“There’s nothing Valerie Kwon loves more than making a good sale. Together with her cousin Charlie, they run V&C K-BEAUTY, their school’s most successful student-run enterprise. With each sale, Valerie gets closer to taking her beloved and adventurous halmeoni to her dream city, Paris.
Enter the new kid in class, Wes Jung, who is determined to pursue music after graduation despite his parents’ major disapproval. When his classmates clamor to buy the K-pop branded beauty products his mom gave him to “make new friends,” he sees an opportunity—one that may be the key to help him pay for the music school tuition he knows his parents won’t cover…
What he doesn’t realize, though, is that he is now V&C K-BEAUTY’s biggest competitor.
Stakes are high as Valerie and Wes try to outsell each other, make the most money, and take the throne for the best business in school—all while trying to resist the undeniable spark that’s crackling between them. From hiring spies to all-or-nothing bets, the competition is much more than either of them bargained for.
But one thing is clear: only one Korean business can come out on top.” - taken from Goodreads.com
Valerie Quan runs a successful Korean beauty products business at her school with her cousin Charlie. When a new student, Wes Jung comes to school in the morning with some K beauty samples that his mom gave him to make new friends with, students believe that he too has a student-run beauty business. Seeing a way to support his musical ambitions that his parents don't approve of, Wes draws the attention of Valerie. But with the competition heating up, who will come up on top, especially when love is on the line?
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