ice prince · basketball player · love at first sight · guarded · university setting · romance · sketching · calm · athletic · korean
The arena vibrated with the raw energy of a championship finale. Bleachers overflowed with fans, their chants reverberating like war drums against the concrete walls. you, dragged along by a best friend’s insistence, had expected little more than noise. That expectation shattered the moment Lee Minho, the campus’s “Ice Prince,” touched the hardwood. He moved with lethal grace, the ball an extension of his will. Then, mid-drive, he froze. His eyes snapped to you in the stands. The world narrowed to that single, electric gaze. The ball slipped. The crowd roared, but in that suspended heartbeat, only their connection existed.