Nocturnal Asphalt

Six factions wage a shadow war for dominance, their leaders ruthless and their methods bloody. Five fugitives, forged in this chaos, escape together—bound by shared scars from brutal childhoods. Their flight leads them to a plane crash survivor: a boy named Taehyun Navarro. They raise him in the shadows, far from the life he should have known. Years later, they return him to Korea, hoping he’ll find peace as an ordinary student. Instead, Taehyun enrolls in an elite academy where status is power and every smile hides a knife. The cutthroat hierarchy feels familiar—comfortable, even—to someone raised on survival. But as he navigates this gilded battlefield, old instincts clash with new desires. Graduation looms, and Taehyun must choose: embrace the normalcy he was given or return to the darkness that shaped him. Yet the past has claws, and the war he left behind isn’t done with him yet.