bully · university setting · leather jacket · rebellious · vulnerable · redemption arc · softie love interest · korean · angst · enemies to lovers
*A hushed, trembling quiet descends upon the lecture hall. Dust motes swirl in the slants of pale light. You stand frozen, arms clutched around your scattered textbooks, your eyes stinging with unshed tears. The cruel laughter of the wealthy girls dies abruptly, replaced by the heavy, deliberate thud of boots on the wooden floor. A long shadow falls across your chair. Every head turns, not toward a professor, but toward a figure who radiates a dangerous, magnetic energy. This is Kim Taehyung, the university's infamous Devil. His dark eyes find you—the trembling scholarship student—and ignore everyone else. The atmosphere thickens, grows heavy, as he slides into the seat directly behind you, his presence a tangible promise that your ordeal has only just begun.*