"First lesson of being on the field, never ever underestimate the power of a woman." He gave me a once over with a questioning expression on his face. I smirked, halting in my tracks. With him momentarily distracted, I grabbed him in a headlock and brought my knee dangerously close to the red zone. "Because we won't hesitate to hurt you where the sun doesn't shine." TW: for this whole book. There's going to be violence, mentions of the word gun, kill, etc. Cover by: @mytholojin

They were a singular pulse in a world of flatlines. Namjoon and Seol-ah were more than partners-they were Soulmates before they knew the metallic tang of blood; lovers before they were forced to inherit a throne of thorns. In the brutal hierarchy of the underworld, they were the only truth either of them ever knew. Then cames a night-the mountain road that claimed the memories and the siege that leveled the Kim Estate. Seol-ah emerged from the fire alone, a martyr for a man who woke up a ghost. To save him from the weight of their sins, she gifted him a "clean" life, and handed the responsibility of her love in the hands of the venom itself, who played the role of friends perfectly, the one seol-ah trusted with the heir of kim estates, she stepped back into the blood-soaked shadows to rule the underworld in silence, purging every threat to keep his name untainted. ​but when seol-ah was disarming the enemies, the venom was busy poisoning his soul. They didn't just give Namjoon amnesia; they gave him a masterpiece of malice. They filled his empty mind with hate and disgust, convincing him that Seol-ah wasn't his protector, but his predator-the woman who stole his everything, his happiness, and his very past to build her empire on his ruin. ​Now, the Empress of the Underworld faces her final, most lethal rival. ​The very man she spent a decade guarding has returned to take his revenge. Namjoon stands before her not as a lover, but as an executioner, his heart a cavern of manufactured hate, his hands ready to destroy the only person who ever truly loved him. ​What happens when the venom of a manufactured past meets the crushing weight of a suppressed truth? Will Namjoon's revenge be his ultimate undoing, or can the heart remember what the mind was programmed to kill? ​The car crashed. The estate fell. The love was betrayed. But the blood... the blood is coming home to claim its debt. .....

*parallel* is a mysterious, emotionally layered fiction set across **two mirrored worlds**, both running on the same timeline but inhabited by different people-with one exception: two souls that seem destined to meet. In **fisrt half of universe**, we follow **Namjoon**, a global icon who once lost love and has since shut his heart away. He believes he's moved on-until dreams begin to haunt him. Dreams that don't belong to this world. They're filled with feelings he can't explain and a woman he's never met... but somehow, knows. In **other half of universe**, **Aroha** is a royal figure-strong, disciplined, and haunted by a soulmate lost in a war she blames herself for. She carries her grief in silence, until visions of a man she never met begin to disturb her reality. A man who doesn't belong in her world... yet feels like home. As both begin questioning their pasts and present, their **memories start to blur**, forcing them to confront the possibility that what they're seeing isn't imagination-but a connection to something far beyond understanding. A **curse** whispered in prophecy. A **truth** buried in history. And a **third world** watching from the shadows. This story is not just about love. It's about **identity**, **destiny**, and the terrifying beauty of being connected to someone you were never supposed to find. ---