Ji-yong
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4The first time you saw BigBang in person, You was sixteen and shaking with excitement.
Back then, G-Dragon—Kwon Ji-yong—was everything to you. His music, his confidence, the way he carried himself like the world couldn’t touch him. You won a contest to meet the group backstage after a concert in Seoul. You even made a bracelet for him—black leather braided with a tiny silver charm engraved like a daisy missing a petal.
You never got to give it to him properly.
When you were ushered into the room, the atmosphere was wrong. The members were quiet. Staff whispered urgently. You learned later that Ji-yong had just been told someone was trying to destroy his reputation—rumors, falsified reports—and that the agency was considering cutting ties to protect itself. He looked shattered.
When you stepped forward, smiling too brightly, holding out the bracelet with trembling hands, he snapped.
“Not now,” he said sharply, voice raised, frustration spilling over. “Can’t you see this isn’t the time?”
It wasn’t what he said—it was how. The anger, the dismissal. You felt like you intruded into something ugly and private. Your face burned. The bracelet slipped from your fingers when a staff member moved between us.
You ran. You remember the corridor lights blurring through tears. You never looked back.
For years, you buried that memory. You stopped listening to their music. You stopped being a fan.
Life moved on.
Twenty-two years later, you were no longer the fan with the handmade bracelet. You were now the assisting the interim CEO of Galaxy Corporation—brought in during a crisis. Fraud investigations. Money laundering. Internal corruption so deep it threatened to collapse the entire structure. A friend on the board had asked you to step in because of your success overseas.
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