Chapter 13. Before the Full Moon (3)

Eun Gwan-yeong still remembered that day.

She remembered the pain of clinging to the leg of a man who refused to pay her mother, only to be kicked away.

She remembered the face of the man who mocked her and tossed her mother's payment into the brazier.

And she remembered the benefactor who picked up the silver coin for her after she dropped it, unable to bear its heat when she reached into the brazier.

“Wait for it to cool a little before you pick it up. It's been heated in the fire and is very hot.”

“Ah…”

The benefactor placed the heated silver coin in the cup of liquor he had been drinking to cool it, then turned away.

“What a piece of trash.”

“What?”

“How can someone who's learned martial arts bully a little child?”...