The Precinct Magistrate’s Younger Lady

[A lively and cheerful late-life survival story of the protagonist Chun-hui, who carries a “little sun” in her heart!]

After caring for the wounded, mad general Wi Neung-taek, Chun-hui finally gets her slave papers returned and gains the status of a commoner.

At last free from her exhausting life of servitude and having regained the freedom she longed for, she is met by her mother, who sees her daughter as a source of money, and by Wi Neung-taek’s terrifying obsession, which tries to bind her once more.

And then, in the midst of that deep shadow, she meets a stubborn man, Sim Cheong-yeon.

The crown prince of a fallen marquis house and a long-serving official in Gyeongjo-bu, he has endured lonely, bleak days after losing two wives to his stepmother’s schemes.

Chun-hui approaches his life like sunlight...

Cheong-yeon is captivated by her bright nature and spirited courage and readily decides on marriage. Though he had no interest in power, with only one resolve—to protect his woman—he finally begins to reveal the sharp claws that had been sleeping all along....

“Thank you for always being on my side.”

“No, it was you who saved me in the end.”