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Ken Nakamura has everything figured out.
He's the top student at Shirogane Academy, has a small circle of friends, and plans to survive high school without any major drama.
Then Gigi Laurent transfers into his class.
Beautiful, mysterious, and completely out of his league, Gigi turns Ken's carefully organized life upside down from the moment she takes the seat beside him.
But while Ken finds himself falling for the new girl, his daily battles with the sharp-tongued and infuriatingly brilliant Lula Hayashi only seem to get worse. Every conversation becomes an argument. Every encounter becomes a competition. And somehow, despite driving each other crazy, they can't seem to stay apart.
Meanwhile, Joji-the school's most feared delinquent and Ken's unlikely best friend-has plans of his own. Plans that threaten to pull all four of them into a web of jealousy, misunderstandings, heartbreak, and first love.
At an academy where rumors spread faster than secrets, friendships are tested, crushes become obsessions, and growing up is far messier than anyone expected.
Because sometimes the person you think you're meant to fall for... isn't the person who ends up stealing your heart.
A sweet and chaotic romantic comedy filled with enemies-to-lovers tension, embarrassing first crushes, school drama, friendship, and the awkward journey of discovering what love really means.