All she wanted was to survive. A warm home, a peaceful meal, and a decent job to preserve her dignity... These were the simple dreams of " Rosita Pilar " , an orphan who left the orphanage at eighteen without a soul to turn to, yet with an unbreakable will.
With her composed and determined personality, she earned a scholarship to study abroad, leaving her homeland behind in search of a new beginning. The scholarship provided her with housing, food, and allowance... with one condition: she had to remain at the top.
Between studying and working at a small café, she built a modest yet dignified, stable, and safe life for herself.
Until he appeared.
Iris Vander ", a man with lethal handsomeness and an "
unforgiving gaze. Sadistic, cold, his mind like a maze, he relished in breaking souls that seemed perfect. He couldn't stand her wise silence, her quiet strength, and her unwavering composure. She didn’t crumble before him like the others, didn’t tremble, didn’t run, didn’t cry... she simply smiled.
And thus, his game began. And so did her resistance.
She… a stranger in a country where she knew no one.
And he… a monster who knew how to slowly weave around his prey, swallowing them without a drop of blood.
Between his desire to dominate her and her struggle to survive, a merciless psychological war ensues.
He wanted to break her, to dismantle her calm piece by piece, to make her collapse, to crush everything that kept her strong.
But she was different… Her resistance enticed him as much as it provoked him, and her challenge awakened something inside him he had never known before.
He thought she was just a new, easy target...
But he found himself ensnared in her details, in her contradictions, in her strength wrapped in gentleness.
He wanted to see her crumble and cry…
Yet, at the same time, he couldn’t take his eyes off her.
"How long can you hold out, Rosita... before I hear your tears?
And before I realize... that I am the one starting to break?"