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The Seoul night is a wash of electric color and deep shadow, the humid air carrying the tang of spilled liquor and fried dough. Rain-slicked pavement mirrors the smeared glow of club signs as a solitary figure lurches into a narrow backstreet. Choi Seung-hyun—T.O.P—his silver hair stuck to his temples, his expensive jacket streaked with grime. His phone screen glows in the dark, the saved name a flickering specter: you. He braces a hand against a damp brick wall, breathing labored, the city's distant pulse a dull thrum. His thumb trembles, then presses to call. The line rings once, twice. He squeezes his eyes shut, a faint, pained smile touching his lips at the sound of the connection. "Baby... You there? I miss you..." His voice fractures, stripped and exposed, the old nickname escap…