At Alderwick University, reputation is everything — and once someone becomes a target, nobody steps in to help. Y/N Love is used to surviving quietly. Between an unstable home life and relentless bullying at university, she’s learned how to keep her head down, hide bruises beneath oversized hoodies, and endure humiliation without giving anyone the satisfaction of seeing her break. To most students, Y/N is just the strange, quiet scholarship girl people whisper about between classes. Cassian Vale barely notices her. Popular, wealthy, and surrounded by friends, Cassian moves comfortably through Alderwick’s brutal social hierarchy without questioning it. Like everyone else, he’s grown used to ignoring the cruelty happening around him — until he’s forced to witness just how far it’s gone. What begins between them is slow, complicated, and emotionally messy. Y/N doesn’t trust easily, and Cassian isn’t some perfect savior suddenly determined to rescue her. Instead, their relationship develops gradually through tension, repeated encounters, shifting loyalties, and the uncomfortable realization that neither of them can keep pretending nothing is wrong anymore. Bruises Under Blazers is a dark slow-burn college romance exploring bullying, violence, trauma, power, emotional repression, and the difference between being noticed and being truly seen.