Behind Five Willows

Behind Five Willows

Author: June Hur Listening Length: 8h 35m

From the New York Times-bestselling author of A Crane Among Wolves comes a warm and romantic homage to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice set in historical Korea, about a reader and a writer who secretly fight against government book banning and find themselves irresistibly drawn together. As the dutiful second-eldest ...

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Chapter 5

Little in life surprised Seojun.

His days followed a monotonous rhythm, each one blending into the next, like an endless, unchanging landscape.

But when he found the girl hiding behind the folding screen, wide-eyed and ghostly pale, a jolt of shock struck him.

Like the time he’d been thrown from his horse, slammed to the ground, winded and breathless. One could never brace for such moments.