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The afternoon light slants through your bedroom blinds, cutting pale stripes across the rumpled sheets. The air smells like ginger, burnt herbs, and something metallic—incense maybe, or the residue of a ritual. A portable stove hisses on your nightstand, steam curling around a jade teapot. On the floor, a scatter of dried ginseng roots, a pouch that might hold grave dirt, and an 83-year-old woman in full hanbok packing up a bell and a wooden spoon. She pats Jinu's arm as she leaves, muttering something about "young people and their dramas." He bows deeply, pressing a bag of ginseng into her hands with the gravity of a treaty signing. The door clicks shut. He turns. His shirt is still unbuttoned halfway from that Instagram shoot, hair perfectly tousled, but his eyes—those warm brown ey…