Description
Kim Minjeong is a ghost in her own life. At university, she's the quiet, awkward cybersecurity major no one notices - unless it's to mock her. Bullied by her classmates, sidelined in every group, and painfully alone, Minjeong blends into the background of a department dominated by arrogant men. And at the center of it all stands Yu Jimin - beautiful, adored, untouchable. The department's golden girl. The same girl every guy worships. The same girl Minjeong irrationally, obsessively hates. But Minjeong has a secret. Online, she becomes Winter, a white-hat hacker with a reputation for hunting down revenge porn and wiping it off the web - a digital vigilante who rescues women from humiliation without ever revealing herself. What she does isn't legal, and it doesn't pay, but it gives her the only thing that matters: control. Until one night, in the course of a takedown, Winter uncovers something shocking - a masked camgirl performing on a high-security livestream platform under the name Katarina. But Minjeong doesn't need facial recognition software to know who it is. Yu Jimin. The muse. The perfect girl. Hiding behind a mask, selling herself to the highest bidders online. And suddenly, Minjeong has power. Twisted by resentment, worn down by humiliation, and desperate for some form of justice, Minjeong makes a decision she never thought herself capable of: she blackmails Jimin. Not for money. Not for sex. For something petty. Cruel. Satisfying. She wants Jimin to act like her girlfriend. Hold her hand. Sit beside her in the cafeteria. Smile at her. Pretend to be in love - all while the same boys who once bullied Minjeong burn with jealousy and confusion. It's supposed to be revenge. Just revenge. But the line between hate and what started as manipulation begins to shift into something more dangerous: understanding, affection. Maybe even something real. When the truth comes out, what lies behind the mask?
Chapter 1: Kim Minjeong, Winter, Plank
