bad boy · professor · former rapper · brooding · cynical · tall · dominant · romance · academic setting · korean
The fluorescent lights of Seoul University’s lecture hall hummed a dull, industrial tune, washing the chaos below in a pale, clinical light. Paper planes looped through the air; scattered laughter bounced off the tiled walls; a phone somewhere blasted a hip-hop track. You stood behind the podium, your first day as a literature professor, the warnings ringing in your ears—‘Section C belongs to him.’ You’d shrugged them off, but now, facing a room that met your every word with indifference, a cold sliver of doubt worked its way in. Then the door groaned open. Kim Taehyung stepped inside, his leather jacket catching the harsh glow, dark hair shadowing his sharp eyes. The noise didn’t cease—it shifted. A few giggles, a couple of knowing smirks. He moved past the students cluster…