Daisy — Ending Explained

The real admirer is Park Yi. Hye-young mistakes Jeong Woo for him, and Jeong Woo knows it but stays silent. Park Yi then receives a new mission that puts his love in conflict with his work, and he is given a photo of Jeong Woo as a target. Park Yi also chooses not to reveal himself.

After a year's separation, Jeong Woo returns to her doorstep. Park Yi is inside her home at that moment, assumes she has moved on, apologizes and leaves. Hye-young cannot explain or stop him because, in this version of events, she has lost her voice. As he prepares to assassinate Jeong Woo's boss, she appears with the painting and pleads with him to stop, and he reads her lips through his sniper scope. The painting blooming with daisies ends up splattered with blood. The story ends in tragedy, and a viewer's blog was unhappy that Hye-young does not survive.

The epilogue shows all three under an overhang waiting for rain to stop. They smile when they see each other, a gesture toward a happier alternate timeline, which a critic described as a "future can be changed" turn.

One reading treats the film as pure melodrama, an opera-like tragedy where reality does not matter. Another reads the final turn as a hopeful "the future can be changed" message, which a critic found confusing. The epilogue with the three smiling under an overhang can be read as an afterlife, an alternate timeline or a wish. A more critical view sees Park Yi's watching as stalkerish, though many viewers forgive it because his motives are protective.