The press conference venue was forty minutes across the city and Manager Park texted the wrap confirmation at ten fifty-three.
Clean run. No incidents. Relationship questions handled well. Several clips already circulating, the contract answer hitting entertainment news within twenty minutes of him saying it.
Haejin read through the summary in the back of the car.
Then he opened his messages.
Taekyung asking about the afternoon schedule. His mother, sent early, call me when you're free. The group chat was already forty messages deep, Jisoo's breakfast commentary had apparently continued for some time.
And one from Soorin.
He read it.
[The soup was good.]
He read it again.
Manager Park, in the passenger seat reviewing his notes, glanced back at the silence.
