Smoke billows over the marble floors, dense and suffocating, as flames consume the only home I ever knew.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrnvL8rhCfT
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.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡceXSoNlyYV
There was a ripping, violent noise—like the earth tearing open at the seams.
Screams cut through the corridors.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2pc3MQL9bZ
The ground trembles with sprinting footsteps.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQA46kNzU2M
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.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWuA3bEZwdU
I have coppery taste in my mouth.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjSB0btC7Y3
I do not know whose blood it is.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkqO12q0oLD
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.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡddcwi5dctt
I do not dwell.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOxMMXlH3LW
I can't.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmJdQ1PcykV
Reflecting back is slowing down, and slowing down is dying.
The villa, which was partly a palace of gilded splendor, is now a grave.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfjHdK4mZTa
A tomb of shattered trust and shattered limbs.
I ought to have foreseen it.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEn4eA4tlfL
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.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB2znnuW3k4
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.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMFuJYFSwKw
A party thrown in our honor, they said.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGspaEkfchl
The sign of peace, they asserted.
I recall the wine that they pressed gently into my hands.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNRGKsyuS27
The laughter that felt wrong in my mouth.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLOOtx4Yuc9
The lights blurred together, the world tilting askew beneath my feet.
Then darkness.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIZJyPZ8Dhx
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.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmZOZUE4ZiB
A warning.
Even today, my body still remembers what my mind is attempting to forget.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNUasz3rC58
The sensation of helplessness.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcLNMQRrlKl
The taste of betrayal.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Y4rlwKUxO
The manner in which the room whirled and my voice cracked when I attempted to scream.
They broke into everything that evening.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8kvQGrPpMu
My innocence.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa2SOWBU3EU
My trust.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV8014vCxFl
My future.
And yet, inexplicably, they still weren’t completed
The following day, they returned to get the rest of us.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgIpWgN0cPz
My father.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIa8mRItxRW
My mum.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgrSt6o0ti2
Our dedicated guards.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9SxFssjjZf
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.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNiOq5GKKPt
His dreams-filled, foolishly shining eyes were already empty when he fell to the ground.
There just wasn’t time to grieve.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFB5B9071OZ
I didn't even have time to breathe.
I sprinted until my lungs hemorrhaged.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡndYbYjD1Jz
I sprinted along back streets and muddy side streets, in my bare feet, shaking, with blood and smoke trailing after me.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP9L5ntlZ7a
I ran because survival became my sole act of rebellion.
And somehow, I managed.
Survival, however, wasn't freedom311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2IoD7DHQnA
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.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyV3VDj3bHH
She served as reminder.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM1NUeDB3V3
A reminder of all that I lost and all that would forever elude me.
I disliked her at first.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2MlSrqhiMP
I resented the transformation my body underwent, how the world treated me as pitiful, broken, damaged.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe3H1HJpD4l
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.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhGug8oKWDU
An old, withered, and just barely alive
An unsafe item.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYGFplCtcGc
But all the same, mine.
I named her Yuna.
Because she was proof that even among the ruins, there was still something alive.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7sqgYoyJ35
Because she was mine.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNBtb4Hfkmn
Because I would not let the Lees take anything else.
I created a new lifestyle in obscurity.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFrrMSf1eWX
No longer marble villas.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZa5hvMADVm
No more silken gowns and crystal chandeliers.
Now, my realm was neon-lit backrooms, grimy apartments, forgotten Internet cafes.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoQYeZDHahB
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.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5BaN3ZL9eO
They shaped me into something more deadly than their finest assassins.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTPb82R9szC
Colder than their best enforcers.
Every pilfered account, each leaked secret, each overthrown competitor—I did them all with one purpose in mind:311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLG9twCPWqT
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.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL8b8RFguso
But now, I am not the same girl he harmed.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVmxfkWowlq
I am somebody else now.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjN9mJaGYtj
Worse still.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ12JsQB6Zxm
I will soon enter his world.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrmTPoDUwzi
Sink into his pores.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE9RRI6fsae
Smile when he does.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd7UQqOPneP
Lie when he does.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡttWX2gmEmJ
Bleed him out from the inside.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6vVxrMsj9M
I would destroy all that he holds dear.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbdW1fRiLPe
I shall make him witness as the empire which he perceives as impregnable goes up in flames around him.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXSTpNK4cuS
And when there's nothing left—311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ30wuddcoVa
When the black smoke ascends into the heavens—311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV9188AW8Dc
Finally, when he gazes into my eyes and notices the girl he believed he shattered—311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOcqvDfQl4M
It will already be too late.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeagbz1OdyJ
For justice is coming.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH9ADnGfSWF
It covers my face.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3wKaQYXsJQ
It courses through my veins.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWojtruelxX
It pulses in my daughter's little heart each time that she smiles at me.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqlp9lSVp5T
The Lee family believes they have put the past behind them.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM2OdcXTtvK
That the ghosts of their wrongdoings have long disappeared into dust.
They are mistaken.
I am the ghost who failed to stay.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4c0weED4On
I am the tempest unfolding over their idyllic skyline.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5FS9yc7pD4
I am the reckoning they never thought would happen.
And when I attack, it shall be a merciless, lovely devastation.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQzr6KYGuQ9
Symphony of revenge created from all the broken fragments they left behind.
They stole all my possessions once.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu9ClHeCyLe
I will take everything they have this time.311Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtmL2nNkO0Q
Piece by bloody piece.
and then Add to home screen.