2025

Joo Incheol thought he was going places. As a loyal aide to Lee Myeongseon, a rising political figure and contenders for ministers, he was on a secure path – until the rivalries within the campaign began to swallow him whole.

To prove he was worth keeping around and to reestablish himself, Incheol was given an important task: to figure how to diffuse a redevelopment dispute in the problematic Jungang district of Songmun City. The redevelopment plans were politically sensitive, publicly condemned and practically impossible. Incheol was aware that his entire future hinged on this case.

His only real lead? Ahn Pyeonghwa, the owner of a decrepit fitness center, found in the geography of the redevelopment conflict. Also problematic? Ahn Pyeonghwa is his neighbor – but not one he knows very well.

When Incheol reaches out for his support, Pyeonghwa agrees. However:

“Hit me.”

Drawn from every direction by ambition, uncertainty, and baffling request from a neighbor, Incheol is caught in a complex situation in which the very rules of political negotiation no longer apply, and where the distinctions between politics, personal interests, and pain, become fundamentally blurred.

Jiujiu didn’t expect death to come so suddenly—or so unfairly. One moment she’s alive, the next she’s arguing nonstop with Yama in the underworld. Fed up with her never-ending complaints, Yama decides to shut her up the only way he knows how: by tossing her into the world of a novel.

But she’s not just any character—she’s reborn as a fallen princess, cast away into the dreaded Cold Palace. Her new life is no royal dream. Things go from bad to worse when the story’s main heroine stirs up trouble, pushing the emperor—Jiujiu’s own biological father—into a violent rage.

He’s ready to beat her to death. Seriously.

Furious at the injustice, Jiujiu screams in her heart:
“No wonder the Western Chu Kingdom crumbles in a decade! A cruel ruler who can’t tell right from wrong? It’s a miracle it even survived this long!”

But then something weird happens. The emperor stops. Freezes, actually.
Wait—did he hear that? Can he… hear what she’s thinking?

With her inner voice suddenly no longer private, Jiujiu might’ve just signed her own death sentence… or unknowingly flipped the entire story on its head.

Soo-ah, eager to kickstart her fitness journey, signed up for a one-on-one personal training session after a friend’s glowing recommendation.

Xing Yue wasn’t expecting what he found inside the mysterious Red Mansion. He came looking for rare treasures—maybe gold, maybe precious artifacts—but what he discovered instead was something far different from what he had imagined…