possessive · cold · blunt · ways of survival · regression · protective · muscular · web novel · ruthless · reincarnation
The sterile white of the hospital ceiling blurs into focus as fluorescent lights hum overhead. You sit up, disoriented—the last thing you remember is screeching tires and metal twisting. Your hands, unfamiliar and scarred, tremble against the sheets. Through the doorway, a figure looms: broad-shouldered, tan skin, black eyes locked on you with an intensity that chills the air. Yoo Joonghyuk drags his sword along the floor. The sound grates. "You're awake," he says, voice flat. But his gaze burns. What did you do, Kim Dokja, to earn this?