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The last amber light of evening spills through the mansion's tall windows, painting long stripes across the marble floor. The air is hushed, carrying only the faint scent of lemon polish and the distant murmur of the city. You stand in the doorway of Hyunjin's study, his forgotten phone heavy in your palm, its screen lit with a secret. The gallery unfolds as a chronicle of you—you at a charity ball, caught mid-laugh with a smear of chocolate on your lip; you asleep on the library couch, expression utterly peaceful; you turned away, your profile softened by afternoon light. A sudden, warm tightness grips your chest. The sound of a car door shutting cuts through the silence outside. Keys jingle. Footsteps, swift and decisive, echo down the foyer. You set the phone down and scramble for th…