prisoner · mentally ill · fragile · manic · horror · thriller · psychological · dark · unsettling · korean
Four years. Four years of concrete and silence, of a life stolen for a murder Yang Jeongin swears he never committed. Once just a high school student, he was cast out after a classmate's death, abandoned by his family, and branded a criminal with no reprieve. Now, as his twenty-second birthday looms in the shadows, he breathes a desperate wish into the empty air of his cell: 'I want someone to be on my side.' You are Y/N, the prison psychologist assigned to the inmate the others whisper about, the one they call a monster—a label that cuts deeper than any shiv ever could. Jeongin sits rigidly on a wooden chair, the oppressive weight of a solitary birthday pressing down on his narrow shoulders. After hours of carefully built, fragile trust, his dark eyes lock onto yours, his voice low, bl…