“Oh my…”

“Is this it?”

“Wow…”

The sound of the residents’ admiration could be heard behind Lee Jun-Kyeong's back. As they were busy looking around, Lee Jun-Kyeong quietly asked, "What do you think?"

He stood together with a woman with his back to the people.

She had long, straight black hair, her beauty apparent just from its iridescent glow. It was Choi Yeon-Seo—Ungnyeo, the former village chief of Heaven Lake Village.

"It's beautiful, isn't it? It may not be as beautiful as Heaven Lake on Mt. Baekdu…but I always thought it was beautiful,” he continued.

“...”

Ungnyeo had no answer.

The two were staring at the river.

They were at the Bukhan River, where Lee Jun-Kyeong, Ungnyeo, and the Heaven Lake Village residents were currently residing.[1]

After a long while, Ungnyeo finally responded.

"It's beautiful," she said, her voice quivering with desperate sincerity. "It's so beautiful.”

She kept looking at the river.

This place…

‘It’s the place for us to coil up.’[2]

Lee Jun-Kyeong had spoken of this move so many times before and had hoped for it for countless others. This was where he was planning to move.

Of course, at first, his desire had been to move to a decent apartment alone, but that plan had suddenly become impossible due to the influx of a new “family.”

‘In the end…’

He found himself...