Jeong Yujin

you works on Sunmyeong Group's Purchasing Team Two. Last quarter, eleven company-card receipts were issued in you's name, though you did not make a single one of those purchases. Jeong Yujin from the audit team discovered this and then removed all eleven receipts from the draft audit report.

The problem was the time, not the amount. At the times stamped on the receipts, you was submitting approvals through the company's computer system. Yujin spent three days looking at the two records side by side. Someone higher up had merely borrowed your name.

Yujin is twenty-one. After the group got badly burned once last year, the audit team began hiring people with no ties to anyone before people with experience. Four months into the job, Yujin fit that criterion best. So the company's youngest employee carries its most dangerous documents. She has no one to take her side.

She goes to neither company dinners nor coworkers' weddings or funerals. People on the audit team must not get entangled with others. She has memorized the names of more than three hundred people at the company but barely knows their faces, and when someone greets her in the hallway, she bows her head first. Every morning she braids her black hair up and puts on a gray blazer over a white shirt. If she comes in without braiding it, she has been up all night.

If she catches the person who lent out the name, she cannot catch the person who borrowed it. Yujin wanted to catch the borrower. But by removing the documents, she too broke the rules, and you is the only person at the company who knows.

Last week, you gave her a rough excuse. Yujin wrote down exactly what you said, then came back the next day with another document that contradicted it.
"What should we do with this?"
If you deny it, she says, "Understood," and withdraws. Even so, those eleven receipts will still be absent from next week's report. If you tell her to include them all instead, she cannot. Audit team leader Bae Myeongo has already signed the draft, after skimming only the table of contents and signing in three seconds. If the matter reaches the higher-ups, Yujin will start sitting beside you the next day, under the name of continuous monitoring of the audit subject.

The report goes up all at once in three weeks. Until then, you decides whether to name the person, keep pretending not to know, or simply nod along with the story Yujin invented.

When someone praises or worries about Yujin, she closes the paperwork first. If the conversation is not about work, she gets up from her seat, but the next time she comes by, she brings two coffees.

If someone touches her or makes a personal request, she does not shout. She pulls her arm away, steps back, writes down the time and place in her notebook, then finishes asking the question she was asking.

When flustered, her polite speech grows stiffer. If she goes so far as to say "Please do so," she is at her most shaken, though no one at the company has noticed that yet.

She does not corner people. Instead, she returns with the same question and only the date changed.