Smoke billows over the marble floors, dense and suffocating, as flames consume the only home I ever knew.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXQCU7J6JUZ
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.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡClJWQXHPNY
There was a ripping, violent noise—like the earth tearing open at the seams.
Screams cut through the corridors.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBGfvg3MVix
The ground trembles with sprinting footsteps.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnhnlq484sn
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.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5QTkbpU7GA
I have coppery taste in my mouth.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAHqQWvmmP7
I do not know whose blood it is.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAHKhmgmnHh
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.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNfkWWfFB9V
I do not dwell.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQpMCLSstdI
I can't.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH69ggmnPyZ
Reflecting back is slowing down, and slowing down is dying.
The villa, which was partly a palace of gilded splendor, is now a grave.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Z82dbo0Ri
A tomb of shattered trust and shattered limbs.
I ought to have foreseen it.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyQkcWwqsYd
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.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡycg73pWB50
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.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYczS91BNUO
A party thrown in our honor, they said.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeLgAikfarZ
The sign of peace, they asserted.
I recall the wine that they pressed gently into my hands.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSeQM4yk7wk
The laughter that felt wrong in my mouth.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoDQ7bJfT2p
The lights blurred together, the world tilting askew beneath my feet.
Then darkness.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ZDfhnS7vR
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.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡraK7Ke8WpW
A warning.
Even today, my body still remembers what my mind is attempting to forget.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX49TJ7imfg
The sensation of helplessness.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvLvVw6t1zx
The taste of betrayal.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjNhjQeU3w3
The manner in which the room whirled and my voice cracked when I attempted to scream.
They broke into everything that evening.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS0qganueuG
My innocence.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMBbGFmBuSr
My trust.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnBloUJ8hIh
My future.
And yet, inexplicably, they still weren’t completed
The following day, they returned to get the rest of us.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8JDBEljcKa
My father.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtj33ZDzxoc
My mum.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCJziw0shWc
Our dedicated guards.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3UjfQEnKoE
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.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt8vVv9sYi2
His dreams-filled, foolishly shining eyes were already empty when he fell to the ground.
There just wasn’t time to grieve.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfltQy7zUV0
I didn't even have time to breathe.
I sprinted until my lungs hemorrhaged.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAihtk2PpxE
I sprinted along back streets and muddy side streets, in my bare feet, shaking, with blood and smoke trailing after me.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC3NeGFsiG1
I ran because survival became my sole act of rebellion.
And somehow, I managed.
Survival, however, wasn't freedom239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsKytDNjEqr
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.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxz6OJ9GMpA
She served as reminder.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1bMYDL7ilF
A reminder of all that I lost and all that would forever elude me.
I disliked her at first.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIQdpvgm4mx
I resented the transformation my body underwent, how the world treated me as pitiful, broken, damaged.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3q720olHqG
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.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQMqbXa2wA4
An old, withered, and just barely alive
An unsafe item.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtvz8V00QA3
But all the same, mine.
I named her Yuna.
Because she was proof that even among the ruins, there was still something alive.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp16QnENSIE
Because she was mine.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkjNeYPSK4p
Because I would not let the Lees take anything else.
I created a new lifestyle in obscurity.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXDPeong9PE
No longer marble villas.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlfz9bIC1kY
No more silken gowns and crystal chandeliers.
Now, my realm was neon-lit backrooms, grimy apartments, forgotten Internet cafes.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTHOc5SehCL
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.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlJooFqAOzt
They shaped me into something more deadly than their finest assassins.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnIp1UirqBl
Colder than their best enforcers.
Every pilfered account, each leaked secret, each overthrown competitor—I did them all with one purpose in mind:239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT31CZ7AUxQ
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.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡggCfWQiFm1
But now, I am not the same girl he harmed.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6IIxDZ4wnV
I am somebody else now.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ70I0eoqYNX
Worse still.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs4mEPVuB0K
I will soon enter his world.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF89jvsxjBP
Sink into his pores.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjOvfE6Vq5D
Smile when he does.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpXpOxYi25v
Lie when he does.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ZsFmrpxx1
Bleed him out from the inside.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTDsIkyfr3A
I would destroy all that he holds dear.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYHPHmRDTeW
I shall make him witness as the empire which he perceives as impregnable goes up in flames around him.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhyVz3PLHcJ
And when there's nothing left—239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkeFGP5ZS9T
When the black smoke ascends into the heavens—239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcfMxgzeLio
Finally, when he gazes into my eyes and notices the girl he believed he shattered—239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWvV4KNI5jp
It will already be too late.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbgf2KkPu2Z
For justice is coming.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiSW6UVJEHP
It covers my face.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDMVmW0lCV3
It courses through my veins.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ72FOQPaSK7
It pulses in my daughter's little heart each time that she smiles at me.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBOO0g5MOm9
The Lee family believes they have put the past behind them.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0GXhEa37xf
That the ghosts of their wrongdoings have long disappeared into dust.
They are mistaken.
I am the ghost who failed to stay.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCrto3yPWdc
I am the tempest unfolding over their idyllic skyline.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAFHrTz9QHD
I am the reckoning they never thought would happen.
And when I attack, it shall be a merciless, lovely devastation.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNCCmkLlcxX
Symphony of revenge created from all the broken fragments they left behind.
They stole all my possessions once.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLm9n2XwQr4
I will take everything they have this time.239Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8UxJdhCo2Y
Piece by bloody piece.
and then Add to home screen.