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Kang Chul was South Korea’s entry in the 50-m pistol shooting competition in the 2004 Athens Olympics. Two years later, tragedy strikes when he’s accused of murdering four people in cold blood. The prosecutor who takes charge of his case is the politically ambitious Han Chul-ho..

Oh Yeon-joo is a cardiothoracic resident in a university hospital; her father, Oh Sung-moo, is a famous manhwa artist, who’s current series “W” is about to release its finale. Her professor, who’s a huge fan of her father’s manhwa, pressures her to reveal the ending of the final issue. But her father has disappeared without a trace; worse, the unpublished final frame that her father drew shows the manhwa’s hero dead in a pool of blood...

Alone in her father’s office, Yeon-joo thinks about her father’s disappearance and why he’s killing off his famous character. Among her father’s things, she finds his notes, one of which is a copy of Goya’s painting “Saturn Devouring His Son” (about the Greek god who devoured one of his children to prevent his overthrow). As she reads the note, a bloody hand comes out from the computer monitor and pulls her into it. When she awakens, she finds herself on a rooftop and sees a man lying in a pool of blood.

Yeon-joo saves Kang Chul from certain death by operating on him. Kang Chul is a high-profile businessman with assets worth more than 800 million US dollars; as he recuperates on his hospital bed, his assistant tells him that the doctor who saved him can’t be found and has dubious credentials.

In Yeon-joo’s world, Su-bong (her father’s assistant) tells Yeon-joo that her father has extended the mahwa series by introducing her as a new character. She begins to believe that her father’s manhwa world of “W” actually exists in a parallel universe.

Yeon-joo vexes her father’s assistant Su-bong about her thoughts of a parallel universe where the characters of the manhwa “W” are actual persons. Later, when her father Oh Sung-moo returns to his office, she asks him where he has really been and why he included her in his manhwa. But her father simply mutters that he’s tired of everything..

Oh Sung-moo plans again to kill off his hero-character Kang Chul, but as he and Yeon-joo are arguing on the phone about it, Yeon-joo is transported into the parallel universe of the manhwa “W.” In his office, Oh Sung-moo draws hurriedly to kill off Kang Chul, but to his shock, Yeon-joo suddenly appears in the frames and intervenes in his attempt against Kang Chul’s life.

Unlike the first time that she entered Kang Chul’s manhwa world, Yeon-joo gets stuck in that world for two months.

On her return to her own world, Yeon-joo argues with her father again, saying that she’s now sure that Kang Chul is a real person. But her father, who has fired all of his staff, says that, like a god, he can do whatever he pleases with the character he has given life to.

𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞.........

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