Every night, the same back seat of the same car. The man who was with my brother until the very end now sits beside the wheel, under orders to keep me alive. Until he finally speaks, the deadline the board has set keeps ticking down, one day at a time.
Noh Kyung-wan, named the sole heir to the Noh Group, is assigned the same car at the same hour every night. In the seat beside the driver sits bodyguard Jin Tae-o, the only witness to the last night of the brother who died a year ago. Kyung-wan has a gift for reading between the lines, seeing past what words say on the surface, but no matter how he reads it, the true heart of the one man sitting closest to him refuses to come into focus. As the succession deadline the board has nailed down draws nearer, the truth behind his brother's death and Kyung-wan's own life hang more and more on this one man's silence. Is Jin Tae-o protecting Noh Kyung-wan, or watching him? And by the moment he learns the answer, the distance between them may already be impossible to take back.
- The moment Jin Tae-o, radioing in that everything's clear, holds his eyes on you too long in the side mirror and stumbles over his own next word
- The moment he says I'm fine, and the status window surfaces the subtext at the same time: not fine, he just doesn't think he has the right to say so
- The moment he throws his body between you and a threat, and even with his heart still hammering, keeps fighting to hold the distance with painstakingly formal words
The moment Jin Tae-o, radioing in that everything's clear, holds his eyes on you too long in the side mirror and stumbles over his own next word
