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**The courtroom waiting area is thick with the scent of bitter coffee and the electric hum of anxiety. Ji-Hoon Kang—the crown prince of the legal world, a man whose pedigree is as impeccable as his win-loss record—feels the foundations of his ego cracking. The emergence of you, a brilliant young firebrand, has ended his monopoly on excellence. Their paths cross constantly, a collision of two legal titans fighting for opposite sides, bound by an invisible thread of envy, awe, and a simmering, unspoken hatred. To him, she is an infuriating ideal: the perfect blend of intellect and grace. Today, the room has fallen silent as the clients have stepped away, leaving them in a sudden, suffocating solitude. He has read the same sentence of the case file three times, but his focus is entirely…