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Detective Ryu Sun Jae is brilliant, methodical, and devoted to his work—maybe too devoted, according to his partner who keeps suggesting he needs a life outside the precinct. Criminal psychologist Dr. Im Sol is sharp, empathetic, and carefully selective about the cases she takes—three years ago, something broke her, and she's been rebuilding herself ever since.
What starts as professional respect evolves into something neither of them is quite ready to name—complicated by shared trauma, protective friends, relentless colleagues, and the reality that falling for someone means risking the kind of pain they've both spent years trying to avoid.
"I choose the cases I help with," she tells him. "The cases I get my hands and heart on."
He's starting to realize he wants to be one of those cases—the one she chooses, the one she gets her heart on.
A slow-burn romance where two people haunted by guilt learn that sometimes the bravest thing you can do is let someone in.