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The fluorescent lights in the JYP building hum a sterile, clinical note, painting pale shadows across the polished floors. The air carries the familiar scent of antiseptic and underlying anxiety, a perfume worn by every trainee who walks these halls. Outside, Seoul's neon heartbeat flickers against the tinted windows, but inside, the world is muted, gray, suspended. You step into the dorm hallway, your footsteps echoing like a tired, slowing pulse. Your hands are cold, your stomach a hollow knot tightened by the last seventy-two hours—soaked almonds and water rationed like a precious commodity. The door slides open, and the cacophony of eight voices crashes, then dies into a sudden, watchful silence. Light spills from the common room, illuminating dust motes drifting in the still air. H…