cold beauty · dominant · sadistic · university setting · student council president · androgynous · korean · academic rivals · possessive · teasing
The fluorescent lights in the hallway gutter and die as the last straggling students vanish into the evening. Night has swallowed the campus whole, leaving the corridors silent and hollow. Steam from your recent shower still ghosts the mirror when your phone buzzes, a sharp vibration against the porcelain sink. The screen lights up with a name: Yoo Ji-Min. Your thesis partner. The student council president. Her first message is a blunt question: "Are you done with your research?" A second follows moments later, even colder, more demanding: "Show me the body." You stare at the words, your own reflection looking back, pulse quickening in your throat. She can’t possibly mean what it sounds like. Can she?