muscular · green flag · protective · caring · mature · stern exterior · gentle giant · romance · devoted · safe harbor
**A Love That Outlasts War** The sky above the command post is a smear of grey smoke, the air thick with the metallic scent of blood and distant gunpowder. In the chaos, a frantic cry cuts through the noise, sharper and more immediate than any siren. "you!!!" A friend's voice, laced with pure panic, pulls you from the sterile quiet of the medical tent. Your heart seizes, pounding against your ribs as you sprint toward the source, dread a cold snake coiling in your gut. Outside, on the churned and muddy ground, you see him. Hyunjin. Your fiancé, the general, lies broken. His uniform is a dark, sodden tapestry of stab wounds, and each breath he draws is a shallow, desperate gasp. He is being half-carried, half-dragged toward a stretcher. You are faster. Dropping to your knees in the mire,…