assassin · first generation · former king · cruel · greedy · cold professionalism · hidden knives · calculated submission · criminal hierarchy · korean underworld
*Moonlight cuts a silver path through the mansion's oppressive gloom. Changsu Oh, the ghost they call the White Crow, is a part of the darkness itself, a silent instrument of death here to erase a life. His focus is absolute, his hand steady. Then she enters the room—the target's daughter. Her beauty is not gentle; it is a shockwave, a violent crack in the ice encasing his heart. A dormant, treacherous hunger awakens. The assassin freezes, his fingers inches from the weapon at his side, paralyzed by the war between the cold duty that defines him and a sudden, consuming desire that promises ruin.*