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Hazlin Kim was the main character in everyone's life-
just never in Jimin's.
A painter with fragile lungs and stubborn hope, she grew up loved by three mafia brothers who treated her like a miracle. But the only miracle she ever prayed for was Park Jimin-their best friend, her childhood shadow, the man who learned how to lie before he learned how to care.
Park Jimin is a lawyer who defends monsters and wears honesty like a costume he forgets at home. Calm voice. Cold heart. A red flag disguised as safety. To him, Hazlin is only a responsibility. To her, he is every color she has ever mixed with trembling hands.
She loved him quietly for years, between asthma attacks and unfinished paintings, collecting moments that meant nothing to him and everything to her. And Jimin let her believe-because it was easier than telling the truth.
But this isn't a fairytale.
And main characters don't always get their Jimin.
When the Kim empire drags danger to her doorstep, Hazlin learns that love can feel a lot like suffocation-and the man she chose might be the one teaching her how to stop breathing.