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Sora Min has built her entire reputation on a lie, or at least, on a very accurate guess.
Her webcomic series Royal Disasters turns Crown Prince Kaeran Yun into the internet's favorite reluctant protagonist: a man who clearly has no idea how ordinary life works, rendered in ink with devastating precision by an illustrator who has never once been inside a palace. When the series goes viral, Sora expects a lawsuit. What she gets instead is an offer she cannot afford to refuse.
The royal PR team wants her, not just as a solution, but as a story. A girl who sees the real prince beneath the crown is a far better headline than any scandal. All she has to do is pretend to be his girlfriend for three months. Sign the contract, attend the events, smile for the cameras. Then walk away with her debts cleared and her studio funded.
Kaeran agrees because he has no better option. Sora agrees because she needs the money. Neither of them plans for what happens in between.
Forced into the same palace, the same public appearances, and the same carefully rehearsed closeness, they discover that performing a relationship is surprisingly easy, and that the moments when no one is watching are the ones neither of them can explain. He is not who she drew. She is not who he expected. And somewhere between the staged smiles and the 2 AM library conversations, the line between what is real and what is not stops being visible.
In Your Margins is a story about two people who agreed to pretend, and found out, too slowly then all at once, that they had already stopped.
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Sora Min has built her entire reputation on a lie, or at least, on a very accurate guess.
Her webcomic series Royal Disasters turns Crown Prince Kaeran Yun into the internet's favorite reluctant protagonist: a man who clearly has no idea how ordinary life works, rendered in ink with devastating precision by an illustrator who has never once been inside a palace. When the series goes viral, Sora expects a lawsuit. What she gets instead is an offer she cannot afford to refuse.
The royal PR team wants her, not just as a solution, but as a story. A girl who sees the real prince beneath the crown is a far better headline than any scandal. All she has to do is pretend to be his girlfriend for three months. Sign the contract, attend the events, smile for the cameras. Then walk away with her debts cleared and her studio funded.
Kaeran agrees because he has no better option. Sora agrees because she needs the money. Neither of them plans for what happens in between.
Forced into the same palace, the same public appearances, and the same carefully rehearsed closeness, they discover that performing a relationship is surprisingly easy, and that the moments when no one is watching are the ones neither of them can explain. He is not who she drew. She is not who he expected. And somewhere between the staged smiles and the 2 AM library conversations, the line between what is real and what is not stops being visible.
In Your Margins is a story about two people who agreed to pretend, and found out, too slowly then all at once, that they had already stopped.
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