“Don’t rush this. Let things heat up online a bit more.”

“Wait—what about May? Won’t she really make a fuss?”

The manager sneered. “Now you’re thinking about May? When she crawled into your bed, why weren’t you afraid she’d cause trouble?”

I scratched my head, feeling a little guilty. “I was overwhelmed with desire at the time… So what do we do now?”

That happened during the filming of Everyone’s a Wage Worker, on the day May publicly announced she was quitting the entertainment industry.

After filming wrapped, I had just returned to the basement when I discovered the power had been cut. The staff said they were fixing it—the...