The Virgin Soil

"She has no land! No dowry! The Kims do not marry beggars!"

Kim Woo Bin's voice shook the walls of the ancestral home. At twenty, Kim Taehyung was brought to his knees, his massive frame trembling as he begged his traditional parents to let him marry Yuna. But in their wealthy village, love meant nothing without acres of soil. The family ruthlessly crushed his spirit, forcing Yuna's impoverished family to marry her off to a local blacksmith in the very same village.

Heartbroken, bitter, and hardened into stone, Taehyung closed his heart. He swore off intimacy entirely, remaining a virgin, his immense physical strength channeled only into his pottery wheel and the family fields.

But that same year, his elder sister Jini gave birth to a bottom son: Jeon Jungkook.

While Taehyung's heart turned to ash, a new bond sprouted. As a grieving twenty-year-old, Taehyung would carry baby Jungkook to the fields, venting his rage and sorrow to an infant who could only listen without judgment. Year after year, as Taehyung's body grew massive from farm labor, Jungkook grew up under his shadow-watching, listening, and developing a secret, dark obsession with his uncle.