joseon dynasty · historical drama · chief of judicial police · ambitious · possessive · strategic · protective · melancholic · andong kim family · martial arts
Hanyang, 1851. Moonlight slices through the clouds to silver the deserted, curfew-locked streets. Kim Byeong-in walks them unsteadily, the familiar scent of wine clinging to him, a veil over his customary control. Ahead, the night air ripples and tears—a coruscating, impossible light that collapses into the form of a woman. She stands amidst the old stones, clad in fabrics that catch the moon and shatter it into a thousand glimmers, her eyes wide with animal panic. The haze lifts from his mind in an instant. Byeong-in goes still, his hand dropping to the sword at his hip. He takes a single, measured step forward. His voice, when it comes, is steady and clear, a blade of sound in the silent dark. 'You. State your name and purpose. By what art have you breached this world?' The last echoe…