Jeon Jeongguk is the student in their college who's always alone and isolated from others and Kim Taehyung is a high tier student who's aspiring to become the best detective in town. One night, while illegally inspecting a crime scene, Taehyung starts a fight with a night mercenary. The following morning, Jeon Jeongguk appears before him with the same wounds. Top! Gguk

"you're out of touch i'm out of time but i'm out of my head when you're not around" In their world, everyone had a curse. Each passing day, you could see people struggling to live their lives while carrying the burden of their curses. Some had it easier, whereas some did not. Some curses never manifested themselves, whereas some overtook their human hosts entirely. Some people's curses resembled allergies, whereas some were cursed to an eternity of good fortune, but most people's curses were miserable. In their world, Kim Taehyung was seen as the unluckiest person alive. His curse had manifested itself once he had turned 20, taking his life and every ounce of happiness he owned away. For Taehyung's curse was not simple, nor was it as basic as not being able to eat chocolate all your life. Taehyung's curse was Touch. And it had taken everything from him.

In a world in which a person's level of happiness is measured by the amount of color they see, Jeon Jeongguk can say he stands somewhere in the middle - not too happy but not sad either. The colors he sees aren't as saturated as his friends say they are but Jeongguk thinks he's content with that even if, deep inside, he knows he wants more, wants to know how the sky looks like when you're the happiest you could ever be. Jeongguk wants more, wants to see the sky on his happiest day, wants to see the world so brightly that his eyes start hurting but when he meets Kim Taehyung, he realizes he's been way too selfish, way too greedy. Because, despite him, Taehyung wears the most beautiful smile and he treats each day as if it was his last. Taehyung is the most amazing person Jeongguk's ever met, filled with happiness and joy, so much that Jeongguk's own world starts brightening up next to him, the colors he sees no longer seeming dull. So, to say that Jeongguk is shocked when he finds out the truth about Taehyung's life is an understatement. Taehyung, his Taehyung, the brightest person on that planet, has never seen the color of the sky or those of the flowers he adored so much. Because Taehyung's only seen greyscale hues all his life.

Taehyung's life was hectic. Being a heart surgeon was never supposed to be easy but being the head of the cardiothoracic department just made everything so much more difficult. Still, Taehyung enjoyed his life. Or at least he used to until he was forced to take a 180 degrees turn after meeting Jeon Jeongguk, a person with a rare heart condition who needed immediate treatment. The thing was, Taehyung adored being a heart surgeon. But he slowly realized that not all hearts were kind, good and worthy to be saved Some were malevolent. top! Gguk

In a post apocalyptic world that lacked hope and happiness, that was full of despair and death, a glittering light-a child-managed to break through the darkness. He shone so brightly that people started seeing him as a threat and, due to their fears and insecurities, they managed to, not only cover his light in darkness, but isolate him from the world as well. They threw him away, isolated him from the world he once knew, broke him in thousands of pieces and put him back together only to repeat everything again and again in an attempt to find answers to questions that were never even meant to be answered. They threw Jeon Jeongguk away, in a deserted place, in a cold building, in a white room-all alone. Until, one day, after years of pain and thousands of scars, after anger filled him to the brim, the same Jeongguk meets his new doctor, Kim Taehyung, and the light inside him starts flickering again, more powerful than ever. And the powerful, ancient, soul residing inside him wakes up after years of deep slumber. Top! Gguk

Due to their advancement in technology, humans are now able to contact their soulmates by writing on their own skin once they turn 18. Kim Taehyung has been trying to reach his fated one for two years without success but he's promised himself that he won't ever give up on finding his soulmate. He had promised himself that he won't fall for someone else. That's what he believed in until a black motorcycle and a pair of dark irises made his beliefs seem childish and he realized, along the way, that love wasn't supposed to be chased and sought after. It was unexpected. Sudden. Disastrous. And completely astonishing. And it stained one's soul. Just like a splash of ink. Top!Gguk

obticeō - "I am silent." Everyone had a Shadow but, somehow, Taehyung's Shadow was a little bit different than others. His Shadow didn't look like his own body silhouette reflected on the ground in the absence of light. It came under the manifestation of a hooded man with red painting marks on his face and golden daggers hidden under his clothes. He's been his Shadow ever since they've both been born because, as the legacy of the First King mentioned, they were tied by fate. However, even if they've been together for so long, Taehyung's never heard his voice. Because Shadows did not have voices. They were meant to be forever silent. Top!Gguk

whelve (v.) to bury something deep; to hide Jeongguk left to complete his training when they were merely 17 and utterly in love with each other, leaving Taehyung and a promise that he'll come back to his fated mate once he finally presents behind. He did come back after five years but none of them were the same anymore. Top!Gguk

Metanoia: (n.) the journey of changing one's heart, mind, self or way of life; spiritual conversion Jeongguk is not a storm but Taehyung isn't one either. Jeongguk is the calmness of the waves and Taehyung is the little push he needs in order to become one. Architect Jeongguk meets Taehyung when they're both broken and, while trying to fix each other, they break themselves in the most beautiful way even more. Top!Gguk