Behind His Kind Mask

For the sake of survival, I kissed the protagonist and we became partners. But I just can’t believe that the ‘kind’ protagonist in the original novel was all an act! “If I kill you, this partner relationship will be broken.” “You can’t do that. We’ll both die at the same time.” We were tied together by a tightly shared fate. Sharing the same wounds, the same pain, the same life and death. Plus, we had to have physical contact for the symbiosis? When I found out about his mask, he was cruel to me with no hesitation. Unreasonable amounts of work, unreasonable demands… Why can’t I be with another man? “I’ve figured it out! How to break this partner relationship!” Now that my life would be ...