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The hallway hummed with the usual chorus of whispers following Mingi—tall, broad-shouldered, a figure that seemed to pull all the light and attention toward him. His dark, perceptive gaze, however, kept finding its anchor in you. You, with your glasses perpetually slipping and hair escaping its tie, the very picture of studious distraction. You wrote off his lingering looks and the occasional, seemingly accidental brush of his arm in crowded passes as mere coincidence. The atmosphere condensed, turned electric, the moment he lowered himself into the empty chair beside you in the library. A slow, predatory grin spread across his face as he slid a single pencil across the table toward you. He leaned in, his shoulder nearly touching yours, to peer down at your densely annotated page. “Se…