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Two sisters. One sister lived in shadows. The other died in them.
When tragedy annihilates the Park family, sisters Soo-Min Park and Emilia Hart were ripped apart-their parents slaughtered, their futures stolen. Emilia disappears into the underworld, molded by the infamous Castello crime syndicate into the Italian mafia's most lethal ghost. Soo-Min, left behind, is forced into a life of fragile normalcy... until Soo-Min's body is discovered in the snow-drenched courtyard of Astrid International High School, a institution where chaebol heirs and political royalty sharpen their claws behind a mask of privilege.
Emilia returns to Seoul under a web of lies, posing as a transfer student to infiltrate Astrid. But the school's gilded halls hide a viper's nest of secrets: Soo-Min wasn't just a scholarship student. Now Emilia's hunt for answers collides with Agent Min-Jae Choi, a sharp, morally rigid NIS investigator.
Danger simmers everywhere: in the calculated smiles of chaebol princesses, the ruthless schemes of democratic dynasty heirs, and the magnetic pull of Luca Castello, Emilia's adoptive brother and the mafia's reluctant heir, who knows the truth about her sister's death-and her own dark legacy. But as Emilia's bond with Min-Jae deepens, so does the risk of her cover crumbling.
To avenge Soo-Min, Emilia must weaponize her mafia training in a world where trust is fatal and love is a liability. But when she uncovers Soo-Min's final secret-a blackmail ledger implicating Astrid's elite in a global crime ring-the line between justice and vengeance blurs. Welcome to Astrid International, where the price of truth is paid in blood... and sisterhood is a death sentence.