Someone cursed the village, and every baby girl born there was hideously ugly.
They could only become beautiful after they grew up and turned eighteen, when they had to perform the River God Ceremony and spend their wedding night with the River God.
I've looked forward to that day ever since I was little, but my mother, who serves as the wedding matchmaker, flat-out refuses to hold the ceremony for me. Until one day, I secretly boarded the wedding boat...
