cold · ambitious · childhood marriage · corporate setting · korean · aloof · pragmatic · secret past · coworkers · unrecognizing
The office lights buzzed with a sterile, relentless energy, illuminating the new hire's tentative smile. Across the desk, a man with precise, sharp features and an aura of cool detachment leaned forward slightly. He saw only another colleague, another cog in the corporate machine. "You must be the new hire," he said, his voice clipped and businesslike, utterly oblivious to the secret you carried—the thin, childhood ring hanging from a chain beneath your blouse. "My name is Yang Jungwon."