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Nahyun, afraid of water and unable to swim, has just signed up for swimming lessons in the hopes of overcoming her fear. There, she meets the attractive but rumored to have a shady reputation swimming instructor Cha Jaehwan. Although immediately attracted to Jaehwan, Nahyun pulls back quickly because she believes some men just aren’t in her league. Yet after spending time together, and after a number of rumors swirl about them, she impulsively proposes a one-nighter with him. After that night though, things change significantly when Jaehwan reveals that Nahyun is actually his first.

Han Woojin, a reclusive scientist with an obsession for laboratory experimentation, has a reputation for being unable to control his physical responses whenever he makes an important scientific breakthrough; this is why he’s been given the nickname of “Mad Woojin”. His search is not motivated by greed or any preconceived notion of fate, since Han travels alone to Deokmu Mountain solely to see if the stories circulating about the existence of a goblin that grants wishes and gives away gold are accurate. While on this expedition, however, Han doesn’t uncover treasure, but rather meets Baekbaek who happens to be the god of wealth. Woojin is determined to treat Baekbaek as though he’s the rarest specimen known to man by conducting many experiments on him until they’ve both reached their limit.

Joo Incheol thought he was going places. As a loyal aide to Lee Myeongseon, a rising political figure and contenders for ministers, he was on a secure path – until the rivalries within the campaign began to swallow him whole.

To prove he was worth keeping around and to reestablish himself, Incheol was given an important task: to figure how to diffuse a redevelopment dispute in the problematic Jungang district of Songmun City. The redevelopment plans were politically sensitive, publicly condemned and practically impossible. Incheol was aware that his entire future hinged on this case.

His only real lead? Ahn Pyeonghwa, the owner of a decrepit fitness center, found in the geography of the redevelopment conflict. Also problematic? Ahn Pyeonghwa is his neighbor – but not one he knows very well.

When Incheol reaches out for his support, Pyeonghwa agrees. However:

“Hit me.”

Drawn from every direction by ambition, uncertainty, and baffling request from a neighbor, Incheol is caught in a complex situation in which the very rules of political negotiation no longer apply, and where the distinctions between politics, personal interests, and pain, become fundamentally blurred.

Hector never thought his father’s final legacy would amount to more than marble and myth.

A well-known master sculptor in the art world, Hector’s father passed away only days before the unveiling of a highly anticipated work he had created—Minor: David. As Hector wanders through his father’s things, putting all the pieces together, he finds a hidden away villa from the world. What he discovers is life-changing.

Inside, Hector finds Enoch—a subdued, ungainly young man whose presence is unsettling, but captivating all the same. Hector cannot remember him—he knows nothing about him. But the likeness is uncanny: Enoch is the spitting image of the statue his father had secretly carved.

But Enoch is not a muse by choice.

Caught between grief and obsession, Hector’s fascination makes a dangerously intense turn. Enoch feels that monstrosity emerging, and he knows he has to run. What follows is a dangerous game—split between a chase and a descent into the primal instincts that resides in each one of us. In this mute struggle of predator versus prey, only one truth remains:

Art reveals the soul…but it can also expose the monster lurking within it.