He called her trash. The wolf decided otherwise. At Sehwa High, hierarchy is everything—and survival depends on who claims you. When Min-ho, the Alpha heir, rejects her in front of everyone, it isn’t for love or betrayal. It’s politics. To save his bloodline, he chooses a “purebred” match and discards the girl fate bound him to without hesitation. The rejection doesn’t just break her heart. It shatters her wolf. As Min-ho prepares for a strategic wedding, she is pulled into the shadows by Kai—the silent, scarred outsider no one notices. He doesn’t see her as disposable. He treats her pain like something precious… something treasured. But the bond sickness doesn’t fade. It changes. What she felt that night wasn’t the bond dying—it was the bond judging. The wolf spirit listened when Min-ho called her trash and took him at his word. Power shifts. Fates realign. And the truth is far more dangerous than rejection. She was never meant to beg for her place. She was meant to decide who deserves the crown.