Hating This Love

Heng is the forgotten son of the powerful Chaebol family - the one they acknowledge only when they need a scapegoat or a pawn. Born into privilege but starved of love, he's learned to wear his loneliness like armor. His only solace? Minlee, his childhood best friend and a rising influencer whose bright smile hides a fierce loyalty. Minlee has been Heng's ride-or-die through every silent dinner, every cutting remark from his father, every moment Heng felt invisible.

But his family has one final use for him: an arranged marriage to Tee, the cold, distant heir of a rival dynasty. Tee doesn't want love. He doesn't even believe in it. To him, marriage is a transaction, a cage he's willing to endure for the sake of duty. Heng expects nothing more than a frozen partnership.

What Heng doesn't know? Tee has his own shadow - Toptap, his best friend and a mafia boss with blood on his hands. Toptap has spent years protecting Tee from the underworld that raised him, and he hates anything connected to the entertainment industry thanks to the ghost of his mother's past. So when he learns that Tee's arranged marriage ties him to Minlee's closest friend, an influencer no less - every warning bell screams danger.

Four men. Two forced connections. One collision waiting to happen.

As Heng and Tee navigate a marriage that might become more than a contract, and Toptap wrestles with a hatred that puts him on a crash course with Minlee, they'll discover that family isn't always blood. Sometimes it's the people who stay, even when the world tells them to leave.

But with past traumas refusing to stay buried, can these four misfits find their way to each other before everything burns down?