Abandoned by the Lotus School

Daeun had learned to survive by being useful and forgettable. She kept her hunter rank in the safe middle, where no one pulled her into bad jobs and no one asked why she could spot a lie in a stack of numbers faster than in a face. Then an old account sheet tied to the fallen Lotus School landed on her desk, and the marks in the ledger pointed to theft, cover ups, and names that should have stayed buried. When Seorin started watching her work, Daeun found herself pulled toward a girl who knew the cost of being seen. The repaired chopstick in a sealed envelope, the pencil in her locker, and the tooth on her desk all belonged to a life she could not hide from forever.