He thought she was just another payment for her parents' debt-fragile, desperate, easy to control. But the girl he "bought" wasn't a victim at all. She was a mafia in disguise, playing her own dangerous game. In a world built on lies and betrayal, who will outsmart who when desire gets in the way? "𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚 𝒅𝒖𝒎𝒃 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒆, 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒍𝒖𝒃 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒇𝒇 𝑯𝒆𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒖𝒏𝒈 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒊𝒎. 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏'𝒕 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒆." "𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒎𝒆, 𝑺𝒖𝒏𝒈𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒏." •~•~•~•~•~•~•~ Book 1 of Encounter Series

Y/n, fresh from a messy breakup and academic burnout, escapes to her grandmother's seaside town for the summer, planning to work at her uncle's fruit stand, avoid people, and finally write her thesis. Enter Jake Sim - effortlessly charming, flirty, and annoyingly shirtless. He's working at the watermelon farm next door for the summer after getting suspended from college for a fight he won't talk about. He's the type of boy your mom warns you about. She's the girl who stopped believing in love. Their first meeting ends with watermelon juice spilled all over her white shirt. Their second ends with him calling her "ice queen." Their third? Well... there might've been tongue.

Y/N has a secret. Each week, she posts a smutty webcomic inspired by her longtime crush, Heeseung. But she can never let him find out. Because her and her best friend, Sohyun, have a pact. Neither is to do anything about their crush on him in order to stay friends. After an altercation at karaoke with Sohyun's brother, Sunghoon, he ends up with her phone. And now he has read the comic and she has to figure out a way to keep him from spilling. Lucky for her, he has some ideas.

𝒊'𝗅𝗅 𝗉𝗎𝗍 𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝗍𝗁𝗋𝗈𝗎𝗀𝗁 𝗁𝖾𝗅𝗅 𝗃𝗎𝗌𝗍 𝗍𝗈 𝗄𝗇𝗈𝗐 𝗆𝖾, s𝗈 𝗌𝗎𝗋𝖾 𝗈𝖿 𝗒𝗈𝗎𝗋𝗌𝖾𝗅𝖿, 𝖻𝖺𝖻𝗒, 𝖽𝗈𝗇'𝗍 𝗀𝖾𝗍 𝗀𝗋𝖾𝖾𝖽𝗒. ━━━ 𝖺 𝗀𝗂𝗋𝗅 𝗐𝗁𝗈 doesn't believe in love, hooks up with a guy who does, and when things get to get too serious and he starts falling for her, she's determined to prove him wrong before he can do the same. 𝑺TARTED. 15/03/26 𝑪OMPLETED. 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬. 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐬. 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧.  -saebyeok 2026.

𝐄𝐍𝐇𝐘𝐏𝐄𝐍 ⤹ 𝐇𝐄𝐄𝐒𝐄𝐔𝐍𝐆 ⤹ Trapped in a small town that forces you to limit your dreams. An unhappy marriage that you have to pretend is okay. All of this was bad, yes. But it was somehow bearable, or at least you got used to it. But being stalked and chased by a wanted criminal on the run from Seoul because you-accidentally-saved his life? That's new.

❝Stop looking at me like that. You don't get to look at me like that anymore❞ After ghosting her childhood best friend for six years, she returns to Seoul only to find Lee Heeseung exactly where she left him - except now he has a girlfriend, and she has to figure out why being near him again feels less like coming home and more like falling.