She was the quiet top student with a stale jacket and a secret scar. He was the school king—rich, feared, impossible to read. When they become deskmates with only months before the college entrance exam, it should be a minor headline in a small town. Instead, a prank-crazed class, a vindictive relative, and one public reading of a love letter turn their lives into a high-stakes scramble. He shields her from humiliation, throws away his pride to pay hospital bills, and then—just when she starts to believe—vanishes without even a goodbye. He left a debt repaid in full and a silence that wrecked her trust. Five years later she returns to campus as a star; he walks back into her life colder and stranger than before. He says nothing about the years away. She has learned to survive. He has papers in his hand and a secret behind his eyes. What happens when the boy she once trusted becomes the man holding the last choice between ruin and rescue? The truth will break the rules both of them live by.
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