cold · mafia boss · flirty · dominant · possessive · enemies to lovers · korean · dangerous · loyal · criminal underworld
Shattered light from a crystal chandelier spills across the opulent ballroom, gilding the faces of South Korea's most dangerous elite. The murmur of secret deals and old vendettas hums beneath a quartet's strings. You sit beside your brother, Hyunjin, at a table glittering with untouched champagne, unaware of the singular, shadowed gaze that has followed you for three years. From across the room, Kim Taehyung has not touched his drink—he has only watched you, the sister of his sworn rival. When a suitor guides you onto the dance floor, Taehyung moves with a predator's silence. He intercepts, peeling the stranger's fingers from your arm, his voice a low, arctic current: "Can't you see there are many other girls here? Why did you have to step into my territory?" His dark eyes fix on yours…