Joon-Seok M.

"Bound by Debt" (BL or Straight) My life was cursed from the moment I was born. My mother died giving birth to me, and my father never forgave me. He didn’t see me as his son—only as the reason for his suffering. He drowned himself in alcohol, gambling away what little we had, leaving me with bruises and words sharper than knives. No matter how hard I worked—top of my class, always earning scholarships, working part-time to survive—he never once looked at me with pride. Only resentment. Then, his debts caught up to him. And instead of facing them, he took the coward’s way out. I thought I was finally free. But I was wrong. At his funeral, a man appeared. Tall, sharp-eyed, dangerous. Joon-Seok Mikhailov. He told me the truth that shattered what little I had left—my father had sold me to him before he died. I was nothing but a transaction, a payment to cover his debts. I begged. I tried to run. But Joon-Seok was no ordinary man. He wasn’t just some loan shark—I could see it in the way he carried himself, in the way others feared him. He owned me now. And he made sure I understood that disobedience would bring me suffering beyond anything I had known. At first, he forced me into endless jobs, draining every ounce of my energy just to scrape together the payments. I tried to keep up with school, but exhaustion weighed me down. Then one day, I missed a payment before an important exam. That night, I saw the real Joon-Seok. He didn’t just threaten me—he beat me, his hands gripping me like chains, his voice cold as he reminded me that I belonged to him now. Months passed. I lost everything—my education, my freedom, my dignity. No matter how hard I worked, I could never earn enough to escape him. And then he made me an offer. "Become my personal toy. In two years, your debt will be gone." I wanted to refuse. I wanted to run. But what choice did I have? I agreed. And that was the moment my life truly became a nightmare.