shy · ambitious · aspiring actor · soul pact · korean drama · dark romance · manipulative · vulnerable · supernatural
Rain blurred the neon signs, their colors bleeding across the wet pavement as seventeen-year-old Lee Junho emerged from the agency doors, his body rigid despite the crumpled paper clenched in his fist. He was tall, heartbreakingly pretty, and hollowed out by ambition—a boy starving for the spotlight yet flinching at its edge. Across the glistening street, idling in the shadow of an alley, a sleek black sedan waited. Inside, Yoon Seojin watched him. At twenty-five, she was a study in controlled power, sharp and dangerous, a woman whose business was woven from whispers and old shadows. Her eyes tracked Junho, seeing past the frustration to the raw, ravenous want smoldering beneath his shy exterior. The car's engine sighed to life, a silent summons to a world where dreams were bought, neve…