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The merit list: The Rich Boys Won’t Leave Me Alone

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A Baekhyun Academy Romance When a national scandal forces Korea’s most elite school to “clean up its image,” a mysterious merit list appears—offering five poor students a golden ticket into Baekhyun International Academy. Seventeen-year-old Song Hae-won, daughter of a struggling noodle vendor, wakes up to find her name on the list. She didn’t apply. She didn’t even want to go. Now she’s surrounded by billionaires’ heirs, fake smiles, and cameras waiting for her to trip. Worse? The school’s hottest, most dangerous boys suddenly know her name. The cold one glares like he wants to ruin her. The charming one flirts like she’s a game. And the princess in heels? She might be the scariest of them all. Everyone says Baekhyun changes people. But no one warned them about Hae-won. All she wanted was a chance. What she got was a war. She may be quiet. But she didn’t come to play.
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Chapter 1 - Chapter 0: “Prologue – Read This First”

📌 Start Here! This prologue explains the scandal behind Baekhyun Academy.

📍 SEOUL DAILY NEWS

"Baekhyun's Cinderella... or Just a Shiny Distraction?"

By Kang Mirae | Education & Scandal | 7:42 a.m. KST

Baekhyun Academy—the school for the rich, richer, and ridiculously privileged—just "opened its golden gates" to five poor students. Shocking, we know.

According to the school, it's all part of a new "fairness initiative." According to everyone else? It's a rushed PR bandage on a bleeding reputation.

Just last month, a few Baekhyun students were caught bullying scholarship kids from a public school, calling them names like "charity cases." Then came the leaked records—students buying their way into top universities, grades optional.

Cue outrage. Cue the sudden launch of a "diversity program." And now, meet their poster girl: Song Hae-won, 17, noodle shop kid, never even applied. Her name was magically picked and posted online, circled in red. Now she's trending.

She didn't ask for it. She didn't even know about it. But that hasn't stopped the media from dubbing her Baekhyun's Cinderella.

One problem though—

Cinderella actually wanted to go to the ball.