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The son of a traitor was never meant to survive in a kingdom that remembers.
But Jisung does - quietly, painfully, and armed with magic the Crown insists it does not need. Trained to defend against the darkest arts, he is summoned back within royal reach not as a student, but as an asset. A contingency. A secret kept behind gilded doors.
Lee Minho, heir to the throne, has been raised to rule with restraint - instinct leashed beneath law and legacy. He is taught to fear dark magic, to distrust omegas shaped by it, and above all, never to question the past.
What happens when magic remembers what the Crown denies? When resonance awakens, and bonds are forged not by decree but by choice? In a kingdom built on silence, treason begins to look a lot like survival.
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06 Jul 2026
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After winning a long and brutal battle that had haunted his family for generations, Prince Minho takes command of a fallen kingdom. His reward: a conquered realm, a crown washed clean of tyranny, and the most coveted omega in all the land.
As two kingdoms unite, Minho discovers that seizing a throne is simple—taming its prince, however, is something else entirely.- Language:
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04 Jul 2026
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“Do not forget your place. Subordination is not optional. You have no right to speak to me with familiarity, defiance, or contempt. Neither behind closed doors nor in front of my soldiers. If it happens again—“
He let the silence stretch, heavy and deliberate, before finishing.
“I will put a bullet in your forehead without hesitation. The past means nothing here. Is that clear?”
Jisung flinched, though he didn’t let it show. He remained still, rigid, muscles coiled, posture controlled. Even in that moment of unease, he refused to break.
“Yes, Captain.”
Or: seven years after their breakup, Minho and Jisung cross paths again in the middle of a war. Jisung has nothing yet to lose—the war has taken his wife, his daughter, and the life he once tried to build. Minho, meanwhile, has become someone else entirely. He’s a captain now, carved into something harder by duty, and survival.
There is no room for the past here. Only orders. Only discipline.- Language:
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22 Jun 2026
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It all starts with the end.
Han Jisung (a clumsy chemistry student with a painful past) crosses paths with Lee Minho (better known as Venom, the new leader of the notorious Vipers) when two kilograms of Venom's cocaine are mistakenly delivered to Jisung's doorstep, then lost by Jisung himself, under circumstances the idiot cannot remember.
Minho accuses him of theft, giving Jisung a fourteen day deadline to either find and give back the cocaine, pay an impossible debt, or take the mysterious third option which, Jisung assumes, has to mean death.
In his desperate quest for a way out, Jisung stumbles through a waking nightmare: unexpected connections between Minho and people he thought he could trust, mysterious news articles, abandoned mansions, crime scenes, black-tie parties, chaebol gossip, mafia families, escaping gunfire on the back of Minho's motorcycle.
But every single path only leads him back to the night he lost the drugs, and to unanswerable questions:
What the hell happened to the two bricks of cocaine?
Why can’t he remember losing them?
What is Minho hiding?
And what does the bastard truly want from Jisung?
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21 May 2026
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“We may not be dating anymore, but I know how you drench yourself in your mate’s scent.”
“Well, if you hadn’t cornered me here—”
“I didn’t corner you—”
“If you hadn’t cornered me here, hyung and I would already be busy fixing that.”
“Hyung?”
“You do know you’re not the only man older than me in my life that I’m close with, right?” Not that he even is in Jisung’s life anymore. It’s been two years. However, not two years long enough that Jisung doesn’t remember how Minho used to metaphorically snap his teeth at anyone who Jisung dared to call hyung in his presence that wasn’t him.
It definitely doesn’t still get Jisung hot under the collar, and he’s definitely not testing to see if it still gets Minho to bite.
OR: Jisung broke up with Minho two years ago, and Hyunjin and Jisung are bound in a fake engagement. And Jisung’s really not great at lying.
And they’re all stuck on a cruise ship together.
Awesome.
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08 May 2026