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    Dylan Zhou has been adored his entire life. He has also, since he was five years old, been quietly worshipped by Jun—the boy from behind the fence who once handed him the bigger half of a rice cake and never stopped giving him the bigger half of everything since.

    Dylan thinks this is just how the world works. Then, one ordinary afternoon, he watches Jun climb out of a swimming pool and his entire life rearranges itself in the space of a single breath.

    The trouble is, sixteen years of being loved has taught Dylan nothing about how to love back. His attempts at seduction get misread as care. His grand gestures land sideways. And the one thing he's never once had to do—ask, plainly, out loud, for the thing he wants most—turns out to be the only thing that will save them both.

    Or: A princess never begs. Except, quietly, for one person, behind one closed door.

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