At Aureline University, people like them don't usually belong. Not in buildings named after billionaires. Not at invitation-only parties hidden above the city. Not in hallways filled with students who wear power like perfume. But this year is different. A new batch of transfer students arrives on campus under circumstances nobody fully understands, and suddenly Aureline feels smaller than it used to. Friend groups shift. Rumors spread faster. People start paying attention to the wrong things. Especially the wrong people. Diesel. Style. Atom. Warich. Boys everyone knows about long before meeting them. And somehow, despite every warning, Day, Fadel, Tinn, and Tan keep ending up in their orbit. Maybe it's coincidence. Maybe it's curiosity. Maybe some disasters are impossible to avoid. Because somewhere between late-night conversations, reckless decisions, crowded dorm rooms, and the kind of secrets nobody says out loud, things begin changing too quickly for anyone to stop them. At Aureline, appearances matter. Reputations matter more. And love? Love is the easiest thing to lie about. Afterall, love is easy. It's trust that ruins people.

Nothing much... just pure, unfiltered trauma. #darkromance #sensualcontent

Phuwin Tang doesn't believe in love-but he does believe in leverage. So when his father tries to marry him off to the one person he swore he'd never go back to, Phuwin does the only thing he's good at- He finds something better. Something stronger. Something ruinous. A video. And at the center of it? Pond Naravit. Powerful. Untouchable. Dangerous. And the one man who has hated him for years. So Phuwin makes him a deal. A marriage for silence. A ring in exchange for ruin. It should've been simple. Fake smiles. Separate lives. No feelings. Except nothing about Pond is simple. Not the way he looks at Phuwin like he already knows every weakness. Not the way he refuses to touch him when it matters- and chooses someone else instead. Not the way their fights feel a little too close to something else. Something sharper. Hotter. Harder to ignore. Because somewhere between blackmail and champagne toasts- between quiet nights and unspoken claims- the line between enemies and something far more dangerous begins to blur. And when the truth finally surfaces... It won't just destroy their marriage. It might destroy them.

Pond Naravit is broke enough to answer a suspiciously vague job listing titled: "Private Companion Needed for Social Events." The pay is ridiculous. The expectations seem simple. Pretend to be someone's boyfriend. Attend fancy dinners. Look convincing. What Pond does not expect is for the client to be Phuwin Tangsakyuen-rich, composed, and rumored to be the kind of person you really shouldn't annoy. Phuwin didn't expect Pond either. But somehow the chaotic university student who talks too much and smiles too easily ends up signing the contract anyway. It's temporary. Strictly professional. Just a public arrangement for appearances. There are rules. There are boundaries. And absolutely no emotional involvement. Unfortunately, Pond has never been very good at following rules.