'TIL DEATH ✶ THE TRUNK.

𝐤𝐚𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧-𝐤𝐲𝐮𝐧𝐠 works for nm. she knows what a contract marriage is meant to be: temporary, controlled, survivable. it is a system built on boundaries, and she has learned how to live inside them.

when she's paired with han jeong-won, the arrangement looks simple on paper. one year. clear terms. no strings attached. she tells herself it's just another assignment, no different from the ones before it. but from the beginning, there's a tension she can't quite name-something unsettled in the silence between them, in the sense that this pairing was never as random as it was supposed to be.

as their marriage settles into something uneasy and intimate, a different mystery begins to take shape. something that is tied to unresolved grief, past violence, and truths that refuse to stay buried.

the deeper in-kyung gets, the harder it becomes to tell where the contract ends and where the danger really begins-whether she's uncovering the truth, or being pulled toward it.

canon diverge fic from the kdrama "the trunk"

han jeong-won x oc.