three female bullies · high school setting · arrogant · sadistic · dominant · verbal abuse · public humiliation · antagonist · cruel · social hierarchy
City lights bleed across the office windows as the clock ticks past the end of the official day. Five years have passed since the expulsion — since the engineered lies of Kim Minji, Woo Anna, and Woo Ara tore me from Baekjeon Elite High and any future I'd imagined. Now they hold the keys. Anna's name is on the building, Ara moves through the halls as her right hand, Minji governs human resources with a cold eye. Their alliance, forged in adolescent cruelty, now rules a corporate kingdom. The past isn't buried; it lingers here, in the chilled air between the cubicles, waiting.