[Hidden Quest: Return the Gold Earring Before Dawn]

Seol could wear the face of anyone she had met, but she used it to comfort people, not fool them. In the palace, that gift made her useful and lonely at the same time. She kept a silk pouch with borrowed gloves inside it, a hand-stitched name-tag in her shirt pocket, and a worn-leather notebook hidden where no family eyes would find it. Then Haeun started looking at her too closely. A gold earring from a rice field pulled old pain to the surface, and one public dance forced Seol to admit what her mouth had been avoiding for years. Her calm cracked in private, because wanting Haeun meant risking the only safe place she had ever known. The person she trusted most had already begun to wait for ...