The First Season

For two years, Lee Ji-Seo has maintained a carefully constructed facade, living as a counterfeit heiress to escape the scorn of poverty. She believes that being envied for false wealth is far better than being pitied for having none, convinced her secret is safe as long as she never slips up. That fragile illusion shatters when Sin Jae-Eon takes the seat directly behind her in class. As the grandson of a genuine chaebol dynasty, he embodies an overwhelming combination of limitless wealth and chilling indifference. Convinced he can see straight through her deception, Ji-Seo decides to use him as a shield to protect her lie. Yet, the boy she intended to exploit gradually becomes her only source of comfort. When Jae-Eon offers a disarmingly honest confession of his feelings—having everything to lose yet nothing to gain—Ji-Seo finds herself terrified to open her heart, haunted by the fear that her true identity could be exposed at any moment. Caught between his unyielding sincerity and her own desperate pretense, she wonders how long a fake can endure the presence of something entirely real. Before their first season together fades, the two must discover what they will ultimately mean to each other.