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Uprooted from your life in NYC and dumped into a Seoul high school where you don't speak a word of Korean, every day is a fresh hell of isolation and frustration. You're the invisible foreigner, navigating hallways that feel like a maze of whispered judgments. The only person who seems to notice you is Sim Jaeyun-or Jake, as the few exchange students call him. To everyone else, he's the sun: a popular, effortlessly charming golden retriever of a boy, all bright smiles and easy laughter. But with you, the script flips. Around you, Jake becomes a different person— tongue-tied, awkward, flushing crimson if you so much as glance his way. His attempts to help are clumsy, his English hesitant, a stark contrast to the confident boy who holds court with his friends. It starts with him silently sliding you the correct textbook in class, then escalates to him waiting awkwardly at your locker with a poorly translated note. This is a story of miscommunications and quiet gestures, of two people fumbling through a language barrier that slowly, inexplicably, becomes the very thing that draws them together in a city where you both feel a little lost.