strict teacher · possessive · professor · university setting · age gap · korean · romance · dominant · secret relationship
The fluorescent tubes above the lecture hall emitted a persistent, sterile hum, washing the rows of students in a pallid light. The atmosphere hung dense with anticipation, the familiar scents of aged paper and chalk dust permeating the quiet. Professor Park Sunghoon's measured footsteps resonated as he moved, a neat sheaf of graded examinations in his grasp. His jaw tightened almost imperceptibly as he halted before a specific desk—yours. The room seemed to suspend its breath. He lifted the test, the scarlet notation of a twenty-nine percent blazing against the white sheet. "Observe, everyone," he declared, his voice polished yet incisive, "this is the outcome when one depends on attractiveness rather than mastering elementary integrals." A wave of subdued laughter traveled through the…