A small studio apartment in Incheon.

"How the hell did you know about me?"

Lee Junhyeok stared at his laptop screen. The same site photos kept showing up on the portals.

He'd taken them.

Everything in them was familiar, down to the sheet of paper with the column number written on it and the tape measure laid between the rebar.

The story had started at News Jiksi, passed through the Nexus Times, and was spreading to other internet outlets.

Boneless Hyundo!

The construction site he'd worked on now had a new name. Lee Junhyeok rubbed his shin.

The bruise had faded long ago. But looking at the site in the photos, he could almost feel the spot where he'd been kicked start to throb again.

He was twenty-seven. He'd graduated last year with an architecture degree from one of the top regional universities.

Watching the lines on a blueprint rise into a real building had thrilled him.

He'd dreamed of the day he could point to an apartment building he'd worked on and say, I built that.

The company that hired him was a subcontractor doing the structural framing for Hyundo Construction.

It wasn't a job with one of the big conglomerates, but he wasn't disappointed. He figured there would be plenty to learn on site.

After training and a practicum, his first posting was a huge apartment project in Incheon. At first, just putting on a hard hat made his heart race.

He followed his sunbaes around, drawings in hand.

The structures he'd memorized in lecture halls were right in front of him, and even a single task the textbooks skimmed past took many pairs of hands.

The harder it was, the more he really learned. After work, he looked up whatever he hadn't understood that day.

That was how he found the problem.

While checking the rebar for the foundation work, he noticed something that didn't match the drawings.

The bars were a smaller gauge than the design called for.

At first he thought he'd misread the drawings. He checked the member numbers again and compared them with…