But you like her better

Ryujin is Death. Her job is simple: collect souls and guide them into the afterlife. No attachments. No emotions. Then she meets Yeji-a terminal patient with a sharp tongue, a fading pulse, and a smile that makes Death forget who she is. In the quiet moments between treatments and goodbyes, a love begins to form. One that was never meant to last. Because even Death can love. And even the dying can live -- on borrowed time -

Ryujin doesn't belong on a college campus-she belongs on the road. Yet every day, she rides in just to cross paths with Yeji. Yeji hates her. The bike. The arrogance. The way Ryujin looks at her like she's a challenge waiting to be claimed. Their encounters are filled with glares, sharp words, and unfinished tension. What starts as rivalry slowly twists into something neither of them wants to name. Because when a biker and a college student collide, hatred is only the beginning. Top: Ryujin Bottom: Yeji

Yeji always thought the world would end in fire, or maybe in a flood. But when it came, the end was quiet-broken only by the groans of the dead. They rose in many forms: the stiffs, the lurkers, and the relentless swarmers that consumed entire streets. Humanity didn't fall in a single night. Piece by piece, it unraveled. And survival became more than just outrunning the dead. It became about trust. About hope. About love. And above all...about the ones who remain.

After another long day at work, Ryujin reaches out to her girlfriend, Chaeryeong-only to be met with cold replies and excuses. Their once warm relationship now feels like a routine of silence and distance, leaving Ryujin questioning if love is still there at all. On her walk home, a strange encounter with an energetic girl shoves a mysterious flier into her hands: Rent Company-love, attention, no strings attached. Ryujin laughs it off, but when she sees the photo of a girl named Yeji, something in her stirs. She tells herself she loves Chaeryeong, she tells herself she isn't desperate... but late at night, with no texts, no calls, and only loneliness for company, Ryujin can't shake the image of Yeji's smile from her mind.

‼️ THIS IS AN ADAPTATION. ALL CREDITS GO TO THE ORIGINAL AUTHOR‼️ - "Touch her again, and we'll fucking kill you." She was Hwang Yeji. By day, she was an international rockstar with a bad attitude and a penchant for partying. By night, she was consigliere to the largest Mafia family in New York. Her life revolved around turf wars, blood feuds, fine whiskey and all that jazz. To her, kidnappings and murders were the means to her ends, forever sitting on a grey-scale the common man cannot comprehend. Some call her a legend, others a nightmare. They say she is the most powerful woman in America. She begs to differ. A puppet only as powerful as its master allows it to be. And her puppet master was none other than Shin Ryujin, America's sweetheart: the woman who had owned her heart since they were teenagers.

Recently the Seoul city is filled with a lot of murders. The murders are some how connected to the President of South Korea. In fear of losing anymore family members or himself, the President orders the best detective in the whole South Korea Hwang Yeji and her team to solve these murder cases. Will Hwang Yeji be able to solve the case or will she..... Hesitate? Because of love.... Or will that love be unevitable? First time writing a story so bear with me :) Start: 6th July, 2024 End: 3rd October, 2024 🥉: #28 straykidz : 8/7/2024 🥈: #8 yeji : 18/8/24 🥇: #1 ryujin : 21/8/24 🥉: #10 ryeji: 20/9/24

Ryujin and Yeji are both in love- but not with each other. Ryujin, the team's rising rookie star, has her heart set on Lia, the school's golden girl and head cheerleader. Yeji, the no-nonsense manager of the school's basketball team, has been quietly in love with her childhood best friend, the team captain, Chaeryeong. But the cruel twist? Chaeryeong and Lia are in love with each other. Caught in a web of one-sided love and longing, Ryujin and Yeji find themselves drifting closer, not out of romance, but out of shared pain. ~ "You can think of me as Lia, and I'll think of you as Chaeryeong," Yeji says quietly, eyes locked on Ryujin. "No feelings involved." Ryujin nods. "Deal."

Grieving the loss of her fiancée, Ryujin wandered the dark alleys of Seoul. She came across an empty store with a dilapidated Photo Booth. After inserting a coin into the machine, Ryujin was taken back to the day Yeji died. [short story.]

Cards were Ryujin's signature. She would place a card in between the stiff fingers of each of her victims, signifying the life she took in exchange for money. However, there was a person that she couldn't give a card to; Hwang Yeji. Just when she found solace in Yeji, the ghosts of her past came to haunt her, leaving her torn between the two lives she was living. If the cards were shuffled again, would the outcome stay the same? [alternate storyline of 'Save Me'] [@l3montreee made the cover :)]