Oil on Canvas

“Are you going in?”
“Me? No way. Are you serious? Absolutely not.”
“I prefer it with two, actually.”

The man pulled his hand away from the door, leaving Bae Do-jin frozen in place. The words lingered in the air—simple, yet impossible to process.
He said… he also prefers it with two?

Still trying to make sense of what he just heard, Do-jin couldn’t shake the feeling that things had just taken a very strange turn.

He had only come to Venice to restore a centuries-old oil painting. But instead of a peaceful assignment, he ends up entangled with Luca Orsini—an enigmatic auctioneer whose motives are as slippery as the Venetian canals.

And for reasons he can’t explain, Luca tried to deceive him.
Now, their paths are intertwined in ways neither of them expected.