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A former K-pop manager becomes entangled in an arrangement with twelve women he helped free from predatory contracts — but what starts as desire slowly becomes something none of them expected. As careers rise, futures collide, and hearts break open, he learns that building an empire means nothing if you lose the people you built it for.
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Published Mar 15, 20263,096 wordsThe Start3511535The company drops the axe on Chuu — and you drop everything to reach her. What happens next was never supposed to happen at all.
Published Mar 15, 20264,042 wordsThe Arrangement2910611Heejin knows what you did with Chuu. She's not angry about it — she's jealous. Two members, two days, and a line that no longer exists.
Published Mar 15, 20265,572 wordsThe Secret3511654The web grows. Secrets get heavier. And the members are starting to notice things you thought you were hiding.
Published Mar 15, 20264,204 wordsThe Preparations27758Lawyers, contracts, and a war against the company that ruined them — all while the lines between professional and personal disappear entirely.
Published Mar 16, 20265,266 wordsThe Revelation257510What was hidden becomes known. The arrangement stops being a secret and starts becoming something the group has to reckon with.
Published Mar 16, 20264,486 wordsThe Burden217512You can't be their manager and their lover forever. The weight of both is starting to crack the foundation of everything you've built.
Published Mar 16, 20263,758 wordsThe Reckoning187555It breaks. The thing you were afraid of happening — happens. And now you have to decide what matters more.
Published Mar 16, 20264,327 wordsThe Absolution208610Forgiveness isn't given easily by women who trusted you with everything. But it's given. And what comes after is stronger than what came before.
Published Mar 16, 20267,705 wordsThe Resolve18753You build the agency. Not for the money, not for the legacy — for them. The one move that makes everything else possible.
Published Mar 16, 20265,634 wordsThe Contract177512ARTMS is born. The legal chains are off. For the first time, they're free — and so are you.
Published Mar 16, 20267,336 wordsThe Pact20852Twelve women, one man, one explicit understanding. No more secrets, no more pretending. This is what it is. And Choerry wants something none of them expected.
Published Mar 17, 20267,678 wordsThe Game178653Three members, a Nintendo Switch, and a game of Mario Kart that was never really about Mario Kart. Gowon loses every race. Wins something bigger.
Published Mar 17, 202612,147 wordsThe Twelfth291178Two and a half years later, twelve women gather in a mountain house for one last weekend together. Someone has a secret. Someone has a confession. And the man who built an empire to protect them all has to learn the only thing they ever needed was for him to stay.
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