The Golden Cage

* Powerful top X Avenger

* The powerful one bows his head; the avenger falls hard

Nam Yun Jin became an orphan at the age of ten. He decided that his enemy was the financial magnate who ruled over Jinsan City, the elusive head of Jinsan whom few people had ever seen.

Fifteen years later, he infiltrated the head of Jinsan's gilded birdcage, with one clear goal in mind...

But before he could even meet his enemy, he had already fallen for Kang Seong's deep eyes...

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"You like me so obviously, sweetheart. Why do you keep turning me down?"

Kang Seong was quite taken with this two-faced "canary." He didn't mind lowering himself a little to win the boy's heart, then holding him in his palm and playing with him to his heart's content.

"Y-you can't touch me!" The cool, aloof young man refused with his words, but couldn't stop Kang Seong from drawing near, until he was "devoured and ravished, left with nothing"...

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Kang Seong thought this was just an interesting plaything that he'd soon grow tired of. He never expected that the other man was a tiny flame that would set his old house ablaze.

His interest in and desire for Nam Yun Jin exceeded even his own expectations. Especially when he learned that Nam Yun Jin had made him the target of his revenge for his parents' deaths, he found himself unable to contain his excitement!

What value is there in the love of a tiny flame? Only a blazing inferno is worthy of him!

So he said:

"I was there when your parents died."

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Even as Nam Yun Jin made attempt after attempt on his life, Kang Seong remained gentle. He handed him a knife.

"I'm not wearing a bulletproof vest. A fruit knife will do the job."

He gave him a gun.

"You can kill me for the rest of your life."

His tone was gentle, his face smiling, but in Nam Yun Jin's eyes he was as twisted as a ghostly flame, closing in on him step by step.

Only when Nam Yun Jin's body disappeared into the black river did Kang Seong realize that things had long been out of control.

Only then did he realize how terribly wrong he had been. The pain of a fruit knife piercing two-thirds of the way into his heart was nothing compared to losing Nam Yun Jin!

The depth had vanished from his eyes, leaving only desolation.

Then one day, someone told him that the man who had died had appeared again...

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An all-powerful financial magnate on top X a beautiful, aloof, seductive man burdened by hatred on the bottom

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* One-on-one, happy ending, both pure, no secondary CP

* No rebirth; the death was faked. The top is very doting, but also loves to court disaster. After he does, he'll have to suffer to win his love back.

* This setup naturally comes with angst, but it has a sweet ending.

* 200,000-word novella

* Set in a city outside the author's home country

* The top is, of course, not the bottom's enemy.

Theme: Love can transcend everything.