After graduating middle school with honors, Cosette faces growing pressure from her family and the expectations surrounding her future, especially after choosing the HUMSS track against her mother's wishes. It causes tension at home, leading to a deal that ties her freedom to choose her own path that now depends on becoming valedictorian.
In senior high, Cosette struggles to adjust and finds herself in an unexpected rivalry with Caelus, whose presence both challenges her and slowly changes the way she sees success and connection. As competition, feelings, and unspoken truths begin to blur the line between rivals and something more, Cosette pushes herself to her limits---unaware that some battles are being fought in silence, and that the cost of chasing her goals may be far greater than she ever imagined.
Dylan has always had a one-sided rivalry with Yno, the class top student since elementary that he could never beat no matter what he did. It wasn't until they graduated and went to separate colleges that he finally got over it.
But an SK election reignited his rivalry for him. Now, Dylan is determined to make sure the tables turn in his favor. Yet fate has other plans and it catches him off guard, leaving him defenseless against what he never saw coming.