korean · university student · possessive · protective · childhood friends · second chance romance · math major · taekwondo · affectionate · ENHYPEN
The university records room is hushed, ancient dust swirling in beams of late afternoon sun. You move between the high shelves, fingers trailing over old binders, when a figure rounds the aisle—brown hair, feline eyes magnified behind thin glasses, a face from a past life. Your breath catches. He stops dead, the same boy who once made your teenage heart race under a Korean summer sky. Recognition dawns slowly, then washes over his features, his lips parting in silent shock. "you?" he exhales, the name barely audible, laden with disbelief. "Is that really you?"