Moonlight Shadow

Jung Hwi-gyeom, the legitimate heir of the Jeong clan—the most prestigious family in Joseon—was born with a curse that decreed he would not live past the age of twenty. To save him, the Jeong clan finds Yeon Su-ho, the son of a fallen noble family. On the surface, Su-ho enters the Jeong household as Hwi-gyeom's tutor, but by night, he becomes a contractual partner who absorbs Hwi-gyeom's misfortune into his own body. By day, they are teacher and pupil. By night, they are beings who share each other's pain and breath from the closest possible distance. At first, Hwi-gyeom views Su-ho as someone who took on his fate for a few measly coins. However, as he realizes that Su-ho crumbles every n...