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Yoon Seo-jin has always been quiet. Not shy - just distant, as if part of her is always somewhere else. At 17, she finds solace in books, especially one forgotten web novel she used to devour as a child: The Flame of Arinae. It was a sweeping fantasy about a fierce heroine destined to save a crumbling world. But Seo-jin never finished it. Something about the ending always felt... off.
Then, one rainy spring morning, she wakes up inside the very story she never finished reading - only now, it's set in modern-day Seoul, and she isn't the heroine... but someone eerily close to her. Worse yet, the world seems to think she is the new protagonist.
But this time, the heroine isn't the chosen savior - it's her.
And the girl who once stood in the distance, the cold and dazzling classmate named Han Ji-won - the one who reminds Seo-jin of the novel's stoic, flame-haired warrior - is right in front of her.
As Seo-jin navigates this strange reality where plot twists bleed into real life, school corridors echo with fate, and emotions hold more power than magic, she must piece together her role in a story she never truly understood. Why does her silence feel written in stone? Why does Ji-won look at her like she's unraveling a mystery? And why do small things - folding a uniform, watching raindrops race down a window, biting back "I miss her" - feel like pieces of a destiny she can't ignore?
In a world where feelings shape reality and memories rewrite fate, Seo-jin must confront the truth:
She doesn't just remember the story.
She is part of its beginning, its end... and maybe, its heart.
Because the deepest stories aren't told -
They're felt.