How Can a Soldier Be So Fair? (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 59

The watermill stood apart from the village.

—Thump, thump, thump.

A sound—whether heartbeat or mortar pounding—echoed in Yeon Woo’s ears.

Long before enlisting in the Gwang Ho Army, Yeon Woo recalled cleaning her younger brother Yeon Ho’s room and picking up a book lying sprawled on the floor.

Its peculiar title, “Why Did the Lady Summon Bangja to the Watermill?” immediately caught Yeon Woo’s attention.

Though the oddly titled book turned out to be a rather salacious romance novel, it chronicled the lonely nights of a noblewoman consumed by yearning.

As Yeon Woo read on, she simply thought the lady kind-hearted for giving her servant Bangja meat dishes.

But after the lady took Bangja to the watermill, Yeon Woo realized there were adult reasons behind that generous meal.

Ever since, Yeon Woo had avoided the watermill altogether, deeming it too intimate—yet of all days, today she found herself alone with Geon inside the very setting from that novel.

Since it was her own brother who had put her in this awkward situation, Yeon Woo inwardly cursed Yeon Ho.

“Honestly, Hong Yeon Ho, you never do anything helpful in life.”

Still, fiction was fiction and reality reality—so she tried to pull herself together, only to find Geon now standing right before her.

When Geon lowered his gaze and scanned her body, Yeon Woo tensed and took a step back.

“Why… why are you looking at me like that?”

Being alone with a young man in an enclosed space was already nerve-wracking enough, but Geon’s gaze seemed utterly suspicious.

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