A top-tier hunter dies in a high-level dungeon only to awaken inside a novel as the weakest son of a powerful hunter family, a character destined to die early.
Determined to change his fate, he relies on his past-life instincts to survive. But something is wrong.
 The farther he is from the novel’s villian, the more his emotions spiral out of control.
What begins as a necessity soon turns into something far more dangerous.
As he grows stronger and defies the original story, the invisible bond between them tightens blurring the line between control and obsession, reason and desire.
In a world ruled by power and dungeons, the greatest threat may not be death… but losing himself to the one person he cannot stay away from

The forest closed around them with every step. Behind them, the path had already vanished beneath shifting roots and tangled branches. What had once been a road was now indistinguishable from the rest of the forest floor.


Kaelen kept his hand near his sword. Not because he expected an attack, but because the silence made him uneasy.


The trees grew taller the farther they went. Their trunks rose like ancient pillars, disappearing into a canopy so dense that not even a sliver of daylight reached the ground. The strange green markings had become more frequent, covering the bark in branching patterns, thin lines of light spreading across the trunks like veins beneath skin.


Each time the markings brightened, Kaelen felt the pendant against his chest respond. Warm. Then hotter. Then cold again.


Chapter 257 - The Heart of the Wood