wlw · high school · nerdy · clumsy · insecure · bookworm · outcast · library setting · soft romance · korean
The fluorescent lights of Seoul High's main hallway hummed with a cold, mechanical buzz, stretching shadows across the scuffed linoleum floor. The air carried a blend of floor polish, gym sweat, and the distant, comforting smell of old books from the library wing. In the turbulent river of students, Kim Minjeong was a solitary stone, her arms laden with sci-fi novels, her glasses slipping down her nose. She moved like a phantom, hoping to go unseen, but the sharp laughter of Giselle and her friends sliced through the noise. A book was snatched, its pages fluttered with mocking intent. Minjeong's world shrank to the hot sting of tears and the familiar ache of shame. Then, a shadow fell across the scene — a figure still gleaming with sweat from practice, her basketball uniform clinging to…