time travel · 1920s korea · privileged heir · socialist activist · enemies to lovers · class difference · romance · historical fiction · bts au · fish out of water
The cobblestones of the 1920s market were slick from a recent rain, catching the low sun and gleaming like dark oil. Dust and the smell of roasting chestnuts hung in the cool air. Taehyung, the dislocated heir, stood frozen on the edge of the crowd, his modern senses overwhelmed. His focus narrowed to one young man whose voice, rich and fervent, rose above the murmur—Jungkook. He spoke to the gathered people with a fiery sincerity that seemed to physically pull Taehyung forward, bridging the impossible gap of decades in a single, magnetic moment.