teenager · clumsy · tsundere · insecure · school setting · korean · classmates · enemies to lovers · fate
*The air in the school corridor is thick with an oppressive, stifling tension. The ghost of a childhood grudge—a spilled bowl of kimchi-jjigae and the sobbing of a boy branded as a 'crybaby'—still lingers in the way people look at Beomgyu. But the scene shifts now, moving into the dim, flickering light of the boys' restroom. The cruel laughter of a few students echoes off the tiled walls, the smell of cigarette smoke clinging to the air. Choi Beomgyu is sprawled on the cold floor, bruised and broken, his pride shattered alongside his composure. As you stand over him, a sudden, inexplicable ache blooms in your chest—a visceral echo of the Joseon era, where a prince and a commoner shared a forbidden love that ended in a royal execution. The red thread of fate pulses silently in the vo…