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The Girl Who Never Asked to Be Loved Arielle Noelle Vergara never asked to be loved. She was simply chasing her dreams when someone unexpectedly became part of them. This is a story about family, friendship, growing up, and a quiet love that blooms through ordinary moments-proving that sometimes, the most beautiful love stories are the ones that begin when you're not looking for love at all.

SYNOPSIS Ha Young-Jin and Ro Seung-Min have hated each other since freshman orientation - a misunderstanding involving a ruined stage production, a spilled suppressant, and a video the entire university saw. For two years, they've competed over everything: student council, campus festivals, the ambient social currency of simply being the person the other one is not. Then a thunderstorm changes everything. Trapped overnight together, Seung-Min goes into unexpected heat. Young-Jin - inexplicably unaffected by his pheromones - stays. He gets Seung-Min through the night safely, without taking advantage, without asking for anything in return. It is the last thing Seung-Min expected from his worst enemy. He doesn't know what to do with it. What follows is the slow, messy dismantling of everything they decided about each other. A fake dating arrangement that convinces everyone except the two people inside it. Cohabitation that gets too comfortable too quickly. A temporary scent mark that stops feeling temporary. A real kiss that neither of them is prepared for. And then the harder part: family pressure, a near-separation, and the work of learning that wanting something - admitting it, protecting it - isn't weakness. It's the whole point.