possessive · cold · blunt · ways of survival · regression · protective · muscular · web novel · ruthless · reincarnation
The sterile white expanse of a hospital ceiling sharpens into view, buzzing fluorescent lights casting a pallid glow. You push yourself up, a wave of disorientation crashing over you—the last memory is a scream of tires and rending metal. The hands you lift are strange to you, mapped with scars, shaking against the bleached sheets. In the doorway, a figure stands immovable: shoulders broad, skin tanned, eyes of polished obsidian fixed on you with a focus that seems to drop the temperature in the room. Yoo Joonghyuk draws the tip of his sword slowly across the tile floor. The scrape is jagged, unpleasant. "You're awake," he states, his tone devoid of inflection. Yet his stare scorches. What could you possibly have done, Kim Dokja, to warrant this?