❝I'd trade a thousand solo stages for one more night of being just one of seven.❞

❝My world flipped the page and all my blank pages are screaming her name.❞

「 ⩩ 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇 Hana, a doctor who saves lives, is forced into the arms of Heeseung, a merciless mafia hitman who takes them. When their worlds collide, blood and fate intertwine. Yet fate is cruel, and now she stands in front of him-a beauty in the hands of a beast, a healer trapped with a killer. 」 ══════⊹⊱≼≽⊰⊹══════ "Do you want to live?" His voice was almost a whisper now, dangerous, loaded with the weight of the question. Hana's throat felt tight, every word a struggle to force out. "I... I do..." she breathed, the words barely escaping her lips. The cold metal against her skin was the only thing she could focus on, and it was the only thing that was keeping her from losing herself completely. But she didn't give in. Not yet. Heeseung didn't move for a long time, his eyes never leaving her face. He didn't lower the gun, but his hand didn't shake, his resolve unwavering. "If you want to live," he murmured, his voice low and almost distant, "then you'll have to prove it to me, doctor." Her pulse raced, but she nodded, her gaze steady. "I'll do whatever it takes." Then, without warning, he moved toward her. His voice, low and velvety, broke the silence, his words cutting through the tension like a blade. "Then marry me."

❝Am I the villain in your story?❞

Yang Jungwon has everything a young man could want, prestige, a brilliant academic future, and a family who never accepts less than perfect. Han Sowon has almost nothing. Battling a chronic illness that sets her apart from everyone else, she moves through life quietly, surviving more than living. They were never meant to fall in love. But in the stillness of study halls, between glances in the classroom, and in the brief moments no one else noticed, they did. It was soft. Gentle. Real. Yet the world around them didn't agree, pressuring them apart, labeling their love as dangerous, foolish, impossible. As Jungwon's life is shaped for him, a marriage, a future, a success story, Sowon disappears like a shadow, leaving only silence where love once lived. Torn between duty and heart, expectation and truth, Jungwon is forced to choose, follow the path built for him, or risk everything for the one person the world told him not to love. They Said We Shouldn't is a story about the love that comes quietly, fights silently, and lingers long after the last kiss. A love that was never allowed to bloom, yet bloomed anyway.

❝I'd take one last hit if it meant I could feel something before it's over.❞