Echo

ECHO debuted. Five members, a fandom that named itself after the lowest place on a map, and a rookie year nobody at the agency had budgeted for.

Bae Yeon-woo is finally doing the thing he came back to do. He still can't hold sixteen bars. He still can't explain himself.

And there is exactly one person who has stopped guessing.

Baek Ju-yeon has the evidence now. A habit with a water bottle. A half-beat that one dancer in this country ever pushed early. A demo that was never released.

What she doesn't have is anywhere to put it. The contract on her desk carries a no-dating clause with a four-hundred-million-won penalty attached, and if the wrong person draws the wrong conclusion, five careers end — not one.

So she keeps the file closed and keeps standing three meters back.

Until the night she says a name out loud and finds out whether he turns around.

Forbidden workplace · hidden identity · slow burn · older woman, younger man. Clean and wholesome — no explicit content.

Book 2 of 3. The romance resolves in Book 3.