New Bride

"Crossing two goblin mountains and fording a river, on the road to marry a groom whose name and face are unknown, as fleeting as roasting beans in a flash of lightning. 'To take a destitute orphan as a wife, how lacking must he be? Or perhaps his limbs aren't all intact? Or maybe his personality is outrageously terrible? There are rumors he beat women to death—could it be true?' A marriage in a remote, rustic village with no ceremony of applying rouge and powder, no pyebaek ritual of throwing dates and chestnuts. All Eul-yeong, just turned twenty, hoped for from the man who would become her husband were a few simple things. 'Please, just don't have a bad temper, and have your eyes, nose, ...