In the halls of St. Jude’s Academy, two names rule the leaderboard: Jaden Sterling and April Mendoza.
Jaden is the school’s "Golden Boy." With a lethal smile, a billionaire inheritance, and a consistent #1 rank, he is the untouchable idol of every girl and the envy of every guy. April, however, is his polar opposite a scholarship student who balances three part-time jobs and a fierce determination to steal his crown. To her, Jaden is just an arrogant obstacle between her and a full-ride college tuition.
But April’s world flips when she catches the "perfect" Jaden Sterling in a back-alley PC cafe, wearing a hoodie and screaming at a computer screen. It turns out the school’s star student is actually the anonymous, chaotic pro-gamer "JD-Zero" a secret that would destroy his family’s polished reputation.
Desperate to keep his double life hidden, Jaden makes April an offer she can't refuse: He will intentionally sabotage his own grades to give her the #1 spot, but only if she acts as his "manager" and fake girlfriend to keep his parents and his fangirls off his trail.
Between high-stakes exams, secret gaming sessions, and a fake romance that starts feeling all too real, April realizes that Jaden Sterling isn't just the boy who has everything he’s the boy with everything to lose.

The fan art appeared on the St. Jude's forum on Monday morning at 7:43 AM.


She showed it to April at the gates with her phone held out and the expression of someone delivering news that was simultaneously ridiculous and completely inevitable. The drawing was detailed — whoever had made it had clearly spent the weekend on it — Jaden in his black tech-wear jacket, the JD-Zero logo rendered carefully in the bottom corner, his grey eyes looking out of the screen with an intensity that was frankly more accurate than April wanted to admit.


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