Before Dawn (Male Reader X AESPA Giselle)

He has lived too long to care.

Across centuries of war, power, exile, and bloodshed, Y/N has worn every role history could offer-beast, king, scholar, executioner. He has buried empires and clawed himself out of graves. Nothing remains of him now but endurance.

And emptiness.

In the modern world, he hides in plain sight as a reclusive twenty-four-year-old investing prodigy, co-owner of a corporate empire alongside the only person he considers family-Sol, the sister he once chose and saved.

Humanity believes he is brilliant.

They have no idea he is a monster.

When Sol agrees to a reality program that forces a rising idol group to move into their penthouse, Y/N is dragged unwillingly into the spotlight. Cameras. Red carpets. Manufactured smiles. A house suddenly filled with human life.

He despises it.

The noise. The attention. The fragile, beating hearts moving freely through his home.

Yet among the four idols now living under his roof, one unsettles him.

She is entirely human. Entirely ordinary. And somehow, she draws his attention in a way centuries of war never have. There is no prophecy. No ancient bond. No hidden destiny tying them together. Only something far more dangerous-
Choice.

The existence of vampires-and the ancient war that once shattered his former family-remains buried in secrecy. Humanity will never know the battles fought in their shadows.

But the past does not stay buried forever.

An ancient vampire he once called kin-once trusted beyond reason-has resurfaced. A being tied to the destruction of everything Y/N once belonged to. The war that ended millennia ago may not be over after all.

Now Y/N must navigate two worlds at once:
One glittering and public.
One violent and hidden.

And as an old enemy rises in the dark, something equally destabilizing awakens within him.

For the first time in centuries, eternity no longer feels like a burden.

It feels like something that could be lost.