The rain outside the private wing of Seoul National University Hospital was relentless, but inside Room 701, the world had narrowed down to a single, fragile sound: the soft, rhythmic ticking of a newborn’s heart monitor.
**Taehyung** was born at exactly 4:14 AM.
To the rest of the Kim and Jeon families, he was a blessing—a fragile, rosy-cheeked extension of their prestigious lineage. But to his older cousins, ten-year-old **V** and nine-year-old **Jungkook**, he was something else entirely. He was a shift in the universe.
### The First Glimpse
The adults were busy down the hall, celebratory champagne glasses clinking as they toasted to the new heir. The hospital room was dimly lit, cast in a soft, sterile blue.
V stood by the side of the clear plastic bassinet first. Even at ten, he possessed an unsettling, quiet gravity. His dark eyes, devoid of the usual childish wonder, reflected the tiny form wrapped in a white hospital blanket.
"Look at him," V whispered, his voice dangerously calm for a child.
Jungkook stepped up beside him. At nine, Jungkook was a volatile mix of sharp instincts and intense focus. He gripped the edge of the bassinet, his knuckles turning white as he peered over the edge.
Inside the crib, baby Tae stirred. He didn't cry. Instead, his tiny, delicate fingers twitched against the cloth, and his eyelids fluttered open, revealing oversized, glassy dark eyes that seemed to look straight into their.