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She's perfect. A doll-like face, black bambi eyes, perfect S-lined body complete with long and slender legs, wavy hair and filthy rich to boot.
She lived life like those girls in the movies, surrounded by a group of popular and beautiful people.
Like they always say, 'Birds of the same feather flock together'.
How true this statement is.
Girls envy her. Guys drool over her and practically worship the ground she walks on. What else can a girl ask for? After all, isn't this what a girl has always wanted?
Wrong.
Indeed, it's always advantageous to be on the top of the food chain and not at the bottom, always getting picked on or bullied. In this society, people tend to treat those pretty-looking people better. Isn't it always the case? They scrunch up their noses in disgust if they see a dirty beggar on the street, they judge a bone-skinny girl, saying she's anorexic. They laugh at a fat girl, telling her to 'lay off on the food'.
Who wouldn't want to be worshipped? Who wouldn't want to be showered with positive attention?
Baek Seyoung has it all, it seems. Looks, money, popularity, the figure and the smarts. Simply speaking, perfect.
Is she mean? Hell yes. But she doesn't show it often. To others, she seems like such an angel. Despite her good looks and popularity, she isn't those typical y girls who pick on people less popular or less aesthetically appealing.
She is nice to everyone around her, and that's what makes her so much loved. Her group of friends may be nasty, but she isn't.
She works in such a way that she uses politeness to manipulate the people around her. She uses her looks and charms to work to her advantage. After all, who wouldn't help a kind, pretty, popular girl, right?
This is how society works, she figured. You have to give some in order to gain some. So she worked hard to perfect the PERFECT look in order to stay on top of the food chain.
All she knows is that in this world, you need to be well liked in order to gain more. You need to think on your feet, use flattery, whatever it takes to live the high life. And that is what has gotten her this far.
No one knows how she has to starve herself in order to stay slim and beautiful. No one knows how hard she has to try not to be herself.
The world only likes people who appear pleasing to them, she had thought; no one likes anyone who isn't the perfect personality, no one.
Her conscience has been locked up way deep inside her heart. So deep inside that at times she wonders if she still has one. She manipulates people so easily that she starts to wonder if she's slowly losing her human personality. She wasn't always like this, you know.
She used to have a loving mom who stayed at home with her. Her dad owns the biggest companies in Seoul and he rarely has time for the family. But at least she has her mom to teach her how to love.
Key word here: USED TO.
Her mom died of leukemia when she was 6. Ever since then, all she had learnt was from her father.
"Don't ever show your true self to this world, honey. The world only likes what they deem is ideal. So work hard and be the ideal girl so you won't lose out," her dad had always told her.
Other dads would have told their daughters they were beautiful just the way they are and to be themselves, but not her dad.
So she grew up strongly believing that she had to be the ideal girl.
But then, this new kid comes along and ruins her act of being the top girl. Maybe it was his fault, maybe it wasn't. She can't be too sure.
His name is Kim Myungsoo.
Ever since he transferred here, he has been monitoring her, watching her every move, scrutinizing her.
To her, he is a threat to her very belonging in the IT crowd. She tries ways and means to manipulate him, but no, he stood firm. It seems as though he's here to ruin her life. She hates him.
But then, in all truth, it is Baek Seyoung who is viewing this world in such a harsh way. This society isn't that heartless, but apparently, she has somehow been affected by her father that this cruel world only accepts people whom they deem are perfect.
Kim Myungsoo isn't here to ruin her life, no one cares if you're dorky. Yes, people at the bottom of the food chain are picked on, but that's as far as it goes. The world still has a heart.
She is way too negative, way too negative to be true. Ever since her mom passed away, every ounce of warmth she had so desperately clung onto had faded into nothingness.
It seems, nothing is everything.
With NOTHING warm in her life, EVERYTHING is cold and distant. Diplomatic, unemotional.
This is the life of Baek Seyoung.
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