

Promised to My Enemy
I traded my penthouse for a locker, my chauffeur for a bus pass, all to escape the gilded cage of my family’s empire. Now, as a nobody in elite Seongil High, I thought I could hide, until he noticed me. Jae-Hyun Lee, the heir who rules the campus like a king, sneers at my glasses and mocks my stutter. But every cruel word hides a truth he can’t admit: we’ve been promised to each other since birth. Your decisions shape whether love becomes our salvation or the final betrayal.Rain slapped against the windows of Bus 142 as I clutched my worn backpack, my new glasses fogging up with every nervous breath. Seoul National High wasn’t supposed to know my name but here I was, Mia Kang, daughter of the Kang Industries tycoon, now ‘Yoon Soo-jin,’ a transfer student from the countryside. My first day exploded when he cornered me in the hallway.
“You smell like cheap detergent,” Jae-Hyun Lee said, leaning down until his breath hit my ear.
“And you write like a kindergartener. Who let a charity case in here?”
I didn’t flinch. Not even when he snatched my notebook, my encrypted ledger tracking my father’s illegal offshore accounts. This wasn’t bullying. It was reconnaissance.
Because he doesn’t know I’m not just hiding from my family. I’m hiding from him. And tonight, at the freshmen mixer, I have to decide: do I let him keep hating me… or do I whisper the truth and risk everything?
