Battle Hearts This Military x Doctor AU was inspired by one of my wonderful readers, Lezza. 💛 I hope you enjoy this journey as much as I loved creating it. Joong and Dunk have been married for years-a quiet, steady kind of love built on routines, inside jokes, late-night dinners, and knowing each other better than anyone else. Their marriage isn't perfect. It's real. Joong serves in the military. Dunk is a doctor. Both have dedicated their lives to helping others, but their jobs come with sacrifices neither of them can control. When Joong receives orders for a high-risk deployment, their world changes overnight. Six months. No communication. No promises except the hope of coming home. As distance grows and uncertainty settles in, both men are forced to face fears they've spent years avoiding. Because sometimes the hardest battles aren't fought on the front lines. Sometimes they're fought in silence. In waiting. In loving someone when every day comes with the possibility of loss. Battle Hearts is a story about love, sacrifice, resilience, and the people who keep choosing each other even when life makes it difficult. Not because love is perfect. But because some people are worth fighting for.

Rude meets clumsy. Mafia meets normal. Joong is a cold-hearted heir to a mafia dynasty who never expected to fall for the university's clumsiest, bubbliest boy. Dunk is a jolly mess who tripped straight into Joong's heart-completely unaware of the dangerous world lurking behind his icy stares. When their two worlds collide and everything falls apart, they'll have to choose between safety and each other.

Dunk never meant to fall for his brother's rival. Joong was everything he should stay away from, arrogantly confident, ridiculously handsome and filthy rich. His brother warned him not to get involved and Dunk genuinely tried to listen. But fate seemed to have other plans. When Joong started working at the same café, avoiding him became impossible. The teasing turned into tension, the tension turned into sparks and suddenly Dunk found himself falling for the one person he was never supposed to want.

He was the boy who loved too quietly. He was the man who realized too late. Joong Archen once gave Dunk Natachai everything he had - his loyalty, his silence, his trust, and the kind of love that could survive almost anything. Almost. But some choices cannot be undone. Some words cannot be taken back. And some heartbreaks do not end just because two people walk away from each other. Now Joong is no longer the same man Dunk once knew. He is colder. Sharper. Harder to reach. And Dunk, who once played with love like it was something he could control, is forced to face the one thing money, power, and pride cannot buy back: the heart he broke. But when pain turns into silence, guilt turns into obsession, and love refuses to die quietly... Joong and Dunk are pulled back into a game neither of them knows how to win anymore. This time, it is not about who falls first. It is about who survives the consequences.

They made it out. But survival is not the same thing as peace. Outside Black Halo, the world is wider, colder, and far less merciful than any of them imagined. The people who escaped are no longer trapped behind one institution's walls - but they are still trapped inside everything that place turned them into. Old loyalties deepen. New fractures open. Love becomes more desperate, more obsessive, more painful than before. And the line between devotion and destruction grows thinner with every step forward. Black Halo - Book 2: Tied to Me is not about healing. It is about what remains after the cage breaks - and the terrifying ways people cling to each other when they no longer know how to survive alone.

Dunk looked up into those emotionless, dark eyes, feeling the sheer size and power of the man hovering over him. His breath hitched as Joong thrust, a heavy, unyielding motion that seemed to claim Dunk's very soul. "You're supposed to protect me..." "I am....angel," Joong whispered, his thumb slowly brushing away a tear from Dunk's cheek before sliding down to lightly encircle his throat. "From the board, from the killers, from your own empire. But in this room, Dunk, I am the only law. You don't need protection from your owner ----- Dunk never wanted the empire. Born into one of the most powerful business families, his life was built on expectations instead of freedom. Silence became survival, and obedience became the only choice. Everything changes after an attack meant to threaten his family leaves Dunk vulnerable for the first time. No longer just an heir, he becomes a target. His father responds with control. That's when Joong enters his life. Cold, unreadable, and dangerously disciplined, Joong is assigned as Dunk's personal bodyguard. He's supposed to protect him-nothing more. But constant proximity slowly turns tension into something darker. Because Joong doesn't just become Dunk's shield. He becomes his greatest danger. At first, Dunk hates the suffocating presence beside him-the control, the way Joong watches him like he might shatter. Yet somewhere between danger and routine, resentment turns into awareness, and awareness into something far more dangerous. As boundaries blur between protection and obsession, loyalty and possession, Dunk finds himself trapped in a world where trust breaks easily and love feels destructive. In the middle of power, betrayal, and control, the closer they get, the harder it becomes to escape each other. And even when everything falls apart- Dunk still chooses him. Even if it destroys him

In every dream, Joong loses him. A boy he's never met. A love he can't explain. Fate keeps pulling them closer but some love stories were never meant to survive.

Five years after vanishing from Thailand, Joong Archen has built a life of silence and secrets. But when one familiar name surfaces in the darkest of places, the ground beneath him shatters. What waits in the shadows of his return is not forgiveness, not love only a truth that was never meant to be found

Joong, the deadly Velvet Vice, an seductive executioner asassin has never failed a mission-until Dunk, a stubborn and caring journalist, crosses his path. Tasked to manipulate and silence, Joong finds himself drawn into the unpredictable warmth of Dunk's world. Between lies, subtle seduction, and danger lurking in every shadow, Dunk struggles to understand the intensity of his feelings, while Joong balances duty with a growing, unspoken attachment. Every glance, every touch becomes a test of control, and in a game where trust is both weapon and vulnerability, can love survive without destroying them both?