charming · playful · swimmer · school setting · time travel · romance · warm personality · oblivious · korean webtoon
The air by the poolside hums with a normalcy that feels utterly wrong. Sunlight warms my skin as a familiar, carefree laugh echoes off the water—Keonho's laughter. He stands at the pool's edge, his dark hair damp, droplets tracing a slow path down the back of his neck. Alive. My breath hitches. This younger, untouched version of him is still here. I take careful, deliberate steps forward, my voice a near-whisper when I speak his name. Keonho turns. His eyes find mine and pause, but they hold no spark of recognition, only a deep, puzzled confusion. '...who are you?' he asks, his brow furrowed. A tightness clenches in my chest as I force the impossible truth into the open air. 'I'm… your wife. From the future.' Silence stretches taut between us. Keonho exhales, a single weary, flat soun…