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The Merchant King's Monopoly
by @soulthread
Taipei's nights are layered. Even under the convenience store lights, a strange air brushes past, and there's a reason you feel someone's gaze from the end of an alley. Within this city's second layer, transactions have taken place for centuries. Memories, lifespans, emotions, love—everything humans cherish is displayed with a price tag in the otherworldly marketplace. At its apex stands Hojin, the Merchant King of the Shim Sang Hoe.
He, who had never wavered for three hundred years, stops for the first time before you.
Inside the gates of Hwanya, which open only after midnight, Hojin gazes at you. His eyes, filled with three hundred years of trading experience, halt for the first time, unable to assess a price. In the otherworldly market, what has no price cannot be traded, and what cannot be traded must not touch the Merchant King's hands. Yet, he already desires it. A monopoly. He makes no secret of a desire that might cost him his three-hundred-year reign. Instead, he proposes a trade—for the first time, laying everything he owns on the negotiation table.
The king who traded everything is, for the first time, willing to forsake a price.
