Shin Ryujin, is a mafia boss who spends the night with a beautiful woman who leaves him wanting more than what he bargained for. ©️ Original Author

An aspiring writer spends her morning in a cozy coffee shop, secretly leaving notes on napkins, hoping to inspire someone. A regular customer, a charming but slightly shy architect, starts collecting these notes thinking they're meant for her. One day, she leaves a note in return, and a fun, quirky exchange of letters begins. As the two grow closer, their bond deepens, and they both realize the true magic of their connection isn't the notes- it's in each other... . . . RYEJI

What happened in August? When the golden bell tree blooms following the summer of August.

Boston Sentinels captain Yeji Hwang and New York Cyclones superstar Ryujin Shin share their first real date, navigating nerves, quiet intimacy, and the weight of everything they have been to each other - once rivals, now something deeper. A six-part OCMC special chapter (between Chapters 86 and 87)

Yeji and Ryujin have been best friends since they were thirteen. Not the loud, obvious kind, more like the kind where they sit on opposite ends of the room doing different things but always know exactly what the other is feeling. Everyone at school thinks they're inseparable in a platonic way. They walk home together, share earbuds on the bus, fall asleep on call without talking. It's normal. Too normal. The problem is that Yeji has been in love with Ryujin for years and has convinced herself it's something she can survive with. Ryujin, on the other hand, doesn't think she's capable of love in that way at all. She's emotionally distant, nonchalant, half-joking about everything, because caring too much once ruined her, and she promised herself she'd never let it happen again. Senior year starts and everything feels like it's running out. Last chances. Last walks home. University applications, futures that don't automatically include each other anymore. Yeji starts pulling away, not dramatically, just subtly. Shorter texts. Sitting with other people. Laughing a little less around Ryujin. And Ryujin notices... but doesn't know how to ask without sounding like she cares. Then someone else enters Yeji's life. Nothing serious, just enough to make Ryujin feel something sharp and unfamiliar in her chest. Jealousy. Fear. The realization that maybe she doesn't want to be "fine" without Yeji after all. The story becomes a slow unraveling, missed timing, unsent messages, nights where one of them almost confesses but doesn't. Until one breaking point: graduation night. Empty classrooms, lights off, the school already starting to feel like a memory. Yeji finally decides she's done waiting for something that may never come... and Ryujin has to choose whether she's going to let the most important person in her life walk away just because she's afraid to say the truth out loud.

Hwang Yeji and Shin Ryujin are Korea's newest power couple. Whether they like it or not. Forced into an arranged marriage between two powerful families, the two must survive the pressure of the public eye, corporate expectations, and each other. To everyone watching, they look perfect together. Behind closed doors, however, their relationship is filled with sharp tension, unresolved history, and a chemistry neither of them knows what to do with. In a marriage built for appearances, the hardest part might not be pretending.

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.

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In a world plunged into chaos by a hellish apocalypse, amidst the hordes of the undead and the ever-present threat of annihilation, Ryujin must survive. She had lost everyone she had ever loved and cared for. Death wasn't an option; no matter how hard she tried. So she had to find something worth living for. Though, she never expected it to be someone. [slow burn... really slow burn... like they went out to find the wood and eventually got some but can't light it up because it's wet.]