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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.

Narin and Danwoo are in an arranged marriage, and on their wedding night, they simply sleep side by side without any intimacy. Narin tries not to think about it, but she can’t help wondering if she lacks appeal. One day, while exploring a bustling market full of curious items, she purchases a mysterious incense burner recommended by a vendor. The seller claims that lighting incense in it will instantly enchant whoever smells it. Eager to test it, Narin lights the incense, and Danwoo, inhaling its scent, feels an unfamiliar heat rising within him. Sensing the moment, Narin approaches him, only to be grabbed from behind by someone else. Turning around, she is shocked to see another Danwoo standing there.

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…

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?”

“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.

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.

Burnt out and buried in work, Isaac Schrader drowns his stress in drinks with his only friend, James. The next morning, he wakes up in a hotel bed—hungover, disoriented, and far from alone. Lying next to him is Theodore Donovan, his charming yet insufferable roommate from their boarding school days… a man who vanished without a word years ago. Their reunion is anything but ordinary—and Theodore’s sudden return feels far from innocent. What is he really after?

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