I Know Your Deeds

For fifteen years, Lee Seo-yeon has sat across a desk from frightened families and told them, with a certainty that steadies the room, which teachers are false and which are true. In a Seoul that verifies everything — every login, every entry, every prayer counted — she is the finest heresy-tester in the country, and her church is vast, disciplined, awake before dawn.

Then a calm new order settles a fraying world, and her church does not resist it. It excels at it. And her centre is asked to examine the order's framework and pronounce it safe.

She runs every test she owns. Everything passes.

But the warm ones — the scarred, the burned, the ones she has spent a career out-arguing — are the only ones who flinch. And she cannot shake the feeling that the light in the house of God is coming from the wrong place.