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Ahn Kyunghee wanted nothing more than to move on from a stigmatizing past as a druggie’s daughter. However, fate had other things in store. A special person from her past reappears and gives her a whole new meaning to perseverance, love and loyalty. 

Despite the ten year gap, she had once again found her first love; only now he was no longer the teenager brimming with righteous determination she once knew. Now, he was a member of the dangerous Yakuza—a man to be feared and revered, but a man who would do anything to give her the protection she never had, regardless of right or wrong. 

In her memory, he would forever be the boy who befriended and held her hand whilst everyone else ostracized her. Then there was the hotheaded detective who was the bane of her existence, only to realize that she meant more to him than he could ever mean to her. 

Light and dark didn’t mix. Just like tigers and dragons didn’t co-exist.

Linked To You

Kyunghee stood in front of the outdated business sign that read "Bae's Billiards".

Life was funny sometimes. In the first half of her life, she had done everything she could to run away from that man's control. And when the successful day came, Kyunghee vowed she would never return to the prison that had locked up her teenage years; the prison that had stolen the youth she could never recapture.

Youth was a transient time, and when it was gone, it was gone forever.

Yet here she was, returning years later to the shark's cave through her own willingness. Just like a boomerang, she was back to where she began. Life was a full circle, wasn't it? In order to reach the ending, a person had to go back to the beginning, back to where everything started—where the nightmares, heartaches, regrets and nostalgia were waiting sadistically with open arms. Taking in a deep breath, Kyunghee reached for the door handle and pulled it.

Chapter 63