Ashes of Us | Kim Seungmin

At Cheongdam High, reputation is everything.
The wealthy rule the halls, rumors spread faster than truth, and scholarship students learn quickly what it means to survive under people born with power.

Kim Seungmin never cared much about school politics--until Ahn Ma-ri became the center of a cruel rumor that changed everything.

What begins as a simple act of standing by her side slowly spirals into something far more dangerous: broken friendships, buried guilt, violence disguised as silence, and wounds that refuse to stay in the past.

Years later, the two meet again under entirely different circumstances. But some misunderstandings don't disappear with time.

And some people never realize they've become the very thing they once hated.

A story about grief, class divide, trauma, love, and the devastating consequences of believing the wrong version of the truth.