i agree with this I think its best we wait for charecte development, while dwon might seem like an asshole, selfish manipulative bastard, we have to see it from all charecters perspectives. From what we are understanding now, it seems like everyone is and has become a product of their choices and environment Dwons father isnt as much of an innocent father as we thought he is. who knows how much influence he had making dwon the way he is today. I am positive that dwon is more than what has been shown, and def more complex than that body guard. I liked the body guard, but with all due respect, he is nothing striking. sure he saved her life, but like who wouldnt if they were a descent person. He isnt complex unlike dwon, he is so far a one dimentional charecter with an alright backstory. Dwon may develop into something more fascinating and thats what I cant wait for. I want to see charecter change. I want dwon to slowly realize he him turning off his emotions has hurt her more than help her. I understand why he was cruel to her in a sense, he just wanted her to be less naive and a capable ruler. While he has his own interests, he has always looked out for her interests as well. Why I say this is because he isnt even in on the scheme with his father and bro. Lastly he isnt as smart or manipulative as we give him credit for. If he really wanted to be the ultimate asshole, he would have played and faked his feelings, gave her affection etc a life line to hang on to and ultimately be the true ruler . She wouldnt even have resisted his orders etc. But because he never tired or faked the affection, the rift between them is growing and becoming irreversible. I read some where about this theory that itll be a very bitter sweet end and I cant help but agree. I highly think the ending will be somewhat involving the body guards death - a result of sacrifice. Father and younger bro being defeated, possibly banished. Her sis being killed at last. Dwon and mc married, but he will be perpetually chasing for her love, while she becomes even more cold and jaded. Perhaps she will face the tragic end she feared so much, as she goes down the path of a cruel ruler. I really hope not, but this seems like a grim dark story and not ur usual fantasy
I used to think that Dowun was a more better written character then baekhan but he seems increasing one dimensional now. He fits the 'black-haired-guy-who-is-a-capable-ruler-but-is-extremely-emotionally-stunted' trope to a T. In recent chapters it has become a cycle for him to see MC throw away something related to their relationship (ring/earrings/doll) and then look at her in a thoughtful manner . I am waiting for his flashback though ,he is still quite an interesting character. I agree with @FIEND 's theory. It's probably more likely that MC dies in the end and Dowun mopes about her afterwards though instead of her living. In the last few chapter Dowun sees Honglyon discarding the dolls she used to play with and decides to hold a puppet show for her birthday playing an enactment of the peony fairytale which she liked during their childhood. Peony pleads with the person she loves to love her back and then he asks why she doesn't trust him. In grief she jumps off a cliff. Afterwards a red peony grows on the spot and he sees this and cries. Dowun says the story was her favourite while growing up and whether MC likes it now. She asks why can't there be a happy ending to the story, if only they had trusted each other. Then she realises what she is saying and quickly leaves the spot. The fairytale has already been mentioned twice and with the flower and trust references it seems like a foreshadowing. I hope Baekhan survives though.Baekhan is too nice for the court.Maybe he can return to the clan Spoiler We might now be heading towards a love quadrangle now.A new guy called Moon is introduced in the latest raw.He studied with MC in the empire and has come to pay respect to MC on her birthday.When dowun asks her whether she knows who is he or not, she thinks that it may not be suitable to call him a friend
It's so wonderfully good and different, but the emotional stress I go through while reading is just unbearable. I do feel lyon x baek relationship is rather conventional and she gets a lot of free pass from him.
But I like Baek Han the moment he showed up in the series. I feel like Hong Lyon is much happier when she’s with him. Also, Lyon’s maid was saved by her and Moon helped when they’re in the Empire. Hope to see more spoilers here.
HOLY CRAP... Lyon hates Dowun's guts so badly that she doesn't mind losing him at all! Though I was lowkey shipping (DowunXLyon) them~ Guess it's now LyonXBaekHan as the endgame. But yeah... it's gonna be a bad tragic ending. I definitely agree with @FIEND Most mangas foreshadow the ending in the first chapter- just like <Days of Hanna> on Webtoon.
After what happened to the brother i lost all interest in the story. I could give a shit who wins. Doing all this for power. Everybody killing for a few years of power.
The princess is going to be left with the most boring, least complex and most cloying character among many other negatives things that this character has, summarizing ,she is going to be with Baekhan at the end. Little more to say, they show her the moon and she looks at the finger, having such good or better characters for the princess as Dogyeon and Dowun, it is a shattering of the plot and a pity, as it is becoming a poor quality soap opera.
Really no spoilers for this? Updates? How's the story going? I'm actually just waiting for it to end and then decide whether to read it or not, because I'm bad at tragic endings lol. I forget about this story sometimes, but when I remember I get invested again and stressed about it
Actually, there's something unfortunate I'm not sure if anyone has known this, but... Spoiler: ML Dowun is the ML, becuse in his name, there's the word cloud. And the FL name means red lotus. Finally, about the title "The flower that was bloomed by a cloud", I guess you all know what that means Still, this is my theory, not an official confirmation from the author, so there may be a plot twist I like Dowun so much but he's too cold and rational, that's why if he doesn't realize his own feelings, he will loose Lyon really soon
About the guy named Moon, he's someone kinda FL's ally when she was at the empire. All I know that he's good at archery, and helped FL once to save FL's future maid (Yeon).
Anyone who's still hoping for Dowun to be the ml should give up. The author is setting up baek han as the ml, while villainizing Dowun to a greater extent. Dowun and Lyon's relationship is so dysfunctional and beyond any repair. While so many events has taken place, the highlight of it was Dowun making a deal with Lyon's sister (jayang) which was quite inevitable. As Lyon become increasingly vulnerable, emotional and difficult to control with her on-growing inappropriate relationship with baek, not to mention allying herself with his clan, so Dowun's 'betrayal' in that context was unavoidable. This story is surprisingly draining, and dowun remains ambitiously ruthlessly tactician without any shreds of emotions. edit **** Seems like Lyon didn't meet her sister yet. But dowun did in fact gave his ring to jayang (the one Lyon's tossed) . edit ** I don't see a happy ending for any of these characters.
Please be true, would be so funny, she sold Dowun's earrings with no problem, and was like bitch deal with it, and now she so is surprised, can't wait for the chapter to come out translated
Lyon is really a sad character. She changed to acquire acknowledgement but now that she is a threat to Dowun he can just throw her aside (seeing how he can control Jayang). Lyon has become strong willed (and I would presume strong reign) but here come power grabbing people. I just hope that even if she will be dethroned (as I think it would eventually happen not having the support of Dowun's fam) she'll have her own satisfying happy ending. But still I highly doubt that.
It stopped at chapter 76 i can't find any more chapters can someone please tell me where i could the rest of the manhwa.
I looked up the raws and was wondering what happened, thanks a lot for the spoiler! ... i stopped reading it coz it got too depressing and made me feel sick for some reason. It was really interesting in the beginning though.
Dowun hasn't completely 'betrayed' Lyon yet ( that is if it can be considered that he was ever really on her side to begin with) Spoiler His father wanted him to leave Lyon but he tried to convince him otherwise.His father always knew that Lyon wanted love, something which Dowun couldn't give her. Dowun wasn't successful in dissuading him and that's why he had to become engaged to Jayang. Dogyeol asks him if he has really thrown Lyon away and he answers that he hasn't and the ring he gave to Jayang really means nothing.Dowun does value Lyon since she is the one he trained?bloomed? Dogyeol visits Lyon the very next chapter (like he could have waited sometime before snitching).Before he can say anything Lyon shocks him by saying - 'so has your family betrayed me yet?' She is surprised to hear that jayang is alive and Dowun knew about it.She says that when she first received her ring, she wore it immediately and expected Dowun to do the same. But after seeing him not wear the ring, she started to wear in around her neck hidden from view.She finds it ironic that she is hurt even when she was the one to throw away her ring first.But when Dogyeol apologises she stops him saying Dowun did what she had done.She was expecting the betrayal. Dogyeol is looking at her and thinking that he didn't tell her the entire truth about Dowun, because he wants Dowun to feel the pain of being thrown away. Dogyeol is apologetic because he knows he is hurting Lyon in this process. I am starting to think Dogyeol is more likely to end up as king than Dowun, because 1.Dowun would be a terrible king. He has the emotional sensitivity of a butter knife.It would have been so easy to control Lyon.He just needed to say a kind word now and then.Even more so because he isn't suspicious of his brother, who he knows has reason to hate him. 2.Dogyeol isn't a goody two shoes as Baek nor is he family and power obsessed like the Yangs ( or even Lyon's family). But the story is going into 'tropey' territory with love triangles, betrayals and regrets now (Dogyeol practically confirms that Dowun is going to fall for lyon and regret his actions). So maybe it will also follow 'MC always achieves his/her goal' trope too and Lyon will end up as empress. She did say that she now wants to be a good ruler EDIT: I just read the recent raws and it seems like Dowun is completely out of the ml race. I don't think how he can still think that he is holding on to the idea of Lyon as empress after this. Spoiler: 101-102 He brings Jayang into the palace, full decked up in her royal attire. Her grandmother tries to stop her. She wants her live freely and not be greedy, she knows there will bloodshed in the palace if Jayang returns. Dowun keeps telling her to follow the script, but she tells him that she isn't like Lyon.He walks off telling her to not say anything useless. The Baeks are interrogating someone who killed the previous king and also tried to hurt Baek Han.Lyon and Dogyeol arrives and Lyon reprimands Baek Mu for injuring the assassin. The assassin thinks that Lyon is different from the other kings. He says that he didn't want to harm the king he served and was forced to do so in order to protect his family.I couldn't really understand who he blamed was actually behind the incident but since Baek han seemed worried about Lyon it was probably the Yangs. Her maid arrives and tells her about Jayang, shocking everyone.Lyon thinks that Dowun and Jayang have joined forces to bring her down.She decides that in order to protect her people and do right as an empress she has to fight against Dowun.She orders Dogyeol to find any evidence linking Jayang with Yangs.