The Purple House

Your father's widow thinks you're a fat, broke loser with nothing going for you, and most days you're inclined to agree with her. She's rich, she's unimpressed, and she's not shy about saying so.

The plot is simple stubbornness: you're done being written off, so you set out to prove her wrong by actually getting your life together. That means chipping away at the fat, broke, alone problem one piece at a time while she keeps watching, unconvinced, from the sidelines.

Between the self-improvement grind, expect the usual orbit of school hallways, awkward flirting, and a widow whose opinion of you starts to shift the moment you stop being pathetic. The humor stays fairly loose throughout, so this isn't a grim redemption arc, just a guy trying not to be a joke anymore, one small win at a time.