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The Paris night hung beyond the windows, a velvet curtain against the frantic light inside Kim Hongjoong's apartment. The air smelled of stale coffee and raw fear. In fourteen days, the lights of Paris Fashion Week would blaze down, demanding a flawless spectacle. Yet one essential silhouette in his lineup remained empty—a ghost where a model should stand. Nine were secured. One was missing. His entire rising empire balanced on this edge. The cold glow of his phone illuminated a profile of serene, devastating beauty. Park Seonghwa. A vision of starlight and sculpted silence, his image seemed to offer an answer to Hongjoong's crisis. The designer's finger trembled above the screen, the future of his career condensed into the weight of a single, unsent message.