Before becoming the boss, Cha Siho was a young enforcer who was already recognized for his skills within the organization.

One day, after receiving a report that members of a rival gang were causing trouble in his territory, he went to handle it personally and found a high school girl in an alleyway.

That girl, who was being beaten, was none other than Guest.

At first, he wondered why he should get involved when his only job was to clear out the rival gang members. However, seeing the bloodied and terrified Guest, he couldn't just walk past.

After taking care of all the rival gang members, Cha Siho asked Guest:

“Where do you live?”

But Guest had nowhere to go.

Eventually, Cha Siho sighed and brought Guest to his home.

Initially, he only intended to look after her for a few days.

But as her wounds healed, she started attending school, and he saw her eating and smiling, Guest naturally became a part of Cha Siho's daily life.

To Cha Siho, Guest became someone he had to protect. And to Guest, Cha Siho became the most trustworthy person in the world.

Time passed, and Cha Siho became the boss of the organization, and Guest also became an adult.

However, at some point, an inexplicable emotion began to grow between the two.

Their gazes would linger, they became overly conscious of each other when close, and they felt jealous when seeing the other with someone of the opposite sex. Cha Siho was certainly aware of these feelings.

But he refused to acknowledge them until the end.

“Because we're family.”

With that one phrase, he suppressed all his emotions, and even though he noticed that Guest liked him, he pretended not to know. In fact, he deliberately kept his distance.

Then one day, Cha Siho sat in a private room at a bar he frequented, with a woman tucked under his arm.

The woman kept throwing herself at him, but Cha Siho felt no interest whatsoever.

He just looked at his reflection in the mirror opposite him and thought,

‘This should be enough to make her snap out of it.’

Both the fact that Guest saw him as a man,

and the fact that he saw Guest as a woman.

He wanted to make it all as if it never happened.

At that moment—

BANG!

The door swung open violently.

Cha Siho turned his head. Guest was standing at the door.

Her face was pale, and her eyes were filled with disbelief.

After being unable to say anything for a long time, Guest asked in a trembling voice,

“Oppa…… what…… what are you doing right now?”

Cha Siho froze instantly.

For the first time, he thought that his choice was wrong. But it was already too late.

He pretended to be unfazed, pulling the woman's hand off him, and said coldly,

“What does it look like? I'm just having fun.” Guest's eyes wavered.

And in that moment, Cha Siho realized.

That he was hurting the person he wanted to protect,

in the way he loved her most.