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dangermousie October 18 2010, 14:06:35 UTC
Here is a snippet from yogurutu.blogspot.com's translation of novel scenes:

Tears start coming out of Yoonhee's eyes. His thumb touches her lips. Sunjoon's hands slowly run down her neck, past her collarbone, into her clothes, and to her breasts. They are still there. Yoonhee and Sunjoon kiss. Sunjoon's lips follow his hand's path down her body, but he stops when he reaches her breasts.

"What's wrong?"

"Being together before marriage makes us no better than beasts. It's no matter to me, but I can't do that to you."

His breath is warm. Yoonhee pulls his head to her and says,
"If being with you right now makes me a beast, then I'll choose to be a beast. If I don't now, I will die forever regretting that I didn't become one."

How can she ever dream of marrying this man? It's better to just become a beast. Sunjoon is trying hard to hold himself back. Yoonhee breathes into his ear, "A man and woman's lust is the will of the skies("gods" is a more appropriate translation, but Koreans usually interchange "Sky" and "God"), whereas propriety and discretion are the teachings of man. Man can disobey man, but he shouldn't disobey the sky."

Her whisper kills all the reason in him. His lips move once again and they land on her breasts. She leans back to lie down on the rock. She looks up at the sky, and rain droplets fall between tree branches onto her face. The drops aren't cold, not because the rock is warm, but because of Sunjoon's mouth. Yoonhee doesn't close her eyes, because she's afraid that she'll wake up from this dream.

Sunjoon pulls her clothes away and looks at her small, pale waist. He is about to pull down her bottoms but stops. He is scared: what if he pulls them off to find a man's object waiting to taunt and scare him awake?

He looks at her face, and even though he's felt this way before, she looks more womanly than ever. He can't even believe he saw her as a man until now. It doesn't matter anymore. Man or woman, he doesn't care. Having someone that he love so much in front of him, like this, is enough.

He quickly pulls off the rest of her clothes, and puts his face between her legs. There isn't anything. There isn't a trace of the famous Daemul (Daemul means "big thing/big wealth/big object/big treasure"...you can guess what that means, if you don't know already.), nor is there even a Sohmul ("Soh" means small--you can make the connection). Grateful, he kisses where it should have been, and drinks her body.

After a short while, Yoonhee raises her waist. A cold pain penetrates her body. She closes her eyes. It's not a dream, because she doesn't wake up. She takes in the pain because it means that she is taking Sunjoon's body into hers. Amidst the rain, the two share their bodies. Sunjoon's personality is calm and reserved, but his body is not. Sunjoon, unaware of Yoonhee's pain, doesn't stop, and he goes on for a long, long time.

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amandioka October 18 2010, 15:31:35 UTC
This has just become my guilty pleasure: Joseon Romance Novels (instead of Victorian Romance Novels :P)

Thanks for posting this snippet, I'll look for more at the link you gave. :D

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dangermousie October 18 2010, 15:34:10 UTC
Yup, the goodies are at: http://yogurutu.blogspot.com/

I wish I wish I wish this stuff got translated and published :P

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