Jeon Wonwoo moves through the gilded halls of the academy like a beautiful, decaying ghost, draped in an oversized black hoodie that shields him from a world he utterly despises. As the son of Korea's most powerful tycoon, he possesses everything yet values nothing, preferring the sharp sting of a split knuckle and the hollow silence of a bruised ego to the fake smiles of his socialite peers. He is the school's most hated enigma, a boy who treats his own body like a battlefield and spends his classes drifting in a drug-like sleep, waking only to lash out at anyone who dares to breathe his air. The fragile peace of his isolation is shattered by the arrival of Kim Mingyu, a scholarship student whose presence feels like an insult to the curated misery of Wonwoo's life. On the first morning of senior year, Wonwoo targets him with a calculated cruelty, cornering Mingyu just to watch the light flicker in his hopeful eyes and making it clear that his life at this school will be a living hell. He treats Mingyu like a stain on the floor, picking fights over nothing and using his status to remind the younger boy exactly how little a "charity case" matters in their world of diamonds and iron. Yet, there is a haunting beauty in the way their orbits begin to collide. Amidst the blood on the tile floors and the jagged insults, Their relationship becomes a violent dance of shadows and light, where every cruel word is a desperate plea for connection and every bruise is a mark of a soul finally coming alive. In the wreckage of their senior year, Mingyu doesn't just survive Wonwoo's malice; he learns to love the broken boy beneath the hoodie, turning a story of bullying into a masterpiece of shared pain and found redemption.

Locked away like a feral creature in the darkest, most desolate depths of his tyrannical family's estate, Jeon Wonwoo-an omega of breathtaking, ethereal beauty with striking, sorrowful brown eyes and long, flowing brown locks that grew in the shadows of neglect-is suddenly cast from his invisible prison into an even harsher nightmare when a mysterious, unexplained tragedy wipes out his entire bloodline, leaving him entirely unprotected and ripe for the taking by ruthless traffickers who steal him away and sell him to a high-end underground lounge as their most exquisite, highly priced asset for the wealthy to ruin. Only for his shattered, untouched world to violently collide with Kim Mingyu, a poetic, literature-loving alpha whose heart belongs only to books and verses, making him completely pure and inexperienced in the art of intimacy until his raucous friends forcefully drag him to the venue under the guise of an "initiation" to finally give him some real-world practice, leading him to escape their suffocating teasing by slipping into a quiet, restricted corridor where fate traps him behind a heavy mahogany door with the captive beauty, lnstantly shifting his nervous anxiety into a devastatingly tender, agonizing protective instinct as his romantic soul binds itself to a magnificent creature who has known nothing but cages, turning what was supposed to be a shallow, practiced lesson in desire into a profound, aching connection born from the ashes of shared isolation and a purity of love neither could have ever anticipated.

Jeon Wonwoo was the son of a successful FBI agent, just like his best friend Kwon Soonyoung. One day Soonyoung fell in love with Jihoon, a hunter. Everything would change for Wonwoo when Soonyoung forced him to sleep with a werewolf. ............... The wind was warm. Your wing flaps were sweet. Your sunlit smile bright. When I looked at you, I believed that everything would be beautiful, I was foolishly convinced that the cage was made of wood. You gave me wings so I could fly. Now you tear them apart with your own hands.

"If I decide you're useless," he said quietly, "I'll hang your corpse outside the palace gates and let the crows peel flesh from your bones slowly."

Wonwoo is a high-end, cynical fashion photographer known for his "cold" aesthetic and refusal to sugarcoat his work. When he is hired as the personal photographer for Mingyu-a world-famous idol transitioning into a high-stakes modeling career-the two clash instantly. Wonwoo views Mingyu as a shallow "pretty boy" who relies on practiced idol smiles, while Mingyu finds Wonwoo's brooding, perfectionist attitude pretentious and unnecessarily harsh. Their rivalry plays out behind the scenes of glamorous sets and international tours. Wonwoo constantly pushes Mingyu to "be real," refusing to take a single photo until Mingyu drops his polished celebrity persona. Mingyu, frustrated by Wonwoo's lack of praise, makes it his mission to break Wonwoo's composure, purposely invading his personal space and challenging his creative direction during shoots.

"And if you don't like me, as I do you; I understand. Because who would really choose a daisy, in a field of roses?"