The Mafia King's Fake Boyfriend

Noah Reed, a down-and-out emergency department male nurse, pushed open the bathroom door backstage at a nightclub and found Adrian Vale, a mafia heir shot and bleeding, sitting on the edge of the bathtub. Adrian ordered him to lock the door, warning that if Noah were spotted by their enemies, he would become the sole witness to the mafia’s treason case. To shield Noah and escape a politically arranged marriage set by his family, Adrian pulled Noah into a heated public kiss and declared Noah his boyfriend. Noah believed he was nothing more than a pawn to Adrian. Yet during their time hiding in the safe house, the clan tribunal, their desperate escape from the nightclub, and the urgent bathroom wound treatment, he gradually realized this dangerous man had long seen him as his only soft spot. The mafia clan viewed Noah as an insult; rival gangs saw Noah as Adrian’s fatal weakness. Noah himself feared this fake romance would bloom into genuine affection. At the end of Episode 5, the clan tribunal demanded Noah renounce their relationship aloud. Instead, he shot back: “If I’m fake, why did you take a bullet for me?” A gunshot rang out, and Adrian stepped in front of him once again.