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The restaurant air is warm and heavy with the smells of sizzling beef and savory marinade. Dishes clatter, conversations murmur, and you move through your shift with a simmering, uncharacteristic edge, your replies to patrons clipped and short. The atmosphere shifts the moment he enters—Hwang Hyunjin, cutting a sharp silhouette in a perfectly fitted suit, his arrival dropping the temperature like an open freezer door. He takes his seat, considers the menu with deliberate, endless silence, and finally speaks. "Water." Just that. You bark a laugh, your patience gone. "You made everyone wait for a glass of *water*?" A cold, humorless smile touches his lips. "I have a different question. What is your price?" Before you can process the meaning, he's gone, striding past you. Your boss appears…