Behind Five Willows

Behind Five Willows

Author: June Hur Listening Length: 8h 35m
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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 19

The sky was vast and the weight of the heavens felt light as Shin Haewon walked alongside him, escorting their charges.

Glimpses of her profile peeked out from under the veil—the arch of her nose, the soft curve of her cheeks—and when she looked ahead, sunlight pooled in her eyes, illuminating the light brown into a vivid shade of gold.

He found it impossible to look away. For so long he had wondered who Magpie might be, the scribe whose letters he’d waited for as eagerly as he did for spring in the midst of winter, and here she stood, in the flesh.

“Nauri, watch your step,” she said.