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Choi Hye-rin is loud in a world that rewards silence.
She talks too much, moves too fast, and reacts before she thinks, like the consequences are something that only happen to other people.
At Hyosan High, she's known more for the noise she makes than anything she actually is. A girl who argues in the middle of class, forgets things she swears she didn't forget, and treats every problem like it can be solved if she just pushes harder than it pushes back.
Her older sister, Choi Nam-ra, is the opposite. Quiet. Perfect. Untouchable.
And Hye-rin has spent her entire life trying not to disappear beside her.
When a virus tears through the school and turns hallways into traps, survival stops being about personality and starts being about instinct. The people around her become allies by accident, enemies by panic, and strangers by choice. In the middle of it all, Jang Woo-jin keeps showing up in the worst possible places, always with something sharp to say and an irritating habit of being right when it matters most.
What begins as constant arguing turns into something harder to define. Not trust. Not friendship. Something in between, built out of proximity, shared fear, and the kind of attention neither of them knows how to name.
But survival doesn't leave room for clarity.
Every decision costs something. Every loss changes the shape of who they are. And every time Hye-rin reaches for someone, she learns how quickly they can slip away.
This is not a story about being chosen.
It is about refusing to let go.
About the people you try to save even when you don't know how.
And about the parts of yourself that only survive because someone else refuses to give up on you.