Checkmate Vol. 3

SEIZING THE OPENING Soohyun’s game of seduction continues–he’s willing to surrender his body in exchange for the truth about Eunsung and Moon-seob. But as Eunsung opens up to him, he finds the other man to be surprisingly sincere, even worried about the danger he’d been unaware of. Could Soohyun have been wrong about Eunsung all along? As it dawns on him that Eunsung cares for him, will he also recognize that perhaps the rivalry between them was all in his head?
Series Overview: Detached. Disinterested. Dispassionate. All words used to describe Soohyun and his uneventful, mediocre life. He’s nothing like he once was. As a teen, he had a fire, a passion burning within, all thanks to one person: bright-haired and brilliant Eunsung. Throughout high school, Soohyun obsessively competed with Eunsung for the top spot in all things, only to consistently come in second place. And as high school ended without victory, so did his passion for anything. But all this changes when, as an adult, he suddenly sees Eunsung again—except the other man is in the news, embroiled in scandal! Seeing Eunsung in a state of shame ignites something in Soohyun. Fiery hate, long thought dead, comes alive within him once more.
Determined to see a fallen Eunsung with his own eyes, Soohyun reinvents himself as a reporter and begins dishing out one dirty article after another. He’s sure that with each scathing hit piece, Eunsung will come crawling to Soohyun and begging for mercy.
Except it doesn’t happen. Eunsung doesn’t react at all the way Soohyun expects! Just who is being manipulated, and who is the manipulator?