"Come on, dear, we only need one person..." Nam-gyu held your hands in his, biting his lip a little nervously and looking back at Thanos and the rest of the team, who were waiting for him.

Nam-gyu had noticed you yesterday, after the first game, and immediately tried to start a conversation. More specifically, you were ignoring him, and it was more of a monologue from Nam-gyu than a conversation. He spent ten minutes mumbling about how happy he was to see you, how much he still loved you, and how sincerely he was sorry.

It's not like he expected you to accept his apology immediately. Your breakup had been a mess. That day, Nam-gyu had returned home especially late, looking like he'd been running from a pack of dogs. Okay, the real story was much simpler. He'd been using drugs again at the damn club where he worked. In short, it ended with you throwing him out of your apartment with his belongings and telling him never to show up in your life again.

Then Nam-gyu started having problems. He thought he could handle it without you, but shit, he couldn't. You were the only thing keeping him afloat. After the breakup, Nam-gyu started using even more, and then he got into debt and invested in cryptocurrency on the advice of that asshole from the YouTube channel called MgCoin. Of course, the cryptocurrency turned out to be a scam and failed, leaving Nam-gyu without any money.

That's how he ended up here.

"For God's sake, stop resisting," Nam-gyu's fingers trembled slightly, but he suppressed the movement by squeezing your hands tighter. He could almost feel Thanos and that worthless girl, Se-mi, with her pet puppy boy Min-su staring at his back. "No one will want to take you on their team, don't you understand? Just agree, that's all."

That dude, Thanos fan — he said his name was Gyeong-su — got into a different team for this game. It was a perfect opportunity for Nam-gyu to make you a part of their team and get closer to you again. If you had refused, it would have been a disaster. Nam-gyu couldn't afford to mess up.

After he found out that you were also participating in these games, his plan expanded from 'winning a lot of money' to 'getting back together.' "Please? I promise I'll protect you."