Han Jisung, Kim Seungmin, and Lee Felix are just university students trying to survive stress, parties, and their own personal problems. Han struggles with depression and dangerous addictions, using weed and other substances to quiet his mind and escape reality for a little while. Everything changes when Seungmin meets Yang Jeongin. Jeongin seems calm, confident, and almost perfect at first glance. He hides everything behind soft smiles and quiet charm, never letting people see what he truly feels inside. Meanwhile, rumors about a dangerous gang called "Creed" spread through the university halls. Most students laugh them off as stupid stories... until Lee Minho appears. A brilliant medical student with an attractive smile, sharp intelligence, and a personality everyone likes instantly. But behind his perfect mask hides something terrifying: Minho is a psychopath, a stalker, a murderer - and one of Creed's members. The first moment Minho sees Han, obsession takes over completely. Not love. Obsession. Because someone like Minho doesn't know how to love. As the four friends get closer to secrets they were never supposed to uncover, they slowly realize one terrifying thing: Once Creed notices you... there's no way back.

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