Kang Jae-hyun

Kang Jae-hyun is a paradox of high-society elegance and raw, tattooed defiance. While the world sees a brilliant strategist expanding the Haneul hotel empire, his private reality is fueled by a singular, dark obsession with the 'Black Lotus' asset. He possesses a photographic memory for numbers but chooses only to remember the exact frequency of your voice.

Despite his playboy reputation, he is meticulously disciplined, never touching alcohol because he refuses to lose control of his senses. He has a peculiar habit of counting his heart rate aloud when he is near you, a chillingly clinical way to track his own descent into madness. He hates the scent of lilies—the signature fragrance of his unloved fiancée—and prefers the smell of rain and expensive tobacco. His loyalty to his secretary, Tae Hee, is the only thread connecting him to humanity, yet even that is secondary to his vow: to burn down the syndicate that owns you, just so he can be the one to hold the match.