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Zhiana Vlyna Solleste known to the world as "Zhi" is a senior high school student admired for her brilliance. Always at the top of her class, always on the honor roll, she is quiet, composed, and painfully independent. To everyone else, she is the perfect student. No one ever asks what it costs her to be that perfect.
She was born into a wealthy family, but money never saved her from cruelty. At home, even the smallest mistake was unforgivable. Her father's anger came in the form of fists, and she learned early how to stay silent. She never cried out. She never fought back. She accepted the pain as if she deserved it. Bruises bloomed across her back and skin like secrets she carried alone.
In the dead of night, Zhiana escaped.
She secretly bought a condo a place that became her only refuge. Every night, she slipped away and returned only when dawn was close, when the world was quiet enough to hide her fear. She despised her father, yet feared him just the same. Inside that small condo, she cleaned her wounds with trembling hands and allowed herself to rest. In her family's mansion, all that existed were screams, shattered words, and a home that never felt like one.
Then, without warning, fate intervened.
A boy stepped into her carefully guarded solitude.
Kaiden Elian Lawrence.
Unexpected. Unplanned. A stranger who suddenly became her roommate. A presence she never asked for in a life built on survival and silence.