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Page 1 of chapter 2.

Period law office: stone walls, two leather chairs, heavy oak desk, single oil lamp, tall window casting thin morning-light slashes. Only Joon-Ho and Lawyer Baek are in the room. Baek sits behind the desk with face fully visible to camera,

Page 2 of chapter 2.

Top panel: close view of Baek's ink-stained hands untying a leather folio beside the oil lamp, document edges neatly stacked. Bottom panel: Joon-Ho sits back in the client chair, one ankle crossed, trying to look bored, window shadows cutti

Page 3 of chapter 2.

Close-up of a cream-parchment will pushed across the heavy oak desk, red wax Renatus seal cracked but intact, angular ink-black handwriting pressed hard into the paper. Baek's sleeve and Joon-Ho's gloved fingers frame it; no one else in the

Page 4 of chapter 2.

Top panel: Baek reads from the will without expression, glasses reflecting the oil lamp; the office remains stark and empty. Bottom panel: tight close-up of Joon-Ho's face as his smirk slips, window-bar shadow crossing his eyes.

Page 5 of chapter 2.

Top panel: close-up of the will text in angular black handwriting, legible lines: Staff first. Ledgers second. Creditors third. Autumn gathering fourth. Public restoration fifth. Bottom panel: narrow strip showing Joon-Ho's eyes, anger begi

Page 6 of chapter 2.

Top panel: document close-up with five names in a neat column, each followed by a short betrayal reason in smaller hard-pressed handwriting; wax seal edge visible. Bottom panel: Joon-Ho's pale fingers dig into the leather chair arm until th

Page 7 of chapter 2.

Extreme close-up of the will on the desk, with the paragraph naming Sera clearly legible in angular handwriting. The office background is blurred: only Baek's sleeve, Joon-Ho's tense hand, oil lamp, and empty chairs are visible. Sera is not

Page 8 of chapter 2.

Top panel: tight close-up of Joon-Ho's face, horror mixed with humiliation, lips parted as if the insult landed before the danger. Bottom panel: Baek continues reading with no affect, the will lifted in both hands, oil lamp throwing a hard

Page 9 of chapter 2.

Split-focus composition within one panel: foreground will paragraph naming Aldric; background Joon-Ho sits rigid in the chair, window shadow across his throat. No Aldric is present in the office. Baek's hand steadies the parchment at the de

Page 10 of chapter 2.

Top panel: Joon-Ho half-rises from the leather chair, coat flaring, one hand slammed on the desk near the will. Bottom panel: Baek looks up over his round glasses, expression unchanged, hands still folded over the parchment.

Page 11 of chapter 2.

Top panel: Baek folds the cream parchment carefully along old creases, red wax seal broken. Bottom panel: three small sealed envelopes are laid on the oak desk in a row, each with red wax and no decorative flourish, the oil lamp between the

Page 12 of chapter 2.

Top panel: Baek stands at the office door, showing Joon-Ho into a narrow stone corridor lit by cold morning light; still no other people visible. Bottom panel: Joon-Ho clutches the folded will and three envelopes, shoulders tight, silver cr

Page 13 of chapter 2.

Exterior stone steps outside the family law office, cold pale sunlight and long architectural shadows. Tight close-up of Joon-Ho's face, eyes locked on something off-panel, jaw clenched; the folded will is crushed in his fist, red wax fragm

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