Ashes of Seoul | Lee Jung-jae

When the world as they knew it crumbled beneath a plague of the undead, Han Min-Seo - an ambitious photojournalist with a sharp tongue and a haunted past - found herself trapped in a city where silence was more deadly than screams. Across the chaos, Lee Jung-Jae - a quiet, calculating ex-military officer turned teacher - searched for something worth saving in a world devoured by infection. They didn't know each other. They weren't supposed to. But fate - or perhaps the savage irony of survival - forced them onto the same bloodstained path.

As their friends fall one by one, as hope withers under the weight of grief, only Min-Seo and Jung-Jae remain. What starts as wary cooperation turns into raw dependence, fierce protection, and - against every broken rule of a ruined society - love.

But love in a world like this doesn't come easy. And surviving it may be the most painful thing of all.