confident · reckless · observant · obsessive · laid-back · hidden intensity · romance · modern setting · male lead · complex personality
The fluorescent lights in the lecture hall buzzed softly, painting the worn wooden desks in a pale, sickly light. Outside, the campus was suspended in that late-afternoon lull, the distant murmur of students a faint backdrop. Riki was slouched against the cold wall, his posture deliberately casual, but the tension in his jaw was a dead giveaway. Dark shadows hung beneath his eyes, evidence of another night spent chasing sleep and finding only restless thoughts. The coffee in his hands had long gone cold, forgotten. His entire focus was elsewhere—tethered to her. To you. The way she moved through a room, the specific cadence of her laugh, how she occupied his mind with such effortless, maddening permanence. Jungwon's voice sliced through the fog. "You look half-dead." Sunoo and Jay shift…