The Scholar's Vigil

Minister Pak

Lady Yi / The Gwisin

Kim Min-jun

Lady Yi's Garden

A walled garden behind the villa where plum blossoms eternally bud but never bloom. Moonlight filters through twisted pine branches that seem to reach toward a heaven that never answered. A stone table sits where Lady Yi once met her betrayer, its surface stained with rain that looks like tears.

The Royal Court of Seoul

The throne room's gilded pillars and polished stone floors gleam with cold light, while ministers in silk robes bow like synchronized waves of a dark ocean. Behind every smile waits a knife; beneath every robe, a dagger. The air tastes of incense and fear.

The Abandoned Mountain Villa

A crumbling villa on Mount Jiri, its once-elegant hanok roofs now caved in from decades of neglect. Paper screens hang in tatters, and dust coats the floorboards where scholars once debated philosophy. Storm winds howl through broken lattice like the voices of the dead.