Black Flower, Red Soil

Muyeong lives on a remote mountainside, farming flowers.

His other job is that of a corpse disposal specialist. Muyeong’s role is to dismember the corpses entrusted to him by clients, incinerate them, and then send the flowers he has grown using the bone ash as fertilizer back to the clients.

Even Muyeong, who nonchalantly carries out work that would make others recoil in horror, has one single rule.

And that is to not kill people.

Even if a living ‘corpse’ comes in, he never kills a person himself. This sometimes leads to difficult situations, but Muyeong absolutely adheres to the rule he has set.

Then one day, on a night of pouring rain, Muyeong, who had gone out to check on a dike he had previously built up, discovers a large bag in front of his house. Thinking it was a corpse someone had abandoned and left behind, the moment he opens the bag to dispose of it, he makes eye contact with the corpse inside.

The corpse is alive. No, it was a person who was never dead to begin with!

The man, who had strangled Muyeong as soon as their eyes met, belatedly asked Muyeong.

“Who are you? Where… is this?”

And so, Muyeong’s cohabitation with the man he was about to dismember begins uncertainly…

Genre/Setting: BL / Contemporary

Keywords: #GangsterGong, #RuralHealingStory, #AmnesiacGong, #CorpseDisposalSpecialistSoo, #KeptManGong, #EconomicBreadwinnerSoo, #NatureLoverSoo, #Non-KillingPrincipleSoo, #IPickedUpAPersonOffTheStreetOnARainyDay, #DeceptiveGong

Gong: Han Gwonju (Seonggu): The man who was inside the bag Muyeong found in front of his house. Muyeong thought he was a corpse and was about to dismember and get rid of him, but it turned out he was alive. Muyeong wanted to send him home, but of all things, the man had lost his memory.

Soo: Kim Muyeong: Lives in a remote corner of the countryside, growing flowers and disposing of corpses entrusted to him by people. One day, a man who has lost his memory suddenly appears before Muyeong, who has no interest whatsoever in the affairs of the world.

Read this when: You want to see a Soo who had given up on life find happiness after meeting the Gong. You want to see a Gong who falls in love with the Soo he considered an enemy and ends up saving him.

Quote: “Killing a living person is a scary thing, you know.”