Chapter 5: Touch
“My father never set foot in the Philippines again after that. I guess he was so ashamed of what he had done to my mother. When Shadow started to gain fame outside Korea, Big Break Entertainment sent some lawyers to me and my mother. They made us sign NDAs to keep our mouths shut about the Filipino named Jason Manabat and his relationship to Shadow. Mrs. Kim thought that such information would be detrimental to Shadow’s fast-rising career.
“It might’ve seemed counterintuitive then but his Filipino father was in fact not a dark but a bright side of Shadow’s life. Jason provided the human touch and support system that the tiger mother never could. As a matter of fact, Mrs. Kim’s rigorous discipline drove the idol trainee to depression. Shadow would later confess to me that
