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Dan Hiroki, the Chief of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's 1st Investigation Division. An elite among elites with a brilliant career, his hidden face is that of a serial killer who enacts vigilante justice upon sinful villains.
Everyone is hiding a "secret." Azuki Komugi is obsessed with ruminating on her memories of her high school girlfriend "Meguru," and creating a body model of hers out of clay. One day, Azuki drops her homemade "Meguru" at the 100-yen shop where she works part-time, and sneaks into her workplace on her off-shift to get "her" back. However, she sees a co-worker, high school girl Yoyuki Remu, who is about to express her lust for "Meguru" in a way that is different from Azuki's.
“You wouldn’t want to become a murderer.” On a rainy night, a man stabbed with a knife appears at her door. “You. What the hell are you doing?” “Let me stay here. Just for a few days. Until I have the strength to find another place.” “How can I trust that you won’t hurt me again?” “You’re the one holding the gun.” “Aren’t you worried I might kill you?” “You won’t.” “Because you don’t want to become a murderer.” A man with no expectations left of life, yet still desperately clinging to survival — Chae Soo-ho. In him, Yeon Harin sees the face of someone she thought she had long forgotten, someone she believed she had erased. “…Behave yourself, so I don’t have to clean up a corpse tomorrow morning.” And so, Yeon Harin ultimately decides to let Chae Soo-ho stay within her space. Thus begins a cohabitation with no idea what tomorrow might bring.
Hong Nana, the owner of Ilgwang Laundry. In Suhyang-dong, a neighborhood overflowing with filthy desires, she believed the only person she could trust was Lee Eun-chang. That was, until he used her as collateral for a private loan, emptied the safe, and ran away. Kim Hee-rak, a member of the Chilseong Gang that manages Suhyang-dong, and the owner of the '88 Night' club. In this dull neighborhood, the only thing that interested him was Hong Nana. Just as he was waiting for an opportunity, Lee Eun-chang ran off with the safe. A relationship that began with her body in exchange for the debt. In these dark back alleys where backstabbing is a daily occurrence, is Kim Hee-rak truly a man she can trust?
The year is 1971 and the once popular manga artist Kurumizawa is in a major slump. The pressure builds as each new submission is rejected. But one day, he meets a young, promising artist named Hata. When he sees Hata's wonderful work, Kurumizawa hatches a dark plan...
Every time she opens her mouth, it's nothing but abusive language, and her problematic behavior never stops. The protagonist has had enough and sets a “plan” into motion…??!
“Yehee. May I see you again?” Yehee only smiled at the man’s words, without replying. Turning away, she opened the hotel room door without looking back. Click— And standing in front of the open door was… “Looks like you’re pretty angry, my puppy.” With bloodshot eyes, as if he’d been standing guard like a shadow all night, her “puppy” stood there blankly in front of her.
Man-seok, a lowly slave born with the stolen energy of the Three Spirits Goddess, was abandoned in the mountains the moment he was born. By sheer luck, he was picked up by a traveling peddler and wandered the eight provinces of Joseon. Thanks to his natural gift of gab and cunning wits, Man-seok rose to fame as both a chivalrous hero and a master con artist. But believing that “a famous conman starves to death,” he decides to pull off one final, grand scam before retiring. His last target: stealing the priceless blue-and-white porcelain owned by Park Dae-gam, the wealthiest man in Hanyang. The plan fails spectacularly, and he’s caught. As punishment—or rather, under Park Dae-gam’s orders—Man-seok is forced to disguise himself as a “fake eunuch” and infiltrate the royal palace… …and not just any post, but as the personal eunuch assigned exclusively to the bedchambers of Queen Gyeongye, the king’s wife who is said to be even more terrifying than His Majesty himself…!
"Teacher, please marry me." "You're only twenty years old." At first, his voice held a laugh of disbelief, but it soon turned drier. “For a first meeting in three years, today was… memorable. You think of me as trash who sleeps with his students? Don’t ever come to a place like this again. You could really end up with a truly trashy guy.” First school, last student. The girl who once asked him to see her not as a student but as a woman… had already become a woman.
Muju, a city brimming with fog, was created to emulate Las Vegas in Korea. Sahee, having wandered aimlessly, seeks refuge in this strange city, only to encounter Eundo, a man as cold and mysterious as the fog itself. “Shall I kill them?” “What?” “Those bastards just now. If you want, I'll take care of them.” He is a man exuding a dangerous aura, one that reminds her of the past she desperately fled. She should have pushed him away. After all, he was nothing more than the kind of thug she despised, merely wearing the guise of a benefactor. “If there’s anything you’d like to eat, I'll get it for you. Just pick something.” “Only a drink?” But Sahee couldn't comprehend the full extent of it. Like Persephone captivated by Hades, she never had a choice from the very beginning. “Because I have no intention of letting you go.” Everything had been meticulously orchestrated for her; it was an astonishing trap.
“As long as he’s bigger than my husband… If he’s bigger than that…” She got married young, at just twenty. After four years of one-sided love, all that remained was her husband’s affair. So she made a decision— to cheat back. Drunk out of her mind, she spends the night with a man whose face she doesn’t even know. But why are you worried about my husband? [Does your husband know you’re doing this?] [Don’t you ever think about your husband?] [Don’t you feel sorry for him at all?] Somehow, it turns into an affair entangled with her husband as well— Marriage Scam.
“Your darkness… could become someone else’s light.” A man, Oh Dohyeon, who lost his wife in an accident. A woman, Min Sia, who locked herself away from the world under the weight of stigma. Through each other’s wounds, they finally confront the thin line between light and darkness. He finds forgiveness within her, and she finds a reason to live again through him. But between guilt and salvation, love always demands the cruelest choices. Time stopped for them due to one tragic mistake— now they walk once more toward the light, in a story of healing deeper than love itself.
