12 parts Ongoing Setting:
A sprawling, crime-ridden metropolis in the near future where the streets are ruled by mafia families, underground syndicates, and private militias. A mysterious experimental drug-codenamed "Passion"-has surfaced, capable of turning anyone into a perfect killing machine under total mind control.
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Plot Summary:
Jeong Taeui, a freelance translator and former military medic, comes to the city on assignment to work for a UN-backed research branch investigating Passion. He expects paperwork and dull lab meetings-until he meets Ilay Riegrow, the most infamous name in the city's underworld.
Ilay is the leader of a powerful gang operating from the slums, feared for his intelligence and unpredictability. Ruthless yet strangely principled, he's known for dismantling rival cartels piece by piece. But what no one knows is that Ilay himself was once a test subject of Passion-and the drug still courses in his veins, threatening to consume his mind.
Their paths collide when Taeui accidentally saves Ilay's life during a street ambush. Suspicious but intrigued, Ilay takes Taeui under his wing as an unwilling "translator" for his operations. Taeui soon realizes that behind Ilay's violent façade lies a man who remembers nothing of his past-only the burning desire to destroy the organization that made him.
Together, they uncover the origin of Passion-a government-sanctioned project run by Ilay's adoptive father, General Riegrow, who intends to mass-produce the drug and sell it as a weapon of war.
As Taeui becomes Ilay's moral anchor and Ilay becomes Taeui's protector, their bond deepens beyond survival. But every step closer to the truth draws the attention of assassins, corrupt officials, and ghosts from Ilay's past.
In the end, Taeui must choose:
-help Ilay destroy the entire network, even if it means Ilay dies with it, -or save him, and let the city burn