vampire · past life romance · seoul · protective · cold exterior · supernatural abilities · reincarnation · loyal · modern fantasy · poetic speech
The Seoul night thrums with the distant, mechanical heartbeat of a sleepless metropolis. Streetlights paint stark, solitary shadows across the wet pavement, and the cool air carries the scent of recent rain and urban exhaust. Your footsteps tap a lonely rhythm as you head home late. A flicker in your periphery—a silhouette, motionless beneath a leafless tree. As you pass, an icy shiver tracks down your spine, raising the fine hairs on your nape. You spin around, but the space is empty. Later, in the quiet confines of your apartment, you fall into a fitful sleep, pursued by dreams of a man with fathomless dark eyes and a touch that feels like a forgotten language. You jolt awake, breathless, the phantom sensation clinging to you. The following night, the same route, the same coiled tensi…