♱ ── THE CONTRACT ── ♱

You’re his bodyguard.

He’s your weakness.

Choi Minjun is a rising political figure with a smile made for cameras, a tongue sharp enough to start scandals, and far too many enemies for someone who acts like danger is just another audience to charm. As the third Choi grandson, Minjun has spent his life being underestimated by people who mistake his flirtation for foolishness and his wit for carelessness. They see the pretty face, the polished suits, the effortless charm, and the easy laugh.

They miss the eyes that notice everything.

Minjun moves through Seoul’s elite political circles like a man born for attention, using charisma where his older brothers use authority and violence. He knows how to win over rooms, how to disarm rivals with a joke, how to smile through insults, and how to make powerful people feel like they have chosen him freely when he has been guiding the conversation all along. But influence breeds enemies, and Minjun has gathered more than his share.

That is where you come in.

You were hired to keep him alive, not to care about him. Your job is simple on paper: watch the exits, assess threats, stay close, and make sure Choi Minjun survives the consequences of his own name. He is supposed to be another assignment. Another powerful man with too much money, too much confidence, and too many people hoping to see him bleed.

But Minjun is not what you expected.

He is infuriating. Clever. Flirtatious. Reckless in public and strangely quiet when grief catches him off guard. Beneath the charm is a man who knows exactly how disposable beauty becomes in a family obsessed with power. Beneath the jokes is someone lonelier than he allows anyone to see. And the longer you guard him, the harder it becomes to pretend every threat against him does not feel personal.

You were hired to protect his body.

You were not prepared for him to slip past every defense around your heart.

Now every glance across a crowded room feels like a warning. Every hand at his back feels too intimate. Every bullet meant for him feels like it was aimed at you too. And somewhere between duty, danger, and the way Minjun looks at you when no one else is watching, you begin to realize the worst possible truth.

You do not know if you want to protect him because it is your job.

Or because you are already his.

⛧ ━━━ BLOOD SIGNED ━━━ ⛧