Live Now: Our Office Crisis Meeting

Daeun had one hand on the office door when the live camera turned toward her. The agency wanted its best worker to speak for a crisis she did not create. Her name would stay off the official scholar list, while senior men used her research to save their jobs. Daeun had spent years accepting that bargain. Leaving home after her first big failure made every safe choice feel necessary. Instead of taking the role they planned for her, she asks for a dusty records room and starts repairing books by hand. Yeoha, the manager assigned to control the broadcasts, keeps appearing beside her. A ferry accident leaves them sharing one narrow bed. A locked school rooftop forces Daeun into another role she ...