LINES WE CROSS ✶ HWANG JUN-HO

𝒉𝒂𝒏-𝒃𝒚𝒆𝒐𝒍 has always been the black sheep. while her eldest sister rose to prominence as a successful ceo, byeol dropped out of university and chose a life her family could never accept. art was the only thing that felt like hers, it gave her a voice, but it never gave her a living. to keep up appearances, she juggles odd side jobs-until one of those jobs ties her to a loan shark. when the truth finally reaches her parent's doorstep, she's cast out, left to scrape together a living in a cramped, crumbling apartment.

then comes hwang jun-ho. the cop who always seems to find her in the wrong place at the wrong time-catching her at work on multiple occasions. each time, he warns her-reminding her how close she is to arrest, how thin the line is between freedom and jail. and yet, he never follows through. pity, curiosity, maybe something neither of them can admit-it all lingers in the space between them. their encounters become a push and pull, a connection built on mistrust and a strange kind of understanding neither expected.

when byeol is offered a chance to erase her debt and begin again, she takes it-only to be pulled into a deadly game where survival is the only currency. forced into brutal choices and confronted by a familiar face within its walls, byeol begins to question whether the life she's fighting for is worth the price it demands.

MATURE CONTENT AHEAD.

hwang jun-ho x oc.