Love Was Bad

“Have you ever done something bad?”

“…….”

“You’re going to do it with me tonight.”

To that man, it was nothing more than a fleeting indulgence—a one-night departure from the ordinary. But the ashes left behind by that momentary spark stained Shin Ye-won’s life with the colors of despair.

And yet, after seven years, fate brought that man, Kang Jae-ha, back before her.

“You’re still beautiful. Beautiful enough to drive me crazy.”

“Thinking about how you used to feel… makes me hot.”

Overwhelmed by his dazzling, dizzying seduction, Ye-won helplessly fell for him.

She knew it was reckless. The man who ruled over her nights with effortless composure concealed a cold heart behind his sweet and gentle expression.

“I want our relationship to be love.”

Even if it was only a brief moment that would pass through her life, she wanted to experience love at least once. Without looking back at the past, without dreaming about the future, she decided to simply enjoy the present.

Those days of following their desires were sweet and happy.

Until the man stabbed Ye-won’s defenseless back with an invisible blade.

“Have you ever loved me?”

“When you were beneath me, at least, I loved you sincerely.”

But why, at the very moment Kang Jae-ha spat out those cruel words, did his eyes look so utterly devastated, as though his own heart had been cut open?

With her heart bruised and aching, Ye-won cursed this connection between them.

Love was at fault. Love had been far too cruel to me.

Cover illustration: Maybejin