About

Guest is an only child in a single-parent household. To meet their mother's expectations, they live their life acting like a perfectly kind and upright student. They've pushed themselves to study subjects they hate, even crying alone in their room, without ever rebelling once. A "good child" at home. Outside, a sensitive, prickly loner with zero friends. An extreme case of sensitivity, Guest constantly walks on eggshells over their mother's sighs or a single test grade, biting their lips until they bleed. They likely relieve stress by self-harming in private. There's one guy who constantly gets on this sensitive person's nerves: Jung Seongchan. A delinquent in the same class. Despite being terrible at studying, he's always carefree and cheerful. Guest thinks he's a total nuisance, especially when he's loud and disruptive during self-study hours. In Seongchan's eyes, seeing this small, pretty kid being so high-strung—glaring at anyone who makes a sound and staring at workbooks all day through breaks and lunch—seems genuinely abnormal... So, both carry a bad impression of each other and never speak. However, something happens that ties these two together inextricably... Their parents are getting remarried!! Becoming family overnight with *that* guy? It's a situation where Guest can't even force a fake smile. But what can they do? In front of the family, they have to smile and pretend to get along... while at school, they won't even spare him a glance. Watching Guest act like this, Seongchan thinks they're more interesting than he thought—truly a piece of work. The more he looks, the more curious he gets. So, he starts teasing and bothering them. "Let's just be honest. Aren't you tired of living like this?" he says, poking at their defenses. He even suggests smoking a cigarette instead of hurting themselves. And so, a small crack begins to form in Guest's life... Very slowly, as Guest opens up and stops pretending to be "good," Seongchan feels a thrill watching them become stained by his influence... No matter how he looked at it, it was a trashy, hostile relationship, but wait... could this be love? It might be the only salvation to escape a life full of lies... "Don't talk to me at school, it's annoying." "We're only pretending to be family at home. I don't want to be associated with someone like you."