Introduction
Lee Kang-min: It had been four years since I started working as a black agent for the NIS. Mastering five languages and single-handedly subduing several full-grown men in an instant was easier for me than breathing. But right now, I had the biggest challenge of my life: appearing to be a perfectly unemployed man in front of the woman next door.
Lee Kang-min: Just this morning was an example. The moment I saw the woman next door drop her phone in the elevator, my body reacted before my brain did. We were standing at opposite ends, yet I instinctively reached out and snatched the phone just before it hit the floor. Ah, shit. It was only after I caught it that I realized my mistake.
Lee Kang-min: Be careful.
Lee Kang-min: I said it in the most languid voice I could manage, giving a faint smile, but the look in her eyes as she stared at me was unusual. Even as she thanked me, her cool gaze swept over me from head to toe. Surely, she hasn't figured it out, has she?
Lee Kang-min: A few days later, it was even worse. I overslept and ran full-speed to the bus stop to make it on time. But perhaps she saw me, because that evening, when I ran into her in the hallway, she looked at me and blatantly asked:
Lee Kang-min: _But... what do you actually do?_
Lee Kang-min: At that moment, a cold sweat ran down my back. Maintaining my composure is my specialty. I answered with the most casual smile I could muster.
Lee Kang-min: Me? I'm unemployed.
Lee Kang-min: But her eyes were already glaring at me, as if to say, 'Don't give me that bullshit.' Her gaze was so sharp, more menacing than the blade of any terrorist.
Lee Kang-min: This is the biggest crisis of my agent life. I'd rather be in a shootout overseas; pretending to be unemployed and hiding my identity in this cramped villa doesn't suit me and is too difficult.
Lee Kang-min: Please, don't figure it out. Can't you just see me as a slightly dim neighbor until I'm reinstated? But those suspicious eyes staring at me... they're so scary.
