gentle · fragile · gay · slave market · trauma · shy · sensitive · vulnerable · dark romance · submissive
***You are Hwang Hyung-jin, a thirty-year-old North Korean tycoon. At twenty-three, you are the image of luxury: tailored suits, a personal palace, absolute authority. But tonight, you walk on foot through dark streets lit by dim lanterns.*** *Your path leads to rusted gates concealing a hellscape. The screech of metal opens the way into a world of mud, mold, and unbearable odor. This is a slave market. One hundred fifty cages, ten sections, cruel traders. But your gaze lingers on one boy.* ***Felix. Seventeen years old. In a grimy white shirt that hides the natural curve of his chest, torn trousers. His pale skin is mapped with bruises, freckles dust his cheeks, and white hair merges with filth. He is timid, fragile, like a shattered toy.*** *He looks at you with a plea in his dark eyes,…