A new work by author Hae-yeon Jeong, "The Red Crane's Seat"
A special setting thriller with intense suspense!

One day, Jeyoung begins to see other people's deaths.
The condition is to eat food.
Je-young, who realizes that what he is seeing is not a simple hallucination, desperately tries to save people, and as a result, he discovers two laws of death.


First, death is visible only to those who know its face.

Second, you can change your destiny in life, but you cannot change your destiny in death.


Blocked by the law, Jeyoung was unable to save anyone he tried to save.
It was also painful to see the stark moments of death.
In the end, he reduced the frequency of his meals solely to avoid seeing death, and tried not to increase the number of familiar faces in order to reduce the number of deaths he would see.
I lived desperately because I wanted to live, even though I was isolated and withered in a poor environment.
Meanwhile, Je-young, who had experienced several situations where other people died instead of the ones who should have died, began to track down exceptions with the determination to stop seeing death.
At the end of this situation was a 'broker', someone who, like Je-young, could mediate death with the ability to see the fate of others.

Author Jeong Hae-yeon, who immediately captured readers' attention with her classic thriller and surprising twist mystery, "The Red Crane's Seat," presents a new type of suspense with her new work, "The Man Who Can't Eat."
Jeyoung, the protagonist who can foresee death.
But death itself cannot be prevented.
Ironically, the only time we anticipate death is when we eat food to live.
However, Jeyoung was not the only person with this ability.
If "The Red Crane's Seat" steadily built up its mystery and piqued curiosity, "The Man Who Can't Eat" instills tension with ever-changing situations, making you wonder what will happen next.

The deaths he saw were as diverse as their subjects.
And no death was without its cruelty.
Brains flowing from a head shattered in a car accident, flesh protruding from a murder, a final struggle to not want to die, the sound of metal and wind coming from a punctured throat, trembling eyelids and tears flowing between them, a cervical vertebrae that clanked and fell off like a broken machine, a tongue that hung strangely, and filth flowing between the legs.
Seeing a dead person and seeing someone dying are two different experiences.

--- p.29

“That’s ridiculous.”
He said it while shaking his head, but it was actually closer to Jeyoung's wish.
He already knew part of the truth.
The boss should have died, but he didn't.
And at that time and in that place, I saw another person die.
Great Master.
If someone else dies in your place, you can avoid the fate of death.
It was the third law.
The child, no, the man, looked at the pale-faced Jeyoung with a puzzled gaze.
“You can see it too?”
--- p.98

All this time, I've been eating only the bare minimum to avoid dying.
Eating doesn't always make you see it, but the fear of 'seeing' makes it so.
I didn't realize how long it had been since I had eaten properly.
It was a thrill to fill Jeyoung's stomach.
Solji was blankly watching Jeyoung eat with her mouth open.
It seemed like he was overwhelmed by Jeyoung's momentum.
Jeyoung said, munching on food with his mouth full.
“Aren’t you eating?”
What came back was an odd answer.
“I’ve never seen anyone eat so much that they’re practically starving.”
Jeyoung looked at her and chuckled.
And then I moved my hands hard again.
Almost dead.
That wasn't wrong.

--- p.137

“You came earlier than expected? Did your date go well?”
The broker raised one hand and greeted him as if calling an old friend.
I uncrossed my legs and straightened the collar of the jacket I was wearing.
A long, thin sashimi knife was neatly placed next to him.
The broker smiled as he saw Jeyoung's gaze fall on him.
His mouth was smiling, and his eyes were shining coolly.
“Don’t we have something to say?”
He knows.
Who prevented today's death?

--- p.183

“Don’t worry about me, worry about yourself.
Do you think that bastard Choi Seok-tae will leave you alone? The chairman and that bastard are of the same blood.
“The blood that comes from hitting the back of the head doesn’t go anywhere.”
“I’ll give you that back exactly as it is.
“I’m worried about you.”
The broker's face, which had been smiling, hardened.
As if something had occurred to him, he frowned and turned his trembling eyes towards Jeyoung.
“Did you see my death?”
The only death that can be seen is the one whose face is known.
"well."
Jeyoung didn't answer.
At that moment the door broke open.
With that sound, the broker jumped down.
"no!"
Jeyoung's scream tore through the air.

--- pp.297~298