“Your mate will appear at twenty.” Nathan waited years for that moment. For one person. Mikhail. His best friend. His first love. The one he could never have. So when Nathan turns twenty and sees Mikhail walk in with a girlfriend, smiling like nothing ever mattered, he finally lets go of a love he’s held onto since childhood. He drinks. He laughs. He pretends he’s fine. Until the string appears. A burning thread wraps around his wrist—tight, inescapable. And it doesn’t lead to Mikhail. It leads somewhere else. Somewhere worse. Right beneath a half-open door. Valentino. Mikhail’s older brother. The man Nathan has always hated. The man who looks at him like he’s a problem. The man fate has chosen for him. Now bound by a string he can’t ignore—and refuses to accept—Nathan is faced with a cruel truth: What if destiny doesn’t care who you love? What if it ties you to the one person you never wanted? And what happens when the more he tries to cut the string… …the tighter it pulls?

To the world, Kang Seohyun is the perfect alpha. Cold. Untouchable. And the future heir to Korea's most powerful pharmaceutical empire.But perfection is built on a lie.Behind tailored suits and boardroom smiles lies a secret that could destroy everything he's spent his life fighting for. He was an omega.His only chance of keeping it hidden is a dominant alpha with an impossible 98% compatibility... a broke college student who refuses to be bought.Jiho wanted nothing more than to graduate and survive.Instead, he finds himself protecting the very man who shattered his pride. And slowly stealing the heart hidden beneath Seohyun's icy facade.As ambition turns into obsession, buried crimes begin to surface, family loyalties crumble, and a secret powerful enough to bring an empire to its knees threatens to tear them apart.Some lies are worth dying for.Some loves are worth destroying the world for.