ATHERIS | PURINZ

For most software engineering students, landing a position at a multibillion-dollar tech giant is the ultimate dream.
For Huh Yunjin, it's survival.

Brilliant, relentless, and armed with nothing but talent, Yunjin fights her way into Seoul National University, determined to secure a future that can finally pull her family out of poverty. Her breakthrough comes when she creates SS-HY SECURITY, a revolutionary software designed to expose the vulnerabilities of South Korea's National Intelligence Service-an innovation powerful enough to change her life forever.

Or destroy it.

Betrayed by people she trusted and crushed by a system built to protect the powerful, Yunjin is left with no name, no credit, and no way out. All she has left is her family-fractured, secretive, and far more dangerous than she ever imagined.

Because one of those secrets has finally come knocking.

When a mob boss walks into her living room and demands her hand in marriage, Yunjin learns the truth far too late: there are worse things than losing everything.
Especially when that woman is Kim Chaewon-better known as Atheris, ruler of the city's underworld.

And Atheris never asks twice.

This is an adaptation.