Bagi Winsy, Karin adalah ibu tiri yang sempurna-anggun, dingin, dan seorang Muse fesyen internasional yang dipuja dunia. Namun, di balik topeng porselen itu, Karin menyimpan rahasia kelam tentang kecelakaan maut ibu kandung Winsy di Paris dua tahun lalu. ​Ketika Winsy mulai mencium kebenaran, Karin tidak tinggal diam. Menggunakan pesona intim dan dominasinya yang berbahaya, Karin mengunci Winsy dalam "sangkar emas" penuh manipulasi agar rahasia itu tetap terkubur rapat. ​Namun, permainan kendali ini tidak bertahan selamanya. Saat rahasia besar itu akhirnya pecah, sangkar emas runtuh berkeping-keping. Kini, roda berputar 180 derajat. Winsy bukan lagi kelinci kecil yang ketakutan-dialah sang penguasa baru, dan sang predator dengan sukarela mengalungkan rantai di lehernya sendiri demi sebuah pengampunan abadi. ​Siapa yang sebenarnya terjebak di akhir permainan?

It's just another cliché love story wherein Yu Jimin, a promising badminton athlete preparing for nationals, was awestruck when she met the MotoGP racer she saw once on the circuit with her cousin, Kim Minjeong on her part-time at the café. Since then, it was a bit hard (too hard) for them to avoid each other.

"The job is you want me to help you fake a relationship to get the media off your back?" Minjeong asks, voice saturated with disbelief. "That's exactly what I'm suggesting." Jimin replies.

Karina, a globally known actress, is used to being watched, admired, and criticized-but never questioned. Minjeong is the opposite. Ordinary, quiet, and completely outside of Karina's world. Their relationship starts in secrecy, something soft and private in between the chaos of fame. But the moment they're seen together, everything changes. The public turns ruthless, directing their scrutiny toward Minjeong-picking her apart, questioning her worth, deciding she doesn't belong beside someone like Karina. What starts as criticism slowly turns into something more dangerous. And when that danger finally reaches Minjeong, leaving her fighting for her life, Karina is forced to face the one thing she can't control- That her job might be the very thing that destroys the person she loves most.

"I just wanted a dating app, not a near-death experience." Minjeong has three problems: her father's crushing debt, her complete lack of a social life, and the fact that she just matched with a girl so gorgeous it's probably a crime. Karina is mysterious, dark-eyed, and suggests they meet in an alley behind a closed-down theater. Minjeong's survival instincts? Nonexistent. She goes anyway. Obviously. One sharp bite later, she wakes up on Karina's lap with no memory of what happened, a weird pain in her neck, and the strange feeling that she's forgetting something important. What she doesn't know: Karina is a vampire. What she also doesn't know: once Karina tastes your blood, she can manipulate your mind. And Karina has no intention of letting her go.

When Winter signed up for campus housing, she was just hoping for a bed, a desk, and maybe air conditioning that didn't sound like a dying raccoon. What she didn't expect was to walk into her new dorm and find Karina - the literal Tinder match she ghosted a month ago after one disastrously flirty week of texting. Now they're roommates. There's one bed left. And Karina looks way too good in a hoodie for Winter's sanity. Will Winter survive? Will Karina murder her in her sleep?

Karina was already falling before Winter even looked her way. Winter builds walls faster than she lets people in. They say love is about meeting halfway but what if one of you runs, and the other walks? A slow, messy love story about patience, timing, and finding each other at the right speed. (All chapters will be read from Jimin's pov, but in some chapters you happen to read from Minjeong's pov.)

"you are more important than anything in my life." ini tentang cinta pertama, luka pertama, pelajaran pertama, dan trauma pertama yang masih membekas hingga hari ini. © mysxca

Kim Minjeong is the university's sweetheart-soft dimples, gentle smile, and loved by everyone without even trying. The daughter of Kim Jisoo and best friend to Ningning, she was never supposed to stand out in Karina Yu's world. Karina Yu is the cold billionaire CEO who owns Yu International University. A former military officer, she is feared for her discipline, her silence, and the gun always hidden at her waist in a leather holster. Untouchable. Unreadable. Oblivious to everything except control. Until Minjeong. At first, she is just her daughter's friend. Then a student she occasionally notices. Then someone she keeps accidentally seeing everywhere. Minjeong shouldn't be curious about her. Karina shouldn't be paying attention. But in a world of secrets, power, and forbidden ties between family and loyalty... one innocent smile might be the most dangerous thing of all.

In a world where debts are paid in flesh, silence is the most valuable currency. When her father's fatal mistake brings the devastatingly powerful Yu Family to her doorstep, the quiet, introverted Kim Minjeong watches her world end in a single, bloody breath. Spared from the slaughter not out of mercy, but out of cold calculation, she is taken as living collateral by the heiress, Yu Jimin (Karina). Dragged into a glittering world of opulence and violence, Minjeong must navigate a gilded cage where one wrong word could mean death, and where her captor's chilling interest in her may be her only path to survival. #1 haha I guess...