By Zephyria 
The snow was falling harder and harder.
Large snowflakes fell from the distant sky to the ground covered in a white carpet.
He wondered if he would ever be able to see such a beautiful landscape again without bars. Maybe if things with Gyeongjeong were all settled. Instead of watching the snow piling up in the distance, blocked by iron bars, he wondered if he could remove the bars and look out through a clear, unobstructed window.
No, at that time, he might be able to stand right in the middle of that snow pile and be directly hit by the falling snow. Like Kwon Rae-i, who had entered the house a little while ago, until his hair was covered in snow and his nose turned red. While experiencing the cold firsthand.
“I think it’s not bad to live like this.”
Not just being stubborn alone, but relying on someone you can trust.
“You’re on my side, Master.”
“Tae-hwon…”
“Now I don’t feel like I owe you anything even if I get help from you. So.”
“……”
“I think… I feel much more at ease.”
Tae-hwon finished speaking, but there was no response from Kwon Rae-i. He was quietly frozen. It was as if time had stopped only around him, as if he wanted to live in this moment forever. Tae-hwon, feeling puzzled, turned to look at his face, and felt the joy overflowing from his delicate and beautiful white face and his sparkling blue-gray eyes.
He was looking at Tae-hwon as if he were about to go crazy with ecstasy. His eyes became moist, and his cheeks were pleasantly flushed. Even the tips of his ears were tinged with pink. He didn’t know if the loud heartbeat that was ringing loudly in his ears was Kwon Rae-i’s.
He bit his lip as if he couldn’t contain his joy. He seemed to catch his breath for a moment, but eventually, unable to hold back his bursting emotions, he lunged at Tae-hwon. He pressed his lips urgently against Tae-hwon’s and kissed him. Tae-hwon’s body was pushed against the window and bars by his force, but Kwon Rae-i’s onslaught was even more intense than the impact.
He greedily sucked at Tae-hwon’s lips, pulling him close by the waist. He didn’t care about front or back as he pushed his tongue in and kissed him roughly. It was a completely deep and intense tongue movement, as if to fill his mouth.
“Ugh! Heuh.”
Tae-hwon frowned and groaned. But he didn’t push him away. Instead, he wrapped his hands around the back of his neck, touching his nape and responding to the kiss. Heated breaths mixed repeatedly, and their legs intertwined. Weight pressed against his chest, bringing a familiar pressure.
Their gazes toward each other gradually heated up. As Kwon Rae-i looked at him with fervent eyes, Tae-hwon also looked back at him, and their hot gazes collided in the air, as if sparking blue flames.
“What to do, what should I do?”
Kwon Rae-i muttered in an excited tone, lifting the hem of Tae-hwon’s shirt.
“I feel like my heart’s about to explode.”
Their bodies pressed together, compressing his lungs. Their intertwined legs dug even deeper. The hem of his t-shirt was completely swept up, and his hands began to caress his exposed ribs blatantly. He traced each rib as if counting them, even touching his armpits.
“I think I need to calm down. But I can’t. Tae-hwon, can’t I get a sedative, just this once? I feel like I’m going to cause big trouble… huh?”
“What, gasp, cause big trouble?”
“I don’t know. I feel like I’m going to cause an accident. No, I will cause an accident, for real.”
“So what kind of accident… ah, ugh.”
Wasn’t he just going to have rough sex at most? That was about the level Tae-hwon had been handling so far. He couldn’t let Kwon Rae-i use drugs like sedatives again. He said it would be just this once, but he might try to use them continuously afterward.
“I… I might.”
Kwon Rae-i muttered roughly, tearing off Tae-hwon’s shirt as if to rip it apart. Tae-hwon also took off his suit jacket and threw it on the floor.
“I might confess to Tae-hwon right now.”
Tae-hwon reflexively moved his lips.
He couldn’t understand what he was saying.
Confess? Hadn’t he been doing that countless times every day? It wasn’t exactly an accident that deserved such a grand designation. It’s not like he didn’t know his pure intentions.
Rather, he knew them all too well.
“Do you even realize how serious this is? I might ask you to date me. If I beg you to go out with me, Tae-hwon will… ah, damn it, Tae-hwon will reject me. Ahh, damn it.”
“Huh… what?”
“No, it’s not! It’s really not like that. Don’t run away, please.”
Kwon Rae-i sealed his mouth with a kiss, not even allowing Tae-hwon to answer. Tae-hwon received the thickly pouring kiss with a frowning face. Hot breaths rose, and for some reason, his heart began to beat rapidly.
“Please don’t be horrified.”
Kwon Rae-i squeezed Tae-hwon’s chest with force. He kneaded the muscular chest, stimulating the nipples caught between his knuckles. The small protrusions gradually stiffened. He even pinched the small nipples with his fingernails, scrutinizing Tae-hwon’s embarrassed face sharply.
Then, he hammered it home again.
“I have no intention of dating Tae-hwon. This is not the time to be spacing out like that. I won’t ask you to date me.”
“…”
“Let’s just have sex, like we always do, and feel good.”
Kwon Rae-i gathered Tae-hwon’s chest with both hands and massaged it, then ran his hands down his waist. Newly healed scars, not long healed, bumped roughly against his smooth palms. He went down to below his pelvis and began to take off his pants. The sound of fabric rustling was heard, and soon the pants slid down his legs and fell to his feet.
***
Late at night. A refrigerated truck entered a secluded factory.
As the vehicle entered the warehouse, the door immediately closed, turning it into a secret room. The warehouse was blocked on all sides without a single window, and large machines and equipment used for metal processing were lined up in rows. In addition, burly men in work clothes were lined up and waiting.
“Oh, you’re here.”
And among them, a man in a white suit was sitting cross-legged on a makeshift steel chair. With curly brown hair that covered his neck, he greeted the arriving truck with a smile on his face. It was Kwon Hyeon-oh.
“I thought I’d be waiting forever, huh?”
At Kwon Hyeon-oh’s gesture, two burly men immediately ran to the truck and opened the cargo compartment. A cold air escaped from inside, revealing frozen butchered pork. The red chunks of meat were hanging in the air, hooked on hooks. There seemed to be more than a dozen of them.
And in the innermost part, there was an object with a different silhouette.
At first glance, it looked similar to a pig, but the joints and size were different.
As the men pushed the pigs aside one by one, his face, shivering from the cold of the freezing equipment, was revealed. It was Han-seon.
He, too, was completely stripped of his clothes like the pigs and hung upside down in the air, and the glasses he always wore were lying on the floor.
“Hey. Take him down.”
Kwon Hyeon-oh’s subordinates dragged him down with the hook, almost frozen. Han-seon was lying face down on the factory warehouse floor, unable to move with his arms and legs tied with ropes. He didn’t seem to have the luxury of feeling ashamed even though he was naked. His face was blue from the cold and his frozen body seemed to be on the verge of freezing to death.
“Why is the freshness of the delivery like this? Didn’t you control the temperature?”
“I’m sorry, boss. The guys must have been less careful.”
“Ah… pour hot water on him.”
“Yes.”
At Kwon Hyeon-oh’s gesture, this time the burly men scooped water from the boiling brazier and poured it on Han-seon’s body. Han-seon screamed, shivering with his frozen mouth.
“Kkeu, geuaaaa!”
“More.”
Mercilessly, Kwon Hyeon-oh continued to gesture. Boiling water was poured on Han-seon again.
“Aaaack! Euaeuaaa!”
As the boiling water continued to be poured, Han-seon’s back, which had been on the verge of freezing, turned red and peeled off. Even though he suffered severe burns, Kwon Hyeon-oh did not stop.
“Turn him over.”
“Yes.”
The burly men kicked Han-seon and rolled him over. He had been lying face down until just now, but now his face was facing the ceiling and his stomach and genitals were exposed. And the ladle filled with boiling water approached Han-seon. The water poured down toward his lower body.
“…Heok, hak!”
Han-seon widened his eyes and thrashed wildly. A bizarre scream poured from his mouth, and his mind seemed to be on the verge of breaking.
“Han-seon. It’s been a while, hasn’t it?”
Around that time, Kwon Hyeon-oh began to speak. He looked at the red-hot crotch of the man as if it were unsightly, and crossed his legs to the other side.
“Sah, Sa, President. Hyo, Hyeon-oh, Sa, Ja.”
“Uh-huh. Enough with the greetings. I called you because I was curious about how you’ve been. What have you been up to these days?”
“Ahbeu, Haan, Ahn, I’m, I’m not. Noth, nothing, I’m not doing.”
“Huh? What did you say?”