August 1st, 2026
Morning shift. Seo-yeon logs in at the 21st-floor desk to find Myung-hee's rotation entry erased — not crossed out, gone — and her ground-floor locker emptied overnight, name plate still bolted, no transfer slip filed.
What happened
Morning shift. Seo-yeon logs in at the 21st-floor desk to find Myung-hee's rotation entry erased — not crossed out, gone — and her ground-floor locker emptied overnight, name plate still bolted, no transfer slip filed. The system flags Suite 2104 as checked-in under 'Kwon Hye-ran,' a name no one in the morning brief recognizes; she goes up to greet and finds the suite staged for a guest who never arrived — silk robe across the bed, men's tie on the wardrobe hanger at her eye level with a key tag handwritten 'Seoyeon Park,' one dried blood drop on the marble threshold. Picking up the tie to log found property, the silk is warm against her wrist; the bedside drawer sits open to a printed photo of her in last year's uniform. Lee Joon-ho's office emails requesting a meeting by Friday. Decision: she photographs the suite, deletes the photo, reports Myung-hee's locker to Im, and says nothing about the staged suite or the meeting request.