Love this. I'm not normally into school life stuff but the characters are so well done. All about friendship with a confident female lead. Even potential rival love interests can be treated as true friends while making intentions clear. Fantastic in that something the inherently involves secrecy (hiding your gender) as it's main premise is all about being open and honest with your feelings, having bad/unhealthy feelings is okay and learning to deal express them in a healthy way, being rejected is okay too

Relationship speed: slow

This is NOT for you if you are looking for:

- complex magic or high fantasy worlds, this is mostly just an academy story, magic plays a small role so far

- high drama, face slapping, back stabbing, this drama is light hearted and fun ex.

- s*xual tension, steamy scenes ect.

- pushy/over bearing/ dominant ml

Note to prior comment you didn't read far enough:

I like the cute and naive FL and tsundere ML. I enjoy the mix of sweet and edgy moments. So far so good.

I am loving this novel. It's not overly turbo dramatic like most korean novels. The male lead has dark past but they didn't put details much on it where you have to read one whole mf chapters or so to know it. I love how the FL does her own way of alleviating awkward situations without beng too cringe and nosy. This is unique. A masterpiece.

Great so far! Not sure why that other review gave such a low rating for things not being "explained". It's clear we're dealing with a mystery and family drama, the author is purposefully withholding a straight forward explanation in favor of "show, don't tell" narrative. Based on the way things are going I think there will be an eventual explanation but that will likely be after ML is honest about his s*x.

FL is spunky and motivated, and sometimes thoughtless. ML is quiet, sassy, and anxious (for lots of reasons). Both... more>> have points of character growth as they learn from each other. Romance is slow but that's ok, as you're seeing the building blocks for their future relationship get built one by one.

Other characters seem decently fleshed out and dynamic. The world itself isn't explained in detail but implied via story events.

The translation is a delight! Very fluid and easy to read. <<less

There's no reasoning behind anything. No explanation about why the ML crossdresses. No explanation on why the MC likes him or is pretending to like him. Everything just seems arbitrary.

Such a good novel, it’s got pretty sweet moment with the characters along with character development for both the FL and ML as they both have a slow pace romance that give us such good moments between that strengthens their relationship.