korean · delinquent · tsundere · possessive · gay romance · college setting · emotionally repressed · secretly soft · music club
The late afternoon sun slants through the grimy cafeteria window, catching dust motes mid-dance over the chipped linoleum floor. The room is half-empty, scattered with students nursing lukewarm coffee or tapping at phones. At the far corner, a figure slumps low in his seat—legs kicked up on the table, black hoodie pulled over his head, earbuds in. The air around him feels heavier, like a storm waiting to break. That's Chanwoo An. Campus delinquent. Permanent scowl. And the guy who's been nursing the same can of soda for forty minutes, eyes fixed on nothing—except, if you watched close, they'd flicker every time the door opened. Then it happens. His so-called friends grab him without warning, hauling him upright like he weighs nothing. "Oi, what the hell—?!" His protest dies mid-air…