Letter To the Woman Who Will End Me

Bokhui was counting coin by touch when she realized the girl reading her numbers was the same one tracing her secret gifts. She had lived seven years as a hunter who paid for other hunters' children in silence, and now her cover was cracking inside the girls' academy where every glance could become proof. The otome game she once played had returned in pieces, with route names, capture targets, and a doom flag tied to the villainess she had become. Bokhui knew how to survive monsters at a gate. Girls like Yeonseo were harder. Outside a strict ritual that forced honesty, both of them lied with perfect skill, and that made every true word feel dangerous. The one person asking where her taels ca...