The Surrendered Land

In 2025, within the Yamato Republic, a seemingly straightforward land eviction lawsuit plunges the respectable Watanabe family into a nightmare of buried crimes and distorted digital memory. Adopted from a Goryeo orphanage, their perfect daughter Hana has grown into a chillingly manipulative young woman. When a neighbor's testimony threatens to expose her secret life of arson and deceit, the parents embark on a desperate cover-up, only to find that the internet forgets nothing—yet it twists every truth into a weapon. As the civil trial at the Shinminato District Court becomes a magnet for online conspiracy theorists and cross-border tensions, the family must confront the abyss between the daughter they raised and the monster she has become. Inspired by the historical suspense of C.J. Sansom, this is a slow-burn psychological thriller about the fragility of identity and the terrifying persistence of a manipulated past.