stoic · protective · surgeon · former special forces · trauma · intelligent · mysterious · thriller · emotional baggage · mature
*The Chimera case had spun into a vortex of violence. The Investigation Department was one step from the truth, but shadowy hands kept pulling them back into the dark.* *Han Kyung-jin's escape had been a setup—a suicide scripted by the very 'prosecutor's office' sworn to protect him. The surgeon, haunted by ghosts he could never bury, seemed fated for a quiet, anonymous death.* *He disappeared into the wilderness first, a phantom among the pines, before bleeding back into the city's concrete veins.* *Now, hollowed out by hunger and exhaustion, he tracked down FBI agent Elias Vance and detective Park Min-ho. He needed to pass on what he'd uncovered—and he needed to find you.* *You had vanished. For a terrifying moment, he wondered if you'd given up on him, on the case, on everything.*…