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Born into a dynasty of wealth, power, and silence, Jimin was never raised-he was engineered. His parents treated affection as inefficiency and children as investments, shaping him into something precise, controlled, and emotionally ruthless. Where his brother Namjoon rebelled by becoming everything their parents were not-protective, empathetic, fiercely human-Jimin embraced the lesson fully and became the embodiment of calculated cruelty.
Yoongi grew up on the opposite end of the world Jimin dominates. Poverty, abuse, and public scorn shaped every corner of his life, teaching him that survival meant endurance and that kindness was always conditional. Every opportunity he was offered came with a cost, every hand extended eventually became a fist. Still, Yoongi remained gentle, attentive, and painfully open in a world that punished him for it.
When Jimin and Yoongi's paths collide, it is not love at first sight-it is collision. Their connection unfolds slowly, uneasily, shaped by control, fear, and unfamiliar restraint. Jimin does not know how to love without possessing. Yoongi does not know how to be wanted without being hurt. What grows between them is fragile, deliberate, and dangerous-something neither was ever taught how to hold.
Watching from the sidelines is Namjoon, who knows exactly what his brother is capable of and exactly how vulnerable Yoongi truly is. Protective and wary, Namjoon stands as both shield and warning, torn between loyalty to his brother and the instinct to protect someone who deserves far better than the cold world Jimin offers.
This is a story about power and survival, about the damage left by loveless upbringing, and about a relationship that grows not from comfort-but from choice. It asks whether someone shaped by cruelty can learn restraint, and whether someone shaped by pain can learn to trust without breaking.
Slow, tense, and emotionally charged, this is not a redemption story.
It is a reckoning.