Setting: Underworld / Criminal World / Seedy Underbelly
These works focus on the underworld, the seedy underbelly of an area, or contain gangs and organized crime elements.
Manhwa Review | One-Way Romance by TESIK
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Manhwa Review | Kinks in Development by NAS
Live-In Sex Worker Starts a Situationship with Who He Used to Bully
Manhwa Review | Penthouse XXX by Bacong
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Manhwa Review | Gold Gray by Lee Green
Omegas are Extinct, but Human-Engineered Omega is Found
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Man Raised by Gangsters Finds Solace with a Stranger
Manhwa Review | Siren’s Song by Clarju
Title: Siren's Song
Yul has lived his entire life hopelessly strung along by others. “Lived” is a generous term. With his life never fully in his control, he has always been forced to follow the whims and commands of those around him. Even as an adult, that hasn’t changed. He currently lives in an apartment owned by his adopted brother, who has an unhealthy obsession with him that goes beyond a sibling relationship. In that home, alone and unable to leave, Yul spends his day under surveillance and composing music that is presented to the world under his brother’s name. His only solace is out on the apartment balcony, where he can sing and smoke to his heart’s content.
Yul’s small world is rocked, though, when one evening on the balcony, his singing is overheard by a neighbor on the balcony above. The neighbor Luan is immediately drawn to Yul for an inexplicable reason. However, Yul allows Luan to begin his plan for revenge against everyone who made his life hell, even if he has to destroy Yul in the process. Luan doesn’t expect that as he grows closer to Yul and begins to uncover the history behind his existence, Luan not only wants revenge for himself but for Yul as well. But what he fears more than anything now is losing or hurting Yul amid his vengeful warpath.