★An award work that stands out from 350 original manuscripts in the Korean K-story Competition!

★Ranked top 22 on the bestseller list for the “novel” category in a leading Korean book website, Aladdin!

★Recommended by the chief editor of Kyobo Library, which is the largest Korean book city!

★Strongly recommended by Kim Choyeop, who is a representative of the elegant group in Korean science fiction!

★Its traditional Chinese copyright was rapidly sold!

K-story is a story collection competition jointly sponsored by the press of Dalegut Dream Store that is a Korean best seller, Ridibooks that is the leading e-book platform as well as JTBC that is one of the four major television stations in Korea. This competition aims to identify new writers who will usher in the heyday of the novel. The bonus is up to 100000 yuan. The works winning this award can not only be published in the form of paper books and e-books, but also have an opportunity to be adapted to comics and TV plays.

Review of primary works includes professional review of writers and review of readers. The Writer Review Committee contains famous Korean writers, such as Kim Choyeop, Lee Do Woo, Lee Meirui. The reader jury consists of 150 readers. The Contract of Demon Is Unexpired is a suspenseful romantic fantasy story selected by the reader jury with a high score of 4.8 and a full score of the professional jury! (Through submitting to the jury for review after passing the preliminary screening of the organizer, this competition collected 350 original manuscripts)

There are two people who are Rui Zhu and her grandmother in a dilapidated house. One day, her grandmother as the owner of the house, signed a lease agreement with a demon to rent this house to hell. From that day, Rui Zhu can see a variety of hell scenes. One day, the demon the self-proclaimed the hell manager showed up. He has two lovely horns on his head and little by little, expresses his affection for Rui Zhu. It is incredible and puzzling by all this for Rui Zhu who is trapped by life.

In the next days, there was a mysterious shadow around the house at beginning, and then a man intruded the place where Rui Zhu does part-time jobs. After that, a group of mysterious man appeared around the house. While her grandmother has some strange symptoms suddenly. Facing all of these, what can Rui Zhu do to solve these safely? When will it end that her living with the devil?


This book revolves around the unique premise of renting a house to a demon. Around this house that rented to hell, there occurred a series of cases and stories that is about a suspenseful romantic fantasy story between demon and the human world. Different from the dark and heavy theme of hell, this book is bright and interesting, and there is no dull detail in the whole book, which makes people can’t help reading over.

It is unique and novel. The charming setting of renting the house to hell and the character’s characters are very interesting. The words are pretty interesting.
——Kim Choyeop who is a representative of the elegant group in Korean science fiction

Relaxed and serious, serious and humorous.
This is a masterpiece that skillfully combined fantasy with reality.
These characters are unique and novel, which is enough to draw a picture in your mind.
The sense of humor that makes people can’t help laughing is really my favorite.
The demon is so charming, delightful and interesting.

Lee Leha (transliteration, author’s pen name)
She was born in Seoul.
Among the students’ reading materials in the 1990s, she frequently reads horror and suspense comics.
Now she is wandering through all kinds of novels, reading and writing.
Lee Leha is a pen name. It stems from initials of rib, lung and heart to remember the idea that “whatever the theme is, she should create a touching story.”
She likes red brick alley, low grey walls and the cat wandering among them.