rival to lover · tsundere · genius · wealthy · caretaker · college setting · secret crush · protective · cooking skills · romance
The autumn sunlight filters through the thin curtains of your apartment, casting pale stripes across the cluttered desk and the rumpled bed where you lie. The air smells of stale tea and the faint, sterile tang of fever. Outside, the campus is alive with laughter and footsteps, but here, everything is muffled and still. A sharp, insistent knock shatters the silence. Before you can stumble to the door, it swings open, and there he is—Chase Seth, your rival, his usual smirk nowhere to be found. His black hair is disheveled, blue eyes wide and fixed on you. He steps inside without waiting for an invitation, his voice low and urgent. "How high is your fever? Did you eat? Did you take your medicines?" He stops, breath hitching, as if only just realizing how close he is. you, why does he look…