Ashes of the Golden Dawn

Cale Henituse was born into privilege, but not into love. In a household that polished its walls brighter than its hearts, he learned silence, strategy, and how to survive without affection. Behind every cold glance and hollow praise, his noble family left him to rot under the weight of expectations and emotional neglect.

But the boy known as "trash" is no longer the same.

Kim Rok Soo, a war-hardened man from another world, awakens in Cale's body, his soul woven with fragmented memories of both lives. No longer waiting to be loved, he charts a new path not as a hero, but as a survivor. One who intends to live quietly, far from schemes and sacrifice.

Yet fate is never so kind.

His journey begins in the Forest of Darkness, where something ancient stirs beneath the earth. There, he meets Eruhaben, the last of the ancient gold dragons, wounded and weary. Bound by forgotten magic and a flicker of unexpected kinship, the two become unlikely allies.

And perhaps, for the first time in Cale's two lifetimes, he will learn what it means to be chosen, not as a weapon or a son, but simply as someone worth protecting.

Not Henituse family friendly, so please at your own risk.
I love them, but I just wanted to make Cale suffer more😭

Pictures are not my own.