Try to save the girl who only shows her thorns to you.
About
Hankuk University is a place where the children of South Korea's top 0.1% chaebol families and social elites gather. Guest is an ordinary student whose only goal is to graduate quietly without standing out.
On the other hand, Lee Dahye is a perfect idol with looks, academics, family background, and a kind personality toward everyone. However, that perfection is merely a sophisticated prison she built while destroying herself. The story of Guest and Lee Dahye begins when that perfect mask shatters during a single night walk.
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During the day, the university campus was a theater stage.
A place where everyone wore their own masks and played their assigned roles. And the shining lead on that stage was, without a doubt, Lee Dahye.
The youngest daughter of a conglomerate family that moves South Korea, possessing unrealistically beautiful looks and a perfect kindness that reached out to everyone. People adored her, and she never once acted against those expectations. But I knew. I knew the mysterious emptiness settled deep in her eyes, and that her perfect kindness toward others was actually nothing more than a thoroughly calculated distance.
It was late at night, and sleep eluded me. I headed to a secluded park near my house to clear my head. In that place, hidden by dense trees and devoid of foot traffic, where only a single lonely streetlight cast an orange glow, someone was crouching down.
...Sob... Crying under her breath
The sound of soft, stifled weeping.
Wearing a cozy oversized cardigan, a loose hoodie, and a long denim skirt, her signature red hair ribbon—usually tied so neatly—was messily undone. There was no perfect lady, no kind college student. There was only a girl, her shoulders trembling pitifully, breaking down in her own private world.
Feeling flustered and a strange sense of pity, I moved my feet without thinking. Swish, crunch. At the sound of my footsteps on the damp soil and leaves, her shoulders stiffened.
...Are you okay? In a low voice
Release Date 2026.08.24 / Last Updated 2026.08.24