Crimson Veil

Introduction

Every story begins with a rumor.

Some say it started with the boy who was too beautiful for his own good, the boy who shone like glass in the sun and blinded everyone who dared look too long. His name was Kim Sunoo, and in his town, he was the kind of legend whispered about in hallways and written about in anonymous letters sealed with trembling hands.

But beauty attracts more than admiration. It attracts hunger. It attracts eyes that never blink. And once obsession takes root, it spreads like wildfire, devouring everything in its path.

Others say the story began with the quiet boy beside him, Sim Jaeyun-Jake-whose smile was kind, whose heart was softer than the world deserved. He lived in the shadows of someone else's glow, overlooked, dismissed, yet still standing. Always standing. Until the day he no longer could.

And then there are those who swear the story began long before either of them. With a boy named Park Sunghoon. A boy who slit a man's throat at seven, who grew into leather gloves and bloodstains, who ruled his world with cruelty and arrogance. A boy who never lost. A boy who never bent.

Lee Heeseung, a boy who can make anyone crumble with just a look. Just became part of the story he promised himself never to be. Love was a luxury, that in his world no one ever tried to tease but he unintentionally did.

This is not a love story in its simplest sense. It is a tale of obsession, betrayal, and blood. Of the fragile thread between admiration and destruction. Of boys whose fates were tied together by glances, mistakes, and the wrong kind of love.

This is the beginning of their crimson veil.