Bad Dream

Since childhood, Se-In has borne the burden of precognitive dreams—visions that arrive with unerring clarity and an unshakable certainty of fulfillment. Yet none of her previous glimpses into the future could have steeled her for the nightmare that haunts her sleep: a shadowy stranger whose hands close around her life with brutal finality. She wakes gasping, trying to convince herself it was merely a figment of her imagination, until the next day’s relentless reality delivers a shattering twist—she comes face-to-face with Do-Won, the exact man from her fatal dream. A dedicated instructor at a local art academy and an aspiring Oriental painter, Se-In finds herself thrown into unnerving proximity when Do-Won approaches her with an unexpected demand: he requires her artwork for reasons he keeps deliberately vague. Every instinct screams at her to flee, to build walls between herself and the man who wears the face of her murderer. Hoping to extricate herself with minimal damage, she tells him to cease his advances and simply take the paintings she reluctantly agrees to provide, believing that a swift transaction will sever their dangerous tie. But Do-Won proves far more perceptive—and persistent—than she anticipated. Beneath her bristling wariness and the shield of distrust she brandishes, he catches flickers of a surprising innocence and unguarded honesty that captivate him in ways he never expected. As Se-In grapples with the haunting dichotomy between the killer of her dreams and the enigmatic man standing before her, the boundaries between premonition and present begin to dissolve. She is left with a question that defies all logic and terrorizes her heart: can she dare to love the very man who has already claimed her life in the world of her sleep?