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Knight Flower: Episodes 3-4
by Unit
The adventures of our moonlighting heroine continue this week! Our hero closes in on her identity, and sparks fly between them. We also learn more about the lives of some of our supporting characters, and our main villain is revealed.
EPISODES 3-4
We resume where we left off last week with Yeo-hwa in Soo-ho’s arms after he “saves” her from the hungry bandits. Although Yeo-hwa is currently out as Lord Seok’s widowed daughter-in-law, she would rather not spend more time with the relentless officer who is dead set on unmasking her moonlighting identity. So she turns down Soo-ho’s offer to escort her to the temple.
To further get him off her back, masked Yeo-hwa sneaks into the capital defense office to return Minister Yeom’s tiger painting, but Soo-ho creeps up on her and they engage in a battle of wits and swords. When push turns to shove, Soo-ho’s hanbok strap comes away in Yeo-hwa’s hand, and hello there, distracting abs! *Fans self* Yeo-hwa manages to escape after feasting her eyes for a few seconds, but Soo-ho is NOT okay afterwards. His dreams are plagued with visions of Yeo-hwa in all her forms: as the masked lady, the veiled hat lady, and Lord Seok’s daughter-in-law.
Soo-ho shares his confusion about the three women who “cannot be the same person, but look the same” with his subordinate, BI-CHAN (Jung Yong-ju), and Bi-chan comes to the natural conclusion that Soo-ho is in love with the three-in-one lady. Lol. Soo-ho firmly denies it, but he’s obviously very interested in Yeo-hwa one way or the other. By the way, apart from Minister Yeom, Pil-jik is also suspiciously interested in the tiger painting.
Minister Yeom’s wife, LADY OH (Seo Yi-sook), invites Lady Yoo to participate in a relief outreach with other members of the Moran Gathering. Lady Yoo is reluctant to help the poor, but she changes her tune when she hears that the outreach is supported by the dowager, and that her rival, the Minister of Personnel’s wife, will be in attendance. Both women want their daughter-in-laws to snag the coveted Chastity Gate title, but at least unlike the Minister of Personnel’s wife, Lady Yoo’s greed hasn’t reached the extent of goading her daughter-in-law to commit suicide for the title.
While the Moran ladies engage in another round of the daughter-in-law wars, Lady Oh and Yeo-hwa get down to business at the charity event. When one of the weak houses in the relief camp collapses, Yeo-hwa rushes in to shield the granny inside, and Soo-ho holds up the roof for them to escape. Everyone rushes to the scene of the collapse, but Lady Yoo takes one glance at Yeo-hwa and scolds her for being out and about without her head covering. Wow! Her daughter-in-law almost died, but she’s more concerned about modesty.
It is only when Lady Yoo hears that the dowager is sure to praise Yeo-hwa for her heroic act that she puts up a reluctant show of concern for her daughter-in-law. And when the dowager finally rewards Yeo-hwa, Lady Yoo keeps the reward in her possession as the family’s heirloom rather than give it to Yeo-hwa. Tsk.
We are treated to another Soo-ho shirtless scene, but I have no complaints about fan service that moves the plot. Plus we get to see the brotherly bromance between Soo-ho and Yoon-hak when Yoon-hak dresses his brother’s bruises sustained from the collapsed house.
Touched by the starving people’s plight, a masked Yeo-hwa returns to the relief camp to drop off some more rice for the people, and she learns that quite a number of the kids at the camp have disappeared. She runs into Pil-jik’s thugs who are searching for one of the missing kids, and offers to come with them in exchange for the kid. Meanwhile, Soo-ho — who also returned to the camp to help the granny fix her house — hears that the masked lady is around, and he shows up midway into her negotiation with the thugs.
Soo-ho and Yeo-hwa team up to beat up the thugs, and afterwards have a face-off of their own. Soo-ho manages to pin Yeo-hwa to a wall, and with one deep gaze into her eyes, he finally gets the answer he has been looking for: the three-in-one lady is indeed Lord Seok’s daughter-in-law! Okay, that was fast. But again, I’m not complaining. Yeo-hwa headbutts him to get away, but he doesn’t chase after her. In fact, he prevents Bi-chan from spotting her, and it seems like Yeo-hwa’s secret is safe with him. At least for now.
Soo-ho returns the tiger painting to Minister Yeom, and Yeom holds him responsible for a crack in the crossbar because he failed to catch the thief. Sheesh! What did they say about good deeds and punishment? Soo-ho heads to Myeongdo inn to get a replacement crossbar, and there, he meets masked Yeo-hwa who’s visiting So-woon to inform her that Pil-jik has added human trafficking to his list of crimes. (By the way, one of the crimes on his list is the attempt on So-woon’s life some years ago.)
Yeo-hwa and Soo-ho bicker over the tiger painting, and end up having a picturesque moment when the crossbar comes loose and petals from inside rain on them. Hmmm. There are petals hidden inside the crossbar of a painting that Pil-jik is interested in. How romantic strange! Yeo-hwa reluctantly shares the info about Pil-jik’s trafficking ring with Soo-ho, because the case is bigger than what she and So-woon can handle on their own. In return, he tells her to stay out of it because the capital defense office will handle it according to the law. Pssh. Not him kicking her off the case she brought to him!
Yeo-hwa is not one to fold her arms and take instructions from anyone, so she visits Pil inn for an investigation of her own in her newest disguise: a male hanbok complete with facial hair! LMAO! In the meantime, Soo-ho arrests Pil-jik for questioning, and when the news filters into the palace, Lord Seok is uneasy. Hmmm.
Minister Yeom pulls strings to get Pil-jik released, and the Capital Defense office is rendered unable to make a move against him for a while. Yoon-hak is not a fan of his brother being the face of the anti-Pil-jik movement especially since Soo-ho has no hard evidence. Yoon-hak advises him to collect evidence one at a time so he can take Pil-jik down in one fell swoop, and to be careful while at it — a warning Soo-ho definitely needs since he is now on Pil-jik’s hit list.
Pil-jik is emboldened by his connection to people in power, and as the week comes to an end, his biggest connection is unsurprisingly revealed to be Lord Seok. Of course Lord Seok is the big bad! And of course, he and Pil-jik were at the forefront of whatever happened 15 years ago! I don’t know how involved Seok is with Pil-jik’s merchant guild, but it cannot be good for both of them now that Yeo-hwa and Soo-ho are digging into the business.
The 15-year-old mystery involves the death of the previous king, the death of the head of the king’s guard (Soo-ho’s biological father), and the disappearance of the other guards — one of which includes Yeo-hwa’s brother. Over the years, the king and Yoon-hak have attempted to locate the missing guards, but they haven’t had much luck. Still, they’re not giving up because one of the guards left the palace with the late king’s jade tablet, and the person might be the key to uncovering the truth about what really happened that day.
Some other things we learned this week include: Minister Yeom the scum is an abusive husband. Lady Oh’s mother had an affair with a servant after her husband died, and Pil-jik is most likely the product of the union. Minister Yeom doesn’t seem to have a clue that there were petals in his painting, but Lady Oh seems to know what these petals are. Hmmm.
We also learnt that 12 years ago, Yeo-hwa ran away from home and spotted Yeon-seon dying on the street. Yeo-hwa couldn’t abandon her or run away with her, so she returned home with Yeon-seon. She taught Yeon-seon how to read and write, and was the first person to pay her for her skills. An industrious Yeon-seon has since made so much money off her many skills and investments that she can become a successful peddler if she decides to join a merchant guild. But for now, Yeon-seon doesn’t want to leave Yeo-hwa’s side.
Perhaps the drama made sure to inform us that Yeon-seon is not a slave because of whatever is being set up between her and Yoon-hak. He recognized her during the hungry bandits incident after just one previous interaction at the bookshop, and they’ve run into each other a few times since then. The adventures of the royal secretary and the commoner girl sounds like something out of a Joseon romance novel. But hey, maybe I’m just getting ahead of myself with this theory.
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