[1][2] Once upon a time, there was a man named Muryong whose wife had a dream where an angel gave her a beautiful flower.
Ten months later, she gave birth to a pretty baby girl, who the couple named "Janghwa" ("Rose Flower").
She hated her stepdaughters, but hid those feelings, only to reveal them once she had three sons in a row, which gave her a good deal of power, and she abused the girls in every possible way.
Stepmother became angry, not wanting to spend a penny of "her family's money" or "her sons' future fortune" on Janghwa.
Early the next morning, she brought Father to Janghwa's room, telling him she'd had a bad dream about her elder stepdaughter.
When she pulled back the covers on Janghwa's bed, something that looked like a very bloody miscarriage shocked everybody in the room.
As Janghwa drowned, suddenly came a huge tiger who attacked Stepmother's eldest son, taking one leg and one arm from him.
When night came, he was sitting in his room when his candle was suddenly blown out and gruesome noises filled the air.