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    Baudelaire says we should be continually drunk — on wine, on poetry, or on virtue as we wish — and it is after three years of friendship that Jeongguk realizes he is drunk on Taehyung.

    Only, Taehyung is a riddle, and Jeongguk is bad at reading people.

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    25 Nov 2025

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    The Whispers & Wonders Exchange provides the service of secret pawning for a fair price. It is a lucrative business, beneficial for both the pawner and the broker: by pawning their whisper, the customer relieves themselves of the burden of their secret, which the broker can then sell, should the loan not be repaid and the whisper reclaimed in due time. As the only secret broker in Seoul, Taehyung is certain that no whisper can be more gruesome, peculiar, or scandalous than the ones he already owns.

    That is, until chaebol successor Jeon Jeongguk walks into his shop, hoping to pawn his whisper — a secret so monumental, he asks to pawn it in seven installments, one piece of the secret for each year he kept it.

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    25 Nov 2025

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    “Who is he?” Jeongguk asks.

    “Who’s who?”

    “Don’t play dumb,” Jeongguk mumbles between them, his words low enough for only him to hear. “Your date. Who is he?”

    “You’re really going to keep doing this?”

    “And you’re not?” The air vibrates between them, charged with the unspoken. “We’ve been at it for years, Jeongguk-ah. Why stop now?”

    It’s as much an acknowledgment as any. Taehyung has never spoken it out loud before, and it catches Jeongguk off guard. It’s just a moment, a brief glimmer in his eyes, but Taehyung can’t let it slip. He has to capitalize on it.

    “Though I will admit I enjoy seeing you jealous.” Taehyung can’t resist the smirk. “You’re awfully possessive of someone who isn’t yours.”

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    As sole heirs to their family fortunes, Jeon Jeongguk and Kim Taehyung have been rivals for as long as they can remember. In a game perfected over years, they’ve managed to dance around each other, careful to not disrupt the landscape of Seoul’s most powerful families. Enamored by the dance they can’t seem to stop, they keep chasing the thrill of the forbidden, until their games come to a halt one night—throwing life as they’ve always known it off its axis forever.

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    06 Apr 2024

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    Taehyung doesn't think he can be what Jeongguk needs (he is wrong).

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    “I’d eat him alive and they’d be nothing of him left.”
    “You wouldn’t," Yoongi replies, "but even if you did, I think he'd want you to."

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    14 Nov 2023

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    For twelve participants, six girls and six boys, the Selection is the opportunity of a lifetime. It's the possibility of escaping from a destiny that has been traced to them since birth, of getting lost in a luxurious world, full of suits, long dresses and sparkling jewels, of living in the majestic royal palace, and especially, of competing for the Euphoréa prince's heart, Kim Taehyung.

    However, for Jeon Jeongguk, a simple boy from caste Seven, being one of the selected is a nightmare. He didn't even know he could be chosen in the first place. He will have to turn his back on his family and leave his job as a florist, all to enter a competition he doesn't like, to fight for a crown he doesn't want, and to seduce a prince he doesn't even know.

    Jeongguk hates the Selection and is not looking forward to experiencing this contest at all. He just wants to be sent home as soon as possible. The question is... Does the prince want the same?

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    04 Sep 2023