|| Philophobia || Baek Kyung

Chapter 1 - A change of world

She stood straight, her half torn dress flowing beneath her some might say she was a beggar but she wasn't she was Warrior
A warrior who made a mistake
A tiny mistake
She knew she would have to fight but she did the mistake of choosing the wrong side and the wrong person
Now she had to face
A change of world

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"Where am I?"

Yeona’s first conscious thought was of the clear blue sky stretching above her. Not a cloud in sight—great, not even weather could be dramatic for her. She squinted at the warmth, until something else pulled her attention.

A building. Tall, glassy, annoyingly sharp. Letters stamped across the front read:

Seulli High.

"Seulli High… Seulli High?" she muttered, the unfamiliar words slipping off her tongue like she’d said them a hundred times before. A weird, itchy déjà vu crawled up her spine—like she’d been here, done this, maybe even complained about it already.

Before she could process, something else hit her.

Literally.

A small, clingy body barreled into her side like a penguin trying to tackle a fish.

"Yeona-ya!!!"

The shrill voice pierced through her ear like a murder weapon. Every head in the vicinity turned toward her… and the penguin currently latched onto her arm.

"Who the hell are you?" Yeona demanded. The words didn’t feel like hers, yet they came naturally—like she was just reading from a script she didn’t remember agreeing to.

"Hey! Just because I stole some chocolates from your purse once doesn’t mean you can pretend you don’t know me!"

What was this penguin waddling on about?

"Okay, fine," the girl huffed dramatically. "I’ll just introduce myself again. I’m Eun Dan-oh. Your best friend."

Yeona froze.

The name played in her head on repeat, louder and louder—Eun Dan-oh… Dan-oh… DAN-OH.

And suddenly, like a dam bursting, every memory slammed into her. The laughter, the secrets, the awkward school lunches—this penguin wasn’t just some random weirdo. She was her friend. Her only friend.

"Still hanging out with that stupid nerd, Dan-oh-ya?"

The interruption came from another girl—sweet voice, long hair, and the kind of face that screamed main antagonist in episode 2.

Wait. Did she just—

"Who the hell did that long-haired cake call a nerd?" Yeona snapped.

"Don’t call her a nerd, Saemi," Dan-oh warned.

"Yeah, bitch, I prefer the term ‘smarter than you.’"

Gasps. Everywhere. Yeona might as well have announced she was running for president of Seulli High. Not that she cared—because honestly, being called a nerd by a background extra was the weirdest insult she’d gotten all week.

For the record: not everyone who wears glasses is a nerd.

Then—black.

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Noise.

Too much noise. The kind that made your skull vibrate.

Soochul was babbling something—probably asking stupid questions to anyone who’d listen. Yeona, in the name of self-preservation, tuned him out and pretended to be deaf. Unfortunately, fate seemed determined to test that plan.

The classroom door opened.

Three boys walked in.

A3.

The screams started immediately—high-pitched, glass-shattering shrieks from every girl in the room. It went on for a solid thirty seconds, but it felt like thirty years.

Front and center was Oh Nam-joo—the certified male lead and walking shampoo commercial. Behind him, Lee Do-hwa, who looked like a Disney prince that accidentally enrolled in the wrong universe. And finally—her eyes landed on him—Baek Kyung. Sharp jaw, colder-than-winter eyes, the kind of smirk that could start a war, and an aura that screamed don’t waste my time. Even the sunlight seemed to pause for dramatic effect when he walked by.

If Yeona had to sum them up in one sentence: too much hair gel, too much slow motion.

“Ugh. Someone kill me,” she muttered.

Unfortunately, nobody volunteered.

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Hello everyone! This is the author of this story I know my writing is a bit dumb but please bear with me

Don't copy my work cause it's trash
And I'll be editing this chapter guys. Gonna make it better and more bearable