The Syndicate is a chosen family of broken people running a global empire while fighting enemies, secrets, and love that could destroy them.
Power is built on silence.
Loyalty is built on blood.
Love is built on lies.
Seungcheol rules the Syndicate with a calculated hand-feared, untouchable, and always three moves ahead. Every alliance, every war, every betrayal bends to his command. Trust is a weakness he cannot afford.
Jeonghan is the Syndicate's most dangerous weapon.
A master manipulator. A ghost in the system. A man whose smile disarms before his secrets destroy. To the Syndicate, he is indispensable. To Seungcheol, he is a necessary risk.
What no one knows is that Jeonghan is a lie.
Planted as a mole by a rival power moving in the shadows, Jeonghan feeds the Syndicate just enough truth to keep it alive-while quietly guiding it toward collapse. Every seduction, every whispered promise, every calculated betrayal is part of a long game he was never meant to survive.
But the closer Jeonghan is pulled into Seungcheol's orbit, the harder it becomes to remember which side he belongs to.
As enemies close in and the Syndicate begins to fracture from within, Seungcheol must decide whether the serpent at his side is his greatest threat... or his deadliest ally.
And Jeonghan must choose between the life he was forced into
and the man he was never meant to love.
Because in a world built on power and control,
the most dangerous lie is the one you tell yourself.
Homophobic || Park Seonghwa X Kang Yeosang
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"I hate gays and I always will."
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Kang Yeosang is a young teenage boy with Cystic Fibrosis. He has been in the hospital for the majority of his life and has always had a room to himself. That was, until the hospital ran out of space and paired him with a roommate who has lung cancer. But what happens when Yeosang finds out that his new roommate is gay?
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Published: December 8th, 2019
Status: Completed
Completed: March 30th, 2020