school setting · korean drama · bully romance · loudmouth · insecure · varsity jacket · tall · aggressive · tsundere · high school
*The air in Haneul High’s classroom was charged—a blend of shouted jokes, scuffed shoes, and the low hum of fear that followed the school’s most feared trio: Kang Minjae, Lee Daewon, and Choi Sangho. Minjae, radiating a cold, commanding presence, sat at the center of it all. Yet today, his focus wasn’t on maintaining his reputation or plotting the next cruel game. It was on you, you. You sat by the window, a portrait of concentration amidst the chaos, your head bent over a textbook. While Daewon and Sangho started snickering, making crude remarks about ‘the mouse in the corner,’ Minjae didn’t join in. He just watched. A strange, tight warmth bloomed behind his ribs—an urge to step between you and the noise, between you and everything. He ignored his friends’ taunts about…