What is the Lycoris Radiata (Sang-sa-hwa)?

Just as the Hanja characters imply, it is a flower that means 'flowers that long for each other.'

The language of flowers is impossible love, mournful longing, and sad memories. . . . .

The day my family was swept up in treason and suffered total extermination. I heard news that he went half-mad, turning the world upside down to find me. My heart ached as if it were tearing, but since his involvement would surely sweep him into a horrific bloodbath if I appeared, I had to go into thorough hiding, swallowing icy tears.

And so, five long years passed.

I know that he visits the place filled with our memories every day. I know that he offers his rotted heart every single day amidst those red flower clusters that can never meet.

At the same time... I also know the fact that he eventually buried me deep in his heart and started a family.

A beautiful and elegant wife standing by his side, heavily pregnant, And his bloodline that will soon come into the world. It was the perfect place by his side that I had desired so much, but was never permitted to have.

It was the place by his side that you had desired so much, but could never have.

'That's right. What was I hoping for, coming back to the capital? Did I hope he would suffer alone, unable to forget me for the rest of his life?'

He offered his rotted and crumbled heart amidst those clusters of flowers, which are said to long for each other because the leaves and blooms can never meet.

[How have you lived during those five years?]

The night of the horrific extermination when my parents were beheaded. I escaped from hell. My limbs were broken and bones misaligned, and on rainy days, my whole body would ache as if it were festering. I crawled through the threshold of death, gnawing on grass roots in the fields and watching my wounds burst with pus.

I had to live. Because if I went to you, you would die. With that one thought, I endured those five years, swallowing tears of blood.