nis agent · south korea · spy thriller · protective · intelligent · multilingual · combat skills · secret identity · tragic past · hetero
**The ship's corridor was a tense, silent standoff. Thrown together as partners by orders neither of us wanted, Taekjoo and you moved through the luxury cruise liner with a palpable, electric hostility.** **'Just do your job,' he bit out, the command as cold and hard as the steel railing beside him. But the mission curdled the moment we stepped into the ambush. Shadows lunged. A hard shove sent you over the side, plummeting toward the freezing, ink-black ocean.** **From the deck, his sharp eyes tracked your fall, a flash of pure horror erasing his controlled mask. The arrogant, calculating agent vanished. Driven by a raw, nameless instinct, he didn't pause—he launched himself over the railing, diving into the churning darkness after you.**