Hefallsfirstandfallsharder Stories

Story Description Lisa Jared is good at surviving. She smiles easily, talks to everyone, and fills silence like it might swallow her if she lets it. On the outside, she's bright-blue-haired, beautiful, and endlessly kind. On the inside, she's constantly rewinding conversations, rereading expressions, and wondering where she went wrong. When she transfers to Guajang Academy, one of Seoul's most elite and unforgiving schools, Lisa becomes the new girl in a system that values discipline over warmth and excellence over empathy. Struggling to keep up academically and socially, she learns quickly that being bubbly isn't a skill Guajang rewards. Home offers no refuge. Between a drunk father, a toxic mother, and a house held together by shouting and broken objects, Lisa becomes what she's always been-the emotional buffer, the mediator, the one who absorbs the damage so her younger brother doesn't have to. Even after transferring, she keeps returning home for him, even as things get worse. As pressure mounts, friendships form slowly and unexpectedly. A quiet kindness from a classmate becomes the first crack in her isolation. Later, a new boy arrives-charming, infuriating, impossible to ignore-pulling Lisa into feelings she never planned to have. When loyalties collide and hearts get tangled, Lisa must confront the question she's been avoiding her whole life: How much of herself can she give away before there's nothing left? This is a slow-burn story about friendship, loyalty, love, and the quiet cost of being "the strong one" for too long.

I stared at him and he stared right back. "How odd" I thought as I refused to break eye contact with him. "I can do this all fucking day long, tanghulu" Ha! What a funny name to give someone. I don't know why it popped in my head. I could have said it's because I'm craving it but it's simply because my mind had a mind of it's own- if that makes any sense, which it does not. Fae is a 24 year old woman living in New York City. She's the CEO of Starlight Tech. She's temperamental, sarcastic and sassy. She takes shit from no one (maybe except her mother but let's not talk about it now. ) When a situation arises that causes her to merge with her rival company, she meets the charming Nox Evans. One would think with how charming and smooth Nox is, she would swoon for him, right? Wrong! She absolutely despises him but the reason is unclear. She will stop at nothing to reject every of his attempts to make peace and ignore the sparks that light up her skin when he's near.