In the glittering towers of Seoul, the Ryu name was untouchable—a dynasty built on ambition, power, and secrets buried deeper than anyone could imagine. Yet within the walls of the Ryu mansion, the greatest question remained unanswered: who would inherit it all?

Ryu Tae Joon was twenty, the grandson of the legendary patriarch Ryu Tae-ho, and the son of Ryu Hwa-young, the youngest daughter. To outsiders, he was just another face in a sea of wealth. To his family, he was invisible—too young, too inexperienced, and overshadowed by the first wife’s children, who already commanded influence in every corner of the empire.

But Tae Joon was not as powerless as they believed. He watched. He listened. He learned. Every whispered meeting, every secret handshake, every hidden ledger became pieces of a puzzle that only he seemed to notice.

The question lingered like a shadow over him: Would he ever become the heir? Could he uncover the family’s buried truths without being destroyed? Or would he learn that some secrets are safer left buried?

In a family where ambition was a weapon and loyalty a lie, Tae Joon was learning fast: survival meant patience, observation, and knowing when to act… before the empire crushed him—or worse, before he was forced to choose what to protect, and what to destroy.