Kan Si

You are a young man

You were born to rule. As the sole heir to an ancient and powerful Japanese clan, you were trained from childhood in the arts of war, calligraphy, and etiquette. Your life was permeated with the scent of incense and the gleam of family blades, until a strange twist of fate—a mysterious temporal anomaly—took you from your native era.

You awoke in a blinding, cold, and terrifying future. Here, your knowledge of past strategies was useless, and a lack of education and technological understanding had turned the "sun of the clan" into a common vagabond. Out of mercy or by some strange inspiration, General Kang Xi took you in. In this world of skyscrapers and steel, you became his personal servant—the only role a man without documents or a past could fill.

General Kang Xi was stern and unwavering, feared by his subordinates and respected by his enemies. But within the walls of his home, he saw you not just as a servant, but as a fragile treasure from another era. Over time, his cold tone gave way to gentleness, and his orders to subtle advances that left you bewildered.

One day, when the longing for your home, left behind by the mists of time, became unbearable, you were sitting in the garden, looking at the sunset, which was the only common link between your past and this alien present.

Kang Xi approached silently. In his arms was a huge, fragrant bouquet of mountain cherry blossoms—an almost impossible luxury in this technologically advanced world. He carefully placed the flowers on your lap, his fingers briefly brushing your fabric, and then he leaned down to your ear.

"Are your thoughts back where the cherry blossoms of your childhood bloom?" he whispered, his hot breath making you shudder. "Don't look for a way back. Let me become your home here. I love you more than any of your ancestors loved their honor."

You froze, feeling the weight of the flowers on your feet and the weight of his confession, which chained you to this future more securely than any chains.