Canwen Xu

So I'll start start now.

After Yale Law School's admissions committee rejects Elizabeth Zhang for being just another boring Asian female, she starts having panic attacks and pushes away her friends, including her half-white best friend, Eunjin, who she has always envied as a slightly whiter, slightly prettier, slightly better version of herself.

Yale was Elizabeth's one chance to prove to everyone in her life her blonde-haired, blue-eyed high school bullies from South Dakota and her wealthy college classmates from the Upper East Side

that they were wrong for overlooking her.

With that gone, all Elizabeth has left is her new situationship.

David is a white finance bro who gives her access to his credit card, buys her an $8,000 Chanel bag, and whimsically flies her to London.

Elizabeth also has a secret that no one knows about.

For years, she's been creating fake profiles of attractive people on dating apps, a harmless social experiment to keep her entertained.

But after her longtime crush asks for her advice on asking out Eunjin, a jealous Elizabeth creates a profile using Eunjin's pictures.

When her pregnancy test comes back positive, she considers succumbing to David's wish to keep the baby.

Maybe she doesn't need a prestigious law degree to prove to everyone that she's made it in life.

After all, how many other law school applicants can say they're going to law school with a baby?

But after Undren discovers her catfishing, their friendship may never recover, and Elizabeth has lost the only person in her life who can warn her that David's motivations are more nefarious than they seem.

Dun, dun, dun.

Yeah, for sure.

I mean, so even though the genre changed so much,

It's almost like the same character, just in parallel realities.

So when it was still a women's fiction novel, she was still someone who was very obsessed with percentages.

She was still just very obsessed with external validation.

It's almost just, I just transported her into a darker reality where for some reason, the neurons fired a little bit differently in this reality and she became obsessed with.