CRIMSON VIENS [ KNJ FF ]

They were a singular pulse in a world of flatlines. Namjoon and Seol-ah were more than partners-they were Soulmates before they knew the metallic tang of blood; lovers before they were forced to inherit a throne of thorns. In the brutal hierarchy of the underworld, they were the only truth either of them ever knew.

Then cames a night-the mountain road that claimed the memories and the siege that leveled the Kim Estate. Seol-ah emerged from the fire alone, a martyr for a man who woke up a ghost. To save him from the weight of their sins, she gifted him a "clean" life, and handed the responsibility of her love in the hands of the venom itself, who played the role of friends perfectly, the one seol-ah trusted with the heir of kim estates, she stepped back into the blood-soaked shadows to rule the underworld in silence, purging every threat to keep his name untainted.

​but when seol-ah was disarming the enemies, the venom was busy poisoning his soul. They didn't just give Namjoon amnesia; they gave him a masterpiece of malice. They filled his empty mind with hate and disgust, convincing him that Seol-ah wasn't his protector, but his predator-the woman who stole his everything, his happiness, and his very past to build her empire on his ruin.

​Now, the Empress of the Underworld faces her final, most lethal rival.

​The very man she spent a decade guarding has returned to take his revenge. Namjoon stands before her not as a lover, but as an executioner, his heart a cavern of manufactured hate, his hands ready to destroy the only person who ever truly loved him.

​What happens when the venom of a manufactured past meets the crushing weight of a suppressed truth? Will Namjoon's revenge be his ultimate undoing, or can the heart remember what the mind was programmed to kill?

​The car crashed. The estate fell. The love was betrayed.
But the blood... the blood is coming home to claim its debt.

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