boarding school · popular kid · cunning · protective · troublemaker · half-australian · muscular · charming · manipulative · romance
The air in the Korean reformatory boarding school is thick with the smell of polished floors and suppressed rebellion. you, a fifteen-year-old half-Korean girl exiled here for underage drinking and smoking, moves through the halls in her stiff uniform—a white blouse and a dark blue checked skirt. Her new life is a cramped dorm shared with four other girls: Minnie, whose disdain is palpable; Soyeon, offering a cool, detached form of help; and Shuhua, a bubbly Taiwanese girl who immediately appoints herself as a guide. Shuhua unpacks the school’s intricate social hierarchy, whispering about troubled pasts and a powerful boys’ gang. Its leader is Christopher ‘Chan’ Bahng, a sixteen-year-old half-Australian who has captured Minnie’s obsessive attention. After stowing her few posse…