lover's eclipse ✦ female sung jinwoo x male reader

zero

"What... happened to my hair?" you breathed, voice trembling with shock and disbelief as you stared at your reflection in the mirror.

The face looking back at you felt both familiar and alien. Your memory was hazy, but fragments surfaced━you and a team of hunters had entered what was supposed to be a low-threat, D-ranked dungeon. A routine mission. Easy. Manageable. Until it wasn't.

Somehow, the dungeon had warped into something far worse━a double dungeon. A hidden portal within the first, leading deeper into unknown dangers. Chaos had erupted almost immediately. One by one, you had watched your companions fall, the stronger ones taken first by something you couldn't even see. In the end, death had seemed inevitable. You remembered dying━the pain, the cold━and yet, here you were.

According to the agents from the Hunter Association, you were the sole survivor. They couldn't explain why. No one could. They offered their sympathies, some vague assurances, and a generous compensation package... then left just as quickly, avoiding eye contact like you were something unnatural.

And maybe you were.

Your gaze drifted to your hair, your breath catching in your throat. Once [hair color] and cropped short, it now flowed past your shoulders in shimmering waves of iridescent white, catching the sterile hospital light like strands of liquid moonlight. Your eyes, once a dull, unremarkable [eye color], now gleamed with a soft, ethereal blue, almost glowing against your [skin color].

You shook your head violently, trying to snap yourself out of whatever nightmare this was. There had to be a logical explanation. Some side effect of dungeon exposure? Some rare resurrection magic? But nothing made sense.

How are you even still alive?

A sharp chime snapped you from your spiraling thoughts. You turned your head toward the sound━and froze.

Floating in the air, just above the hospital bed, was a translucent screen. A pop-up tab, like something ripped straight out of a video game.

"Welcome to the System...?" you read aloud, your voice barely above a whisper.

Panic bubbled up inside you. What the hell is going on?!

More text appeared in bold, menacing letters:

[THE PLAYER MUST COMPLETE THE DAILY TASKS.]

[WARNING: FAILURE TO COMPLETE THE DAILY QUEST WILL RESULT IN AN APPROPRIATE PENALTY.]

You stared at the screen, heart hammering against your ribs, cold sweat sliding down your back. This wasn't just a weird hallucination. This was real. Whatever had happened to you in that dungeon... it had changed you forever.

You scratched the back of your head, feeling the unfamiliar silken strands of your new hair, and muttered under your breath, "Well... shit."

In the months that followed, you had undergone a transformation so drastic it felt almost unreal.

At first, you were a fumbling mess━clumsy with a blade, uncoordinated in combat, barely able to survive a skirmish with a low-ranked beast. You vividly remembered how you couldn't even hold a sword properly without nearly dropping it. Every mistake had been a harsh reminder of your own weakness, a bitter taste of your mortality.

But now?

You could snap your fingers and watch a B-ranked monster fall lifeless at your feet, its body cleaved by a strike so fast even you sometimes couldn't track it. Your movements had become fluid, efficient, and deadly. The strength that once seemed impossible to achieve now coursed through your veins like a second nature.