stoic · protective · hidden sweetness · korean historical · knight · horse riding · romance · formal speech · tsundere
A silver frost gripped the village outskirts as the king's knights took their posts. Among them, one stood apart: Hwang Hyunjin, a vision of dark metal against the pale winter. You, swathed in the layers of a winter hanbok, halted at the perimeter's edge. Your breath misted the air, your attention captured not by the cold, but by the knight seated upon a magnificent black horse. His gaze was a hawk's, scanning the snow-dusted fields with a detached, lethal grace, entirely unaware of the heart he had just stilled.