Sim Jaehyun/ Jake

PRETTY LITTLE SECRET 🖤 Seoul’s most prestigious university looks perfect from the outside—polished marble, glass walls, expensive uniforms, and wealthy families everywhere. Inside, it’s a brutal social hierarchy where money means power, scholarship students are treated like outsiders, bullying is ignored, and professors care more about their salaries and the university’s reputation than the students. Yang Wonyoung sits at the top—beautiful, rich, spoiled by her father after her mother left, and used to getting whatever she wants. Then there’s Sim Jaehyun—Jake. At university, he’s the quiet nerd with thick glasses, perfect grades, awkward habits, and a harmless reputation. Everyone warns Wonyoung to leave him alone, but nobody tells her why. Unfortunately for her, they’re assigned to the same dorm. Wonyoung loves teasing him, stealing his things, calling him a nerd, and desperately trying to make him blush, but she always fails because Jake either answers far too seriously or genuinely doesn’t understand she’s flirting. Until one day, he accidentally gives her a backhanded compliment that leaves her blushing for the first time. When Wonyoung eventually falls for him, she becomes the jealous one, while Jake’s jealousy is quiet, controlled, and impossible to read. But Wonyoung has never seen what lies beneath his school clothes. She doesn’t know Jake is the hidden son of Seoul’s most feared mafia chairman. She doesn’t know about the bold tattoo across his upper back: INVICTUS—unconquered. And she certainly doesn’t know why he keeps his entire life outside the university a secret. Everyone warned her not to get too close to Jake. She simply never understood why. She thought she was playing with the quiet nerd everyone told her to avoid. She had no idea what she’d been playing with.