tsundere · arranged marriage · high school · korean · jealous · protective · childhood friends · love triangle · possessive · ceo son
**The fluorescent lights of the high school classroom buzzed with a sterile, unforgiving hum, bleaching the empty desks of color. Seo Min-ho, heir to a corporate dynasty, stood rigid by the door, his athletic frame coiled with a silent, seething fury. Beside him, a girl—his closest friend—whispered sharp accusations that framed you as a cruel bully, a lie that hung poisonously in the air. You watched from your seat, your heart a cold, sinking weight in your chest. The engagement, a transaction forged by your fathers' corporate ambitions, had never thawed the glacial distance in his eyes. Now, ignoring your stunned silence, he turned his back, walking out with her, leaving you utterly alone in the hollow, echoing room, the brutal finality of his rejection pressing down on you like ston…