"Why? Why does it hurt so much to realize that everyone around you is a liar? Why must we face trials that feel impossible to stop? At bakit tila ang buong mundo ay rooted against you?" Beatrix Wilde is a teenager drowning in deception, struggling to stay afloat as one betrayal follows another. In a world where every smile is a mask and every promise is a trap, she is forced to navigate a path she never chose. As the walls close in and the people she once trusted become her harshest critics, Beatrix must find a way to heal. Can she turn her deepest heartaches into strength, or will the weight of world finally break her.

Cho Ae-rin and Lee Minho have been rivals since middle school. No matter what it was, grades, sports, anything, they always tried to beat each other. But the one thing they both really cared about was boxing. After school, they would always have boxing matches, determined to win. Now, they're both starting their first year of college. They're older, but the rivalry is still there. Or at least, that's what they thought. As they spend more time together, Ae-rin and Minho start to wonder: what if their rivalry has always been something more

It all starts with the end. Han Jisung (a clumsy chemistry student with a painful past) crosses paths with Lee Minho, better known as Venom (the new leader of the notorious Vipers) when two kilograms of Venom's cocaine are mistakenly delivered to Jisung's doorstep, then lost by Jisung himself, under circumstances the idiot cannot remember. Minho accuses him of theft, giving Jisung a fourteen day deadline to either find and give back the cocaine, pay an impossible debt, or take the mysterious third option which, Jisung assumes, has to mean death. In his desperate quest for a way out, Jisung stumbles through a waking nightmare: unexpected connections between Minho and people he thought he could trust, mysterious news articles, abandoned mansions, crime scenes, black-tie parties, chaebol gossip, mafia families, escaping gunfire on the back of Minho's motorcycle. But every single path only leads him back to the night he lost the drugs, and to unanswerable questions: What the hell happened to the two bricks of cocaine? Why can't he remember losing them? What is Minho hiding? And what does the bastard truly want from Jisung? MAFIA AU 16+ (tws in the introduction) COVER MADE BY THE TALENTED ICHINISAMFOLIO ON DISCORD