The enchanting flower maidens of Moonlight Garden are coveted by all, as they are known to provide sexual pleasures beyond the imagination. But Dohwa, a young flower maiden who has not yet "bloomed," concocts potions in the hopes of escaping her destined fate at the brothel. One night, she is caught stealing ingredients for her potions by Lady Hyewon, the new mistress of the Garden. But it turns out Dohwa isn't the only one with an agenda. Lady Hyewon harbors a few terrible secrets of her own.
Moonlight Garden is a yuri webtoon written by Kang Unnie.It was published digitally in English by Lezhin Comics from June 28, 2017 to June 21, 2019.
Moonlight Garden contains examples of:
- Alpha Bitch: Hyewon starts the series like this
- Brainy Brunette: Maker of potions and medicines Dohwa, who is cunning even though she is reckless
- Boomerang Bigot: Even though Hyewon is a flower maiden herself, she belittles flower maidens and constantly messes with Dohwa. Fortunately, Character Development comes into play
- Flower Motifs: All flower maidens, including the main characters, are a concrete example of this. Fragrant and short-lived. Dohwa is a peach blossom that has not yet bloomed, and Hyewon is a blue rose that is rare or impossible to find. Waiting for her last moments, Yunhwa is a Lotus representing purification and rebirth.
- Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Yunhwa and the kisaengs in Moonlight Garden
- Identical Stranger: Hyewon and Yoosun. At first Dohwa thinks they are twins. Yoosun was brought by Hyewon's aunt to replace Hyewon when she was blossoming. However, Yoosun was deconstructed because she was tired of living as Hyewon's shadow and had self-issues.
- Love Triangle: As seen in the cover photo, Dohwa is the object of Hyewon and Yoosun affection. She ends up with Hyewon
- Non-Heteronormative Society: The story takes place in a matriarchal universe where it is normal for women to have sex with each other.
- Otherworldly Technicolour Hair: When flower maidens bloom, their hair takes on the color of the flower they are.
- Pink Is Erotic: When Dohwa begins to bloom and has sex with Hyewon to ease her pain, her hair turns pink.
- Plucky Girl: Dohwa. It bothered Hyewon a lot.
- Shameful Strip: At first Hyewon does this to Dohwa over and over again. When she plays a game where she must find a flower maiden while blindfolded, she smells Dohwa passing by, pulls her by force, and tries to undress her in front of everyone (as revenge for their eventful and bad first meeting, in which he was thrown into the lake by Dohwa). When they meet again as the new lady of the garden, she asks her to undress and show her seed (as the previous flower maidens did). When Dohwa shows her seed on her neck and refuses, she tries to take her clothes off by force, and Dohwa gives up and takes off her clothes herself. The third is played more for drama than the first two. She forces Dohwa to play a "strip game". At first Dohwa accepts this and obediently strips down to her underwear. But unlike before, this time she asks her to take off her underwear too. When she refuses, she says humiliating words to her because she is a flower virgin. When Dohwa loses her patience and challenges her, he pushes her against the wall and forcibly tries to remove her underwear. Luckily, ıt is interrupted by Yoosun. But still poor Dohwa is barely recovering from Heroic BSoD.
- Smells Sexy: As mentioned in the description, flower maidens are famous for providing sexual pleasure beyond imagination with their scent.
