A top-tier hunter dies in a high-level dungeon only to awaken inside a novel as the weakest son of a powerful hunter family, a character destined to die early.
Determined to change his fate, he relies on his past-life instincts to survive. But something is wrong.
 The farther he is from the novel’s villian, the more his emotions spiral out of control.
What begins as a necessity soon turns into something far more dangerous.
As he grows stronger and defies the original story, the invisible bond between them tightens blurring the line between control and obsession, reason and desire.
In a world ruled by power and dungeons, the greatest threat may not be death… but losing himself to the one person he cannot stay away from

The morning light filtered through the frost-laced windows of Kaelen's chambers, casting fractured patterns across the stone floor. He woke slowly, his body still heavy with the exhaustion of the previous day's work, the cold of the harbor water lingering in his bones like a memory that refused to fade. The beast was curled at the foot of his bed, its ember eyes half-closed, its chest rising and falling with the deep rhythm of sleep. Iron lay in the corner, his metallic form still and silent, while Veth had uncoiled from the windowsill and now rested across the back of a chair, her scales catching the light in shades of amber and gold.


Chapter 171 - Quarry