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.
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.
