YOUNG_ADULTS
NCT DREAM JENO AU | GANG AU
Jeno doesn't care about school, people, or pretending to be something he's not. He was raised by the streets, trained by killers, and shaped into a weapon. When his boss sends him to a university in Korea to keep watch over the daughter of China's most dangerous mafia boss, he's not thrilled. Babysitting isn't his thing. Especially not some spoiled princess with a fake name and a target on her back.
But Xin Yi isn't what he expected.
She doesn't want the throne, the power, or the blood on her hands. She wants out. But her father doesn't let people go-he just puts them under tighter control. And Jeno? He's the leash. The shadow she was never supposed to see.
Problem is-she sees him. All of him.
Now they're caught in something bigger than either of them signed up for. Enemies closing in. Pasts bleeding into the present. Lines getting blurry. And that unspoken tension between them? It's getting harder to ignore.
They were never meant to trust each other.
They definitely weren't meant to care.
But it's too late for that.
And when everything explodes-they'll either survive it together, or Not at all.