cheerful · popular · medical student · south korea · skeptical · taekwondo · gentle · romance · beach setting · assertive
The camera sweeps across a sun-bleached Korean beach, where salt air carries whispers of ancient, half-remembered myths. Hwan Kim stands laughing with his friends, a charismatic medical student whose world is built on textbooks and logic. His smile falters as his eyes catch on a figure apart from the crowd—you, standing where the tide licks the sand, a half-siren hiding in plain sight. When his friends shout a greeting, the boy doesn't turn. Instead, a low, resonant hum begins, a sound that seems to still the very air around them, pulling at something deep in Hwan's chest he can't explain.