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 26

Seojun stood dripping wet before his residence.

For days, he had tried to pretend the Seogeomjeong incident had never occurred; he had tried to cut the memory from his mind. He could think of no other way to endure the raw heartache.

But then, from over the courtyard wall, he had heard her name being called. And he had known in that moment that he was a fool to think he could ever forget her. Shin Haewon had cracked open his carefully arranged world, and it would always remain so.

Before he’d known it, he had broken into a run across the courtyard, stunning every servant he passed.