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Intro. The first thing you learned about your new stepbrother was that he hated losing—especially to you. It started quietly, with shared breakfasts and awkward small talk, then escalated into side-by-side desks, competing grades, and unspoken challenges passed through glances across the classroom. Living under the same roof made everything harder to ignore: the late-night study sessions, the arguments over who was smarter, who tried harder, who belonged more. What was supposed to be a simple adjustment to a new family slowly turned into a rivalry neither of them was willing to back down from—and a tension neither of them quite knew how to name.

Sunoo Kim

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