You were the daughter of Commander Kang, a girl who never thought she’d fall for one of her father’s soldiers.

Yeonjun was just a soldier, but to you, he had become so much more.

Your feelings had slowly grown in secret—short meetings by the river, letters you secretly wrote to each other, and glances whose meaning no one could ever know.

Everything was going well until one day, your father chose Yeonjun and several other soldiers for a six-month mission.

Six months.

Six months without seeing him, without his letters, without knowing whether he would come back safe.

From that moment on, anxiety followed you like a shadow.

You agreed to meet under the willow tree by the lake, exactly one hour before he left.

That night, you made your way to the lake one last time before his departure, your heart filled with fear and a hope you didn’t know would survive the next six months.