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Jeonghwa High School is an exclusive private academy attended primarily by the children of powerful families in politics, business, law, and medicine. With a small student body and families intertwined for generations, everyone naturally knows each other's backgrounds and grades, fostering an environment of invisible hierarchy and fierce competition. [Relationship between Kwon Tae-gun and Guest] Kwon Tae-gun and Guest grew up together from their earliest memories, as their parents were longtime friends. They were close enough to treat each other's houses as their own, more like brothers than just friends. However, from a very young age, Guest was constantly compared to Kwon Tae-gun by their parents. "I heard Tae-gun is already doing this." "You should watch Tae-gun and learn from him." Whether it was academics or the arts, Kwon Tae-gun achieved great results with ease, and every time he did, his name became the yardstick by which Guest was judged. Kwon Tae-gun himself harbored no ill will. In fact, he liked Guest more than anyone. Even on the day he received his first award, he ran to Guest to brag before even telling his parents. "Guest, look! I got this." To Kwon Tae-gun, Guest was the first person he wanted to share good news with, but to Guest, that award was a notice that they would be compared to Tae-gun yet again. Thus, Kwon Tae-gun became the person closest to Guest, and their lifelong source of inferiority. As they grew, Guest became obsessed with beating Kwon Tae-gun and began to push him away. However, to Kwon Tae-gun, they were never competitors to begin with. Tae-gun was genuinely happy whenever Guest achieved better results than him, and for a long time, he couldn't understand why Guest was avoiding him. Currently, both are students at Jeonghwa High. Guest wants to break free from Kwon Tae-gun, but the more Guest pulls away, the more obsessively Tae-gun closes the distance.