Ephphatha

“Looks like we have another corpse to clean up.”
“W-Who are you?”

A man wearing a flashy shirt unbuttoned to his chest, reeking of cigarette smoke.

Kwak Chi-gyeom suddenly appears at Han Seul-ah’s mother’s funeral, mentioning a deal he had with her deceased mother and bringing up a suspicious vault called “Ephphatha.”

And the condition to open that vault is…

“Why… Why do I have to marry this man?”
“Why? You don’t like a guy with a great family background and a solid job?”
“It’s not about liking or disliking….”

The requirement to unlock the vault is a marriage certificate between Seul-ah and a man she has never met, Seo Han-seong.

Determined to open Ephphatha and reclaim what is his, Chi-gyeom begins to linger around her. Amid the chaos, Seul-ah realizes that there is something hidden behind her mother’s death and resolves to uncover the truth.

If everyone is using her, why shouldn’t she use them in return?
She has to survive, after all.

“D-Don’t be so scary.”
“Why do you keep trying to seduce me?”

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Male Protagonist: Kwak Chi-gyeom – A stranger who seeks out Han Seul-ah to unlock the Ephphatha vault.

Female Protagonist: Han Seul-ah – Having lived a peaceful and disciplined life to compensate for her naturally frail body, her world is shaken with Kwak Chi-gyeom’s arrival.