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There's a really interesting thing happening in the story that coincides with the title. The flower that was bloomed by a Cloud. If we consider the flower Honglyon then the cloud would have to either something that greatly influences her. At first I thought the cloud would be the political situation in the palace as I expected Honglyon's fight to become empress the main plot of the story. But that didnt really play out( it ended too fast), so that could only mean that the cloud would have to be either Dowun or Baek han.
So lets first look at what Bloom means here its a little obvious but it refers to change/growth/ a progressive change of a person in the context of the story. So the cloud has to be someone who changes Honglyon.
I think that we also have to figure out what kind of bloom needs to happen, like a flower Honglyon can only bloom once so we have to figure out where in the story is she just a bud. Honglyon changes twice in the story, in the beginning she changed because of Dowun and then she changes because of Baek Han but she can only Bloom once so which was her bloom?
If we consider imagery Baek Han looks more like a cloud, he even wears blue a lot with reminds us of a cloud and the sky. He also has a heavy influence on Honglyon. We see her changes in the recent chapters she's less harsh. But is it a bloom? well..
Dowun has a stronger claim on the cloud title when he proposes to Honglyon in chp 5 he promises her to perfectly bloom her which is strange wording and probably just used as an indicator. He also has lots of cloud imagery surrounding him whenever we see him. But he doesnt have cloud colours, his colours are black and yellow so if he is the cloud why not give him cloud colours? Well remember the play at the beginning? Dowun has the same colours as the guy in the play and every other time the play comes up the doll used for the guy is wearing black and yellow.( We see that only certain character get colours in the story. Even Dowun and Dogyeol dont wear their colours the same way even though both of them wear black and yellow.)
I think Dowun is not only the Cloud but also the guy that Peony falls in love with. Many considered him BaekHan and if this was a typical story I think it would be Baek Han but If we consider everything we know and where Peony's story starts and where Honglyon's story starts... then its not possible for Baek han to be the guy. If Baek Han was the guy from the story then why make the title about Dowun? Also why have the colour of the guy correspond to Dowuns colours?
Also Dowun refer's the honglyon's recent change and her "reverting" to her old self, so we have what could be considered a "bloom" being immediately denied as a bloom. More like she's turning back into a bud.
I like that the author put in so much careful consideration when writing this story. Its not often we're lucky to get something so intricate and presented in such an amazing way. I hope you guys can be open to the themes presented here. I could be wrong about all of this but im ok with that lol
Some other things I noticed :
Lots of flower cloud imagery( i think it shows the title is also pretty important)
Loads of imagery with dowun and clouds in the cover with both of them the backdrop has lots of clouds as well.
Honglyon still uses the same ink tray(from the writing set) that Dowun got her in the beginning. I thought maybe all of them looked the same but the one of Dowun desk doesnt have a design and there arent many others shown so its just my assumption its the same one.
though baek han's color is a mix of green and blue... no 'cloud' colors
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Its more of a blue than a green tbh and its not just his clothes its also his hair being the only person with blond hair and not just any blond but a very light blond so much so that it had blue shadows ..... but ╮(￣▽￣)╭ idk what you're trying to say cus everything else still works even if Baekhan has to cloud colours than that just means he's just a false romantic lead which is cool too i was just trying to make an argument for him and not just make it one sided ...
I though dowun being the cloud was fairly obvious? even without the fine combed analysis. it refers to a fairly good natured youth (flower) who goes through a serious of changes psychologically and physically because of someone, and the character we know had the biggest influence in her character development throughout the story has been dowun since the beginning. we are really only just now getting some development with Baek Han
I took it to mean a metemorphisis of some kind rather then her simply becoming a dowun 2.0 (his cold rationality and pragmatism) perhaps adopting *some* of those useful lessons to her own without losing her sense of who she is and what makes her different from him.
like the dynamic between littlefinger and sansa, she takes what she learns from her experiences with him and overthrows him in the end.
I just really liked the way the author uses other literary devices in this. I dont see a lot of webtoons with this level of thought put into it so for the ppl who didnt notice it I wanted to point it out. (the imagery and use of colour are things to be admired in this webtoon but that may just be a me thing)
I dont think dowun is anything like littlefinger, littlefinger was obsessed with sansa in a weird way because of his obsession with her mother. And they dont have a dynamic like that since this isnt a political drama but a romance drama.
Its pretty obvious dowun, hong lyon and baek han are meant to be in a love triangle of sorts. I dont think she will be able to overthrow him or that she should Dowun is her only ally I think she should try to change the relationship between them like even if they dont become lovers they could work better as a team.
It would be nice to see honglyon take some power but she doesnt do anything to help herself since she prefers to run around with baekhan so much.
I've said this many times already but Dowun is not the antagonist in this webtoon and he isnt out of place for the timeline the story takes place in, In fact id argue honylyon is the strange one so very focused on love.
She really dont deserve anything I hope dowun lets her burn the absolute idiot...
said what i said
lol, i understand, but that was mean xD
girl, chill... i'm just laughing. I said I understan that she is mad just that. (⊙…⊙ )
I've spent so much time on here explaining myself to ppl and I wont do it anymore lol especially since most of the ppl who read this wont ever try to look at it as anything other that what they already made up their minds that it is. (I've also explained loads of times in other comments you can go find those if you like)
I also never said dowun should be treated like a king or deserves better lol I said lyon deserves nothing lol and she doesnt. She doesnt deserve to be empress because she lives in lala land she doesnt deserve the moments dowun spends worrying about her which she herself can never see(this was shown atleast twice) she doesnt even deserve baekhan lol Dowun has been telling her to be careful for so long to wait until they're married to act up and then she can fuck whoever she wants all she has to do is wait until she's married. But no lyon keeps putting herself in danger and even went as far as to stay a whole night out with a man. I dont get how these are equivalents to yall. When has dowun made advances on other women? Yea he kept his distance but he never strayed. He plays his part well and lyon makes a complete mess of herself time and time again. I just dont have any sympathy for her at all lol
Anyway IMO lyon hasnt done anything to secure her position at all. If she feels like she cant trust dowun then she could be making moves politically to secure herself. Instead she's running around thinking she's in some fairytale love story like sis they'll literally kill you and you're more concerned about making Dowun mad than anything else.
Also unpopular opinion but she wouldnt be half as interested in baekhan if Dowun hadnt turned her romantic advances down.
Also Dogyeol is just fine idk why youre so worried about him when he's set up to be a straight up villain. Did you think he came back for fun? That fact that he's openly communicating with jayang is proof enough that gyeol is gonna do something to hurt all of them.
Im still confused though at what Dowun was expected to do when Gyeol did something wrong and had to face the consequences of his action? Dowun had warned Dogyeol that he had to behave at the palace, but no gyeol goes and gets himself in trouble and was lucky to leave with his life. Was Dowun expected to burn with him? To take bout him and lyon down with do gyeol? Is that really what yall expect? Neither dowun or lyon had enough power to stop that from happening so someone explain to me what either of them were supposed to do?
Anyway I'm out sis peace. lmao
if u say so i just dint have a heart oh no lol
exactly y i stopped explaining things to yall lol
lmao ok ╮(￣▽￣)╭