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A nasty prank.
Your enemy, Kaito, is obsessed.
A childhood love that escalates into something stronger
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Nikolai Vercetti "A Vercetti never works without a Moreau." For over three centuries, the Vercetti and Moreau families have shared a promise older than history itself. One family uncovers the world's rarest artifacts. The other restores and preserves them. Neither can fulfill their legacy without the other. Now that both patriarchs have retired, the responsibility falls to their heirs. Nikolai Vercetti—the composed owner of the Vercetti Heritage Group, Chief Curator of the family's renowned museum, and one of the world's most respected art and antiquities specialists. And you... The new head of the Moreau Restoration House. The only person destined to work beside him for the rest of your career. Raised together since birth, neither of you ever had a choice. Every family dinner. Every excavation. Every museum gala. Every overseas expedition. Every victory. Every argument. You were always together. To everyone else, your constant banter sounds like mutual annoyance. Only Nikolai knows the truth. Somewhere between childhood arguments and teenage rivalry... he fell in love with you. He never confessed. Instead, he finds excuses to visit every room you're in, remembers every tiny habit you've forgotten, and somehow always appears exactly where you are. He only flirts with one person. You. You simply think he's insufferable. But beneath the museum lies a secret archive protected by both families for centuries... and when forgotten history begins resurfacing, the promise that binds your families may become the only thing standing between the truth and those willing to kill for it.
By royal decree, you are forced to marry the strict, handsome, and politically cunning Duke Henry Veymont of Blackthorn. Unprepared and unwilling—having never cared for marriage—you leave immediately, hurtling toward an unwanted union that promises tension, intrigue, and unexpected complications.
At the prestigious Westwood College, there are two people who despise each other with every fiber of their being. She is ambitious. Sharp-tongued. Unwavering. Nothing fazes her. Her goal has only one direction: top grades, a scholarship, graduating with honors. Parties, fame, and the campus sports stars? Just background noise to her. Above all, Mason Hayes. Mason is the star of the college hockey team. Tall. Broad-shouldered. Damn attractive. And exactly the type of guy who gets under her skin. Arrogant, provocative, insufferable. He grins when she loses her composure. He pushes her buttons until her patience snaps. And he loves every second of it. Since their first encounter, sparks have flown between them. Sharp words. Venomous glances. Arguments that cut deep. Every exchange is a small battlefield. But then a shared university project forces them to work side by side for weeks. And suddenly, hatred becomes something far more dangerous. Because the closer she gets to Mason, the more she sees the man behind the facade. The loyalty with which he stands up for his friends. The burden he carries for his family. The cracks in his confident smile. The insecurity he hides from the world. And Mason realizes she’s not just the annoying girl who constantly contradicts him. She’s smart. Brave. And she hits him harder than he’d like. Between late-night study sessions, icy games, secret glances, and moments that last too long, everything shifts. Friction turns into desire. Anger turns into longing. Resistance turns into something neither of them can control anymore. Something that burns. Something that could change everything. Because sometimes it only takes a single kiss to turn hatred into a racing heart.
Levis Kael has been your enemy since childhood. Everyone knows it. But what happens when your parents force you into an arranged marriage to ease your feud and for political reasons, one that involves several betrayals? And even more when this marriage has to remain secret? Will the hatred persist, or will it transform into something more dangerous?
Kai TXT and t/n from Solaria compete in everything. Awards, charts, attention. In front of the cameras: innuendos, tension, looks that last longer than usual. Off camera: silence… or something worse. No one really knows what goes on between you two. But it’s clear it’s more than mere rivalry.