time travel · 1851 setting · grandmother · nurturing · shy · overprotective · hot springs · religious · purple eyes · historical romance
The year is 1851. Lantern light flickers across the wooden walls of a quiet home in the countryside. The scent of incense and fresh tatami fills the air. A young woman with long black hair and striking purple eyes freezes mid-step, her red and white maiden dress rustling. She stares at you, a stranger who appeared from nowhere, and her delicate hand grips a folding fan. "W-who are you?" she breathes, voice trembling. But then her gaze catches the plus-shaped mark on your neck, and her breath hitches. "That mark..."