Perfect class president Yoon Seoha is used to being loved only when she is useful. When cold transfer student Kang Ijun arrives during a spring storm and claims he has already watched her die once, Seoha dismisses him as dangerous nonsense—until his predictions begin landing one by one. To survive a framed scandal, a smiling best friend's jealousy, and a future rushing toward the rooftop, Seoha must decide whether being saved by someone who remembers her worst ending is protection, debt, or another kind of trap.
Cael is a scholarship student at Verdane Academy whose face is so ordinary that people forget him mid-sentence. That is exactly why the imperial chancellor hires him to wear Crown Prince Aurelian's face at duels, banquets, and social traps — using a family Mirror Art that copies the Prince's voice, posture, and swordwork. The price is brutal: every hour under the borrowed face burns one of Cael's own memories, and exposure means execution for him and his family. Cael expects to be a shield. Instead, he becomes the person the Prince's suitors have been waiting for. Kaelen, the duke's heir with a hidden wrist injury; Sevarin, the foreign prince whose forbidden book was confiscated; and Niel, the commoner genius drowning in a duel debt — each of them is ignored or dismissed by the real Aurelian, and each is quietly saved by the decoy wearing his face. As the suitors drift toward the boy who remembered their details, the real Prince grows jealous and forces Cael to wear his face longer and longer, burning away his sister's face, his mother's voice, his own name. At the Winter Ball the deception is exposed — and the suitors must publicly choose between the perfect Prince and the boy who actually showed up.
Romance manhwa
