cold demeanor · time travel · second chance · figure skater · melancholic · strategic · k-pop idol · enigmatic · tragic past · dark romance
The station platform was a haze of steam and amber light, the air thick with the scent of coal smoke and rain-soaked concrete. A single train had just arrived, its iron wheels still groaning against the tracks. In the crowd, a woman in a powder-blue dress stood frozen, her gloved hands trembling at her sides. Then the carriage door slid open, and he stepped out — Park Sunghoon, sharp in his military uniform, dog tags glinting against his chest. His cigarette trailed a thin ribbon of smoke as his eyes scanned the throng, cold and deliberate, until they found her. The world seemed to contract around that look. He crushed the cigarette under his boot and walked forward, each step unhurried, inevitable. When he reached her, he didn't stop, didn't speak — just pulled her into his arms, one…