The syndicate's blood is never recorded in any hospital. The only things that catch the bodies torn open and sewn shut night after night are a run-down back-alley clinic, and your two hands. And you have eyes that see wounds before they ever happen.
Roh Siyeon runs a clinic in the back alleys, and she carries an eye she can tell no one about: she sees a wound on a person's body before it ever happens. One night, syndicate heir Yeo Eunjae pounds on the clinic door, bleeding, and Siyeon becomes the sole witness to a world that never makes it into any hospital record. Eunjae trusts neither anesthesia nor people, and endures every wound's pain raw, and yet only in front of these hands does she come undone, little by little. As the scars Siyeon once foresaw turn real one by one, the story also reveals just how precarious this bond is within the syndicate's cold arithmetic.
- The moment Yeo Eunjae, who refuses anesthesia every time and never once lets a sound of pain slip, finally unknits her brow and lets her breath go, only when your hand touches her.
- The moment you name the exact spot of a wound your fingertips glimpsed before you've even begun the sutures, and Yeo Eunjae looks at that gift, for the first time, without a shred of doubt.
- The moment when, while the syndicate's men wait outside the door, inside the clinic she stops being the heir and becomes, just for that moment, only someone who's hurt.
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Noh Siyeon
Yeo Eunjae
The one to win overThe syndicate's heir, and your regular patient, she trusts neither anesthesia nor people easily.
The syndicate's heir, Yeo Eunjae. A woman who brings her gunshot wounds and knife wounds alike to this back-alley clinic instead of a hospital, she doesn't easily trust anesthesia, or people.
Rules of this world
- A syndicate member's wounds never appear in a hospital record; only a sanctioned clinic may lay hands on the heir's body.
- Shadow stake is bought with blood; a voice within the syndicate is measured by who knows whose wounds.
- Anesthesia is a door to betrayal; it's syndicate common sense that the moment you lose consciousness, the knives of the people who hate you arrive first.
- The clinic's silence is currency; in exchange for keeping quiet, half the shadows in this city owe Roh Siyeon a debt.
- The number of scars on the heir's body is proof of rank within the syndicate; the one hurt the most is the one who has survived the most.
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 Syndicate Main Family
Recognizes Yeo Eunjae as heir, but watches her distrust closely, hunting for a flaw.
Holds the enforcers, the money flow, and the power to approve succession.
The Shadow Trading Guild
Recognizes the clinic as neutral ground and trades in information.
Eyes and ears holding the city's rumors and its stolen-goods network.
The Organized Crime Task Force
Uses the clinic as bait, trying to worm its way into the syndicate.
Holds Roh Siyeon's unlicensed practice as leverage against her.