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After Rei’s parents leave him to live alone in their country house, he meets with his childhood friends Midori and Shiho.

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?”

At our high school graduation, the rival who had tangled with me for years suddenly confessed that he liked me. It was completely different from the victory I imagined, but still, I thought I had won. I walked away believing the score between us was finally settled.

That is, until years later, when he reappeared with a small child clinging to his hand.

A son.

Disgust and irritation flare up all at once. A shameless fool… If his heart was going to waver that easily, why did he confess in the first place?

But fine. It doesn’t matter anymore. The past, his choices, the kid—none of it changes what I already know.

If I wanted to drag him back into my bed, it would be the easiest thing in the world.

In this bitter, twisted reunion, the line between victory and desire grows dangerously thin.

The scenery before the eldest son of the family head looked like it was from 500 years ago, during the Joseon Dynasty. “To go back, I have to be with a widow?!”

A man who has never experienced the warmth of affection finds himself consumed by an obsession with a user named “Cocorose” in an anonymous group chat. To a man whose existence in a cramped gosiwon is already hanging by a thread, a single emoticon was enough to stroke his vanity, and a solitary delusion was enough to shatter his reality. The moment he misinterpreted an anonymous woman’s message as a sign of love, his bottom-tier youth began its descent into total catastrophe. Now, he is trapped in a collision between the woman from his daily life and the one from the digital shadows. It wasn’t truly love he was seeking, but a sense of salvation. This is the chronicle of a “trash-tier” romance, ignited by the desperate fantasies of a man with nothing left to lose.

Assassin-for-hire Cheon Seowoo. After another successful mission, Seowoo is about to make her escape. But not before taking a pretty young thing home to toy with as her reward…