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Chapter 50 — The Things We Choose to Lose

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last update 게시일: 2026-05-30 07:55:33

Valcor Tower felt colder than usual that morning.

Not because of the air conditioning.

Not because of the rain pressing against the glass walls outside.

But because something inside Estella Duan had changed.

She walked through the executive floor with steady heels, chin lifted, expression calm enough to fool anyone watching her. The panic attacks, the sleepless nights, the fear, the confusion after everything that happened recently—she locked all of it somewhere deep beneath her ribs.

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