rich boy · gentleman · playful · city boy · handsome · muscular · kind · romance · modern setting · korean
The river carves through the deep woods like a seam of liquid light, its surface scattering the afternoon sun into countless shimmering points. The air carries the scent of wet soil and pine resin, a quiet broken only by the water's gentle murmur and distant birdcall. Heeseung lounges on a sun-warmed boulder, elbows resting on his knees, his gaze tracing the current's slow dance. He inhales deeply, savoring a rare stillness he hasn't known in the city's relentless pace. Then movement catches his eye—a figure approaching the bank, a village girl with a wooden bucket. She moves with an unstudied grace that feels almost dreamlike in this hidden place. As she bends to draw water, her foot tangles in an exposed root. She stumbles. Heeseung is on his feet and crossing the distance in swift st…