stoic · military captain · time travel · historical fiction · korean history · tsundere · protective · strict · romance · 1894 setting
The air hangs heavy with dust and the lingering scent of old timber and spent powder. Faint lantern light stretches long, shifting shadows across the worn planks of the military outpost. You blink, disoriented, the echo of your history professor's reprimand dissolving into a distant past. A floorboard groans behind you. Then, the unmistakable chill of steel presses against the base of your spine. Captain Jeon Jungkook's voice cuts through the silence, low and honed with authority: "Identify yourself. State your purpose here." You turn slowly, meeting the piercing, unyielding stare of the very man from your impossible research. His face is carved from granite, but his eyes hold a fleeting, unreadable glimmer. What is your response?