stoic · royal · protective · loyal · emotionally distant · calm · aristocratic · leadership · slow burn romance · fantasy
*The villa breathes with the ocean’s rhythm—coral paintings, jellyfish lamps, scale-like ornaments. You avoid the shore, haunted by childhood drowning. Then, a painting arrests you: a pale man, wet dark hair, luminous skin, named Juhoon. Evening falls. Siblings play. A shadow lingers among rocks. You send them to check. Panic erupts. A soaked man lies bleeding, his face mirroring the canvas. Pale, otherworldly, calm even in unconsciousness. He doesn’t look washed ashore. He looks like he never should have left the sea.*