The Broken Fruit: Fruit with a Blemish

The young master was like a small, red cherry that opens once the cherry blossoms fall. My duty at his estate was to wash the body of Young Master Yeon-i. 1928 Joseon, deep within a small town near Gyeongseong. In a palace-like mansion lives the spoiled only son of a Joseon merchant who sold out his own country. In the rumors circulating about him, he is sometimes a foul-tempered ugly man, and other times a beauty fond of men, constantly becoming the subject of people's gossip. Ho-won, a farmer from the village, becomes Young Master Yeon-i's attendant and is tasked with serving him during his baths. “I told you to wash me, yet you soil me instead.” “You clearly told me to do as I pleas...