*This work contains immoral themes and disturbing expressions that may be polarizing.
All settings, backgrounds, and characters are fictional, and the character traits do not represent the author’s ideology.
*Content Warnings: Bodily Mutilation, Serial Murder
Just outside Seoul, in the mist-shrouded village of Yeonsu, reachable only by a long bus ride from Suwon, Lee Jungsu sells his body to survive.
Four months after starting this work, a young man appears before him. Han Kyumin is strikingly beautiful—so much so that Jungsu has never seen anyone quite like him.
One rainy dawn, as Jungsu curses under his breath and heads back to his studio apartment, someone begins to follow him.
"Can I ask you for directions? Come here, this way," the stranger calls out. Instinctively, Jungsu tries to keep his distance, but the man in the raincoat just smiles, almost playfully.
"Do you want to play hide-and-seek with me?" he asks, his voice gentle, as if soothing a child.
"Shh, shh."
Jungsu, gasping for breath, finally sees the man’s face as he pulls back his hood—and everything goes black.
With the sound of a door chime, Jungsu steps into the killer’s garden.
