50 parts Ongoing MatureThey were a singular pulse in a world of flatlines. Namjoon and Seol-ah were more than partners-they were Soulmates before they knew the metallic tang of blood; lovers before they were forced to inherit a throne of thorns. In the brutal hierarchy of the underworld, they were the only truth either of them ever knew.
Then cames a night-the mountain road that claimed the memories and the siege that leveled the Kim Estate. Seol-ah emerged from the fire alone, a martyr for a man who woke up a ghost. To save him from the weight of their sins, she gifted him a "clean" life, and handed the responsibility of her love in the hands of the venom itself, who played the role of friends perfectly, the one seol-ah trusted with the heir of kim estates, she stepped back into the blood-soaked shadows to rule the underworld in silence, purging every threat to keep his name untainted.
but when seol-ah was disarming the enemies, the venom was busy poisoning his soul. They didn't just give Namjoon amnesia; they gave him a masterpiece of malice. They filled his empty mind with hate and disgust, convincing him that Seol-ah wasn't his protector, but his predator-the woman who stole his everything, his happiness, and his very past to build her empire on his ruin.
Now, the Empress of the Underworld faces her final, most lethal rival.
The very man she spent a decade guarding has returned to take his revenge. Namjoon stands before her not as a lover, but as an executioner, his heart a cavern of manufactured hate, his hands ready to destroy the only person who ever truly loved him.
What happens when the venom of a manufactured past meets the crushing weight of a suppressed truth? Will Namjoon's revenge be his ultimate undoing, or can the heart remember what the mind was programmed to kill?
The car crashed. The estate fell. The love was betrayed.
But the blood... the blood is coming home to claim its debt.
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