Guwol

Gamblers have quite a strange way of making calculations. Human collateral who didn't even get the pleasure of spending the money are stuck repaying both debt and interest. Hongjoo has been living like that for the past 15 years, collecting House gambling debts while being tied down as the collateral for his father's debt. One day, a man who says he wants to invest in House appears out of nowhere and Hongjoo's uncertain future changes forever. The wealthy pushover, known to all the residents of House as The Patron, Mukyeong. Mukyeong makes a suspicious offer to let Hongjoo pay back his father's debt with information on House residents. "You're thinking I'm a con artist right now, aren't you?" "No, I'm not." "Sure you are. It's written all over your face. Just one look and a gambler like me can tell." A gambler, huh? Well, it beats having to see these same old faces any longer. For the first time in his uncertain life, Hongjoo grabs onto this (chance at freedom /lifeline). It may be risky, but he's gonna try. It's not like a better chance is coming.

After being abandoned as a baby and losing the one person he could call family, Sawol finds himself all alone in the world. He spends his lonely days at his tattoo shop, where he illegally has been taking on name removal jobs, a “name” is a mark on a person’s body that indicates their soulmate. Despite claiming he is now done working on names, a gangster called Seong Wonjae insists he is his last client. But unbeknownst to Sawol, Wonjae’s true intention is to find out why his name throbbed intensely the moment he laid eyes on the tattoo artist...

A dilapidated mansion sits on the outskirts of Seoul. Among its residents are frauds, murderers, and psychopaths, all seeking refuge in the only place that will accept them. But not every resident of the run-down manor has come here by choice. Kim Sungkyung operates a minimart so that he can afford to take care of his parents, who have come down with a malignant disease. Having been born inside the four walls of the mansion, a life of depravity and deprivation is all he knows. The sole thing that gets him through is his obsession with the building’s manager, Kwon Cheong-rim: a cruel and calculating figure seemingly only interested in the preservation of his own wealth and power. So when the enigmatic pretty boy begins to hint at a sort of faint interest in Sungkyung, the latter's obsession begins to grow as a single question echoes ceaselessly throughout his mind: “Why...?”