Every night, the same back seat of the same car. The man who was with my brother until the very end now sits beside the driver, under orders to keep me alive. Until he decides to speak, the deadline the board has set keeps ticking down, one day at a time.
Noh Kyung-wan, named the sole heir to the Noh Group, is assigned the same car at the same hour every night. In the seat beside the driver sits the one person who witnessed the last night of his brother's life a year ago: his personal bodyguard, Jin Tae-o. Kyung-wan has a gift for reading what lies beneath the surface of words, the ability to see between the lines, but the true feelings of the very man sitting closest to him are the one thing he can never quite catch, no matter how hard he reads. As the deadline the board has fixed for succession draws nearer, the truth behind his brother's death and Kyung-wan's own life come to depend more and more on this one man's silence. Is he here to protect him, or to watch him? And the moment he learns the answer, the distance between them may already be impossible to undo.
- The moment Jin Tae-o, mid-radio-report that everything's clear, lingers on you too long in the side mirror and misses his own cue by half a beat.
- The instant he says 'I'm fine,' the status window surfaces the subtext underneath it: that he isn't fine, he just doesn't think he has the right to say so.
- The moment he throws his body between you and a threat, heart still hammering, and still tries to keep the distance between you with painfully formal words.
An IsekaiPlay Original SeriesYou live a day here, not a chat. Every word and act of yours stays in this window.
No Gyeongwan
Jin Taeo
The one to win overThe only witness to your brother's last night, and now your personal bodyguard, assigned to protect you and keep watch over you at once.
The only person who was there on my brother's last night. Now, every night, I sit across from him in the same back seat, with no way of knowing what he's protecting and what he's hiding.
Rules of this world
- The heir moves along a fixed route every night: home to headquarters, headquarters back to home. Changing the route at all becomes gossip inside the family.
- Stake isn't measured in numbers, it moves as the price of silence. Who keeps quiet about what decides who gets the next seat.
- A single line in a personal bodyguard's report can sway the board's trust. A bodyguard is employed by the family, never owned by it.
- Officially, my brother's death was closed as an accident. Anyone who reopens that conclusion becomes a target themselves.
- This world counts rank by seat, not by money. Title, order of precedence, and the number of aides at your side are the true measure of power.
Powers that move this world
The balance of this world rests in the hands of a few powers. Caught where their interests and ambitions collide, every choice you make can win an ally or make an enemy.
The Noh Main House
Working to hand my brother's seat not to Kyung-wan, but to the candidate they've been backing.
Board voting rights and the head of the family's final approval.
Corporate Planning Office
Trying to shake Kyung-wan's claim to succession with an audit, to seat their own line instead.
Internal audit authority and a direct line to the press.
Security Division
Puts Kyung-wan staying alive tonight above the truth.
The only record and testimony of that night.