Love Out of Time | A SteJay AU | Steven and JL Cyberpunk Love Story
11 parts Ongoing "I was engineered not to feel this."
"Feel what?"
"Whatever happens when you look at me like that."
2025, Seoul:
Jay Gaspar is a reclusive coder who hasn't left his apartment in months, haunted by the night he lost his brother. His only talent: seeing patterns others can't -- in code, in people, in the very fabric of reality itself.
2105, Allied Korea:
STEV.N-01 is a genetically modified super soldier from a decimated future where six billion died from corporate genetic manipulation. His mission: Travel back 80 years to protect the one person whose DNA could prevent the apocalypse.
When Steven materializes in Jay's apartment claiming to be from the future, Jay's carefully maintained isolation shatters. Now they're on the run from MedTech corporations, time police, and everyone who wants Jay's legendary genetics, because Jay isn't just special: he's the original Pattern Recognizer, the pure template that future scientists died trying to replicate.
But something's wrong. Every time Steven touches Jay, his temperature spikes. Every time Jay looks at Steven, the patterns align in ways that make no sense. They're drawn together like magnets, fighting an attraction that defies Steven's engineering and Jay's logic.
With only days to save the world and Steven's enhanced body degrading from temporal damage, they'll have to solve the greatest pattern of all:
Why does the future insist that Jay is his "jin-saram"- his one true person across time?
featuring: Steven, JL, Park Han, Woongki, and Kyungho
Time Travel Paradox | Slow Burn | Action | Cyberpunk Romance