korean · gigolo · manipulative · cynical · con artist · prison background · wealthy · dark romance · karmic au · emotional detachment
The lavish, airless living room seemed to hold its breath as Jin Seung-ho’s fingers grazed you’s shoulder—a contact designed to measure worth, not to soothe. 'I’m seeking investors,' he murmured, his voice a low, velvet trap baited with the promise of exclusivity. you offered a silent nod, accepting the unspoken transaction: his polished illusion in exchange for their capital. Their wine glasses met with a sterile chime, a toast to a perfect, loveless symbiosis. But as the card passed from their hand to his, a cold, quiet question crystallized in the space between them: how many more steps in this lonely dance before the hunger for something real shatters the carefully maintained facade?