He's not a girl. But everyone thinks he is.
To hold things together, he lets them believe it-one compromise at a time, until there's nothing left to protect.
Ashe Tran woke in a white cube. No windows. No answers. Just the clothes on his back.
One day he's a barista with a crush and overdue rent; the next, he's a captive inside a system that monetizes compliance and punishes selfhood. Every task costs credits, every indulgence has consequences, and the line between choice and coercion grows thinner with each passing day.
To survive, Ashe must navigate the watchers behind the walls, the rules that rewrite his body, and the creeping realization that the Cube isn't just testing his endurance-it's rewriting who he is.
A slow-burn descent into voyeurism, control, and forced identity performance-a story about shame, survival, and what happens when your body becomes the price of survival.