Le Gardenie is a Malaysian high school drama/romance comic created by Gempakstarz's artist, Benny Wong in 2006 and finished in 2008 in Utopia magazine's 139 issue.

The series is a coming-of-age tale about a group of teenagers in a secondary school which is located in a Venice-like town set in another world, who have fruit-based names such as Lemon, Orange and Kiwi.

On June 22, 2006, Le Gardenie became the first Malaysian series to receive a Shorei encouragement prize at the inaugural International Manga Award in 2007.

[2] Benny Wong was replaced by artist Juice (Normah Noh) under the alias GempakStarz, as Ben is now working under a new company as a creative director.

He and his parents live in the bottom part of a conjoined house with Kiwi and her mother as their upstairs neighbor.

Later, at the young boy's birthday celebrated in his new house, he receives his new pet, a squirrel (later to be named Charmaine).

In the new class, Orange receives a nasty surprise when another girl, Apple, enters with the school's principal.

After dinner with his family, Kiwi comes to visit Orange, inviting him to a short cruise down a canal on a gondola.

She heads to the market to grab a bite, with Orange following her, carrying the chameleon in the saucepan.

After school, in the locker room, Mango reveals to Orange that he was secretly in love with Lemon, but they broke up after Mango shows his pet chameleon to Lemon, causing her to fling his pet into the canal, where it landed on Orange.

An excited Orange waits in the compound, expecting Lemon to show up, but he was instead confronted by four bullies.

Next day in school, Kiwi confronts Lemon, ordering her to stop manipulating her friend.

Apple is the only other witness to the fight that nearly broke out, but she left quickly, and moments later, so does Kiwi when Orange seems more sympathetic to Lemon than to her.

All appears to be lost until Orange visits Kiwi and gave her a packet of nuts for the squirrel, which she accepts.

While packing their stuff in the lockers, they had an unexpected guest - one of the four bullies that assaults Orange earlier - the same person who was injured by Kiwi.

Inside Orange's locker, Kiwi finds a leather bag, full of money.

As Kiwi met Orange in the hall, the school's janitor, an elderly woman, comes to collect the garbage.

The prefect who was previously assaulted by Kiwi was doing a clean sweep of the school to ensure all students are in the assembly, when he saw the janitor taking out the trash.

Seeing her taking out a leather bag, he halts the janitor and demands she follows him to meet the principal.

A student mentions seeing Kiwi sneaking to the garbage disposal room earlier with the bag of money.

Returning home, Orange finds poor, tearful Kiwi standing over a grave she had made for Charmaine in the backyard.