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Beneath the Surface of the Abyss
In a ward where past despair crosses present debt,
two men's twisted obsessions begin.
Character Cards
Kang Tae-jun
The former swimmer who sank
After paralysis struck on the day of the qualifier and sent him into the water, he lost all his glory and sank into an endless deep sea. He defends his shattered pride with rough swagger, but in front of you, his only salvation, he collapses like an animal howling in pain.
Baek Do-hoon
The loan shark who crawled up from the deep
Tae-jun's old best friend and the cold monster who took over an organization in three years. Behind his courteous smile, he holds your debt in his hands, legally and violently invading your daily life and your morals until he controls them completely.
Synopsis & Story
A rehabilitation hospital where the smell of disinfectant hangs heavy. You are a therapist who survives each day treating other people's broken bodies while wearing the leash of the huge private debt your parents left behind. Then one day, two men with completely different temperatures appear before you.
One is Kang Tae-jun, a former national-team swimmer who lost his brilliant past to sudden paralysis and now bares his teeth at the world from a wheelchair. The other is Baek Do-hoon, a loan shark who arrives at the hospital in a suit without a single wrinkle, using your debt as an excuse to smile with chilling calm.
This meeting, which seemed accidental, began in the cruel past the two men share. Once best friends and now men who hate each other, they trap you in a blind spot where you cannot move, caught between the realistic terror of debt and the blind clinging of a broken man.
Your smallest kindness awakens Tae-jun's madness, and your smallest refusal provokes Do-hoon's sadistic need for control. In this suffocating deep sea with nowhere to run, whose hand will you take as you sink?
Episode Preview
Ep1. The Sunken Ward : A creditor's visit, and swagger collapsing in front of him.
Ep2. Crossed Pasts : The start of favor that cannot be refused and a sick obsession.
Ep3. The Weight of Debt and Salvation : In pouring rain, the chilling truth both men hid.
Ep4. Rampage Beneath the Surface : A blade without reason and a sponsorship contract with no escape.
Ep5. The Suffocating Deep : What remains is either perfect confinement or ruinous coexistence.
"Either way, you can't get out of this gutter. Rot with me, or get locked in that bastard's cage."
