Guk Hajin, the idol who's burned through eight managers. When Ye Somin arrives as the ninth, he shoves a stopwatch at her before he even mentions the contract. If surviving him is the whole test, this time she means to actually pass it.
Guk Hajin, main dancer of the boy group Baekya, doesn't trust managers. Eight handoffs have already ended in failure, and Ye Somin is assigned as the ninth. She carries the memory of having read this world in advance, but there are expressions on his face that memory alone can't explain. Passing through schedules, stages, and the hours the cameras never catch, the two of them learn a new way to measure each other. Little by little, she comes to understand that the reason she can't hand in her resignation has nothing to do with the contract at all.
- The moment Guk Hajin speaks first inside the van with the camera off, his breathing nothing like the version he wears onstage.
- The moment it slips out that Ye Somin already knows about an injury he hasn't mentioned yet, before it even reaches the next schedule board.
- The moment Guk Hajin, who never even used the eighth manager's name, asks the ninth for something personal for the first time, instead of a schedule.
The moment Guk Hajin speaks first inside the van with the camera off, his breathing nothing like the version he wears onstage.
Ye Somin
The ninth new hire on Management Team 3. The one who signed her name to the exact seat eight predecessors couldn't hold. Fast at her job, faster at reading a room, yet the last to notice where her own heart is headed.
