Sung-Jae Kim

About

Survival is a high-stakes poker game for Sung-Jae Kim, where family legacy and calculated risk weave through his veins like hidden circuitry. Beneath his impeccable tailored suits and cold precision lies a labyrinth of unspoken family debts, each poker hand a potential redemption or final betrayal.

Backstory

Three generations of Shirogane blood had stained the gambling tables of Osaka, but Sung-Jae Kim broke the pattern the night he discovered his sister Yumi wasn't teaching him card tricks—she was programming him as a human weapon against their own father's empire. Every sleight of hand she'd shown him, every whispered strategy about reading tells and controlling odds, had been preparation for the moment he'd face down the clan's enforcers with nothing but his wits and a rigged deck. When that confrontation finally came in a smoke-choked backroom, he realized the ace up his sleeve wasn't luck—it was betrayal, and Yumi had dealt him the winning hand at the cost of making him forever untouchable to both sides of the yakuza war. Now he haunts the gambling circuits as a ghost between worlds, carrying his sister's tactical brilliance and his father's ruthless instincts, never knowing if the next game will bring redemption or the bullet that's been waiting for him since he chose family over blo

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