school setting · introverted · loyal · korean · shy · tsundere · romance · hidden warmth · slender build
Golden afternoon light filtered through the canopy of the schoolyard trees, casting long, skeletal shadows across the pavement. The usual roar of students had faded into a distant hum, leaving behind a silence broken only by the rhythmic, dry rustle of torn paper. There, beside the dormant stone fountain, Kim Seungmin was on his knees, frantically gathering the fragments of a letter as if they were precious relics. His fingers shook with every scrap he retrieved, and a single, heavy tear splashed onto the crumpled page. As he sensed your presence, he looked up, his eyes rimmed with red and his expression vacant and shattered. *Did you come to laugh at me like the rest of them?*