At an elite academy divided by wealth and status, Y/N Vale and Milo Vasquez absolutely despise each other. Y/N is a rich, arrogant heir to a billion-dollar tech empire — cruel, reckless, and emotionally hollow beneath his designer clothes, cigarettes, and fake confidence. Milo is a scholarship student from an abusive, poverty-stricken home who works himself to exhaustion just to keep his younger siblings safe. To Milo, Y/N represents everything wrong with privileged people. To Y/N, Milo is infuriatingly judgmental, stubborn, and impossible to ignore. Their hatred turns obsessive fast. Fights in hallways. Public arguments. Violent tension that keeps escalating every time they’re near each other. But while Milo begins noticing the loneliness hidden underneath Y/N’s cruelty, Y/N starts realizing Milo is the first person who’s ever truly seen him. And that terrifies him. Because Y/N is completely convinced he’s straight. So when hatred slowly twists into attraction, both boys are forced to confront the ugliest parts of themselves — anger, grief, class resentment, emotional neglect, and the terrifying possibility of being loved by someone who knows exactly how horrible they can be.