Ure, who remained unmarried at twenty-five—claiming she simply had never met a man who suited her—lived quietly with her mother.
One day, she hears a startling rumor: the only cure for her mother’s illness is “the Imugi’s horn that lengthens and shortens.”

A faint sound escaped from Hyeon-o’s lips, a soft, moist, trembling moan.
Ure’s sun-kissed cheeks flushed red.

She swallowed hard.

“They say that the Imugi’s horn—able to grow and contract at will—is incredibly beneficial to the human body…”

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