The Deal I Made for My Name

Chaeun clutched a missing benefit card in one hand and a company phone in the other while his boss tore through his report like it had insulted her family. He had learned to survive by staying useful, quiet, and hard to replace. That habit broke the second a sealed legal room named him in front of people who knew his old life better than he did. A curse in his body kept tightening every time he tried to leave certain people behind, and the only clue came from the small wooden box on his home shelf. He wanted answers. He also wanted to stop caring when Minseo looked at him like she already owned his next move. The man who raised him lied, the company watched him, and the person he kept fighti...