Honey Lee balances her double identities in Knight Flower

9 December 15, 2023December 28, 2023

Honey Lee balances her double identities in Knight Flower

by solstices

Another teaser is out for MBC’s comedy-sageuk Knight Flower, taking us along on our moonlighting heroine’s nighttime adventures. When night falls, without fail, she dons her secret identity to sneak beyond the boundaries that trap her in.

Comedy extraordinaire Honey Lee (One the Woman) stars as our unconventional heroine Jo Yeo-hwa, who chafes against the smothering rule that a widow must not venture past her household walls. Although it’s been over a decade since her husband passed away, Yeo-hwa must play the part of a dutiful daughter-in-law, attending to domestic duties and drumming up a tune on freshly-laundered fabrics.

Under the cover of the darkness, though, she’s freed from her shackles. Soaring across the sky, backlit by the luminescent moonlight, the masked Yeo-hwa is swift as a breeze. Not only does she scale walls and sprint across rooftops with ease, but she also takes down a room of men without breaking a sweat. (Ha, I love that she uses her enemies as makeshift drums too.)

The only person able to hold his own against Yeo-hwa is our hero Park Su-ho — played by Lee Jong-won (The Golden Spoon) — who smoothly spins her around before she can land a hit on him. It seems Yeo-hwa manages to slip away, but the tenacious Su-ho gives chase on horseback. Su-ho isn’t one to give up easily, and his pursuit of Yeo-hwa soon leads him to uncover her shocking secret.

As the antithesis to Su-ho’s rule-abiding rigidity, Yeo-hwa’s courage in risking her life to fight every night upends the foundations of our cautious officer’s life. Intrigued by her daring escapades, Su-ho soon finds himself inexplicably drawn to Yeo-hwa — the flower that blooms in the night.

Helmed by the PD trio of Jang Tae-yoo (Lovers of the Red Sky), Choi Jung-in (On the Verge of Insanity), and Lee Chang-woo, with scripts co-written by Lee Saem and Jung Myung-in, Knight Flower is slated to premiere on January 12.