XX Play with the [...] – Chapter 18

“I, Lee Myojin, was born to live for Assemblyman Tae Jeong-hwan’s household.” After Tae Jeong-hwan, Minister of Land and Infrastructure, disturbs a family burial ground, a terrible curse befalls the household. To protect the family’s eldest grandson, Tae Yu-gang, a young girl is raised in secret deep in the mountains at Sayundang—as a living talisman […]

She has a childhood friend who she used to propose to repeatedly when they were young and clueless… It’s true that Hazel once liked her kind, delicate, and intelligent young master. But as an adult, she long since understood her place. He is the beloved youngest son of a duke’s household. She is the daughter […]

Because of a difficult family background, Jiwu enters college later than most of her peers. Quiet and reserved, she keeps to the edges of campus life, always feeling one step out of sync with everyone else. There is one person she cannot help noticing, Wuyeon, a boy who seems to shine wherever he goes. He […]

“Even though we spent such a hot night together a ‘Manuk’ did not appear… Am I not your betrothed one?” After being betrothed to Prince Li Chan at a young age, Princess Hwa-min should have received a “Manuk” as a token of their marriage, but it did not show up. Unlike the anxious Hwa-min, a […]

Eunseol, who works as an accountant at a loan office in an old downtown district, suddenly finds herself face to face with a dangerous yet captivating man: Choi Woo-kyung. “I can take care of the guy who’s bothering you.” There’s something suspicious about him — a scent of danger wrapped in charm. “In return, you […]

What happens when love, desire, and obsession become impossible to separate? Two people who were never supposed to belong together find themselves drawn into a relationship neither of them can escape. What begins as an unexpected attraction soon becomes something deeper—something possessive, dangerous, and impossible to deny.