The Ashes of Cedar Street

In the glittering coastal metropolis of Haejin, a city straddling the cultural fault lines between Yamato and Goryeo heritage, the past never truly sleeps. When real estate magnate Kang Jin-ho returns after twenty years in exile, his proposed luxury development on the derelict Cedar Street lot stirs more than just soil. It awakens the ghost of a brutal demolition that claimed the life of an elderly couple, a crime buried beneath a fragile consensus of prosperity. As Kang peels back layers of municipal corruption, organized crime, and colonial-era land disputes, the city's glittering facade begins to crack. Every resident who believed they had escaped history will find the equilibrium of their daily lives was merely a pause between tremors. The truth, when it finally surfaces, will prove that peace in Haejin was never stability, only a held breath.