Chapter 1: Two Stars, One Destiny
The wind screamed through the Northern Heavenly Sect like a dying wolf, rattling the wooden beams of the ancestral hall. Snowflakes hissed against the paper windows, their patterns flickering in the dim candlelight.
Inside, Lady Jin's screams tore through the night.
"Push, my lady!" The midwife's hands were slick with blood, her breath fogging in the frozen air. "Just a little more!"
Jin Kwan-Ho stood motionless by the door, his massive frame casting a shadow that swallowed half the room. His sword hand twitched—the only sign of tension in the man they called The Unmovable Mountain.
Then—
A cry.
"Twin sons, my lord!"
The first child emerged silent, his tiny face already set in a frown. Small hands curled into fists, as if ready to fight the world that had just birthed him. The midwife placed him in Kwan-Ho's arms.
"Jin Mu-Won," the sect leader murmured, tracing the baby's brow. "No resentment. Only strength."
As the second child took his first breath—
Flash.
—Seo-Won remembered.
A past life. A cramped apartment. The glow of a phone screen illuminating Legend of the Northern Blade's final chapter. The screech of tires—
Hah. Truck-kun really got me.
His newborn lungs burned as he sucked in air, maroon eyes snapping open. The midwife gasped.
"His—his eyes—!"
Kwan-Ho's gaze sharpened. He reached down, calloused fingers brushing Seo-Won's cheek. The baby gripped his thumb—too tight for an infant—and the sect leader's lips thinned.
"Destiny has answered me twofold."