So like, I’ve watched Night Flower for like, the 99th time (idk. I’ve lost count) And I noticed something
So in the part where the first bridge ends, we have this scene:
And at first, we all thought this was from Seungho’s POV, right? I mean, the song started off with him picking the cup up and looking at the moon for an answer and all
And then I noticed once more that in the second bridge, we have this
The line, “I walk towards hell with my feet” was initially thought of to be from Seungho’s POV due to his self-harming tendencies and thinking that he’ll never be lovable because Na-Kyum could never accept him, but get this:
Why was this line associated to show Na-Kyum running away from Seungho twice?
And then a thought popped up in my head:
What if this is an allusion to what could (most likely) happen to Na-Kyum if he ran away from Seungho?
Na-Kyum will figuratively and literally walk to hell by running away from Seungho and going back to the courtesan house and to Heena, because Heena will bring him back to the gibang, right, and Min always hounds the place on a lookout for Na-Kyum
Since SeungKyum are mirror characters, and we know what Na-Kyum dreams of always comes true, then this means that given that this song is from both of their viewpoints, then this means that Seungho, subconsciously, knows that Na-Kyum will die if he ran away, and Seungho himself will also die from insanity and heartbreak of it all. Seungho would have no anchor to cling on to. It could also mean that Seungho, who always has nightmares, means that someday, his dreams would also come true.
And then we have the first chorus with the part in the shed (y’all know what happened there, it became kind of a Voldemort moment where we just won’t talk about that scene)
In that part, the line where it says, “Will there be a night where I won’t have bad dreams anymore?” The panel zooms in on Na-Kyum’s face before it pans to Seungho. This states that the choruses are from both of their points of view--from Na-Kyum, since he had a dream of Nameless strangling him until he passed out, and from Seungho with all his almost nightly dreams of being tormented by his rapists.
So let’s focus a bit on Seungho’s nightly dreams about being stripped and assaulted and raped by smelly old bearded men. In his confession back in c55, he said this
Again, since Na-Kyum has dreams that come true, and Seungho is his mirror, then this means that someday, there will be a day when Seungho will murder all his assailants and anyone who would dare try to lay a hand on Na-Kyum
But murdering his assailants in the capital would be no easy catch. Rumors fly about swiftly back in Joseon. If he crosses the threshold in Hanyang, he’d have to present a pass to get in, and in doing so, he’d be announcing his identity, which means that it will take the ministers who have wronged him a few heads up and know that Seungho is in the area. They’d either be scared (unlikely) or intrigued, because in their mind, Seungho is weak. He was delusional in his teenage years, is considered mental, an outcast of the nobility in the village, shunned away by his father, a disgrace to all the men in public for being a homosexual
His confession, “Should I just get rid of it all?” is linked to them, hence, once he does arrive in Hanyang, it could only mean one thing: to end the lives of the ministers who have ruined him. Heck, drag his father in there, too, for the fun of it 😂 This means that Seungho will surely return to Hanyang to murder them all, but not because they have ruined him, oh no. Seungho had no reason to do that anymore in the first place, he was already living in peace back in the village
It is because there will surely be a time when the ministers would catch wind of Na-Kyum, a mere lowborn who had captured a nobleman’s heart. And if they find out about the servant of Father Yoon returning to the household all bruised up, they would only end up more intrigued about this mysterious identity. Why would a nobleman go to such lengths to keep a lowborn by his side? No doubt this will get the king’s attention and kidnap Na-Kyum for himself (walk towards hell with my feet), and only then will Seungho make his way to Hanyang:
To murder the ministers and the king himself for taking away his bride
‘Night Flower’ is basically the eventual fate of both Seungho and Na-Kyum, they started off as being on the wrong foot when they met, followed by a heck lot of misunderstandings an a whole lot of distrust on both sides, but what did the song towards the end show?
Prior to their first meeting, Na-Kyum and Seungho were both lost emotionally, with no love to cling to, and when they met and recall their first meeting as they both look at the moon towards the end, they realized that they are being drawn together the longer they stay together
They are both dreaming of this to happen, and since their dreams come true, there will surely come a day when the two of them will sleep in peace together, to smile at each other, to understand one another without the need for words but merely just by “eye to eye”, to be in sync just like a married couple would
Painter of Night, judging by this song alone, will surely lead to a happy ending for the two of them, although the road to that happiness will be filled with much pain and thorns, just like any relationship does