"A shadow doesn't need years to take over a room. It just needs the light to die."
Two broken souls.
One maximum-security hell.
Zero ways out.
In a concrete graveyard of the highest security iron Cell, where survival demands a heart made of stone, V is the unhinged, nameless psycho whom everyone fears- a cynical survivor who built his fortress on betrayal, numb to the taste of his own blood.
"You don't really have to lie to me, Cell King. There's no way you conquered this entire department in half a year. Don't play me for a fool."
Enter Jeon Jungkook: the sovereign of cell 404. To the yard, he is a national headline. But behind the black ink and terrifying authority lies a self-proclaimed loser- a man haunted by the ghost of a past failure, convinced he is only built to strike, never to protect.
"A blade cannot hold a hand without cutting it. I am not a hero, and neither do I want to be, or ever can be one... I'm just the violence that keeps the dark away from you."
When a controlled test of loyalty turns into a silent, lethal execution in the mess hall, the lines between inmate, shield, and sovereign completely shatter. Taehyung thought he was testing a monster. He didn't realize the monster had already bound his entire existence to a silent, irreversible vow:
"If the prince bleeds because the shield was too slow, I won't try to grow stronger. I'll simply let the dark take us both."
He wanted a shoulder to lean on in the dark.
The Cell King had already promised to burn the world for him.
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