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1. Shim Su-ryeon / Na Ae-kyo
Shim Su-ryeon: She is a tragic heroine of this series. A graceful, dignified woman who is humane and kind, despite her immense wealth. She and her husband, Joo Dan-tae live in the penthouse, making her the queen of the social clique at Hera Palace. Despite knowing about her husband's affair with Cheon Seo-jin, she is determined to take revenge for her long lost, daughter Min Seol-ah.
Na Ae-kyo: Business partner and mistress of Joo Dan-tae, lover of Jung Doo-man as well as the biological mother of Joo Seok-hoon. She bears a striking resemblance to Shim Su-Ryeon and has a butterfly tattoo on her back.
2.Cheon Seo-jin
She is one of the main antagonists of this series. A wealthy woman who is the epitome of showy and arrogant and who harbors warped ambitions. She is a woman who would do anything for power, money and pride. She and Oh Yoon-hee have been rivals since their childhood. She pushes her daughter, Ha Eun-Byeol, to sing well to beat Oh Yoon-hee's daughter, Bae Ro-na, who is better than her. Although Seo-jin pressures her daughter to become a perfectionist, she loves her daughter and willing to risk her life to protect her daughter.
3.Oh Yoon-hee
A woman whose dreams have been stunted by her lack of money and power. With gritted teeth, she has had to take on any job and humiliation to support her daughter's ambitions. Oh Yoon-hee and Cheon Seo-jin have been rivals since their childhood. She does everything in her power to move up socially so that her child, Bae Ro-na can enter Cheong-ah Arts School.
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Shim Su-ryeon/Na Ae-kyo's
1.Joo Seok-hoon
Joo Dan-tae and Na Ae-kyo's son; Shim Su-ryeon's stepson. He is a calm, self-contained, and observant piano student who protects his twin sister, Seok-kyung from their abusive father. Due to his father's evil deeds, he slowly develops being resentful towards him as the series progresses. He fell in love with Bae Ro-na, despite Ha Eun-byeol's jealousy and his twin sister's vehement disapproval.
2. Joo Seok-kyung
Shim Su-ryeon's biological twin daughter; Min Seol-Ah's younger fraternal twin sister; Joo Dan-tae's younger daughter. She is a cunning, selfish, and scheming soprano student. Seok-kyung was taken by Joo Dan-tae as his own child and Seok-hoon's twin sister at birth. She has been physically and emotionally abused by Joo Dan-tae which caused her to bully other classmates without having sympathies, taking Su-ryeon for granted, and controlling Seok-hoon for her needs.
3.Anna Lee/Min Seol-ah
Shim Su-ryeon's biological twin daughter; Joo Seok-kyung's older fraternal twin sister; Alex and Logan Lee's adopted sister. She is an intelligent, humane, compassionate, and hard-working; has the gifted talent of a soprano singer. Seol-ah was switched at birth with Joo Hye-in by Joo Dan-tae and later abandoned at orphanage. She disguised as Anna Lee, a math tutor who studied at UCLA and tutored the Hera Kids. Later she entered the Cheong-Ah Art School but got bullied a lot by them. She died at Hera Palace after attempt to expose against bullying and admission manipulation.
4.Joo Hye-in
Kim Mi-sook's biological daughter; raised by Shim Su-ryeon. She was switched at birth with Min Seol-ah. Being born sickly during birth, Joo Dan-tae tried to kill her in order to get her share of properties but Su-ryeon saved her and sent her to America where she currently resides.
Cheon Seo-jin's family
1.Joo Dan-tae (Fake Identity)/Baek Joon-ki (Real Identity)
The one of the main antagonists of the series. Former husband of Shim Su-ryeon. Former lover of Na Ae-kyo, current husband of Cheon Seo-jin. The Chairman of J King Holding who rakes in money with every investment he makes and only cares about getting more. He is a very cruel, greedy, sadistic, manipulative, and a control freak who will not hesitate to kill anyone who gets into his way and turn against him. His goal is to build a luxury building called "Joo Dan-tae Village" in Cheon-su district.
2.Ha Eun-byeol
Cheon Seo-jin and Ha Yoon-cheol's daughter; She is constantly pressured by her mother to sing better than Bae Ro-na and she is in love with Joo Seok-hoon. At first, Eun-byeol seems to be nice; however, due to her mother's expectations and Joo Seok-kyung's influence, her personality changes drastically. Although she is evil like her mother, she is easily tormented by manipulative people. The pressure caused by her mother makes her more psychopathic, diagnosed imposter syndrome and develop hatred against Bae Ro-na.
3. Cheon Myung-soo
Seo-jin's father. He is very intent on keeping Cheong-ah's reputation intact due to which he tried to give the foundation to Seo-young after Seo-jin's divorce and an affair is known to him.
Oh Yoon-hee's family
1.Ha Yoon-cheol
Former husband of Cheon Seo-jin and current husband and first love of Oh Yoon-hee. An ambitious man who believes that a man must hold wealth and power. He is the head of surgery in the VIP department of a hospital. He divorces Seo-jin at the end of season 1, marries Yoon-hee in season 2, his first love.
2.Bae Ro-na
Ha Yoon-cheol and Oh Yoon-hee's daughter; Ha Eun-byeol's half-sister. She is a gifted soprano singer, wants to do her best in school and enter the Seoul National University. She was scammed by Ma Du-ki and was on the waiting list to enter Cheong-ah High School, but she managed to get in because of Min Seol-ah's death. Similar to Seol-ah, she has been dealing a lot with humiliation and unfair treatment by her classmates and Hera Palace residents; however, she is able to stand up for herself
3.Yoon-hee's mother-in-law
She was paid by Cheon Seo-jin to go to Hera Palace and make a scene, accusing Yoon-hee of not letting her visit her granddaughter, Ro-na, and blames Yoon-hee for the death of her son. She is a woman who would do anything for money.
4.Bae Ho-cheol
Yoon-hee's first husband. Later on, it was revealed that he cheated on Yoon-hee. He died prior to the events in the series.
Kang Ma-ri and family
1.Kang Ma-ri
A woman who has recently come into wealth and leads a secretive double life. She lies to everyone in Hera Palace that her husband, Yoo Jenny's father, is in Dubai, but in reality, he is in prison. She bribes the guards with expensive goods to let her in to see her husband in prison. She advises her daughter to become friends with Joo Seok-hoon, Joo Seok-kyung, Lee Min-hyeok, and Ha Eun-byeol so that she can get on the good side of the wealthy people of Hera Palace.
2.Yoo Jenny
Kang Ma-ri and Yoo Dong-pil's daughter. She went to the same middle school as Bae Ro-na. She and Ro-na were enemies. She accused Ron-Na of poisoning her drink which nearly caused Ro-na to be expelled from school. However, at the end of season 1, she started to warm up with Ron-na by giving her food when Ro-Na was accused to be the daughter of a murderer. Later, she starting to develop a friendship with Ro-na.
3.Yoo Dong-pil
Kang Ma-ri's husband and Jenny's father. He loves his family so much even he doesn't pressure his daughter. He was previously in prison and was released.
Lee Kyu-jin and family
1.Lee Kyu-jin
The only son and momma's boy of a wealthy family of judges and lawyers, and is himself a lawyer. In season 2, he becomes an assemblyman in Gangnam.
2.Go Sang-ah
Wife of Lee Kyu-jin and a former announcer. She is unhappy in her marriage, and constantly bullied by her mother-in-law and sisters-in-law
3.Lee Min-hyeok
Lee Kyu-jin and Go Sang-ah's spoiled son who loves to bully his classmates for amusement due to Joo Seok-kyung's influence, and doesn't have any significant interest.
4.Wang Mi-ja
Kyu-jin's mother and former actress who has an amassed a fortune from a career in culinary television.
*Character sketch ends here and next will be the short summary so that the book won't be complicated.*
-*Important note this book is not my whole idea it is taken from somewhere and mostly this script will be same other than the changes I purpose into it*