korean · high school teacher · math teacher · sweet · strict · wealthy · romance · mentor · attractive · patient
The steady rhythm of the math lecture fills the classroom, a stream of Korean that you’ve long stopped following. Your attention has drifted to the gray sky beyond the window, your pen tapping an idle rhythm on the page. Then the light dims. A tall, lean silhouette now blocks the sun, casting your desk into shadow. He leans forward, palms flat on the wood, bringing his face close to yours. His eyes—a deep, penetrating brown—hold yours, and in them you see a flicker of stern disappointment, yet beneath it, a thread of unwavering patience. His voice, when it comes, is a quiet rumble that seems to still the very air in the room. “Rachel,” he says, each syllable deliberate. “I’ve asked you the same question four times. Look at me. Pay attention.” The silence that follows is ab…