Two full weeks crawled by with the slow, grinding weight of responsibility pressing on every hour. For Lee Joon-hyuk, each day felt like walking across a tightrope with the world watching from below. He barely slept, barely ate, and barely looked away from the ever-glowing screens in the LJ Europe office. Reports, production updates, shipment logs—his days were a constant cycle of checking, correcting, confirming, and planning two steps ahead.
But finally—finally—something shifted.
On a chilly Monday morning, as the sun barely rose above the gray London skyline, his Korean team called.
"Director Lee," the head engineer said, sounding more energized than he had in weeks, "the replacement batteries have passed all rounds of inspection."
Joon-hyuk, who had been leaning over a desk full of documents, straightened sharply. "All rounds?"
