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“Here’s my suggestion: Let’s have sexual intercourse whenever I want to.”

Han-gyeol Jo glanced at his computer, paying attention to the monitor that displayed the above words and then scanned his deserted work area to ensure that no one saw him reading it. Typical behavior from a male who is living a double life.

Daytime: assistant manager. Professional. Well-dressed. An employee who arrives early, leaves late, and never gives anyone a reason to take notice.

Nighttime: BJ (Boy Jock). One of the most prominent figures in the worldwide live webcasting industry. Openly gay and proud of it. Loved by a fan base (his “dudes”) that spans three different continents. A type of attention that could never intersect with his day job.

He has spent…..years constructing strong boundaries between these two identities. Carefully and very purposefully. In his mind there are two separate realities; there are no connections between them.

In middle school, Seong Hwimin got caught with a secret photo of his crush, Han Jeongwon.It blew up for a second and everyone started talking. Luckily — or unluckily — Hwimin was already the quiet rock-obsessed loner, so the drama died down fast and nobody really cared.Years went by and the popular, always-in-the-middle-of-everything Han Jeongwon and the outcast Seong Hwimin never crossed paths again.Eventually even the dark days when Hwimin used to think “Maybe I should just die” turned into embarrassing memories he can laugh about now.These days Hwimin lives a quiet, ordinary life — playing in a nobody band and juggling three part-time jobs just to get by.Then one random night he finds Han Jeongwon drunk and alone in an alley.Hwimin helps him up and Jeongwon looks at him with hazy eyes.“…Can I stay at your place?”Before Hwimin can answer, Jeongwon adds with a crooked little smile,“I’ll repay you with my body.”

At the edge of death, the only thing that flashes before your eyes is how shitty and filthy your life really was.Park Dongsik is a straight-up thug who works as a debt collector for the loan shark Moon Hocheol. He’s got zero mercy, zero tears, zero loyalty. If you owe money, he’ll do whatever it takes — even yank his pants down and piss in your living room to get it. The only thing that gets him going is watching porn with guys in sharp suits.One night he’s parked in his car, jerking off to a video, when this insanely beautiful stranger walks up out of nowhere. The guy crouches down, asks for a light, then just… walks off. Dongsik can’t stop staring. The man is standing on the edge of a breakwater like he’s about to disappear. Then he jumps.Without thinking, Dongsik dives in after him. The water is pitch black. He can’t find the guy. As he tries to swim back up, something grabs his ankle and drags him straight down into the darkness.Dongsik’s life had always been trash. Abandoned by his parents, beaten in an orphanage, ran away, finally found his dad again — only for the bastard to steal every cent he’d saved and vanish. He’s survived more near-death moments than he can count working for the loan shark. His only dying wish was simple: “Next life, just let me be born rich and live easy.”When he opens his eyes, he’s not in heaven or hell. He’s lying in a luxurious private hospital room. He looks in the mirror… and it’s not Park Dongsik staring back.It’s the beautiful stranger he tried to save.Before he can even process what the hell is happening, another man walks in claiming to be his guardian. He looks at Dongsik like they’ve known each other forever, leans in, kisses him without warning, and softly says:“Welcome back… sister-in-law.”

Chi-young spent his whole school life quietly hiding who he really was. Back in high school he only found the guts to confess to his crush once — and got shot down hard. More than ten years later, he’s running a small gopchang restaurant in town. One random day his old crush, Ui-geon, walks in as a customer with his friend Jun-young. Ui-geon doesn’t recognize him at all. His eyes are still locked on someone else. That’s when Chi-young realizes the truth: Ui-geon is carrying his own painful unrequited love too.“…But you like that person, don’t you?” “You seem quiet and gentle… Do people ever tell you you’re different from what they expected?”

In his tumultuous life, Seoyoon Moon has faced many adversities including his mother’s death, his father’s infidelity and giving up the only thing he loves—his piano—but one thing he is grateful for is Yeonjae Woo, his best friend. In an unexpected twist of fate, Seoyoon has developed feelings for Yeonjae’s best friend; however, Yeonjae currently has a girlfriend. However, Yeonjae likes to toy with their boundaries by crossing the line into something more than just friends.

The cover of Seoyoon’s Korean novel has the title “Sun Show”, which is it’s English title. (The cover does not have a Korean title; only the author’s name.)