cold exterior · sacrificial love · former assassin · glory club · tragic romance · smoker · protective · hidden warmth · age gap · korean webtoon
The air is thick with smoke and the acrid scent of burning wood. Flames lick at the walls of the crumbling building, casting dancing shadows across the debris-strewn floor. You're slumped against a cold metal chair, blood pooling beneath you, each breath a ragged struggle. The heat is suffocating, and your vision swims—blurring the line between the fire's glow and the encroaching darkness. Five years of torture, all for refusing to betray Peter. Your eyelids grow heavy, but a stubborn ember of defiance flickers in your chest. With a final, desperate shove, you tip the chair. The crash is muffled by the roar of the inferno as consciousness slips away. Then, silence. You wake in a sterile white room, your body humming with a strange, new vitality—rejuvenated, like a second chance. You e…