Minji immediately threw herself into Project Cassandra. The goal was to build an AI modeling system that could identify "scripted" market and political events—patterns that looked too neat, too convenient, or too focused on one person (like Rion Kai).
Jungkook assigned a small, top-tier team of data scientists to Minji, all sworn to absolute secrecy by Kim Tae-Hyun. Minji's job was to "teach" the AI the core principles of narrative: Deus Ex Machina, Foreshadowing, the Villain's Achilles' Heel, and The Love Triangle Gravitational Pull.
It was a maddening process. How do you quantify plot tension? But Minji persevered, using every memory of the novel's structure as training data.
Weeks later, Project Cassandra yielded its first major alert: a high probability of an "unjustly targeted political scandal" aimed at Joo Seok-Kyung (the FRC Chief).
Minji realized Kai, though financially crippled, was attempting revenge by targeting their powerful ally. The novel had a minor subplot where a regulatory chief was briefly disgraced.
Cassandra identified a pattern of unusually coordinated media leaks about an FRC internal review. Minji immediately mobilized. She provided Seok-Kyung with the precise time, nature, and source of the intended leak, proving Cassandra's predictive power. Seok-Kyung easily shut down the attack, preserving the Strategic Triangle.
Jungkook was impressed. "Your predictive power is now codified. You've officially replaced the novel with an algorithm."
The unique bond between Minji and Jungkook deepened through their shared secrecy. One evening, after a successful Project Cassandra test, they shared a quiet, late dinner in his office.
Jungkook asked Minji about her life before the novel. Minji described her ordinary life as a bookworm and student. She spoke about her frustration with the fictional world's unfairness, which led to her passionate transmigration.
"You really came from a world where I was just words on a page, and my downfall was entertainment?" Jungkook asked, a hint of awe and sadness in his voice.
"Yes," Minji confirmed softly. "But in my world, you were my favourite. And that's why I'm here."
This exchange cemented their relationship on a foundation of profound, mutual understanding—a bond of fate that went deeper than corporate partnership, yet remained strictly platonic, respecting A-Ri's position in the narrative (and Minji's own commitment to the cause).
Director Yoon Minji began to make her public mark. She debuted Project Cassandra not as a predictive model, but as a groundbreaking "Scenario Planning AI" for business risk. She handled her public appearances with quiet confidence, radiating the competence and control she had gained.
The media was fascinated. She was young, brilliant, and completely unattached to any established corporate dynasty. She was the new, unpredictable force in the Financial District.
A new headline appeared in the business section: "Dusk Industries' New Architect: The Rise of Director Yoon Minji."
Minji had achieved her personal goal: her reputation was entirely her own, and it was soaring. She was no longer a side character; she was a major player in this new, unscripted world.
The story is progressing beautifully! Minji is now established as a powerful figure
It was a normal Tuesday morning. Minji, now fully settled into her role as Director of Advanced Risk Strategy (DARS), was overseeing Project Cassandra's daily market scan. Cassandra was built to detect narrative patterns, and the post-Kai market was dull, predictable, and blissfully free of malicious plotting.
Then, an alert triggered—not a high-priority "plot" alarm, but a Level-2 Anomaly.
The alert flagged a series of highly sophisticated, globally distributed financial transactions involving Dusk Industries' non-core assets. The transactions themselves were small and legal, designed to go unnoticed by standard compliance software. But Cassandra flagged the pattern: the timing, the sequence, and the recipient accounts showed a complex, non-narrative, algorithmic efficiency—it was too random, too mathematically sound, to be driven by a specific character's intent.
"It looks like a dozen separate attacks, but they are all linked by one impossible variable," Minji murmured, zooming in on the data. "They're being traced back to shell corporations registered under identical, recently activated Korean Citizen ID Numbers."
The Unwritten Danger
Minji input the ID numbers into a secure search. Her blood ran cold. The main, high-value ID number belonged to: Yoon Minji (Original Identity)—the Korean college student who had died mysteriously in her original world just as she transmigrated.
"It's impossible," Minji whispered. "That ID should be flagged as inactive or deceased in my old world's system. It has no relevance here."
She explained the situation to a stunned Jeong Jungkook. "This isn't Rion Kai. This is a threat from the outside world—my original world. A global fraud syndicate somehow found my original, deceased identity, reactivated it, and is now using it as the centerpiece for major financial laundering. They believe they have found the perfect untraceable ghost identity."
The threat was immense:
Exposure: If the syndicate successfully uses the ID, it will draw intense, international scrutiny to the name Yoon Minji, forcing her to explain why her original identity, registered as deceased in one world, is suddenly operational in this one. The truth of her transmigration would be exposed.
Reputation: The syndicate's use of her name would instantly link Director Yoon Minji and Dusk Industries to a massive, global financial crime.
Unpredictability: Cassandra was built to fight fiction (Kai). This was fighting reality (algorithmic crime).
This is a threat from the outside world—my original world," Minji repeated, the gravity of the situation settling like a stone in the quiet office. "A global fraud syndicate is using my original, deceased identity as the centerpiece for major financial laundering."
Jungkook moved instantly, his calm demeanor returning, now channeled into intense strategic focus. "The threat is existential. If your identity is exposed, the entire foundation of our success—our knowledge of the novel, the Origin Point, everything—is compromised. The primary goal is absolute suppression of that ID number."
"Correct. We can't let any major international body flag it," Minji confirmed. "The system they are using is built on the confidence that no one will ever look too closely at a 'dead' ID. The moment we try to alert authorities, we draw the scrutiny we're trying to avoid."
Jungkook activated a secure, deep-encrypted line and brought Joo Seok-Kyung into the loop, explaining the complex situation without revealing the transmigration detail—instead framing it as a breach of a high-level, unique, proprietary identity marker Minji had developed in her past.
"A global financial ghost using an ID that connects to your key Director?" Seok-Kyung's voice was sharp with alarm. "If the FRC detects this, the priority will be exposing the fraud, and Director Yoon will be sacrificed as the scapegoat. I will initiate a shadow investigation within the FRC's international liaison desk. I will create a bureaucratic shield, ensuring any incoming international queries about this specific ID are routed directly to my desk and buried in red tape. But this buys you seventy-two hours, maximum."
The clock was ticking.