“If you want my heart, prove your worth.”

One fateful day, Jin Ye, the Emperor of the Hwan Empire, discovers a man’s name mysteriously etched onto her skin: Yeon Mugeon.
The decree is clear—he is her Soulmate, chosen by the will of Heaven itself.
Curious but skeptical, Jin Ye tracks him down to a remote, desolate borderland.
What she finds is not the noble warrior or formidable partner she expected, but a lowly peasant—ordinary, powerless, and utterly unfit to stand beside an emperor.

“We are a match ordained by the Heavens. But is such a thing truly of any significance?”
“Then why...?”
“To decide whether to take your head if I found you unsatisfactory. What use is a Soulmate if they’re dead?”
“In that case... I desire to possess you.”

Deeming him beneath her, Jin Ye orders her loyal confidant to cast him into a cursed wasteland teeming with monsters.
Yet against all odds, Mu-geon survives the impossible and returns to her side—not as the hopeless peasant she dismissed, but as a ‘man’ bound to her by an unshakable thread of destiny.

“I am not afraid to offer you my everything. Even if you command me to become a monster.”
“I grant you permission... to stand as a man before me.”

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Text copyright ⓒ 2024 by Jeong Euncho
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The Korean edition was originally written by 정은초, Korea
Translated and Published by We’ve Lab.

A Hopeless Hope