The finish is right here for “Knight Flower”! This present has been a zany, cozy blast over the previous six weekends, so it’s unhappy to see it finish. This is among the uncommon dramas that would have carried out with an extension purely due to how a lot unexplored potential there was on the earth it had created. Ends are tied up, some ends are left unfastened, and but others are solely teased. Here’s all the pieces we beloved and needed to know extra of within the finale!

Warning: spoilers for episodes 11-12 under.

1. Seok Jeong

Seok Jeong (Oh Eui Sik) is a very respectable man and an clever one too. It doesn’t take him lengthy to place two and two collectively at this level to understand that his surprisingly suspicious spouse Jo Yeo Hwa (Honey Lee) is the masked vigilante do-gooder working across the metropolis. He isn’t threatened by that or by the truth that she’s the woman that Park Soo Ho (Lee Jong Won) has been pining after for some time now. Rather, he takes nice enjoyment in serving to her defy societal guidelines and makes use of hilarious excuses like wanting sweets to ship her out at evening on “errands” simply so she doesn’t must sneak round. He thinks she’s fairly cool. She thinks he’s an odd egg however a likable one. It’s unlucky that we don’t know what occurred to his elopement or why he got here again. But he could not get to remain for lengthy. His father has no problem with killing him first.

2. Everyone plotting to destroy Ji Sang

It’s a disgrace we couldn’t have Seok Ji Sang (Kim Sang Joong) unveiled because the villain earlier as a result of the majority of this week’s episodes is spent on him popping out of the shadows as the large unhealthy. First, we’ve a failed plan by King Yi So (Heo Jung Do) and Park Yoon Hak (Lee Ki Woo) to take him down. The king comes up with a plan that below some other circumstances could be sound. They fake that Lady Oh Nan Kyeong (Seo Yi Sook), Ji Sang’s co-conspirator within the homicide of Yi So’s father, has gone lacking. While Ji Sang is fretting as to Nan Kyeong’s whereabouts, the king throws him for a loop by inviting his total household to tea, together with his recently-returned-from-the-dead son Seok Jeong.

The Seok household heads out for what they consider is an honor, solely to be shocked when the king unveils Nan Kyeong, who apologizes for her crimes profusely and begs to serve everybody the identical tea she did the previous king as an indication of her repentance. Ji Sang is aware of good and effectively that that is the poisoned tea they used to eliminate the previous king. Yi So provides the primary cup to Seok Jeong to have a good time his return from the lifeless and is so sure that Ji Sang will react and cease this, thereby proving that he’s conscious of what the tea is and his guilt within the former king’s homicide. Only, Ji Sang does nothing. This is, in any case, the identical man who pretended that his son was lifeless. So he’s absolutely ready to let his son die if it meant preserving his place. Yi So is horrified at Ji Sang’s cruelty and calls the plan off, unwilling to have harmless Seok Jeong die. Nan Kyeong is aware of she’s about to be arrested and drinks the tea as a substitute to show that it was poison. She dies, however not earlier than informing Yeo Hwa that her brother’s been lifeless for over a decade at Ji Sang’s hand. Horrified, Yeo Hwa breaks down in horror earlier than everybody, whereas an anguished Soo Ho watches.

3. Merchant Jang

Head Merchant and entrepreneurial queen Jang So Woon (Yoon Sa Bong) has been Yeo Hwa’s most loyal ally. It’s a disgrace that we haven’t gotten to know her higher past her being Yeo Hwa’s confidant, together with Yeo Hwa’s maid Yeon Sun (Park Se Hyun).

Kang Pil Jik (Jo Jae Yoon), Ji Sang’s righthand man, has at all times had one thing towards Merchant Jang, although it’s by no means revealed why, solely that Yeo Hwa rescued her. After the King and Yoon Hak’s failed plan, he kidnaps Merchant Jang to lure out Soo Ho and Yeo Hwa. It works, however the tables are shortly turned on him, and he finally ends up locked within the Capital Defense Guard’s cells the place Soo Ho fortunately threatens him with all method of demise till he spills the beans on all the pieces. It seems that Yeo Hwa’s brother died a yr after the late King, a yr into Yeo Hwa’s life within the Seok family. He’d come to see her and reveal himself however was shortly accosted by Pil Jik and his goons and murdered with Ji Sang current—the identical Ji Sang who went residence to Yeo Hwa and pretended that he was nonetheless trying to find her brother.

Yeo Hwa utterly loses it upon discovering the reality and races out all masked as much as kill her father-in-law. She almost does, however Soo Ho intervenes and pleads along with her to not act rashly. It isn’t what her brother would have needed. That brings her again to rationality. And when she and Soo Ho sit down with the final belonging her brother left her (a sword), they discover precisely what Ji Sang’s been hoping nobody would discover: the previous king’s letter to Yi So previous to succumbing to poison that Ji Sang was behind his demise.

Armed with this information, Yeo Hwa presents the letter to Yi So however not with out admonishing him. While he spent all these years trying to find justice for his father’s homicide, folks had been dying, being shunted apart, and compelled to stick to silly legal guidelines made by these like Ji Sang—folks like her, residing below the silly strictures dictated for widows. The King acknowledges that he was too caught up in himself to think about others, and that is what encourages Yeo Hwa to offer him the letter. The subsequent day, she is introduced in earlier than each minister and Ji Sang to formally accuse him of the murders of her brother, the previous king, and Soo Ho’s household. The King’s letter is unveiled as proof, and Ji Sang goes down like a sack of bricks when Yeo Hwa places on her masks and divulges that she was the vigilante that just about killed him final evening.

The indisputable fact that he was outwitted by a girl doesn’t hang-out him although as he maintains that he did what he did as a result of equality was evil. Only the rich and educated ought to lead the nation and bestow their titles to their youngsters. To have everybody educated would enable even commoners to aspire to political positions (gasp, the horror). He’s exiled, and Yi So ensures that solely he bears the punishment of his actions, making an exemption below the regulation that will have punished his total household, together with Yeo Hwa. But it isn’t time but for a contented ending.

4. The remainder of the Seok household

Yeo Hwa remains to be technically married. Seok Jeong is a reasonably cool man, however Yeo Hwa doesn’t really feel something for him, and he or she can’t deliver herself to nonetheless stay in a house that was at all times meant to maintain her hostage below Ji Sang’s design. But divorcing her would trigger its personal issues as Joseon society was much more unkind to divorcees than to widows. The former had been seen as ineffective as a result of they had been discarded by their husbands as a consequence of some flaw, the latter had been seen as ineffective as a result of their husbands had been lifeless. What a tough life ladies led up to now.

Merchant Jang, Yeon Sun, Yoon Hak (who’s besotted with Yeon Sun at this level), and Seok Jeong himself mourn Yeo Hwa’s lack of choices till bright-eyed Kkotnim (Jung Ye Na) factors out that Yeo Hwa’s marriage isn’t authorized as a result of she by no means noticed her husband’s face. That’s all it takes for Seok Jeong to trigger a ruckus outdoors the palace saying that she was by no means legally married to him as a result of he eloped to Qing and has a spouse there. The fact of that is extremely unsure as a result of we don’t know why he got here again with out stated spouse! If solely we knew extra! The king fortunately annuls Yeo Ha’s marriage, and it’s cute how blissful Merchant Jang and Yeon Sun are.

Soo Ho dashes to her, and the poor man is actually able to suggest, however she’s gone.

5. Yeo Hwa discovering her personal path

We’ve seen that Yeo Hwa has a number of hassle placing herself first. She’s held on for years, hoping for information of her brother and helped these she might as a result of she will be able to’t bear injustice. But to have all hope reduce from her and to know that her brother isn’t going to return again has left her rudderless. She doesn’t know what she desires for herself or who she is outdoors of this double-life. It’s time for her to search out it, so she does some soul-searching for a yr after a tearful goodbye along with her mother-in-law Yoo Geum Ok (Kim Mi Kyung), who actually did look after her and simply needed to maintain her protected, even when by the patriarchal guidelines of their society. They each conform to proceed to name one another household, mom and daughter. It’s a pity that the implausible Kim Mi Kyung was criminally underused right here.

Yeo Hwa additionally bids farewell to Seok Jeong, who appears oddly moved by her for causes we could by no means know. We don’t know what conclusions Yeo Hwa got here to as a girl who’s been trapped behind society’s partitions for a very long time and has discovered just one outlet to interrupt the foundations for others and herself: vigilantism. There’s a lot she hasn’t skilled and seen, and it’s a pity we don’t get to comply with her as her world expands.

6. Yeo Hwa and Soo Ho flirting and Yeon Sun and Yoon Hak flirting

For a drama that gave us abs in episode 3, we’ve had an actual dearth of romance and an entire lot of pining. Yoon Hak proposes to Yeon Sun the second he’s launched from service because the Royal Secretary and plans to have a pleasant boring life as a scholar with none conspiratorial shenanigans. She fortunately accepts. When Yeo Hwa returns to the capital at very finish, again in her vigilante enterprise (which appears to have been her conclusion in any case her soul-searching), Soo Ho is ready and dials up the allure to max as he repeats the warning he as soon as gave her, to not depart his sight. She flirts again that she’ll let him catch her this as soon as, and he pulls her into an embrace. And it ends proper as he’s about to kiss her.

Aww, that’s simply not honest. You can’t give us Lee Jong Won making coronary heart eyes and pet eyes and searching besotted for 12 episodes and never even give us a kiss. It does really feel like a becoming ship off in some methods although as a result of these two have at all times been about acts of service and nice chemistry. But it is a good drawback to have reasonably than a drama that drags its toes. So a fond farewell to “Knight Flower” and its assortment of amusing folks, all of whom depart us with one message: to do all we will to assist these amongst us bloom.

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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 implausible worlds. Follow her on X and Instagram, and be happy to ask her something!

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