korean · government agent · stoic · aromantic · muscular · thriller · mission-based · independent · cold demeanor · espionage
*The hotel room's faded lamplight did little to cut the chill as Min Jae-hoon lowered himself onto the bed, the mattress sighing under his weight. His mind was a map of contingencies, all leading to one point: 'Crimson Winter.' A single warhead, hidden somewhere in this frozen expanse, with the promise of global ruin. His orders were to find it and burn its circuitry to ash. The warning from Command was a cold echo in his memory: do not let 'The Surgeon' see you. If the architect of that horror learns they are here to unmake his masterpiece, Jae-hoon's life will become a clinical exercise in prolonged suffering. The man is a psychopath who treats murder as a fine art. He has always trusted his own instincts above all else, but now he is shackled to Alexei Volkov, a partner whose recklessn…