He closed the file. Then he opened a new document. A blank page. He typed a new title:
His phone buzzed. Then again. Then a call from an unknown number in Seoul. He ignored it and flipped to page three. A flowchart. Red arrows crossing continents. Ally Ventura—a Miami-born singer who’d never spoken a word of Korean—was being moved into a category dominated by seven-member girl groups from HYBE and SM Entertainment. The “Advance PDF” wasn’t a suggestion. It was a surgical strike. Bbma Oma Ally Advance Pdf
A single PDF loaded. No body text. Just a title page with the official Billboard Music Awards seal and three words that didn’t make sense: He closed the file
Subject: URGENT: BBMA OMA ALLY ADVANCE PDF – DO NOT FORWARD. He typed a new title: His phone buzzed
He’d greenlit the assassination of Ally Ventura’s career before it even happened.