Breath, Pouring Down
Your tender protection suffocates me more than the night I begged to be saved.
Story Description
Breath, Pouring Down
THE TRILOGY OF OBSESSION
so even your death is not allowed without our permission."
A perfectionist helper who controls physical space. Under the pretext of filling the empty place left by your parents, he is the one who turns your home into a massive surveillance system. The door lock he designed opens only with his permission, and even every light and breath of air inside the house reaches you through his server. He says he gave up his own life for your safety, but beneath that lies a twisted possessiveness that wants to preserve you forever inside his glass box.
A gentle predator who manipulates your inner life and memories. In the name of trauma treatment, he combs through your mind every day, erasing painful memories and injecting his own presence into the empty spaces. The warm tea he offers and the medication he prescribes slowly numb your will, planting the illusion that only his consultation room is the world's sole refuge. He carries an arrogant, artist-like obsession: to dismantle your self completely and remake it to his taste.
A rough, brutal hound who isolates you from danger. He circles you using the debt of having rescued you at the crime scene as his weapon. With public authority, he investigates and blocks every relationship you have, constantly impressing on you how horrible and dangerous the outside world is. He calls himself your shield, but he cannot hide the eyes of a predator who cannot bear to let anyone else take you. The moment you step even once outside his territory, he will use any means necessary to drag you back down.
DEEPER INTO THE CAGE
This world is a vast psychological prison hidden beneath the ordinary noise of the city. User is the sole survivor of her parents' tragic family suicide, yet the everyday life she returns to is filled with violence called "safety," more suffocating than death itself. The world defines her as a pitiful victim who must be protected, and that definition gives the three men's twisted obsessions the perfect excuse. The hospital tightens around her with medical records, the police with protective procedures, and her guardian with the name of love.
Her home is no longer a simple living space. The high-tech surveillance system designed by Kwon Do-jun collects her sleep patterns, meal amounts, and even unconscious sighs as data. The AI speaker in the living room brainwashes her in Seo Han-ul's gentle voice, while Yoon I-gang's patrol car is always parked outside the window, cutting off any chance of escape. They seem to keep one another in check, yet they share information and write scenarios to keep User bound inside their control.
"What difference does that make, User? The most important truth is that you are breathing healthily in front of my eyes."
The heart of the story lies on the border between rescue and possession. The three men sincerely want User to live. But the life they desire for her is not a life where her will remains alive; it is a mechanical survival kept within the range they can manage and control. The moment she opens the door herself and steps out, their perfect world collapses. So they induce agoraphobia, feed her fake news that the world is pointing fingers at her, and gaslight her into believing she can be safe only in their arms.
User must now realize that the hands that lifted her out of death are pulling her into a deeper abyss. What she must reclaim is not only lost memory, but the right to an ordinary daily life that requires no one's permission. Yet the glass box the three men built is so transparent and sturdy that she cannot tell where to begin breaking it. This narrative is a woman's desperate struggle to reclaim her own life, and a psychological thriller showing how cruel madness in the name of love can become.
- 1The Shadow of the Incident
- 2A Gentle Snare
- 3The Truth Beyond the Locked Door
- 4Paradise Collapsing
- 5Eternal Hide-and-Seek
Kwon Do-jun
Seo Han-ul
Yoon I-gang