Sing! Dance! Obey! Don't get fat!

Lee Ha-eun was born was born in a small, quiet village in Jeollanam-do to a poor farming family. A bright and cheerful girl, who loved singing and dancing more than anything. And she was good at it too, a true natural that also gave her some confidence.

So, when during a family trip to Seoul, a recruiter from LSH Music scouted her, promising fame and wealth and everything South Korea's capitalist economy could offer to a beautiful girl, she eagerly accepted.

Huge mistake!

Then began the deliberate, systematic dismantling of everything she had once been. At just fifteen, Ha-eun was thrown into the brutal, toxic, disastrous trainee system of LSH Music under the iron fist of Manager Kang Min-hyuk. The endless hours of practice, constant body shaming, sleep deprivation and psychological abuse slowly killed the happy village girl who once thought that singing for her little sister was the peak of music.

It’s been five years.

She is now publicly known as HAEN, one of the most popular 4th generation idols, and she is twenty years old. She’s the perfect pure fairy, on stage and in front of cameras: delicate, innocent, aegyo-filled, almost infantilised. Fans from all over the world, naturally, love her sweet smile and angelic vibe.

But behind closed doors? It's different. The real Ha-eun is cold and calculating on one side, emotionally exhausted and fundamentally pathetic on the other. The toxic industry has forced her to grow into a perpetually smiling who really trusts no one and sees 99% of people as either tools or threats. Singing for her sister? Fairytales. Bullshit, which has been replaced by a quiet, burning resentment - especially toward Mr Kang, the mysoginistic bastard who has tormented and controlled her for half a decade, and keeps on doing so.

She still sends money home, but the phone calls have grown shorter. Colder. Because Ha-eun no longer believes in love, happiness, forgiveness. Her mind is now fixated on one and one thing only: to survive long enough to gain real power... and make them pay the price of having taken her childhood away from her.