mom’s affair with a servant.

Both Ji Sang and Nan Kyeong use him for his or her soiled work, and each deal with him like rubbish. Not solely is he not a fan of Yeo Hwa, he was additionally the person tasked with murdering her brother Cho Sung Hoo (Park Sung Woo). The present hadn’t revealed whether or not or not he succeeded, however Ji Sang definitely appears to assume so. Yeo Hwa has no clue and even thanks Ji Sang for protecting her in his family for 15 years. That’s going to be one bitter realization.

5. The king

King Yi So (Heo Jung Do) pretends to be an fool on a regular basis in order that Ji Sang doesn’t know he suspects him for his father’s homicide. He’s been looking for proof of it for 15 years alongside along with his solely good friend, Soo Ho’s brother Yoon Hak (Lee Ki Woo). Upon Soo Ho’s discovery that the strategy used to kill Minister Yeom was poison through a dissolvable flower petal (which was discovered within the scrollbar of the tiger portray the minister prized a lot), the king’s on alert. His father was killed the identical manner, right down to the sores in his mouth. And one of many solely doable witnesses is Cho Sung Hoon, Yeo Hwa’s brother. Unaware of the royal conspiracy woven round her household 15 years in the past, Yeo Hwa focuses on her drawback: Soo Ho. She meets with him nose to nose. She debates on murdering herself, murdering him, and at last settles for the reality and reveals him her face. And that’s the place we finish this week!

This present’s been weaving a decent story to date, so issues are most likely going to select up in earnest with all our main gamers now within the open. Yeo Hwa continues to point out unbelievable compassion, even telling Nan Kyeong that she understands if her husband’s demise isn’t one thing she mourns. But she’s stored all her hope for others and none for herself. Let’s hope Soo Ho and Se Ryun can change that! Next week reveals the arrival of a mysterious man who might or will not be Yeo Hwa’s supposedly lifeless husband. Let’s hope it isn’t! Soo Ho’s barely gotten began, and Yeo Hwa deserves higher than a person who’s pretended to be lifeless for a decade.

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Shalini_A is a very long time Asian-drama addict. When not watching dramas, she fangirls over Ji Sung, and spins thrillers set in more and more improbable worlds. Follow her on X and Instagram, and be happy to ask her something!

Currently Watching:  “Knight Flower,” “Marry My Husband,” “Captivating the King,” and “Like Flowers in Sand.”
Looking Forward to: “Ask The Stars,” “Sweet Home 3,” “Gyeongseong Creature 2,” “Queen of Tears,” and “Connection.”

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