Some stories start off like a fairytale.
Some start off mediocre.
Phoebe's started with untold tragedies.
With a burning desire for freedom.
A father who hates her.
Where she’s taught neglect and abuse is love.
She will stop at nothing to escape and reach her dreams.


Taeyung was a boy raised to be a monster.
A man with a deadly obsession.
Where power through fear and blood became a second language.
Her fire, her bite, her strength.
It was a trap and he fell right in.
Consumed by a desperation to own her.
He’d burn the world for her.
Tear down empires.
Nothing will stop him.
He would have her or no one else would.

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*This is a slow burn, enemies to lovers, Cinderella story with a kick ass female lead, who breaks through your typical narrative. The male lead is toxic and has a lot of growth to make but he does grow! So give him a chance, he may impress you*

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This paperwork felt endless with no finish line in sight. Business deals, acquisitions, mergers.


I felt a touch on my shoulder. Instantly I thought about my abeoji. The man was ruining our family. Anger ripped through me, I dreamed of choking him, watching the light drain from his eyes. To feel the life of the man who abused me drift to nothing. The way he treated my omoni like a doormat after he took over the Kim Group, so my omoni could raise us. He never loved her, he just pretended.


If my hal abeoji wasn't such a traditional man, my omoni would have inherited the Kim Group.


That's what drew me to Phoebe, she wasn't even interested in where the ladder went, let alone the actual ladder.


I squeezed tighter, watching him fade further and further into darkness.


Chapter 190 - Fucked up