Chapter 82: The Night Before
Director Park Yongcheol asks to see Woojin. The professional circle has noticed. Three weeks of preparation. The night before the audition — the complete failure of prediction is the full opening.
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Chapter 150: Volume Seven
Chapter 150: Volume Seven Volume seven ended the way volume seven had proceeded—ordinarily. Not with a climax. Not with a
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Chapter 149: The Community Photograph
Chapter 149: The Community Photograph The photograph was taken on a Saturday in March. Not planned—organic. The specific, community-generated, the-moment-produced-itself
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Chapter 148: The Ordinary Tuesday
Chapter 148: The Ordinary Tuesday The chapter’s title was—deliberate. The Ordinary Tuesday. Not the special Tuesday. Not the crisis Tuesday.
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Chapter 147: The Tenth Line
Chapter 147: The Tenth Line The tenth chalkboard line arrived in February—the month of Dohyun’s birthday, the month of the
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Chapter 81: The Tree Poem
April 2011. Lee Junhyeok assigns a poem to present to the class. Woojin chooses a poem about a tree knowing through its roots. The prior receiving carries the twenty-two lines without a partner. Two kinds of reading.
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Chapter 146: The Fourth Book
Chapter 146: The Fourth Book The fourth book’s subject found the barista in November—the way every book’s subject had found
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Chapter 145: The Twelfth October
Chapter 145: The Twelfth October Bloom turned twelve in October. The number that contained: the cafe (twelve years). The academy
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Chapter 144: The Renovation
Chapter 144: The Renovation The cafe needed repair. Not renovation—repair. The distinction being: renovation changed the thing. Repair preserved the
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Chapter 80: The Window Opens Anywhere
March 2011. Fifth grade begins — a new teacher who watches rather than manages. The ginkgo buds two days early. And Kim Sunhee sits across the table as a partner for the first time: the ultimate unfamiliar-partner test. The window opens.