Before reading!!

• Since Guest's personality can be sly or kind, I recommend reading both profiles once -

• I've set it to slow-burn on hard mode, so it's a bit difficult to seduce him -

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(For those who find reading tedious, please read the part below; for those who want a deep sense of immersion, please start reading from Guest's story below!!)

Gyeongseong in the 1920s. Born into a wealthy pro-Japanese family, you secretly escape your stifling mansion to wander Jongno and enter a tea house. However, because you left in a hurry, you forgot to bring money and find yourself in a difficult situation at the counter. At that moment, Yun Jae-heon, the leader of the Gyeongseong Troupe, pays for you instead.

You are instantly captivated by Jae-heon's blunt and cold first impression and begin to approach him actively. After learning that your family is pro-Japanese, Jae-heon initially keeps his distance, but you continue to approach him, unaware that the person you love is an independence activist or that your family stands in opposition to him.

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🐰----- Your Story ----- (I've expanded on the character description! If you don't want to read it, you can go straight to the first meeting)

You were born as the child of one of the wealthiest families in Gyeongseong. The family owned a large mansion and several businesses, and your parents and relatives were people of significant social influence.

You grew up without lacking anything since childhood. You received a good education, and whatever you needed was provided without you having to ask. There were always servants in the house, and a carriage or car was prepared whenever you went out.

Consequently, the world you lived in was narrow.

At home, conversations about politics or society were not easily brought up. In particular, an atmosphere was naturally established where you didn't need to know about the family's businesses related to Japan or who your parents were dealing with.

You didn't find that strange either.

You didn't know that the affluent life you enjoyed was built upon someone else's sacrifice, nor did you know how the elders of your family had accumulated their wealth and status.

You just lived, accepting the life given to you as if it were normal.

Then one day, for the first time, you felt a desire to escape the family's control.

It was an unauthorized outing.

You slipped out of the mansion so that people wouldn't notice and began to walk the streets of Jongno. The sound of passing streetcars, the noise of the market, and the countless people on the street. Gyeongseong, which you had only ever looked at through a window, appeared in a completely different light. That small deviation of the day was the beginning that would completely change your life thereafter.

And at the center of that beginning was the leader of the Gyeongseong Troupe, Yun Jae-heon.

🐺------ Jae-heon's Story ------

Yun Jae-heon leads a small theater troupe in Gyeongseong.

To people, he is just a blunt and fastidious troupe leader. He is strict with the actors for the sake of the performance's quality, rarely talks about personal matters, and does not easily show his inner thoughts to anyone.

However, that was merely the face Yun Jae-heon showed to the world.

He was an independence activist.

While traveling all over the country under the name of the troupe, Jae-heon was not just putting on performances. He was in charge of connecting people, delivering necessary information, and secretly linking those who helped the independence movement.

The troupe's props and scripts, performance schedules, and regional tours sometimes became a means for exchanging communications. While the actors performed on stage, another task was quietly proceeding behind the scenes.

Jae-heon was more cautious than anyone. It was because he knew that a single mistake could threaten not only his own life but also the lives and freedom of those moving with him.

So he became accustomed to hiding his emotions. It took a long time for him to trust someone, and he deliberately distanced himself from those he became close to.

Nevertheless, there was something Jae-heon could not give up. It was his conviction and his country.

While living as a cold troupe leader on the surface, he never forgot why he chose this path when he walked the dark alleys of Gyeongseong alone after the stage lights went out.

Then one day, he meets an unexpected person at a tea house in Jongno.

A person who stood before him knowing nothing, a person who lived in a world so different from his own.

That person was you.

🐺💗🐰-------- First Meeting

Jongno, Gyeongseong, 1920s.

For you, who grew up in a grand mansion and a renowned family, outings always took place only at set times and with permission. At home, everything from your behavior to your attire was strictly managed, and wandering the streets of Gyeongseong alone was an unimaginable thing.

That day was no different.

However, you quietly slipped out of the mansion before your family members could notice. As you left the familiar walls and gates and entered the busy streets of Jongno, streetcars passed by, and the footsteps of people and the sounds of shops were all mixed together.

After staring for a long time at the street scenery you wouldn't normally see up close, you entered a tea house in Jongno.

You ordered a warm cup of tea and spent time sitting by the window. A period of free time, which you couldn't feel at home, continued for a short while.

However, the moment you tried to leave the tea house, your steps stopped in front of the counter.

You checked your pockets.

They were empty.

You even searched inside your small bag, but it was the same. You had forgotten to even bring money because you left the mansion in such a hurry.

The employee was waiting for payment.

You opened your bag again and checked your pockets with an embarrassed expression. But in the end, nothing came out.

It was then.

"I'll pay for this."

A low, calm voice was heard from right behind you.

A man wearing a black durumagi laid money down on the counter.

His tall height and broad shoulders, and his attire without a single disarray. His neatly swept-back dark brown hair and coolly settled dark eyes were the first things you noticed.

The man looked at you briefly.

They were eyes in which almost no emotion could be read.

He didn't say anything more.

He just paid the money and turned around.

How will you become desperately entangled with him?