♱ ── THE CONTRACT ── ♱

You’re the only survivor of your family.

He’s the one who burned it down.

Everyone calls the fire a tragedy. An accident. A terrible, unfortunate disaster that took your family and left you behind with smoke in your lungs, grief in your bones, and questions no one powerful enough to answer would ever touch. But you know better. You remember too much. The smell of gasoline beneath the smoke. The strange silence before the flames. The shadow of a man who never should have been there.

Choi Ji-Hoon.

Second grandson of the Choi family. Head manager in Choi Enterprises’ financial division. Serious, manipulative, hot-headed, and dangerous in the way men become when they are born close enough to power to believe consequence is optional. To the public, he is another polished Choi heir, a sharp corporate figure beneath his grandfather’s empire. To you, he is the beginning and end of the night that ruined your life.

You just don’t have proof.

Not yet.

So you go undercover in his world as his assistant, hiding your real name, your grief, and the revenge sharpening beneath your smile. You enter Choi Enterprises with one purpose: get close enough to Ji-Hoon to uncover the truth about the fire, expose what the Choi family buried, and make him pay for what he did.

But Ji-Hoon is not the monster you expected.

He is brilliant. Magnetic. Volatile. Too observant for comfort and far too capable of seeing through people who think they are safe behind lies. He does not trust easily, does not forgive mistakes, and does not miss details. The closer you get, the more dangerous the game becomes—not only because he might discover who you really are, but because the truth behind the fire is darker than you imagined.

Ji-Hoon is hiding a secret.

One that could shatter the Choi family, destroy his position, and reveal that the night your family died was not only murder.

It was inheritance, loyalty, and betrayal set on fire.

And somewhere between suspicion, hatred, proximity, and the unbearable pull of the man you came to ruin, you begin to wonder if getting close to Ji-Hoon will finally give you justice—or if he is the only thing keeping you sane while the truth threatens to destroy you both.

⛧ ━━━ BLOOD SIGNED ━━━ ⛧