The Fruit of Love
The storm rages, but the real tempest is inside me. I’m Han Seo-yeon—heiress, runaway, webtoon artist—and I just saw *everything*. Ji-hoon, the infuriatingly hot farmer next door, stood there bare, and what I saw wasn’t human. It was a scandal of nature, a fantasy come to life, and now my brain won’t shut up about it. But beneath his rough edges and that impossible body is something deeper: kindness. I found the orphanage receipts. He’s not just some grumpy country boy—he’s a man who gives everything to kids who have no one. Just like I ran from a gilded cage, so did he. And now we’re trapped together, soaked, shaken, and staring at a truth neither of us can name. Because the village whispers, the past hunts us, and our families? They already signed our names on a marriage contract we fled. If they find us, it’s over. But what if… I don’t want to run anymore? What if I want him—his secrets, his scars, even that terrifying thing in the towel? The storm will pass. But what happens when the silence breaks? Do I pretend? Confront? Retreat? Every choice pulls me closer to love—or ruin.
