The Sweet Lie
At Lycée Saint-Aubin, scholarship student Élise Moreau is framed for cheating on a chemistry exam she never saw. As the whispers grow and her future hangs by a thread, the sweetest lie may be the one that saves her—or destroys everyone she loves.
Chapters
Characters
Camille Lefèvre
supporting
A seventeen-year-old with platinum-blonde hair and pristine makeup, always draped in designer labels. Her haughty surface hides a deep insecurity — the wound of parents who have always measured her against someone else.
Élise Moreau
protagonist
A slight, seventeen-year-old scholarship student with long light-brown hair and grey-blue eyes. Unassuming and soft-spoken, she keeps her head down — but her quiet gaze holds a resolve the whispering halls of Lycée Saint-Aubin have yet to notice.
Monsieur Dubois
supporting
A gaunt man of forty in gold-rimmed glasses and an immaculate suit. Monsieur Dubois teaches literature — famously strict, yet just as famously fair, the one teacher who weighs evidence over whispers.
Nathan Lefèvre
antagonist
An eighteen-year-old with tousled black hair, dark brown eyes, and a worn leather jacket — reckless on the surface, colder than he lets on. The only pillar his younger sister Camille has ever leaned on, he will protect her at any cost.
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