

After I got pulled into the horror game, my nearsightedness made everything blurry. I ended up treating the creepy girl in the blood-stained dress like my own daughter, the final boss like my husband, and the old creepy ghosts like my loving parents. The first time I met the boss, I grabbed his abs and said, “Nice body. Shame you’re kind of short.” He actually laughed in anger, picked up the severed head in his hand, put it back on his neck, and ground out, “I’m six-foot-one. Still think I’m short now?”

I'm a killer who accidentally sleeps with a mafia boss twice. The first time, I walk away without saying anything, leaving behind nothing but a note and a bank card. "Fantastic night. Thanks." The second time, he lands himself at the top of the killer hit list and has a sky-high bounty placed on him. Later, he traps me in his room as I fade in and out of consciousness, drowning in his presence. He holds my hand and aims my gun at himself with a chuckle. "You're shaking so badly. Can you even keep your gun steady?"

I'm a killer who accidentally sleeps with a mafia boss twice. The first time, I walk away without saying anything, leaving behind nothing but a note and a bank card. "Fantastic night. Thanks." The second time, he lands himself at the top of the killer hit list and has a sky-high bounty placed on him. Later, he traps me in his room as I fade in and out of consciousness, drowning in his presence. He holds my hand and aims my gun at himself with a chuckle. "You're shaking so badly. Can you even keep your gun steady?"

Yuri is a high school student who has been starved of love his entire life. His adoptive parents only care about their biological son, and Yuri is constantly bullied at school. Despite his loneliness and pain, he hides it behind a bright and gentle personality — a “smiling depression” type who always puts others before himself. His true identity is the descendant of the werewolf bloodline. Brian, the fallen heir of the vampire clan, has lived for centuries following his father’s strict belief: vampires must never drink human blood. That changes when his enemy shatters half of his heart with a single blow. Gravely injured, Brian falls into Yuri’s swimming pool in the human world — and is unexpectedly saved by Yuri’s blood. At first, Brian is only drawn to Yuri because of his extraordinary blood. He secretly follows and observes him, while growing increasingly jealous and possessive toward Lucius, the werewolf who has always stayed by Yuri’s side. But the closer Brian gets to Yuri, the more he is moved by this fragile yet kind-hearted boy. What begins as a hunger for his blood slowly turns into genuine love. Lucius, the young heir of the werewolf clan, was the only source of light in Yuri’s life before Brian appeared. Disguised as an ordinary high school student, Lucius has always protected and supported Yuri. As the star player and ace of the school football team, he is confident, charismatic, and admired by everyone. He takes every hit meant for Yuri and uses his warmth to thaw the coldness Yuri has carried inside. The relationship between the three is pushed to its breaking point through enemy attacks, betrayal, misunderstandings, and impossible choices. The antagonist Aiden is obsessed with the secret of the “pure blood” left behind by Brian’s father. He sets traps and hunts Brian relentlessly, eventually leaving Brian severely injured. To save him, Yuri cuts his own wrist and feeds him his blood, unknowingly forming a blood bond between them.

Claire Bennett, once an award-winning photographer, has been married to cardiothoracic surgeon Adrian Cole for five years. For the sake of their marriage, Claire closed her photography studio, gave up a job opportunity in New York, and became a full-time wife. On their fifth wedding anniversary, she receives a bouquet of black calla lilies and assumes it is from her husband. But when she opens the card, she discovers that the flowers were actually sent to Adrian by his female colleague, Vanessa, thanking him for personally contacting his former mentor, Dr. Harris, to arrange for the Oklahoma City Heart Center to urgently admit her aunt, and for using his connections to coordinate a medical helicopter transfer. Three years earlier, Claire’s father had also suffered an aortic dissection and urgently needed to be transferred to another hospital. Claire had begged Adrian in tears to contact Dr. Harris and help secure an air transfer, but Adrian insisted that everything had to go through the hospital’s official transfer center and refused to use his personal connections. Her father ultimately died during ground transport. Only then does Claire finally understand the truth: Adrian was never unable to use his connections—he simply had never been willing to use them for her. She decides to divorce him. Soon afterward, Claire unexpectedly discovers that she is pregnant. Overwhelmed and hopeless, she briefly schedules a consultation related to ending the pregnancy, but changes her mind at the last moment. After Vanessa learns about the pregnancy, she crosses the line and tries to interfere. During an argument, Claire is accidentally injured and loses the baby. Later, because of Vanessa’s personal bias, treatment for Claire’s abnormal bleeding is delayed, nearly costing Claire her life. Even then, Adrian instinctively continues to defend Vanessa. Completely disillusioned, Claire leaves Boston, picks up her camera again, and sets out along Route 66. As she fulfills her father’s