After Force's sudden death, Dunk is left pregnant, grieving, and fighting against a family that wants to take his child away. Joong steps in with a solution-marriage. Just for legal protection. Nothing more. But living together, raising a child, and uncovering the truth behind Force's death changes everything. What started as a fake marriage slowly becomes something real, and by the time divorce papers are ready, the question is no longer about protection... but about love.

They married for money, power, and mutual disdain...but love wasn't part of the deal. Or A marriage of convenience turns into a battle of wills... and hearts.

Darker Book Description (Possession • Abduction • Psychological Horror Romance) Joong Archen didn't just escape prison. He dragged his world with him- his violent inner circle of killers and loyal monsters... and the only person he refuses to live without: Dunk Natachai - the chairman's son. His obsession. His fixation. His chosen captive. Dunk isn't just abducted. He's claimed. Joong stole him with the same certainty he kills: calmly, brutally, without a second thought. To Joong, Dunk is not a hostage. Not a lover. Not a man with a life outside. Dunk is property. Marked. Tracked. Owned. And Joong loves him with the kind of devotion that splits reality open: • jealous enough to kill a stranger for looking at Dunk • gentle enough to kiss Dunk's throat after hurting him • insane enough to believe Dunk was always meant to be his Now Dunk is trapped in a world where love is violence, affection is control, and safety is whatever mood Joong wakes up in. Every attempt to escape is met with tenderness twisted into terror. Every desperate plea turns into another reason for Joong to hold him tighter. Every night brings a new kind of intimacy- some forced, some wanted, all dangerous. And the worst part? Dunk is starting to feel something back. The fear. The heat. The pull. The craving for the man he should hate. The comfort in the arms of the monster he swears he'll run from. Is it survival? Is it trauma? Is it the beginning of loving the man who stole him? Or is Dunk turning into exactly what Joong always wanted- a partner in madness? Because in Joong's world, there is no escape. No freedom. No mercy. Only obsession. Only possession. Only the darkness Joong built around them both- A darkness Dunk may never crawl out of.

Playing with Fire - Black Orchid Book One Hitman × Escort × Informant Chicago has a club that rich people don't admit they visit. Black Orchid-velvet rooms, private rules, and a price for everything. Joong is the city's cleanest hitman. Quiet. Precise. Untouchable. The kind of man who doesn't threaten-he finishes. Dunk is Black Orchid's most dangerous escort. Not because he's soft. Because he's smart. He knows how to survive men who think money makes them gods. Then the police corner Dunk and turn him into a weapon: Get close to Joong. Get something real. No wires in a van. No interrogation room. Just silk sheets, controlled breaths, and questions asked with a smile. Joong keeps booking him anyway. Not because he trusts him-because he wants to know why. What follows isn't romance. It's a power game-slow, intimate, brutal. Joong tightening rules. Dunk learning how to bend them. Each meeting a test. Each touch a trap. And while they circle each other, Black Orchid rots from the inside: a new drug, corrupt money, and bodies that keep showing up "accidentally." Everyone is lying. Everyone is using someone. No one is innocent. This isn't a love story. It's a fire. And once you step into Black Orchid, you don't walk out untouched.

In the country's most violent prison, nothing survives untouched. Not the guards. Not the rules. Not the doctor who was never supposed to be there. Dr. Dunk Natachai walks into Ratchanarok believing he's there to fix broken minds. He doesn't realize he's just stepped into the hands of the man who breaks them. Joong Archen - inmate 09, murderer, king of the underworld behind bars - runs the prison like a kingdom built from blood and silence. Every deal, every body, every scream in the dark belongs to him. And now, so does Dunk's attention. Between the sound of knives scraping metal and whispered confessions in the therapy room, something starts to twist - hunger, fear, desire. He's the doctor. Joong is the danger. But inside Ratchanarok, it's hard to tell which one's truly locked up.

PLAYING WITH FIRE - AFTERBURN (Book Two) Some fires don't end. They just go quiet. Dunk is trying to live in daylight-routine hours, clean walls, normal conversations that don't feel like traps. He tells himself the worst is behind him. That he can finally breathe. But the city doesn't forget what you are. And it doesn't forgive what you survived. Across town, Joong keeps moving the way he always has-precise, controlled, untouchable. The kind of man who doesn't chase and doesn't beg. The kind of man who knows that the most dangerous thing you can do is care and call it something else. Then the afterburn starts. A new threat slips through the cracks. People vanish. Silence gets bought again. And the past keeps circling back-not like a memory, like a hand. Joong and Dunk don't collide like a romance. They collide like unfinished damage. Like a deal that still has teeth. Like a love neither of them can name without turning it into a weapon. In this city, you don't get closure. You get consequences. And if the fire comes back... it won't ask permission this time.

He forgot a lot. Just not the feeling of him. Sugar & Sweat - Book Two: Forget Me Not continues Joong and Dunk's story after everything changes in the worst possible way. Some people lose memories. Some lose timing. Some lose the person standing right in front of them and don't even realize it. Joong can't remember what mattered. Dunk remembers too much. And somewhere between silence, distance, and the unbearable closeness of someone who feels familiar but looks at you like a stranger, they are forced into something harder than falling in love: waiting. wondering. hurting. hoping. Because the mind can fail. But the body remembers. A scent. A touch. A flower. A feeling that refuses to die just because a memory disappeared. Forget Me Not is about love after rupture. About the cruelty of being remembered by heart but not by name. And about what happens when one person forgets the story- but the other still has to live inside it.

Silk and Secrets JoongDunk AU Dunk serves the powerful Archen family with perfect loyalty. Calm. Efficient. Untouchable. But everything begins to change the moment someone else decides they want him. Typhoon sees Dunk as a prize to be taken. Joong sees him as something that already belongs to him. In a world of wealth, power, and quiet control, one mark is enough to start a war. Some secrets are wrapped in silk. And some loyalties are far more dangerous than love.

Sugar & Sweat Book One - The Beginning of Us (Boxer x Pâtissier) Joong Archen is built from violence and survival. The crowd calls him The Black Reaper-a fighter who wins with blood on his knuckles and silence in his eyes. He doesn't drink. He doesn't party. He doesn't let anyone close. Dunk Natachai is the opposite: warm hands, soft heart, a pastry shop that tastes like heaven and feels like safety. He believes in big love the way some people believe in religion-quietly, stubbornly, painfully. When a stupid bet pushes Joong into Dunk's orbit, it should be simple. Thirty days. A game. A distraction. But the moment Joong steps into Dunk's shop, something cracks. Dunk smells like vanilla and home. Like a memory Joong buried when he was eight. And Dunk-without knowing why-starts to feel it too. A childhood promise. A blue flower ring. A boy in a treehouse who once whispered: You're my yellow. Now they're adults, and the world is sharper. Joong's grief is a loaded weapon. Dunk's softness is a target. And the closer they get, the more dangerous it becomes-because Joong's darkness is real... ...and Dunk might be the only thing that can pull him back. If the truth doesn't destroy them first.

"One truth, one dare, and a single kiss that turned the world upside down." Dunk thought he knew the rules of the game. When Joong-his best friend and the person he's been secretly pining for since freshman year-dared him to kiss him in front of the entire party, Dunk assumed it was just alcohol-fueled bravado. But when the kiss stretches long after the cheering stops, and the dares start getting personal, professional, and increasingly intimate, Dunk realizes the game never actually ended. Now, trapped in a cycle of "I dare you," he has to decide: is he playing to win, or is he just playing into Joong's hands?