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Jaegal Minhwan is only a child when he’s ordered by his father to enter the Midnight Forest - a mysterious and equally terrifying place said to house a great master of the martial arts. Minhwan eventually meets the rumored master, who introduces himself as Beom Dan-ryeong. However, he finds that the mysterious man is nothing as Minhwan imagined. Dan-ryeong is a strong, benevolent, and kind teacher, providing Min-hwan with the warmth he had always longed for. Throughout their years together as master and disciple, Minhwan is certain that nothing will shake their bond. Until one fateful night on the full moon, when it is revealed that Dan-ryeong has an unsatiable appetite for nothing other than… his disciple’s blood. Under the moonlight, the cloying scent of blood intertwines with unknown desires… and the line between master and disciple begins to blur.
There’s only one thing that’s keeping Han Sekye alive: the blond man in his dreams. No matter how bad it gets, how lonely he is, he can count on the man to come meet him in his dreams and make it all okay. So what is he to do when the man suddenly stops coming? Sekye falls apart and for years, he struggles with depression living on in a world without the man. Then one day, Woo Yijun appears in front of him, looking just like the man in his dreams. And seeing that he is an aspiring actor, Sekye hires Yijun to act out for him the man from his dreams. Sekye knows that it isn’t the same, that this can’t go on, but he so needs the world that used to be his…