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“…Once we go in, don’t leave my side. Don’t go around taking care of other people for no reason… Got it?”

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How did it come to this?

I’ve been taking care of Jaehyuk by his side since we were young. Because my mother was a servant for the Kwon family, it was only natural that I spent a lot of time with him, and before I knew it, I had become someone Jaehyuk could lean on like an older sibling.

Jaehyuk was a child who was uniquely pushed away from the center of the family. He stayed a step back from the succession line and from his relationships with the other young masters.

Not long after Jaehyuk became an adult, the Kwon family began to look for him.

I didn’t know what had happened. However, Jaehyuk was no longer a child staying on the outside. He had to step into the middle of the Kwon family’s succession race, and following him, I also set foot in that mansion.

And there, three young masters were already waiting.

Different faces, different personalities. And gazes that lingered on me for an unusually long time.

It started from that day.

The day Jaehyuk’s feelings, which I thought I knew, began to change little by little, and the day my relationships with the three young masters began to tangle beyond control.

As if it had already been decided from the moment I opened the door to this mansion.

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