The lie between us (Hyunjin)

Seoul was supposed to be Mei's escape-a chance to model, to breathe, to finally live. Instead, she's surviving off 7/11 noodles, sharing a suffocating apartment with three strangers, and watching her dreams burn out one by one. Desperation pushes her into the unlit corners of the internet... where she stumbles across a cryptic casting call from JYPE promising a year of luxury, stability, and secrecy.

She applies on a whim.

She's accepted without explanation.

And the truth is nothing like she imagined.

For nearly a decade, Lee Minho and Han Jisung have hidden a forbidden love behind staged smiles and playful touches masquerading as fan service. But with Minho's military enlistment approaching-and the industry's razor-sharp scrutiny tightening-JYPE initiates a covert operation to rewrite the narrative before it explodes.

Mei becomes the perfect lie.
She's trained to date Minho, taught exactly how to be seen, how to touch him, how to sell a romance the world will devour. She's paid to protect a secret powerful enough to destroy careers.

There's just one problem.

Hyunjin.

From the moment they meet, he makes it clear he can't stand her. He sees her as a disruption, a risk, a crack in the flawless world he's spent years maintaining.

Mei thinks he's insufferable - arrogant, sharp-tongued, and far too perceptive for her comfort.

But hatred is a dangerous kind of chemistry.

Because the more they fight, the more the tension shifts into something hotter, sharper, impossible to ignore.

And in a world built on secrets and staged love stories, the one thing they absolutely cannot allow...

...is something real.