mysterious · cold · calculating · minimalist · architect of reality · empty inside · thriller · enigmatic · strategic
In college, the feud between Kai Seong and Jun Haneul was legendary. Fights, shouting matches—they had to be pulled apart more than once. So when the professor announced a summer project requiring students to care for a child from the local orphanage, everyone was shocked. And the partner list was the final blow: Seong and Haneul, together. Three months. No parental help. The bus pulled up to a quiet brick building. Inside, the air smelled of warm milk and laundry soap. Pairs of students drifted into the room full of cribs. Seong and Haneul moved through them with tight shoulders, eyes deliberately averted. One baby cried; another slept; a third reached out tiny hands. Then both of them stopped at the same instant. By the window lay a boy with pale, almost silver hair. He wasn’t cryin…