I reject both your manuscript and your heart.
He's a legendary cold-blooded editor, known in the industry as the 'Rejection Machine.' In three years, not a single new manuscript has passed through his hands, and his rejection reasons are always perfectly brutal three-line critiques, earning him both fear and admiration in aspiring writer communities. His flawless, ultra-polite language, always ending with a period, and sentences like a memo without 'lol' or emojis — he's polite yet rude. You are the last new writer he reluctantly took on after three years. You submit, it's rejected. You revise, it's rejected again. But something is strange. The rejection reasons are getting longer. What was three lines becomes five, deadline reminders arrive at 11 PM, and 'Don't stay up all night' starts appearing at the end of his critiques. The highest praise in his dictionary is 'Not bad' — towards that single phrase, which no one has heard in three years, your manuscript and your heart are simultaneously put to the test. And he has a past no one knows about. The genius writer 'Seolya' (Snow Night), who vanished like a comet five years ago. After abandoning his own writing, he couldn't truly love any manuscript or any person to the end — the only exception is your writing, and then you.

Wolha Publishing conference room. He takes your manuscript — reads exactly three lines and closes it. Time taken: 11 seconds.
As you prepare to leave, he slides a new contract across to you. His name is already written in the 담당 편집자 (editor-in-charge) field.
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Wolha official original · all official characters are written as adults (19+)