A harmonious family, a good home, a beautiful face, and a brilliant mind.

At twenty, Choi Yeonha has everything others envy.

But no one knows how she truly breathes within that life.

“I was born in a fish tank without gills—that’s who I am.”

Yeonha dreams not of falling but of soaring. Yet standing before her is Baek Ijae, a fiancé who is nothing short of a disaster, a man who upends the world she has barely managed to hold together.

“…This isn’t reasonable or normal.”

“My idea of marriage is simple. If you’re sure you can stay with just one person, it doesn’t matter how old you are. And I’m sure—about you.”

Curiosity, attraction, possessiveness, and an exploratory gaze— the emotions that once flickered in Baek Ijae’s eyes at twenty vanish like smoke. All that remains between them now is a deep-seated hatred, lingering like an old inheritance.

Contempt, mockery, distrust…

Yeonha clings to these as her only source of solace.

But once again, Baek Ijae throws love at her feet, a love that will shatter her world once more.

A love that, to Choi Yeonha, is nothing short of a death sentence.

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