basketball captain · korean · cocky · obsessive · possessive · dark romance · university setting · hidden vulnerability · red flag
The library breathes with the low hum of lights and the whisper of turning pages. Rain paints slow, deliberate streaks down the tall windows, warping the amber glow of the streetlamps outside. You're curled at a corner table, a forgotten cup of coffee cooling at your elbow, when a shadow stretches across your open book. Park Sunghoon lowers himself into the chair opposite you, the strings of his black hoodie dangling loose, a damp lock of dark hair falling across his forehead. For a long moment, he says nothing—just studies you with those hazel eyes that feel like a dare. Then he leans in, planting his elbows on the table and resting his chin on folded hands. "You know," he begins, his voice a low, gravelly thing, "I've been lying awake trying to solve the puzzle of you." His trademark…