Stage One

At Seoul Performing Arts Academy, talent isn't enough - image is everything. Every trainee is chasing the same dream: a contract with Starline Entertainment, the company that built legends.

Yuna Park, a scholarship trainee from Busan, has one goal - prove she belongs among the country's elite. But when top idol Jiho Kang is forced into a mentor position after a scandal, she realizes not every star shines the same off-camera.

To the public and the students, Jiho is everything an idol should be - gentle, charismatic, perfectly composed.
Behind closed doors, he's sharp-tongued, impatient, and done pretending.

When Yuna catches him dropping the act, she becomes the one person who sees through his perfect image. And he hates that-almost as much as he can't stay away from her.

But in a world built on spotlights and secrets, one wrong move can ruin them both.
Because at Seoul Performing Arts, love isn't forbidden - it's career suicide