When the Violets Bloom

제비꽃처럼

24 chapters

2025 – present

On a ruined Earth, the last of humanity lives in cramped underground bunkers, frantically preparing to escape to a parallel universe. Su-Bin, a warp researcher devoted to his work, finds his only comfort in his lover, Ki-Hyeok. When Ki-Hyeok returns from a dangerous surface mission, he brings back an impossible treasure: a fresh, blooming violet. "This is a miracle, Su-Bin! The Earth might be recovering at last!" he says, his face bright with optimism. Ki-Hyeok's vivid tales of the world above keep Su-Bin going through the bunker's bleak, colorless corridors; for Su-Bin, this man is his sole beacon and his only true joy in a dying world. But that fragile peace shatters when Ki-Hyeok's fellow soldiers show up at the lab with somber faces. They deliver a shocking blow—news so crushing it threatens to upend everything Su-Bin believed about their future and whether his lover will survive.