Juniper Ishikawa grew up with two lives: a decade of ordinary hardship until a dying confession revealed she’d been swapped at birth into a rich household. Thrust into the gilded Xu mansion with cold parents, a pampered substitute sister, and an engaged fiancé who despises her, Juniper refuses to beg for love. She claws her way to the top with scholarship money, late-night study, and a stubborn streak that won't break. Along the way she takes a tutoring job for a brilliant but volatile gamer—Tristan Bush—who becomes her unexpected ally and future. A slap that turns into a slapback; a public speech that humiliates the Xu family; a scholarship offer abroad; and, years later, a choice to forgive, to save, or to walk away. This is a modern coming-of-age romance about stealing back your life, answering with results rather than tears, and learning that the family you need can be the one you build yourself.
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