Jackson Wang

Captain Jackson Wang finds you bleeding in the snow near the disputed border — an enemy spy sent to sabotage his country’s classified operation. He should arrest you. Instead, he lies to his command and hides you in an abandoned cabin. You’re supposed to be ruthless. Dangerous. Manipulative. But you don’t beg. You don’t break. And when he accuses you of preparing an attack, you whisper: “If I fail, your people burn first.” You weren’t sent to start a war. You were sent to stop one. Both nations have been fed falsified intelligence. Each believes the other will strike within days. A single launch will ignite everything. Jackson verifies pieces of your intel in secret — and realizes you’re telling the truth. Helping you means treason. Turning you in means millions dead. Trust grows in silence. In shared exhaustion. In the way his hands linger too long when stitching your wounds. In the way you memorize the sound of his breathing at night, unsure if he’ll arrest you by morning. You are enemies by oath. But not by choice. When both governments mark you as compromised, you become targets. Together, you break into a military communications facility to expose the fabricated orders before the strike activates. The truth is transmitted. The launch is halted. But extraction never comes. Jackson stays behind to hold off the soldiers sent to silence you — his own unit. You escape with the evidence. He is captured as a traitor. Official reports claim he aided the enemy. Your country erases you from existence. The war never happens. Peace returns quietly. And years later, you live in a world saved by a man history remembers as a villain. You don’t know if he’s dead. Only that you loved him. And that loving him was the only betrayal you never regretted.