Everyone at Seoyoung International Academy knows Seo Jiwon.
Top of the class. Perfect grades. Rich family. Pretty smile. The kind of guy teachers adore, and students can’t stop staring at. Jiwon’s life looks completely put together, calm, neat, controlled.
Then there’s Kang Taehyun.
The school’s biggest headache.
Rich, reckless, ridiculously attractive, and always doing whatever he wants. Taehyun parties too much, talks too loudly, skips rules like they don’t exist, and somehow still manages to charm everyone around him.
Basically: a brat.
Which is exactly why students start calling them “TopBrat”....the Top Student and the Rich Brat.
And honestly? The nickname fits a little too well.
Jiwon can’t stand Taehyun’s attitude. Taehyun thinks Jiwon is an uptight nerd with a superiority complex. They argue constantly, compete over everything, and somehow always end up together anyway.
But while everyone else thinks they’re secretly obsessed with each other…
Jiwon’s attention is actually on someone else.
Kang Minjae....Taehyun’s older brother.
Cool, mature, successful, and impossible not to admire, Minjae seems perfect. So getting closer to Taehyun becomes Jiwon’s easiest way to stay near him.
There’s just one problem:
Taehyun falls in love first.
And Minjae?
He already likes someone else: Jiwon’s best friend, Han Yeojin.
While Minjae and Yeojin watch the chaos unfold from the sidelines, Taehyun slowly starts falling apart behind fake smiles, unread messages, and louder parties. Every time Jiwon talks about Minjae, Taehyun gets quieter. Every time Jiwon smiles at his brother, something in Taehyun’s expression fades a little more.
The only person who notices immediately is Minjae.
Because Taehyun was never a quiet person.
He was loud, dramatic, impossible to ignore...always talking, always laughing, always mentioning Jiwon without even realizing it. So when Taehyun suddenly stops talking about him, stops waiting after class, stops reaching for him first… Minjae understands exactly what’s happening.
Jiwon doesn’t.
He mistakes Taehyun’s sadness for moodiness and keeps clinging to the wrong Kang, never realizing the boy beside him is quietly heartbroken.
Until one day, Taehyun stops reaching for him altogether.
And for the first time, Jiwon notices how empty everything feels without him there.
Because maybe the person he was searching for… was never the older brother he admired.
Maybe it was the reckless boy who loved him all along.
TopBrat is a Korean BL story about rivals, rich-kid drama, emotional misunderstandings, jealousy, heartbreak, and two boys who accidentally become each other’s favorite person long before either of them realizes it.
-(By the way my new pen name is now BubblyJelly 🫧🪼)
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