When the porridge bowl's bottom was exposed, Sa Heon-yeong began to carefully wash the woman again.

As soon as she woke up, she confirmed that she was naked, but he soon looked away from her. The woman was not in the common house, but when she wakes up naked in front of a man she doesn't know familiarly, it should be surprising. But she wasn't too surprised. The woman didn't seem to care about her body.

While Sa Heon-yeong was washing the woman, she was looking straight at him. She occasionally blinked her eyes. He thought the movement was like the flapping of a butterfly's wings. As a child, he had cut the wings of a butterfly. Horizontally, vertically. Every time he saw a butterfly, he cut it with a sword. He hated butterflies.

It looks like he will be able to stop hating it from today. Every time he sees a butterfly, he will think of the woman's eyelids. These beautiful eyes.

"But really, who are you?"

"The goblin."

Hmm. The woman frowned at him. He was a human no matter how she looked at him, but when he said that he is the goblin, her face looked like she couldn't believe it. The woman doesn't know much about anything and is like a fool, but she wasn't really a fool.

It's much nicer than crying.

He was really flustered when she cried earlier. The woman had thin shoulders. Her bones were exposed, and her body looked like her skin would tear out. Such a body shaking, swallowing her cry, he was flustered.

"Sir Goblin, do you have a problem with your eyes?"

The woman asked openly. Are my eyes weird?

Sa Heon-yeong laughed. As he laughed, the woman lowered her eyebrows and tilted her head. She doesn't seem to understand why he was laughing.

Looking back, Sa Heon-yeong doesn't seem to think that she was a beauty when he first saw the woman. But as the woman looked at him and sang her song, her face gradually changed.

Come to think of it, it was a strange day. Fog and rain kept blocking the view, and people kept bumping into each other while walking. A day when one can't see well, a day with a strange cloud cover. On that day, the woman sang a song as pure and sweet as he would hear in a dream.

His ears seemed to melt. The fever started in his ears and spread all over his body. The woman's face changed moment by moment like a different light shone upon it. An invisible rainbow was illuminating the woman.

Reflected in her face, her eyes, her voice. Abundant light spread through the space. That day, Sa Heon-yeong experienced a small miracle. There was nobody there. There was neither the escort nor himself. It was just the woman.

From that night on, Sa Heon-yeong could not sleep. Even if he closed his eyes and opened his eyes, only the woman's face came to mind. Her face changed moment by moment in his head.

It was difficult to be sure which face was hers. As bright as a child, with a transcendent expression like an old person, her lips curled while singing were sensual, but her cheeks in his hands were innocent.

He missed her. Unable to bear it, Sa Heon-yeong decided to go see her.

A subordinate of the inspectorate bribed Song Geun-ryang's maids and servants to find the woman.

She was the illegitimate child of Song Geun-ryang, she was being abused, and she lived alone in the back mountains. There is only one way to the back mountain, and the road was always blocked to keep the woman from escaping.

When he heard the story that the woman lives alone in the mountains, his desire to see her grew stronger.

So yesterday, Sa Heon-yeong climbed the opposite mountain alone. Below the steep cliff of the opposite mountain was that little mountain. It would be impossible for an ordinary person to descend this cliff, but it was not difficult for someone with martial arts like Sa Heon-yeong.

He jumped off the cliff. His feet was much lighter than usual, it felt like he was flying.

And he met this woman again.

All week long he wondered what her real face would look like. Does she have a bright face or a superficial face? Is it sensual or naive?

She was much dirtier and shabbier than expected. And she was beautiful. Overwhelmingly, she was just pretty. like a pearl in the mud.

"My eyes have always been good."

The woman blinked her eyes. It seems hard to believe.

Why does she deny that she is beautiful? Song Geun-ryang passed through Sa Heon-yeong's mind. A man with a mean look with eyes like a bird. He abused this woman very much. The woman probably wouldn't even consider herself a living person.

"It really is. Living in the open grassland improves my eyesight. I have been on the battlefield since childhood, so I'm good at seeing things from afar."

Grassland.......

The woman muttered softly. She didn't seem to know what it was. Sa Heon-yeong looked at her thin neck and shoulders.

After meeting her again, he went a little crazy. He was out of his mind. His heart was strangely excited, and he couldn't feel the touch of the ground beneath his feet.

Pearl in the mud. She really was. She was dirty, innocent, pitiful and beautiful. If there was a pearl in the mud, what would humans do if they saw a beautiful pearl without flaws?

Sa Heon-yeong doesn't know what others would do. But he picked up the pearl and made it his own.