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Everyone on the Isle of the Lost knows the name Lord Shen.
Tyrant. Conqueror. Monster.
So when his eighteen-year-old son arrives at Auradon Prep alongside Mal, Evie, Carlos, and Jay, the students aren't exactly eager to welcome him.
Shiro Shen has spent his entire life living in his father's shadow.
With porcelain-pale skin, silver-white hair, crimson eyes, and an eerie grace inherited from his father's peacock lineage, Shiro already looks like the kind of person Auradon has been taught to fear.
And the whispers begin almost immediately.
That's Shen's son.
The Peacock Monster.
Don't get too close to him.
Shiro tells himself he doesn't care.
He's used to it.
But beneath the calm expression and dry sarcasm is a boy who has spent years asking himself one terrifying question:
What if I'm destined to become him?
Thankfully, Shiro isn't alone.
Mal understands what it's like to carry a parent's reputation.
Carlos becomes fascinated by his strange abilities.
Jay challenges him to increasingly ridiculous sparring matches.
And Evie...
Evie sees him.
Not Lord Shen's son.
Not a monster.
Not a villain.
Shiro.
As Shiro begins finding his place in Auradon, he discovers that choosing who he becomes may be the most powerful thing he can do.
But between old enemies, Auradon prejudice, the secrets surrounding his father's legacy, and feelings for the one girl who makes him feel completely seen, Shiro's journey won't be easy.
Because sometimes the hardest battle isn't defeating your enemy.
It's believing that you don't have to become them.
And perhaps, somewhere between moonlit lakes, late-night conversations, ridiculous VK adventures, and Evie's growing collection of sketches of him...
Shiro Shen will finally learn that he was never meant to live in his father's shadow.
He was meant to create his own story.
He is the son of a monster.
But he doesn't have to become one.