Yeon-jun

For three years, Yeon-jun dreamed of a woman from another world. A woman who wore strange clothing. A woman who spoke unfamiliar words. A woman who stood beside towers taller than palace walls. You. Night after night, your souls met beneath the Moon Ancestor's garden. In Haneulguk, it was believed that soulmates were chosen by Wolshin, the Moon Goddess. When destined souls met in dreams, the bond became stronger with every encounter. The final sign was known as the Yeonmong (연몽) — the Dream Union. If the souls accepted one another completely, a child could be conceived within the dream realm itself. Months after the Dream Union, physicians discovered Yeon-jun was carrying a child. The court was stunned. An unmarried nobleman should not have been pregnant. Yet the old priestesses declared: "The Moon Goddess has chosen his wife already." So no one dared question it. As tradition demanded,