Smoke billows over the marble floors, dense and suffocating, as flames consume the only home I ever knew.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2qNq7JYLB9
The walls strain with the heat. Flickering shadows assume grotesque shapes, engulfing the gold-leaf ceilings and the gleaming chandeliers.
I always hear the shots first before noticing the blood.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi6j07SkKTm
There was a ripping, violent noise—like the earth tearing open at the seams.
Screams cut through the corridors.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOga7WFNwZZ
The ground trembles with sprinting footsteps.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyfOORjyhD1
In the distance, there is the shattering of a glass vase sounding like a gunshot.
My heart is pounding so quickly it feels like it's about to burst.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzVOL4H1A0c
I have coppery taste in my mouth.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2P83y271o3
I do not know whose blood it is.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzaOoAtf3bo
I don’t even know if it’s mine.
That's all I know, that I need to run.
I sprint through the smoke-filled hallways, my bare feet skidding across the cold, slick marble wet with some dark liquid.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6bbQaq22Vr
I do not dwell.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtZ6limhoHD
I can't.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZh2oDS0HCo
Reflecting back is slowing down, and slowing down is dying.
The villa, which was partly a palace of gilded splendor, is now a grave.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPmKkW8lK9h
A tomb of shattered trust and shattered limbs.
I ought to have foreseen it.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQvKn9E3s4L
I would have known.
But at that time, I still held onto things such as loyalty.
Vows exchanged over flasks of aged whiskey and hushed offers in mahogany-lined back rooms.
I didn’t realize in my father's chosen world loyalty existed as just another blade—double-edged, ever so cutting.
It wasn't the shooting that broke me.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGTkCWnCZZY
It wasn't the massacre that made me into a ghost.
It was the evening before.
The evening when I was tricked into an ambush disguised as a party.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBUTNZgUuqh
A party thrown in our honor, they said.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0G0iVh71j2
The sign of peace, they asserted.
I recall the wine that they pressed gently into my hands.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy1644H1pBN
The laughter that felt wrong in my mouth.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrrqqRgSJLd
The lights blurred together, the world tilting askew beneath my feet.
Then darkness.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4PTroueaYm
I slept like a drugged person, incredibly deep, unable to struggle free even though I struggled with all my might.
And when I woke—
The Lee heir's soft, low, and deadly voice, whispering it hadn't been personal.
I was simply a lesson.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjVIXVswxSi
A warning.
Even today, my body still remembers what my mind is attempting to forget.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJMpg5uEBCG
The sensation of helplessness.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAZGQoVNaEX
The taste of betrayal.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5fJBMpR69M
The manner in which the room whirled and my voice cracked when I attempted to scream.
They broke into everything that evening.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8LiZXtpCPc
My innocence.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk8Ob3HChnR
My trust.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0sBXqTNxOJ
My future.
And yet, inexplicably, they still weren’t completed
The following day, they returned to get the rest of us.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ01TpzFvS8s
My father.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgjut6RAqjY
My mum.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjvgvHmL6qr
Our dedicated guards.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoNiFfUVf4A
Our friends.
All swept away in an explosion of bullets and flames.
I saw my father fall from across the marble hall, a neat hole punched through his chest.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNGbQOAdFq6
His dreams-filled, foolishly shining eyes were already empty when he fell to the ground.
There just wasn’t time to grieve.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡts6CybGLEe
I didn't even have time to breathe.
I sprinted until my lungs hemorrhaged.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxjn9LrBsel
I sprinted along back streets and muddy side streets, in my bare feet, shaking, with blood and smoke trailing after me.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHJLX3yWIHW
I ran because survival became my sole act of rebellion.
And somehow, I managed.
Survival, however, wasn't freedom425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmTzHUmfdTm
Not for me.
For weeks afterward, when the nightmares still lingered, carrying an almost dull, persistent throb, I discovered that I wasn’t alone.
The baby developing in my belly wasn't miraculous.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhpWLeZGWEg
She served as reminder.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWb3DcFy7uv
A reminder of all that I lost and all that would forever elude me.
I disliked her at first.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgOpkGcCTx8
I resented the transformation my body underwent, how the world treated me as pitiful, broken, damaged.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCQtZCLaMEr
I despised the fact that she bound me to the monsters who stole everything from me forever.
But when the baby arrived, small and perfect, with eyes too large for her delicate face, I broke.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMJ8oCyRt5G
An old, withered, and just barely alive
An unsafe item.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxoj2nUciSc
But all the same, mine.
I named her Yuna.
Because she was proof that even among the ruins, there was still something alive.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa9bMl6si1S
Because she was mine.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡah3Cy7O1kv
Because I would not let the Lees take anything else.
I created a new lifestyle in obscurity.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUmPQ4t0ZVu
No longer marble villas.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWrtu2toVbt
No more silken gowns and crystal chandeliers.
Now, my realm was neon-lit backrooms, grimy apartments, forgotten Internet cafes.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4j2O0MHMdA
My weaponry wasn't guns or knives, but my firewalls, my passwords, my lines of code more deadly than any blade.
I have trained myself to become invisible.
They schooled me in cruelty without even knowing it.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmqZuJKvdWK
They shaped me into something more deadly than their finest assassins.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUMjkPZRAd6
Colder than their best enforcers.
Every pilfered account, each leaked secret, each overthrown competitor—I did them all with one purpose in mind:425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBwZWjr02q2
To cut out a route back to them. To insert a knife under their ribs, just as they inserted one into my life.
The Lee family still dominates the underworld of South Korea—untouchable, untouchable, untouchable
They have grown even wealthier.
They spread like a virus.
Their transgressions are hidden under layers of excess and deception.
But I know that.
I know the corruption at their very center.
I know the right pressure at the right point makes their golden walls crumble.
And I'll keep pushing.
It starts with him—the heir.
Seong-jin Lee.
The lad that broke me.
The individual who stands poised to inherit all.
Eloquent. Aff
Covered in a suit and with a smile, concealing the poison beneath.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBuAcdw8PJM
But now, I am not the same girl he harmed.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2PkeuH3hX4
I am somebody else now.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw91fcltKYo
Worse still.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvDyTGa9d7P
I will soon enter his world.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyuxfJfgehO
Sink into his pores.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlEvKIm0pwX
Smile when he does.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDUUL8rNwCS
Lie when he does.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ99ZqIEWoXS
Bleed him out from the inside.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzca2X0LM9z
I would destroy all that he holds dear.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXfxI5LVXz2
I shall make him witness as the empire which he perceives as impregnable goes up in flames around him.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCnfzwm0wsS
And when there's nothing left—425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5X3bh3UHaO
When the black smoke ascends into the heavens—425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡni1aV9gabK
Finally, when he gazes into my eyes and notices the girl he believed he shattered—425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlFVIahXwD5
It will already be too late.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdfHVGXy0Bu
For justice is coming.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRxp5wrMcP4
It covers my face.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYjSVViLe6D
It courses through my veins.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgWOrXRDQQi
It pulses in my daughter's little heart each time that she smiles at me.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfW5wJTxbKD
The Lee family believes they have put the past behind them.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgaF5soksEA
That the ghosts of their wrongdoings have long disappeared into dust.
They are mistaken.
I am the ghost who failed to stay.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3pbONn8p2k
I am the tempest unfolding over their idyllic skyline.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuQdkMdsHNU
I am the reckoning they never thought would happen.
And when I attack, it shall be a merciless, lovely devastation.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpffGtLrkpQ
Symphony of revenge created from all the broken fragments they left behind.
They stole all my possessions once.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ11UODEE8lh
I will take everything they have this time.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡky7WTxlhCw
Piece by bloody piece.
and then Add to home screen.