Something inside Dae-seong shattered. This wasn’t a gang war. This wasn’t business. This was a girl who had shown him kindness, who had seen something human in a monster. And now she was bleeding because of him.
Dae-seong (as Yoon-jae) didn’t kneel. He stood up, dusted off his pants, and said, “Your laces are fine. Your posture, however, is a disaster. You lead with your chin. A ten-year-old girl could knock you out.”
That was the beginning. Dae-seong didn’t win by fighting—not at first. He won by information. He used a lifetime of criminal connections and blackmail to dig up secrets on every powerful family in the school. The student council president’s mother was running an illegal gambling den. The top athlete’s tutor was selling exam answers. The principal had a mistress. high school return of a gangster
The son, Baek Min-ho, was a psychopath in training. Within a week, he had beaten a student into a coma for spilling juice on his shoes. The teachers did nothing. The principal bowed.
Then, blinding light.
“I think,” Kim Dae-seong said, feeling the boy’s heart beat alongside his own, “I’ll try being Lee Yoon-jae for a while. The real one. The one you deserve.”
For the first time, Dae-seong didn’t want to go back to his old life. He wanted to protect this one. Something inside Dae-seong shattered
A strange, hollow laugh escaped Yoon-jae’s lips. The Crow had been killed. But the Crow had also landed on a new, very uncomfortable perch.