Malum | Hyunjsung

Hyunjin + Han
Han Jisung keeps his fears locked behind careful routines, but anxiety claws at him in quiet, relentless ways. Hyunjin moves through the world with effortless confidence, yet beneath the surface, temptation and obsession twist his nights into restless chaos. They meet in a place meant for broken pieces to be shared-anonymously, carefully, without judgment-but even here, masks slip, and raw edges scrape against each other.

In stolen glances and half-spoken words, they recognize something dangerous and familiar in the other: vulnerability wrapped in talent, pride veiled by fragility. Their connection grows in the spaces no one else sees-where panic collides with desire, and secrets threaten to unravel. This is a story about craving, control, and the fragile line between dependence and surrender.

Addiction does not arrive politely. It seeps through the cracks of your body first, invisible and patient, curling around nerves and pulses until it feels like a part of you. You do not notice when it takes its first hold; one moment you think you are choosing, and the next, it is choosing for you. It wraps around the mind, soft and tender at first, then tightening, relentless, a shadow that moves with every thought, every breath.

It is seductive and suffocating, a hunger that speaks in whispers, coaxing compliance, demanding surrender, testing your pride and will. To resist is to feel your own fragility, to yield is to feel your own dissolution. And when you try to reclaim yourself, it fights back-every heartbeat, every emotion, every desire becomes a battlefield. Some call it weakness; some call it fate. But it is neither. It is life, in its rawest, cruelest gravity, and to face it is to face yourself.

This book is fiction!