SeoulAfterDark
They were never supposed to fall in love.
At eighteen, Joo Seok-kyung was the cold, terrifying daughter of one of South Korea's most powerful businessmen. Kang Ji-hwan was IDOL Entertainment's reckless golden boy; beautiful, arrogant, and impossible to control.
What started as a secret fling built on lust, pride, and late-night chaos should have ended like every other scandal in the entertainment industry.
It didn't.
One pregnancy destroyed everything.
Forced into marriage, buried under media scandals, corporate pressure, betrayal, and years of resentment, Seok-kyung and Ji-hwan spent their youth destroying each other while trying desperately to survive the empire around them.
But love was never their biggest problem.
Consequence was.
Now, years later, their family is beginning to crack under the weight of the very mistakes they tried to bury. Their son Seo-jun is becoming a reflection of everything they feared, history is repeating itself, and the secrets hidden behind the walls of the Kang/Joo family are threatening to destroy them all.
In a world of chaebols, idols, power, money, obsession, and unforgivable love...
some scandals never die.
And some children were never meant to exist.