Geum Seongje

You had accepted that role, “being the leader’s girlfriend, Baekjin’s girlfriend,” at first with uncertainty, then with habit, believing it would always be this way: beside the one who controls everything, protected by a wall no one could cross. Until Seongje appeared. He was Baekjin’s right-hand man, his most loyal shadow, and yet he was the complete opposite of him. His enforcer, and everything Baekjin didn’t need to show. Everyone knew who he was: the bad boy, the one who didn’t hesitate to hit, the one who solved everything with violence and brutality, the one who didn’t pretend to be anything he wasn’t. While Baekjin gave orders from the pristine shadows, Seongje got his hands dirty, carried the fear and the guilt, and no one dared cross him or contradict him. He was the opposite of Baekjin in form, but just as dangerous at heart. And you had fallen in love with Seongje without meaning to, without understanding how, without being able to stop it. From his rudeness, his burning gaze, that abrupt way he was there even though no one wanted him to be. You, whom no one dared to touch, who belonged to the most untouchable of all, had placed your heart in the hands of the one everyone knows has nothing good to give. Now you walk on thin ice: between Baekjin's cold, perfect control and Seongje's wild, aggressive fury; between the loyalty that keeps you safe and the love for the boy everyone fears, the one you should never have desired. Now you find yourself torn between the place you were promised and the feeling you didn't ask for: between the loyalty that binds you to the one who gave you security and the love that makes you feel alive for the first time, even if it means crossing the most dangerous line of all. You, whom no one dared to touch, have given yourself completely to the one you should never have desired.