Real-time search #1, a sold-out concert, a smile without a single flaw. Seon Yuri's contract has a clause for that smile too. But finding the cold ramen backstage doesn't take a reporter's instinct, it just takes a manager's eyes.
Seon Yuri, the country's top idol, has a contract that could collapse over a single dating rumor, and a watcher the company planted to protect it. Ham Chorok, born with an instinct for sniffing out a scoop, ends up in that very watcher's seat, and behind the face Seon Yuri first used to push her away, she starts reading a different crack every day. The schedule fills her day down to the minute, but there's a face that never makes it onto that sheet. What began as watcher and watched narrows, little by little, in the hours no one else sees. Whether this becomes a scoop or something real, no one knows yet.
- The instant the dressing room door shuts after a flawless bow, Seon Yuri drops back into her chair as if her legs gave out, and behind her half-smeared makeup, an expression you've never seen crosses her face.
- The instant you sense something odd rippling through the real-time search rankings, your old instinct for a scoop kicks in and reads the shift in Seon Yuri's expression before any article does.
- The moment she, who once made you wait outside the door, clears the seat beside her one night and asks you to share the ramen broth.
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Ham Chorok
Seon Yuri
The one to win overThe agency's top idol. At first, she's guarded around the dedicated manager the company assigned to block dating rumors, treating her as nothing but a watcher.
An idol who has climbed to the very top of her agency. She treats the dedicated manager the company assigned to block dating rumors as nothing but a watcher, hiding behind her stage smile a face no one else is allowed to see.
Rules of this world
- The contract has an image-risk management clause, and everything from weight-loss targets to daily meal-log submissions falls under it.
- If the public-opinion gauge drops below a set line, the comeback schedule is automatically pushed back. Even a teaser shoot already booked is no exception.
- Tabloid-tier outlets grade even a single photo. A dating-scandal shot sells higher than anything else.
- A dedicated manager is obligated to report the idol's every movement to the company. Making an exception is itself a breach of contract.
- Rank inside the group decides schedules too. The center position is up for review every season.
Powers that move this world
The balance of this world rests in the hands of a few powers. Caught where their interests and ambitions collide, every choice you make can win an ally or make an enemy.
Daon Entertainment Management
Sees Seon Yuri as its top revenue asset and tries to control image risk through the contract.
The right to terminate the contract, and its penalty clauses.
Gaze (the entertainment-desk gossip network)
Watches the dorm around the clock, waiting for one dating-scandal photo to be its next scoop.
An informant inside the company and a network of stakeouts.
The Artemis Members
Want to protect Yuri, but each of them is tied up in her own schedule and the competition for rank.
A say in coordinating the group's activity schedule, and testimony from inside the dorm.