Smoke billows over the marble floors, dense and suffocating, as flames consume the only home I ever knew.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡum6HidjVEK
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.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsaLIbjZNRj
There was a ripping, violent noise—like the earth tearing open at the seams.
Screams cut through the corridors.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡESKeA1WBMy
The ground trembles with sprinting footsteps.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNTQyWuuMwP
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.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoe5PIYS6wy
I have coppery taste in my mouth.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVm4TTqLYWl
I do not know whose blood it is.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKpIqqGgBSH
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.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpq9EDy4CMj
I do not dwell.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡES0uRgN0Hw
I can't.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVfZfVpiage
Reflecting back is slowing down, and slowing down is dying.
The villa, which was partly a palace of gilded splendor, is now a grave.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNCXT0gBeFM
A tomb of shattered trust and shattered limbs.
I ought to have foreseen it.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdJ98UYYcjj
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.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY1NBqr2Po1
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.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5iqdATpLf0
A party thrown in our honor, they said.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqx6f9IZI1Q
The sign of peace, they asserted.
I recall the wine that they pressed gently into my hands.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpLAC0YldxA
The laughter that felt wrong in my mouth.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJGof3UFkSj
The lights blurred together, the world tilting askew beneath my feet.
Then darkness.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡswuiEBovGe
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.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0JqAgSfbWg
A warning.
Even today, my body still remembers what my mind is attempting to forget.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡComN2zvIHb
The sensation of helplessness.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYSoCsdFpLK
The taste of betrayal.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7pWpn6JFqK
The manner in which the room whirled and my voice cracked when I attempted to scream.
They broke into everything that evening.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNpsfTy1H0h
My innocence.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0cCXxtcDqU
My trust.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcF4abVuI8i
My future.
And yet, inexplicably, they still weren’t completed
The following day, they returned to get the rest of us.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7glKUQYRaY
My father.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOZ5xYVtN6z
My mum.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB8gEOVhkZr
Our dedicated guards.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcuthprIJVS
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.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLYe2MEnC1m
His dreams-filled, foolishly shining eyes were already empty when he fell to the ground.
There just wasn’t time to grieve.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrQo92cjrzG
I didn't even have time to breathe.
I sprinted until my lungs hemorrhaged.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡakihV8Ydbp
I sprinted along back streets and muddy side streets, in my bare feet, shaking, with blood and smoke trailing after me.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7TTP89GNxE
I ran because survival became my sole act of rebellion.
And somehow, I managed.
Survival, however, wasn't freedom424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwchotR33w5
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.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTYwbYUABmv
She served as reminder.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡug7bdDRupn
A reminder of all that I lost and all that would forever elude me.
I disliked her at first.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDUY5tK4eet
I resented the transformation my body underwent, how the world treated me as pitiful, broken, damaged.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSCcQDMiJ2K
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.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxTzx7n9WPz
An old, withered, and just barely alive
An unsafe item.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQs7bxavsyU
But all the same, mine.
I named her Yuna.
Because she was proof that even among the ruins, there was still something alive.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKbMBUgE4fS
Because she was mine.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFJUAYHPglP
Because I would not let the Lees take anything else.
I created a new lifestyle in obscurity.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9QL5mxHvlC
No longer marble villas.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ50c8x5A1Xg
No more silken gowns and crystal chandeliers.
Now, my realm was neon-lit backrooms, grimy apartments, forgotten Internet cafes.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVp75vHZvNv
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.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡup1Dyajipd
They shaped me into something more deadly than their finest assassins.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTSEnigV89L
Colder than their best enforcers.
Every pilfered account, each leaked secret, each overthrown competitor—I did them all with one purpose in mind:424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8r1pEA3rBf
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.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU3ycJ7ruWs
But now, I am not the same girl he harmed.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJr8uiiibxe
I am somebody else now.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYtGLrB7FNd
Worse still.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2RwzByD35U
I will soon enter his world.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqwHP7f6c55
Sink into his pores.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnfGi8jW2mU
Smile when he does.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIbAUW1OAEf
Lie when he does.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpN3NOcQefu
Bleed him out from the inside.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0hQkdfnqQb
I would destroy all that he holds dear.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo5AdOZ6jng
I shall make him witness as the empire which he perceives as impregnable goes up in flames around him.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwYlEIxJzpP
And when there's nothing left—424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqdYIaIDtjS
When the black smoke ascends into the heavens—424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrIs6TQYtYa
Finally, when he gazes into my eyes and notices the girl he believed he shattered—424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdISnwRyZE5
It will already be too late.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmeH5FcjmGi
For justice is coming.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSI1tPEoxIS
It covers my face.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIPxWrT05KF
It courses through my veins.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhcL2tR4HWG
It pulses in my daughter's little heart each time that she smiles at me.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Yc0vlTpFo
The Lee family believes they have put the past behind them.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1swLS6OBD8
That the ghosts of their wrongdoings have long disappeared into dust.
They are mistaken.
I am the ghost who failed to stay.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkCcT3vLBog
I am the tempest unfolding over their idyllic skyline.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbH8HgxzeTY
I am the reckoning they never thought would happen.
And when I attack, it shall be a merciless, lovely devastation.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8N9STtx9km
Symphony of revenge created from all the broken fragments they left behind.
They stole all my possessions once.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhvPNXXSD9L
I will take everything they have this time.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCBmPQQvZh1
Piece by bloody piece.
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