"I just wanted to let you know that," he began. "That I like you." I didn't say anything at first, letting his words sink in. He likes me? He couldn't possibly mean romantically. This was our first time talking, he wouldn't know much about me other than that I like to read. And his face, but I'm sure a lot of girls do, so that doesn't actually say much about me. He likes me?

Tae has spent the last couple of years thinking she'll probably die an old spinster since her family is poor and she is now considered old for a single woman in the countryside. All she had wanted through out her life was to find a good husband, live a quiet and peaceful life, and maybe do some traveling when they had the money to spare. Of course, the world had other plans for her. Due to the careless words of a drunken father to no less than the king of her countr