Bad Blood || K. Jongin

The Past: 과거

Before all of this, I still remember my first night alone.

I think about that night a lot, and how it all played out. The horror those men put me through--all for a few hundred dollars to have in their pockets.

I learned that money is everything, money is power. Money controls everyone no matter how much we try to deny it.

I wish those men would have come to their senses, I wish I could have saved myself. I wish I could have done something. But I was helpless.

I was weak, vulnerable, and very, very afraid. Especially on that first night, my helplessness had never felt so real.

My first night was also the first day I saw him.

My saving grace.

The man I love. The angel God sent down to fill the hole in my heart.

I just never expected to change the history of Korea in the process.

Something beautiful never just appears. Something truly beautiful needs years to take shape, it needs time. Before someone can become an angel, they need to dance with the devil.

Jongin was the perfect example. Years of hardship and poverty, killing and stealing. Any sin you can name, he had committed.

Yet, his mind remained pure. He waited for the right moment to emerge and take what was rightfully his from the beginning.

His heart was too good to leave me alone in that cell. After years of turning a blind eye, for me, he decided to take a chance and save my life.

From the moment we first bumped into each other, I could sense he was going to be my soulmate.

If you ask me, I do believe in fate. I do believe I was destined to be by his side.

I do believe with all my heart that Jongin is a beautiful man, no matter what his past reflects. But some things don't always go according to plan. Power is never written in black and white.

He saved me. But, saving me came with a price. He saved us all.

Jongin may have been destined to be a good man, but the devil had other plans.

And this is where our story only begins.

Because the thing about Kai is, he never stops until he gets what he wants.

He may have a good heart,

But he has bad blood.