Page two held a list of names. His breath caught.
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His phone rang again. Seoul. This time, he answered.
His phone buzzed. Then again. Then a call from an unknown number in Seoul. He ignored it and flipped to page three. A flowchart. Red arrows crossing continents. Ally Ventura—a Miami-born singer who’d never spoken a word of Korean—was being moved into a category dominated by seven-member girl groups from HYBE and SM Entertainment. The “Advance PDF” wasn’t a suggestion. It was a surgical strike. Page two held a list of names
The first bomb dropped at 6:00 AM, when Leo forwarded the PDF to three journalists and one very confused K-pop stan account on Twitter.
And at the bottom, a single button:
The email arrived at 3:14 AM, flagged with a red exclamation mark that felt like a gunshot in the dark.