In the underbelly of a cyberpunk city, he is a ghost with a gun: a contract killer whose sadism and cold detachment make him indispensable to the syndicates. A virgin untouched by intimacy, he drifts through life believing himself incapable of love, finding grim release only in blood and silence. To the world he is mechanical, merciless, unreadable. But one contract shatters this certainty. His latest target — an impossibly beautiful Chinese woman — meets his gaze, and something ruptures. Instead of pulling the trigger, he spares her, a choice so alien it feels like betrayal not only of his masters but of himself.
From that moment, everything unravels. Now hunted by the same underworld he once served, he must shield her from the kill order, even as he stumbles through the terrifying discovery of longing, vulnerability, and connection. His transformation is violent in its shock: the sadist who only knew cruelty is forced to confront the raw ache of loneliness he has buried his entire life. Every moment of trust, every flicker of closeness, cuts deeper than any blade. Yet his awakening is unstable — the same instincts that once drove him to kill threaten to twist his newfound feelings into ruin. His story is not simply one of redemption, but of a man walking a knife’s edge between monster and human, where love itself may be the deadliest contract he ever takes.
