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

Lee Minho's life has always been the definition of perfect-perfect grades, perfect behavior, and a future already planned out for him. Everything is controlled, polished, exactly the way it should be. Han Jisung has never had that kind of life. Moving from house to house, family to family, never staying long enough to belong, always waiting to be sent away again-being a foster kid is the only constant he's ever known. Trouble tends to follow him, whether he wants it to or not. Everything changes when Minho's father brings Jisung home, forcing two completely different worlds under the same roof. Jisung already knows what to expect from people like Minho-rich, distant, impossible to read-but he's used to surviving in places he doesn't belong. Minho isn't. Jisung is everything that disrupts his perfect life-reckless, unpredictable, and far too close-and Minho can't stand it. He doesn't trust him, doesn't want him there, and makes no effort to hide it. But the more they clash, the harder it becomes to ignore the tension building between them. Because some lines aren't meant to be crossed... and some crashes are impossible to avoid.