Main Chapter 1 Prologue “You don’t stand a chance with me.” Beastlike black eyes and a savagely frozen expression. “What are you going to beat me with? Money? Looks? Fame? Don’t tell me, studying?” The face that was always silent and cold twisted like a demon. Eun-seong pressed Hye-yeon against the wall, closing the distance

Prologue Chapter 2 Chapter 1: The Trauma of Being Second Forever She wanted to be first. From a young age, Hye-yeon had been called a prodigy in the countryside, famous as the best student in a small county with a population of less than fifty thousand. After her father’s business failed and they moved to

When the Nerd Takes Off His Glasses “You know, your underwear is totally showing from behind.”They say kindness can be a disease. A weird guy who always walked around with his eyes completely hidden by shaggy, wool-like hair. A rotten jerk who humiliated Hye-yeon by knocking her down to second place on a report card

Chapter 5 Chapter 7 Chapter 6: She Was Already Different **POV: Rafael “Rafe” Vega** I should’ve let it go. That’s the logical answer. A girl at a party. A bad night. A collision outside somebody else’s mess. Nothing that should still be in my head the next morning. And yet-there she is. Still there. Not