She lost the election by one vote.
He was already paying attention before she knew his name.
At school, Han Noelle is everything — composed, admired, untouchable. The girl every guy confesses to and nobody actually knows. She has perfect posture, a perfect record, and a twelve-point proposal that was supposed to make her Student Council President.
Then Seo Kai wins by one vote. One. And suddenly she's Vice President — to him — for an entire year.
He's effortless in all the ways she finds infuriating. He already knew her name before she knew his. He knows her coffee order, her classroom, the exact time she arrives each morning. He teases her like it costs him nothing and looks at her like she's the most interesting problem he's decided not to solve yet.
At home, Noelle is a completely different person — hairbrush concerts, midnight ramyeon, full conversations with her cat and her houseplants, and a family so lovingly chaotic that no one who has only seen her at school would believe they belong to the same girl.
Slowly, impossibly, the rivalry softens into something she doesn't have a name for. Late nights in the council room. A note left on her desk before dawn. A bus ride home where she missed her stop and didn't mind.
She is not falling for him. She is absolutely not falling for him.