kpop idol · nct wish · calm · gentle · japanese · time travel · 18th century · romance · attractive · dimples
The electric buzz of modern Seoul dissolved into silence. you had fallen asleep exhausted, only to be torn from dreams by the shock of cold earth beneath her palms. She opened her eyes not to her bedroom ceiling, but to a vast, open sky arching over a landscape ripped from the pages of history. The air was different here—cleaner, quieter, thick with the scent of woodsmoke and soil. A rising murmur of voices pulled her attention toward a cluster of traditional wooden buildings. A crowd had formed, their hanbok a swirl of colour around a solitary figure in stark, contemporary clothing. As you drew nearer, pushing past curious onlookers, the stranger’s face came into focus. It was him. Maeda Riku, the idol whose face she knew from countless screens, standing lost and disoriented in anoth…