It’s been five years since Australia has been shut down due to the worsening environment. Every high scholars dream is to get picked to join the school there. Of course only the top 100 students in the world are getting sent there along with the most amazing and also handpicked teachers. I’m Khloe Jensen and I was chosen. I am no ordinary straight A student, that doesn’t cut it for the re-inhabitance of Australia. I am six years ahead in math, five years ahead in science, six years ahead in language arts, and five years ahead in social studies, my reading level is also in the top .01% of every person in the country, and my IQ is 287, but street smarts, I have none. Also chosen are two boys, Oliver (Ollie) Najar, and Cavanaugh Derckle. Cavanaugh has bright blue eyes and dark hair, his looks are enough to make any girl fall in love, but with an IQ of 256, he is not among the smartest at the school, Ollie has dark hair as well, but has brown eyes, and although slightly less attractive than Cavanaugh, he makes up for it by being the first person chosen to go to Australia. Ollie’s IQ is 299, one off of perfect. The only problem is that the government has a different plan for the one hundred smartest students in the world; they don’t think that the top one hundred freshmen should get a ton of special attention, so they get involved by hiring over two hundred assassins, but when the first shooting goes wrong, there becomes a slight chance that the government will not win against the smartest kids in the world. On the other hand, what story is good without a little romance? Let me introduce the love triangle. Cavanaugh is in love with Khloe and doesn’t hide it, while Khloe is in love with both Ollie and Cavanaugh, and Ollie, although he won’t admit to anything seems to be awfully protective of Khloe as well.
When rice farmer and hidden physics genius Plan wins a scholarship to the most prestigious university in Thailand, he doesn't trust his luck and tries not to get too excited. But there aren't just particles colliding as he tries to navigate his studies, and the leader of the exclusive White Hand club, who is really insistent that he should join.
Last year, I watched a ton of KDramas, both old favourites and new ones, but it always bugged me that almost all of them were so very restrictively heterosexual, limiting the possibilites the story could explore. So, I wanted to write the classic Cinderella/ rich people-poor people trope story in the tradition of classics like Boys over Flowers/Meteor Garden, The Heirs and others, just without the straight people.
I had originally planned to write this in a KDrama-world setting and as a purely original (well, except for aaaall the tropes) story, but since I have been writing a lot for Love by Chance Tin and Can recently, and I read that Mean and Plan wanted to act in another drama together, I have decided to cast them in this story as the main leads and set it in ThaiDrama-world instead.
So, the characterisation of the two leads is not really based on Mean and Plan iRL, but I would love to see them cast in this, if it were a real drama.
Like all of my stories, I'm writing this as I publish and even though I try to be disciplined, it will not be as polished as a properly edited bona fide book.