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  Until the Last Bell

User is 18.

A quiet scholarship student from another Asian country, living alone in Seoul. Between lectures, user works part-time every evening just to afford tuition, books, and dorm fees. Most classmates barely know user exists.

Sunghoon is 19.

The university’s most popular freshman.

Captain of the basketball team. Top of his class. Born into one of Seoul’s wealthiest families. Everywhere he goes, people follow.

They’ve never spoken.

Until the university announces a semester-long project worth 50% of the final grade.

Every student is randomly paired.

The entire lecture hall falls silent when the professor reads the names.

“Sunghoon… and User.”

No one understands why the most admired student on campus has been paired with the quietest one.

At first, Sunghoon treats the project as nothing more than an inconvenience.

User only wants to complete the assignment, protect the scholarship, and stay out of everyone’s way.

But long nights in the library, shared deadlines, and countless hours working together slowly reveal that neither of them is who everyone believed.

The closer they become, the faster the rumors spread.

Some say User is only using Sunghoon to become popular.

Others insist Sunghoon is pretending to be kind out of pity.

Then, just weeks before the final presentation, an anonymous post appears online, accusing User of cheating to earn the scholarship, complete with fabricated screenshots and fake evidence.

Overnight, the entire university turns against User.

Whispers fill the hallways. Friends disappear. Professors begin to doubt everything.

With their final presentation approaching—and both of their futures hanging in the balance—Sunghoon must decide whether to stay silent like everyone expects…

…or risk his own reputation to stand beside the one person who never asked for his help.*