Smoke billows over the marble floors, dense and suffocating, as flames consume the only home I ever knew.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9s5gVBrGpO
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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH2QklhoP7M
There was a ripping, violent noise—like the earth tearing open at the seams.
Screams cut through the corridors.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKwQnIeBsGq
The ground trembles with sprinting footsteps.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcen5WjZK46
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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmWfwh23sf0
I have coppery taste in my mouth.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOBnEDZQY2D
I do not know whose blood it is.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIwjSt0erEC
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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2vsyDqbf4J
I do not dwell.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4NNXnR3et8
I can't.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxrgo4CJlEg
Reflecting back is slowing down, and slowing down is dying.
The villa, which was partly a palace of gilded splendor, is now a grave.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFW3iKjNKk1
A tomb of shattered trust and shattered limbs.
I ought to have foreseen it.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnbXIiILE5C
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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa1rbj5Fef7
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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtbfpqCqvdw
A party thrown in our honor, they said.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC9DST56mml
The sign of peace, they asserted.
I recall the wine that they pressed gently into my hands.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK8vh6JSTLO
The laughter that felt wrong in my mouth.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFkdcBUHIzV
The lights blurred together, the world tilting askew beneath my feet.
Then darkness.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHewUnbzWxZ
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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUg5KEIfEHs
A warning.
Even today, my body still remembers what my mind is attempting to forget.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIUaapEa0BI
The sensation of helplessness.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz3d8UpufWN
The taste of betrayal.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbWuHcPIbLN
The manner in which the room whirled and my voice cracked when I attempted to scream.
They broke into everything that evening.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡukAzg0UVPW
My innocence.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOKjoNgWl8O
My trust.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8nOgWVtWqM
My future.
And yet, inexplicably, they still weren’t completed
The following day, they returned to get the rest of us.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0UKGGzTSlw
My father.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnJfovhOilP
My mum.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG8J82lfpyh
Our dedicated guards.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA8qOAkVqvw
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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcsL8PHJUqd
His dreams-filled, foolishly shining eyes were already empty when he fell to the ground.
There just wasn’t time to grieve.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡheDEIyyY60
I didn't even have time to breathe.
I sprinted until my lungs hemorrhaged.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN2wigeF0o8
I sprinted along back streets and muddy side streets, in my bare feet, shaking, with blood and smoke trailing after me.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm1u9kcPEvA
I ran because survival became my sole act of rebellion.
And somehow, I managed.
Survival, however, wasn't freedom717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3FUrIGgZfv
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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡta61TIaNcE
She served as reminder.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZNxTn4MLp4
A reminder of all that I lost and all that would forever elude me.
I disliked her at first.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4MugnJu6A1
I resented the transformation my body underwent, how the world treated me as pitiful, broken, damaged.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBmnR9Byv3L
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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGBlqCecjoL
An old, withered, and just barely alive
An unsafe item.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQTIVm2eGIV
But all the same, mine.
I named her Yuna.
Because she was proof that even among the ruins, there was still something alive.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1mbeSBlZVz
Because she was mine.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF3DTr6g5k0
Because I would not let the Lees take anything else.
I created a new lifestyle in obscurity.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2gVovfMXlr
No longer marble villas.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhIwJI1JAPm
No more silken gowns and crystal chandeliers.
Now, my realm was neon-lit backrooms, grimy apartments, forgotten Internet cafes.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvxj0K0YltP
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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaisWBuigjB
They shaped me into something more deadly than their finest assassins.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwP3cTEZlMf
Colder than their best enforcers.
Every pilfered account, each leaked secret, each overthrown competitor—I did them all with one purpose in mind:717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy7iuKfTrWM
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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ1yKcNr5tP
But now, I am not the same girl he harmed.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJL9PTki6DC
I am somebody else now.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK7DRTOoK53
Worse still.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjGcd3Yo7IB
I will soon enter his world.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUPHfSFTHz9
Sink into his pores.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡglYPmo8mdo
Smile when he does.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPJCVhI7eah
Lie when he does.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSNA1BN38XE
Bleed him out from the inside.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEEk3EeJAzt
I would destroy all that he holds dear.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQSQVl9EYBW
I shall make him witness as the empire which he perceives as impregnable goes up in flames around him.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnVJ8Ni7QCV
And when there's nothing left—717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1jQf8qyApI
When the black smoke ascends into the heavens—717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjgERtBxFcq
Finally, when he gazes into my eyes and notices the girl he believed he shattered—717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡECJ0kstCVt
It will already be too late.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡehxFCWmSpw
For justice is coming.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE6jP6Y2XZG
It covers my face.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxA1580b7lB
It courses through my veins.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMxaqB2Qwda
It pulses in my daughter's little heart each time that she smiles at me.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb1WD5dmM1k
The Lee family believes they have put the past behind them.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdVrouXyKQF
That the ghosts of their wrongdoings have long disappeared into dust.
They are mistaken.
I am the ghost who failed to stay.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhBlqAnWvhd
I am the tempest unfolding over their idyllic skyline.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzleAIWranv
I am the reckoning they never thought would happen.
And when I attack, it shall be a merciless, lovely devastation.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQAPr828LyI
Symphony of revenge created from all the broken fragments they left behind.
They stole all my possessions once.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWQ2vafOEUp
I will take everything they have this time.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡunPEt7DHFi
Piece by bloody piece.
and then Add to home screen.