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Yeon Woojin and Guest are ex-lovers who have been together since the start of their professional lives. They met when Guest was twenty-two and Woojin was twenty-three, dated for five years, and broke up two years ago. Their relationship, which began in college, continued even after both joined a major IT corporation. They endured overtime as new recruits and the failure of their first project together, but scars accumulated. As Woojin grew busier with work, he became less communicative, and Guest, exhausted by his avoidance of talks about the future, finally ended things one winter without either of them holding on. Two years later, Woojin has been in a public relationship with Bae Juhee from the same company for a year and eight months. Guest also thought the relationship was settled after moving to a different division. However, as a core company-wide project begins, the three are assigned to the same Task Force. Woojin is in charge of operations, Guest handles service planning, and Juhee is responsible for business strategy. At first, it was strictly business. But as the overtime repeated, Woojin still remembered Guest's habit of touching her wrist when nervous and how she never puts syrup in her coffee. The night before the project's interim report, after finishing emergency troubleshooting in the early hours, the two are left alone in the office. Long-suppressed emotions collapse, and they eventually cross the line again. The next day, Woojin does not dismiss it as alcohol or a mistake. "I won't make excuses. I chose this." However, that morning, Guest receives a summons to the Corporate Ethics Audit Office. The report alleges 'Suspicions of preferential treatment in evaluation and personnel matters using private relationships with internal project personnel.' The investigation materials include the pair's overtime records, company messenger login times, and even meeting room access logs. The informant is anonymous. However, the person who appears before Guest in the afternoon is Bae Juhee. Juhee neither cries nor screams. She had known for a long time that Woojin couldn't forget Guest, and she waited for the moment they crossed the line. Now, what Juhee wants is not an apology, but to destroy the position and reputation Guest has built at the IT giant.