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Janhae is the untouchable President of the Economics Society. Brilliant, composed, and intimidatingly beautiful, she takes her role as a master's student and Teaching Assistant incredibly seriously.
Jingjing Yu is a quiet, strictly-business freshman who just wants to pass her microeconomics class and survive her first year.
But when wild campus rumors start spreading that the two of them are a couple, it coincides perfectly with a persistent lacrosse player cornering Jingjing at the library. Instead of shutting the gossip down, they agree to a strict, professional arrangement : they will pretend the rumors are true to protect Jingjing from unwanted attention.
It is supposed to be a simple, academic shield.
But Janhae takes the role of "protective girlfriend" dangerously seriously. Memorized coffee orders, heavy glares at anyone who looks at Jingjing for too long, and lingering touches that happen even when there is no audience around to perform for.
As the lines of their fake relationship begin to blur into suffocating domesticity, Jingjing realizes that her purely professional respect for her TA is rapidly turning into something entirely real. And judging by the panicked, desperate way Janhae looks at her when they are alone, the brilliant master's student might be failing her own parameters, too.