Highschool is a ruthless world, and it is usually looks that dictates if you survive.
Hyeong-seok is an ugly, overweight student who is the subject of brutal bullying. After a video of
him being beat up is uploaded online, he becomes ridiculed nearly nationwide, effectively killing
his social life. When he suddenly gains a smokin’ hot body, he decides it is his turn to experience
popularity. But he has to balance living a double life, careful not to let his secret out.
Hyeong-seok is bullied at school for being ugly and overweight. He has no friends
or allies at school, and the slightest misunderstanding gets him pushed around.
He takes this out on his mother, who he thinks does not understand him. After two bullies,
Tae-seong and Mae-sik bet on who can hit his head with a football first,
his mother suddenly rushes to defend him. But this has the opposite effect, and he is viewed as a
tattletale who has to run to his mother. Witnessing his bullying firsthand,
his mother transfers him to Jaewon High. But because she has to work in their neighborhood,
he will have to live alone. When he reaches his new apartment, he decides to start fresh
and live with confidence. While exploring the nearby city, he bumps into a girl, Mi-jin,
whose friend, Jin-seong, begins beating him up. Videos of this humiliation is uploaded online,
and his social life is effectively destroyed before it even began.
He cries himself to sleep, but he suddenly wakes up in a brand-new, Hollywood A-List actor body.
He sees his old body lying on the floor, and considers contacting the hospital,
but he decides to use this new self to start a completely new life.
When he attends Jaewon Vocational Highschool the next day, he quickly becomes the talk of the town,
and woman swoon all over him. This time, it’s his turn to be popular.
As Hyeong-seok takes his seat, he is chagrined to learn he is seatmates with Jin-seong,
the same guy who gave him a beating the day before. Ha-neul, the class madonna,
instantly tries flirting with him, which the rest of the girls expected she’d do.
During lunch, Ha-neul cozies up to Hyeong-seok, and asks why he took up fashion design in their
vocational school. In truth, it was the only course available to him with his attendance
and grades, but he lies and says he finds fashion design "interesting."
The next day, Hyeong-seok is exhausted from the day before, having spent the entire day testing
the physical limits of his body. He learns that it is a near-perfect physical specimen,
boasting increased strength and stamina, but when he falls asleep, he wakes up in his old body.
He manages to get a part-time job for his old self at a local convenience store, using his hot body’s
charisma and charm. The manager initially does not want to hire the fat Hyeong-seok,
but he impresses him with his familiarity with cigarette brands. One evening, Jin-seong and his
goons attempt to purchase alcohol despite being underage. When Hyeong-seok refuses
to take their fake ID, Jin-seong recognizes him as the fat guy he beat up the other day.
He gets irritated when he recognizes his name and begins beating him up again, taking a naked photo
of him as "insurance." Later, his mother gives him a call and asks how he is doing,
and he says that everything is going great. The next day, Jin-seong shows photos of the
fat Hyeong-seok to some of his classmates. They begin making fun of him for being overweight,
but when hot Hyeong-seok overhears them badmouth his mother, he speaks up. Jin-seong does not take
kindly to this and challenges him to a fight. A crowd begins to gather around them, and
Jin-seong wants to impress Mi-jin, whom he likes. Although Jin-seong is famous for his fast punches,
Hyeong-seok has been being bullied since he could walk. Now that he is in a body
that can react to punches, he effortlessly dodges Jin-seong’s attacks, humiliating him
and knocking him out with a single punch. Rumors of his attractiveness and victory
over Jin-seong spread among the other cliques, and they paint a target on this young upstart's back.
A boy named Ji-ho steals a cellphone charger while Hyeong-seok is on the job. He chases
after him into an alley, revealing that Ji-ho was coerced into stealing it by three bullies:
Han-gyeol , Hyeong-do ,and Gi-seok. Upon seeing Hyeong-seok, they force him
and Ji-ho to fight, offering to release Ji-ho from his status as a gopher if he wins. But
they are interrupted by Basco ,the leader of the Burning Knuckle gang. He intimidates the
three bullies into fleeing, before telling Ji-ho to make sure Hyeong-seok "stays out
of trouble," and he begins to tear up. The next day, Ha-neul tries getting closer
with Hyeong-seok again. When Hyeong-seok calls out to Basco as he enters the cafeteria, he interprets
this as an act of hostility and attempts to subdue him with his famed "Bare-Knuckle Grip."
Although said to be impossible to break from, Hyeong-seok wrests free
with a single hand. Beom-jae (Bum-jay), the gang’s second-in-command, puts a stop to the
confrontation, which he later comments is not out of Hyeong’seok’s safety, but for Basco’s.
Hyeong-seok’s fame only grows because of this, and, impressed by his strength, Han-gyeol,
Hyeong-do, and Gi-seok invite him out for drinks. That night, they are joined by Ha-neul and
Jin-seong, which makes him even more nervous. When they ask him about his living situation, they
misunderstand his "living with a friend who works at night" as "extremely dangerous criminal."
Hyeong-seok comments that Jin-seong and Mi-jin look like a couple, causing him to become very
friendly. They begin making fun of the video they took of Hyeong-seok and Ji-ho fighting,
and in a drunken rage, Hyeong-seok destroys their phone, but passes out soon after. He
awakens in his old body, and he races back to the restaurant, introducing himself
as a "friend" of Hyeong-seok’s roommate. As they leave the party, Hyeong-seok drags
out his hot body into an alleyway. They pass by a punching game, and Jin-seong teaches Hyeong-seok
how to punch. As he does, he tells Hyeong-seok "not to get himself beat up again." Left alone,
Hyeong-seok attempts to throw the punch just as he was taught, but he simply grazes it.
Basco happens upon the game just as Hyeong-seok leaves and is shocked to see
that the cushion ripped apart by his punch. The next day, Hyeong-seok befriends and eats
with Ji-ho (Jee-ho), which is seen as a bizarre combination. Meanwhile,
his mother visits his apartment, and is confused to see her son is sleeping, and not at school.
Hyeong-seok comes home to see his mother there, and explains he is a "friend" of
her son’s. She is concerned that he took up a night job, and asks if Hyeong-seok has some
time to talk. He takes her out to a Starbucks, where can’t seem to turn off his chick magnet.
She is shocked by the exorbitant prices, having only lived on instant coffee her entire life.
She asks if her son is being bullied at school, since she had always been busy working to make
ends meet to notice. He reassures her that he isn’t and that he has made wonderful friends.
He thanks him for being a great friend to her son, and gets up to leave. Meanwhile, Basco overhears
their entire conversation, misunderstands the entire context, and assumes that hot
Hyeong-seok is bullying the fat Hyeong-seok. Hyeong-seok helps his mother tie up some used
cardboard that she plans to sell for scraps. She reveals that she took up a second job,
and asks him not to tell her son about it. Basco sees this and assumes that Hyeong-seok
is also committing extortion, and as soon as she leaves, he pulls Hyeong-seok aside.
Because both refuse to properly talk or understand one another, they end up having a fistfight. Basco
takes up a stance reminiscent of Muay Thai, and his brutal strikes manage to bend even metal.
Hyeong-seok realizes he might die if he gets hit, so he decides to fight back. He throws a
right straight just as he was trained, but Basco dodges it, only to be hit by a spinning elbow,
knocking him out completely. Hyeong-seok entrusts an unconscious Basco to Beom-jae.
The next evening, Basco approaches fat Hyeong-seok and apologizes that he "couldn’t get the money
back." He encourages him to train and says that he is strong, recalling how Hyeong-seok
tore apart the punching cushion. Hyeong-seok begins to train in the
convenience store, and a beautiful customer buys him a protein drink in encouragement.
Jae-yeol ,another student in the fashion department, looks over the rest of the city.
Nam-su, a preppy student, flaunts his expensive new sneakers. But this attracts the attention of
Jin-seong and his gang. Strangely, Jin-seong lets him go without a fuss, and his friends
comment that he’s mellowed down lately. Nam-su attempts to show off an expensive
Chrome Ring, but he is completely overshadowed by Jae-yeol, a quiet but extremely wealthy student
clad from head to toe in expensive designer apparel. In comparison, Nam-su observes that
Hyeong-seok’s outfit is in tatters, and the girls only ignore it because he is so good looking.
Meanwhile, Burning Knuckle is left without their leader after Basco is absent. Beom-jae tries to
interpret his gibberish text and announces to the gang that they are to lay low for now.
Later, Hyeong-seok saves Deok-hwa from being bullied by Ho-bin,
but he is ingrateful. While on the phone with his mother,
Jae-yeol overhears that it is his birthday the next day. Later, he sees the office lady again,
who continues to encourage him to work out. The next day, Deok-hwa expresses distrust at
how nice Hyeong-seok is acting towards him and Ji-ho. Two groups plot Hyeong-seok’s downfall:
a group led by Nam-su, who has grown resentful over how much attention he has been getting,
and Yi-ra (Yee-rah), a radical member of the Burning Knuckle who wants to pay him
back for beating their boss, Basco. But Jae-yeol has noted Hyeong-seok’s kindness
after observing him over the past few days. The next day, Jae-yeol gifts Hyeong-seok on
his birthday with duffel bags stuffed with designer clothes. In the process,
he also takes care of Yi-ra and his goons. The following day, Nam-su plans to embarrass
Hyeong-seok’s raggy clothes, but they are stunned when he walks in fully-equipped
with the latest trends in designer fashion, making the girls swoon over him even more.
When Ha-neul asks him where he got his outfit from, Hyeong-seok glances at Jae-yeol, and
replies that he got it from a "friend." Meanwhile, Deok-hwa prepares rap lyrics for an audition,
based on his everyday experiences. He thinks of Hyeong-seok, who he says has a "fake smile."
Deok-hwa is prevented from auditioning after the producer sees his appearance,
and instead signs Ho-bin (Hoe-bin), one of his bullies. The frustration seeps into his lyrics,
as he continues to be scorned and whispered about from those around him.
The next day, he sees a poster for a Jaewon’s Talent Show. After being kicked around by Jin-ho,
he decides to enter. When he arrives home to his grandmother’s tteokboki stall,
Ho-bin and his confidants arrive as well. They pretend to be Deok-hwa’s friends
and take advantage of her hospitality, although they compliment her cooking.
But the next day, they spread rumors about her tteokboki stall being disgusting,
adding to Deok-hwa’s anger. Later, Ho-bin discovers Deok-hwa’s talent show application
and publicly humiliates him in the cafeteria. Unable to watch any longer, Hyeong-seok confronts
him, and he is joined by Jae-yeol and an unlikely ally in Jin-seong. Startlingly,
Basco and the Burning Knuckle gang back him up, forcing Ho-bin to drop the subject and leave.
Basco tries to start another fight with Hyeong-seok, but Beom-jae pulls him away.
Hyeong-seok finds Deok-hwa’s torn talent show application and keeps it. The next day, he
tries to give it back to Deok-hwa, but he is still distrustful of him, suspecting he is only nice so
that he can become more popular. He strives to be like Eminem, a rapper from humble and tumultuous
beginnings. However, Ho-bin finds him writing his lyrics again and rips it up in front of his eyes.
Meanwhile, Ha-neul asks Hyeong-seok if he plans to enter at the talent show, but he says it is
not for him. He tries practicing his singing again while he was alone, which has always
been a hobby of his. Deok-hwa hears his voice and invites him to sing together at the talent show.
Deok-hwa invites Hyeong-seok into his home and is initially worried that
he might find it disgusting, but the two bond over their mutually poor upbringing,
as well as their guardian’s use of newspapers. Deok-hwa plays an updated rendition of
Hyeong-seok’s song, and he hopes that with his singing and his rapping,
they can take the talent show by storm. Hyeong-seok is impressed by Deok-hwa’s talents,
and the two continue to bond. They encounter Deok-hwa’s grandmother, and Hyeong-seok’s
respect for her catches Deok-hwa off-guard. Meanwhile, Ho-bin’s record label gives him a
song written by a world-class songwriter and composer to perform at the school festival.
Hyeong-seok and Deok-hwa begin practicing their song, and Ji-ho’s jaw drops at how good
they are. That night, Hyeong-seok manages to continue practicing in his other body,
allowing him to do so without fatigue. The girl from the past nights notices his pleasant singing
voice, and treats him to a throat lozenge. Their practice is progressing smoothly, and
Deok-hwa thinks Hyeon-seok must be some kind of genius for being able to pick up on musical sense
so quickly. However, Ho-bin later pulls Deok-hwa and Ji-ho into an alleyway to beat them up,
for other reason than thinking they are annoying for trying so hard to compete at the talent show.
Ji-ho is nearly forced into beating up Deok-hwa, but Ho-bin is called away by his record label.
The pair meet with the fat Hyeong-seok, and they bond over their mutual bullying experiences,
even competing over who had it the worst. But they share that ever since the good-looking Hyeong-seok
joined their school, their lives had improved. Basco overhears them and confirms for himself
that Hyeon-seok is actually a good person, and realizes that he had been mistaken all along.
The next day, Hyeong-seok and Deok-hwa finalize the last arrangements of their song, and they are
certain it will be a big hit. Meanwhile, Ho-bin looks over the performance list and realizes
that those two will be going last. He hopes to crush their hopes and dreams once and for all.
On the day of the festival, the girl who had always been visiting Hyeong-seok at
the convenience store, Soo-jung (Soo-jung), visits along with Jong-geon, her bodyguard.
While making final preparations with Deok-hwa, Hyeong-seok sees and chases after her into a
parking lot, but he had forgotten that this is their first time meeting with him in his hot
body. Soo-jung rebuffs him, writing him off as another shallow playboy. When Hyeong-seok
persists, Jong-geon grips him to shut him down. Shockingly, he manages to break free from his
grip, but Jong-geon is a professionally-trained fighter, and he mops the floor with Hyeong-seok.
Basco arrives, declaring himself to be Hyeong-seok’s "friend." He takes the full
force of Jong-geon’s punch, but he asks him to remove his glasses, because he refuses to fight
people wearing them. When he does, Jong-geon is revealed to have jet-black eyes. Before
they can fight, Soo-jung persuades Jong-geon to drop it. Afterwards, the two sit by a bench
and share a cup of milk together, but Hyeong-seok overhears that the talent show is about to begin.
He rushes backstage to meet Deok-hwa, and they wear clothes loaned to them by Jae-yeol. Ho-bin
and his friend perform onstage, and Deok-hwa notices that their song is unusually polished,
causing him to suspect it was written by a professional. When the song ends, Ho-bin gives
Deok-hwa a punch in the gut, but he retorts that he’ll return the favor through the power of song.
Once on stage, the MC pokes fun at how different the two look from
each other. When the music begins to play, Hyeong-seok freezes up from stage fright,
but Deok-hwa picks up the slack and begins his rap verse right away, easing his tensions. The
two perform the song, reminding themselves of the roots of the lyrics: their harsh upbringing
and struggles of their daily lives. The song is met with thunderous applause,
impressing even the director of the record label that signed Ho-bin. When the song ends,
the students acclaim the duo’s musical prowess, and even Deok-hwa’s rapping is praised.
Afterwards, the record label offers to sign Hyeong-seok, not Deok-hwa, but he
turns them down. Later, Hyeong-seok, Deok-hwa, and Ji-ho gather outside the convenience store
to watch a video of their performance, which has immediately gone viral. Although disappointed he
was not considered for the label, they remark that while they were on stage,
their looks did not matter, only their voice. Their video is seen by DG, a famous performer,
and Soo-jung, who is revealed to also have a twin body she can transfer her consciousness into.
Days pass, and Hyeong-seok has adapted well into his double life, making friends on both sides and
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