This is actually so beautiful, both in art and story. The MC is so overwhelmingly lonely, being a busy full-time worker on top of being a gay man pressured to marry in a notoriously homophobic society (let alone world) would make anyone depressed. In order to fill some sort of void, he goes into this random flower shop that just so happened to be there at the right day at the right time and he made one the biggest impulse buys of his lifetime.
I truly believe that this plant was meant to go into his hands. Is there a lot of sex and is it a big part of the plot? Yeah... But I don't consider it the main point. The main point is that our MC is tired of life, exhausted of being harassed to marry and being unable to tell people he can't because he's gay. Everyone around him is flaunting how happy they are, telling him to get married, all the while he's lonely and tired of his mundane life. The plant came at a time when he was at an all time low after one of his last single friends got married, a crucial time that practically saved the MC a lot of heart ache.
I cried with the MC when the second flower crumbled, but I believe that the flower is evolving. Maybe soon it'll flower into a full fledged human. I think this is supposed to represent "fate" and "with enough perseverance and patience you too can become happy"... At least I hope, as a bittersweet ending would be so cruel. I truly hope that the MC can find happiness, whether that's with the plant or with someone who will love and cherish him.
This is actually so beautiful, both in art and story. The MC is so overwhelmingly lonely, being a busy full-time worker on top of being a gay man pressured to marry in a notoriously homophobic society (let alone world) would make anyone depressed. In order to fill some sort of void, he goes into this random flower shop that just so happened to be there at the right day at the right time and he made one the biggest impulse buys of his lifetime.
I truly believe that this plant was meant to go into his hands. Is there a lot of sex and is it a big part of the plot? Yeah... But I don't consider it the main point. The main point is that our MC is tired of life, exhausted of being harassed to marry and being unable to tell people he can't because he's gay. Everyone around him is flaunting how happy they are, telling him to get married, all the while he's lonely and tired of his mundane life. The plant came at a time when he was at an all time low after one of his last single friends got married, a crucial time that practically saved the MC a lot of heart ache.
I cried with the MC when the second flower crumbled, but I believe that the flower is evolving. Maybe soon it'll flower into a full fledged human. I think this is supposed to represent "fate" and "with enough perseverance and patience you too can become happy"... At least I hope, as a bittersweet ending would be so cruel. I truly hope that the MC can find happiness, whether that's with the plant or with someone who will love and cherish him.