Flowers Are Bait Mangwa Chapters 1 to 6

Chapter 1: The Bait

In a bustling city, where glass towers cast long shadows over the streets, Mirae walked down the crowded sidewalk, her mind clouded with doubt. The winter wind bit at her exposed skin, but she didn't notice the cold. Her thoughts were heavy, and her heart even heavier.

She had always been careful with her emotions, keeping them wrapped up tight. But now, she was standing at a crossroads-a place where the line between love and manipulation was dangerously thin.

Her phone buzzed in her pocket, and she glanced down. It was a message from Jin, the man who had been weaving his way into her life for months.

"Meet me tonight. Don't keep me waiting."

The message was simple, direct, and undeniably compelling. But something about the way he phrased it made her skin crawl. The possessiveness, the urgency-it all felt like a trap.

Mirae paused at the corner of the street, looking up at the familiar café where they had first met. It had become their place, though she wasn't sure when it had stopped being a place of comfort and turned into something else-a place where she was a pawn in a game she didn't quite understand.

"Just a little more," she whispered to herself, clenching her fists. "Just a little more and I'll know if he really cares... or if I'm just a game to him."

As she walked into the café, the bell above the door jingled softly. She scanned the room and spotted him immediately-Jin, sitting at the corner table, his posture confident, his eyes focused on something beyond the window.