the rumor that ruined us

"You haven't changed at all, Soyoung," Sunghoon says, his voice laced with a cold, mocking familiarity as he signs a crucial counter-proposal. "Still stepping over anyone to get what you want."

Soyoung meets his gaze, her eyes flashing with a mix of old pain and newfound steel. "And you're still the same Sunghoon-always so quick to judge a story without ever asking to read the whole page. I didn't ruin us ten years ago, Sunghoon. Your lack of faith did."

As they wage a corporate war to destroy each other's empires, the truth behind the high school rumor slowly begins to surface, forcing them to face an agonizing question:

Did they truly hate each other, or were they just desperately protecting the shattered pieces of their first love?