Seeing his face as soon as she woke up, Yeonwoo’s remaining drowsiness completely disappeared.

‘What, what is happening right now?!’

Yeonwoo quickly looked around her.

Clearly, after returning to Sinwoong’s hut, she had confirmed Geon’s stable condition and had nursed him throughout the night.

‘Then I fell asleep……’

Lowering her gaze, Yeonwoo realized that she was lying under the same blanket as Geon.

A grown man and a lady, sleeping under one blanket?!

Yeonwoo was startled, but she hadn’t fully processed the situation yet.

‘Then, for me to have snuggled up to Geon because it’s warm……’

In her drowsy state, Yeonwoo must have cozied up to Geon’s embrace.

Her heart began to race uncontrollably at the embarrassing incident that had occurred while she was asleep.

‘Oh, Oh, Oh, my goodness! Hong Yeonwoo! You’re married!’

Yeonwoo tried to wriggle out of the blanket to get out, but she couldn’t move.

After all, Geon’s sturdy arm was placed over her, not letting her budge.

It was fortunate that she had changed into new clothes before coming to the hut. It would have been even more awkward otherwise.

In the end, Yeonwoo could do nothing but lie there motionless.

She was just staring ahead with wide eyes when she noticed Geon’s thick eyebrows.

The long and voluminous eyelashes extending from Geon’s eyes created shadows.

How could his nose be so straight? The distinct facial features boasted graceful lines, as if a skilled artist had drawn them.

Looking at Geon’s revitalized crimson lips, Yeonwoo swallowed her saliva.

She knew he was handsome, but perhaps because she had become so accustomed to it, Geon’s attractive appearance felt fresh again.

Unconsciously, Yeonwoo reached out her hand toward Geon’s face.

At the moment Yeonwoo’s hand was about to touch Geon’s face.

“…….”

Geon, who was thought to be asleep, slowly opened his eyes.

His deep, inscrutable black pupils stared silently at Yeonwoo.

Under that gaze, Yeonwoo’s heart seemed to skip a beat and then stop altogether.

“Thud!”

Startled or perhaps embarrassed, Yeonwoo gasped.

The hand that was about to approach Geon’s face hovered in the air, then feigned a motion to brush away dust.

“W-Why is there so much dust here? Haha…….”

Yeonwoo pretended to catch nonexistent dust, and this time, she pretended to blow it away with a puff.
Geon silently observed Yeonwoo’s actions and couldn’t help but chuckle, letting out a low-pitched laughter.

“Have you woken up?”

“Thud!”

Perhaps she hasn’t fully recovered yet. Geon’s voice was deeper than usual, but his tone was more tender than ever.

The low pitch of his voice strangely stirred Yeonwoo’s heart, and her hiccup only intensified at his tender words.

Geon slowly got up from his seat, took a sip of the bottled water placed nearby, and cleared his throat.

Then he poured some water into the same cup and handed it to Yeonwoo.

“Drink.”

“Thud!”

Yeonwoo stared at the offered cup in astonishment. Could people share dishes so casually, even if they were men?

Thinking about Geon’s lips that might have touched the cup, Yeonwoo’s face blushed again.

Although Yeonwoo took the cup Geon offered, she couldn’t bring herself to drink as she kept picturing his crimson lips.

The situation seemed to be urging her to drink water as she looked at it, feeling faint even with just water.

As Yeonwoo hesitated to drink, Geon gently grabbed her hand that held the cup and lifted it slightly.

When Geon’s long fingers touched her, Yeonwoo’s body flinched.

“Drinking water will stop the hiccups. Drink.”

At this point, Yeonwoo couldn’t resist any longer and started to drink the water.

“Yes, swallow it all. Don’t stop.”

When the cup was empty, Yeonwoo’s hiccup unexpectedly ceased abruptly.

She looked at Geon, her eyes expressing amazement.

“The hiccups really stopped!”

“That’s what I told you.”

As the gazes of the two intersected in mid-air, Yeonwoo, who had stopped hiccuping, smiled brightly and opened her mouth.

“I’m glad you’re awake.”

Seeing Yeonwoo’s smiling face, a gentle smile appeared on Geon’s face as well.

“You went through a lot.”

Geon reached out and gently stroked Yeonwoo’s head.

The soft touch of his hand stroking her hair made Yeonwoo feel strangely ticklish.

Then, as if Geon remembered something, he opened his mouth.

“Oh, I had a bizarre dream while I was asleep. What was that?”

“What kind of dream did you have?”

Perhaps due to the fresh air circulating, Geon, who usually didn’t share personal stories, began to talk.

Yeonwoo found it fascinating and delightful to be able to exchange small talk with Geon.

Moreover, lately, Geon had been showing glimpses of a smiling face, which was something she couldn’t have imagined before.

Feeling pleased about the newly formed closeness, Yeonwoo leaned in to listen to Geon’s words.

“In my dream.”

Yeonwoo looked at Geon with anticipation. However, her anticipation quickly turned into confusion.

“You appeared as a woman.”

“W-What in the world are you talking about?”

Stuttered Yeonwoo, taken aback by Geon’s words.

Her heart seemed to sink in an unpleasant direction.

“At first, I thought it was your sister. I called her by your sister’s name. But it wasn’t her; it was you. So I thought I was wrong. But then you…”

Yeonwoo remembered what had happened next.

After Geon lost consciousness, Yeonwoo had started treating him. To treat the wounds, she had to remove his shirt and loosen his belt.

If he hadn’t lost consciousness, he would have seen Yeonwoo’s bare body.

In that case, Geon would have noticed that Yeonwoo was a woman.

Anxious, Yeonwoo swallowed her saliva and asked, “What about me…?”

“You…”

Perhaps recalling an inappropriate scene, Geon faltered in his speech.

At the same time, his ears turned bright red.

Hong Yeonwoo, a trainee with the appearance of a woman.

Upon reconsideration, it seemed like nonsense, but he couldn’t understand why he brought up such a topic.

It was probably because he was still half-asleep, he reasoned in his mind.
However, what is the reason for the face turning red at that nonsense?

Geon hurriedly tried to erase the image of Yeonwoo as a woman that appeared in his mind.

Then, like a parrot, he repeated the words he had said before.

“…So, you’re Hong Yeonwoo.”

At the same time, Yeonwoo’s face turned as red as if it were about to burst.

Probably when Geon started treating her in the tiger’s den, he undoubtedly saw Yeonwoo’s naked body.

The only fortunate thing was that Geon thought seeing her in his dream was a misconception.

Treating Geon in the tiger’s den seemed like a secret that should be kept until death.

Yeonwoo swiftly changed the subject.

“T-That was just a weird dream!”

Riding on that momentum, Geon also hastily concluded the topic.

“It seems like I went to the heavenly path.”

“That’s right! I don’t know how fortunate it is for you to return safely from the heavenly path.”

Now, the two of them began to spit out words that made no sense.

Still, Yeonwoo’s heart showed no sign of calming down, and the same was true for Geon.

Geon felt a sense of self-loathing for his wild imagination that imposed a woman’s appearance on a man.

“I must have lost my mind for a moment. To associate a perfectly fine man with a woman’s appearance.”

While being attacked by the tiger, Geon even doubted if he had ever injured his head.

But the strange thing was that although Geon had never seen a woman’s body, scenes that he thought were dreams vividly played in his mind as if he had actually seen them.

The most incomprehensible thing was that when he recalled Yeonwoo’s appearance with a woman’s body, his heart thumped uncontrollably.

No matter how much it was a dream or imagination, the palpitations in his heart exceeded the norm.

Geon couldn’t figure out what suspicious emotion was in his heart or who the wild beast that was rampaging inside him was.