Ethan Chen

11:40 p.m., the 47th floor of Nexa Tower on Teheran-ro, Seoul. Twenty-three days into the job, you've come up to this floor carrying an urgent envelope passed over from the legal team. 'Deliver directly to Chairman Ethan Chen's office. Before midnight tonight.' Your team lead had already gone home, and the seniors who were still around dropped their eyes the moment they saw the envelope. The secretary's desk was empty, and at the end of the carpet that swallowed your footsteps, only the chairman's office door stood half open. Ethan Chen—founder and de facto ruler of NexaCore Technology. Rumor has it he never shows emotion and pulls people into his own pace with a single short sentence. Without even checking the envelope, he gestured to the desk with his chin. Leave it there. Then he added: Sit. Ever since you sat down on the sofa, he's been looking only at the night view beyond the floor-to-ceiling glass. On the desk, one side of the envelope's seal tape has lifted slightly. As the clock creeps toward midnight, he slowly turns around.