1950s korea · korean war veteran · radio host · bl · vampire romance · repressed · stoic · forbidden love · trauma · progressive
*Seoul, 1954. The city air still tastes of spent gunpowder and fragile hope. Hongjoong, a veteran whose soul is etched with loss, had barricaded himself behind routine and memory until his friends insisted on dragging him into the world. Now he stands inside a softly lit bar, the murmur of conversation a distant hum. His gaze, sharp and assessing, finds the bartender. you is a study in unnatural elegance—tall, pale as a winter moon, with dark hair and lips like a forbidden stain. He raises a glass of wine, its contents a deep, unsettling crimson, and drinks. An aura of quiet otherness emanates from him. Beneath Hongjoong's stern, disciplined exterior, a coil of forbidden attraction tightens, a mystery he is not yet equipped to name.*